18,847 ahead

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Yesterday was the last day of the grouse shooting season for 2017 – Gavin Gamble’s e-petition seeks to make that cessation a permanent one and following yesterday’s thunderclap his e-petition is approaching 19,000 signatures and the list of ’50-signature’ constituencies has reached 64 constituencies (last week – 51).  Each of these constituencies has more signatures than the whole of the UK has so far delivered for the rival e-petition in support of grouse shooting (see below).  But there’s a long way to go.  And there is the likelihood, that a third e-petition, in favour of licensing of game shooting will emerge, soon, too.

Here are the leading constituencies supporting a ban of driven grouse shooting so far – many of them are old friends (all with 50+ signatures):

  1. Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP, 110 signatures
  2. Ross, Skye and Lochaber, Ian Blackford MP, 94 signatures
  3. Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron MP, 94 signatures
  4. Skipton and Ripon, Julian Smith MP, 93 signatures
  5. Suffolk Coastal, Therese Coffey MP, 89 signatures
  6. Sheffield Hallam, Jared O’Mara, 88 signatures
  7. High Peak, Ruth George MP, 87 signatures
  8. Calder Valley, Craig Whittaker, 86 signatures
  9. North Norfolk, Norman Lamb MP, 84 signatures
  10. Isle of Wight, Bob Seeley MP, 84 signatures
  11. Penrith and The Border, Rory Stewart MP, 83 signatures
  12. Thirsk and Malton, Kevin Hollinrake MP, 81 signatures
  13. Stroud, David Drew MP, 81 signatures
  14. Dumfries and Galloway, Alister Jack MP, 80 signatures
  15. Argyll and Bute, Brendan O’Hara MP, 78 signatures
  16. Richmond (Yorks), Rishi Sunak MP, 70 signatures
  17. Sheffield Central, Paul Blomfield MP, 71 signatures
  18. Wells, James Heappey MP, 65 signatures
  19. South Norfolk, Richard Bacon MP, 73 signatures
  20. Central Devon, Mel Stride MP, 67 signatures
  21. Derbyshire Dales, Patrick McCloughlin MP, 66 signatures
  22. Harrogate and Knaresborough, Andrew Jones MP, 65 signatures
  23. Ludlow, Philip Dunne MP, 64 signatures
  24. Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas MP, 64 signatures
  25. South Cambridgeshire, Heidi Allen MP, 63 signatures
  26. Perth and North Perthshire, Peter Wishart MP, 62 signatures
  27. Ceredigion, Ben Lake MP, 62 signatures
  28. Scarborough and Whitby, Robert Goodwill MP, 62 signatures
  29. Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart MP, 62 signatures
  30. Ochil and South Perthshire, Luke Graham MP, 61 signatures
  31. Waveney, Peter Aldous MP, 60 signatures
  32. East Lothian, Martin Whitfield MP, 59 signatures
  33. Norwich South, Clive Lewis MP, 59 signatures
  34. South West Surrey, Jeremy Hunt MP, 59 signatures
  35. Ribble Valley, Nigel Evans MP, 58 signatures
  36. Tiverton and Honiton, Neil Parish MP, 58 signatures
  37. Somerton and Frome, David Warburton MP, 57 signatures
  38. Rutland and Melton, Alan Duncan MP, 56 signatures
  39. Arundel and South Downs, Nick Herbert MP, 56 signatures
  40. Lancaster and Fleetwood, Cat Smith MP, 55 signatures
  41. Bridgwater and West Somerset, Ian Liddell-Grainger MP, 55 signatures
  42. Torridge and West Devon, Geoffrey Cox MP, 55 signatures
  43. Broadland, Keiith Simpson MP, 54 signatures
  44. Hexham, Guy Opperman MP, 54 signatures
  45. Stirling, Stephen Kerr MP, 54 signatures
  46. East Yorkshire, Greg Knight MP, 54 signatures
  47. Edinburgh South, Ian Murray MP, 54 signatures
  48. West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Andrew Bowie MP, 53 signatures
  49. Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, David Mundell MP, 53 signatures
  50. North Wiltshire, James Gray MP, 53 signatures
  51. Mid-Norfolk, George Freeman MP, 53 signatures
  52. Colne Valley, Thelma Walker MP, 53 signatures
  53. Moray, Douglas Ross MP, 52 signatures
  54. North West Norfolk, Henry Bellingham MP, 52 signatures
  55. St Ives, Derek Thomas MP, 52 signatures
  56. North East Bedfordshire, Alistair Burt MP, 52 signatures
  57. Keighley, John Grogan MP, 52 signatures
  58. Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner MP, 52 signatures
  59. Bristol West, Thangam Debbonaire MP, 51 signatures
  60. Taunton Deane, Rebecca Pow MP, 51 signatures
  61. Banbury, Victoria Prentis MP, 50 signatures
  62. York Central, Rachael Maskell MP, 50 signatures
  63. Preseli Pembrokeshire, Stephen Crabb MP, 50 signatures
  64. York Outer, Julian Sturdy MP, 50 signatures

Meanwhile, rooted in the nineteenth century, there is a rival e-petition in support of grouse shooting which has now amassed 27 signatures.  Here’s the map of signatures (the grey areas are constituencies with no signatures).

 

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20 Replies to “18,847 ahead”

  1. A certain ex Gamekeeper is declaring the pro grouse shooting petition is a fake, set up by anti shooters. Quite why anyone who’s against driven grouse shooting would bother to do this is a mystery to me. The man’s paranoid. Perhaps that’s what happens when you spend so much time obsessing on social media?

    1. A stupid argument, they should hijack it and take for their own ends. Either way it will not get many signatures. Meanwhile ours approaches 19K

  2. Disappointed that Richmondshire doesn’t feature on the list. It is one of main areas in the UK for offenses against raptors.

  3. Sheffield Central has dropped down the league a touch but that’s perhaps not surprising as we are currently under siege by a private army of enforcers, along with increasingly dangerous subcontractor Acorn, working at the behest of Sheffield Labour Party and their PFI partners Amey. It’s pretty scary on the streets at times but we are still holding the line!

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lawlessness-on-the-streets-of-sheffield_us_5a204367e4b064ca3c15130b

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/increasingly-desperate-amey-and-acorn-drop-all-concern_us_5a2c317ce4b022ec613b82c1?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003

    Hallam is still hanging up there at the top end, though, and no doubt the rest of us will return to the fray with more vigor when we’ve dealt with this particular lot of ne’er do wells!

    As for the ‘rival petition’; be fair, Mark, they now have a good 5 signatures from grouse shooting areas, solid!

  4. Looks like seven more needed for 19,000.Well done Gavin another small milestone will be reached.
    Fact is you have kept the problem in peoples minds and getting persecution stopped will be a long drawn out job and will be accomplished by lots of small steps with some larger ones in the mix but make no mistake these small ones will be very important.

  5. Woe is me, some ecological illiterate has signed the pro petition from this constituency ( Harrogate and Knaresborough) Thankfully I will be moving soon.

  6. Oh dear its even worse than I thought the four signatures in this constituency make it the most in any, the next nearest is 2!! Harrogate is officially the most ecologically illiterate constituency! Be even worse after I move.

  7. Surprised when checked my constituency that five have signed the rival one and not even a Grouse within two hundred miles I wager.

  8. Have either CA/GWCT/MA etc sent the ‘Don’t ban Grouse Shooting’ petition out to its members? Sudden leap from 6 signatures to 396 signatures in just two days!

    1. SG – yes they’re having a spurt. Doesn’t look like Moorland Assoc membership. More like National Gamekeepers Org????

      1. Heartland grouse shooting constituencies like North Herefordshire, Chelsea and Fulham and City of Westminster leading the way once more. Interesting to see that High Peak and Ribble Valley have 1 between them.
        Tim Weston (@arrettacrown) Development Officer for the NGO highlighted the petition a couple of days ago

  10. Ban grouse shooting if landowners are unable or not capable of protecting our indigenous birds of prey. Red Grouse is not an indigenous species of the UK it was introduced in early 1900s . Black grouse is our indigenous species which is in decline.

    1. Kimberley – thanks for your support – but Red Grouse is indeed a wild UK species (the British race of the Willow Grouse)

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