My binoculars’ birthday

My binoculars are 42 years old today and I happened to get them on my eighteenth birthday so…

My binoculars say ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’.

To give my binoculars a birthday present that they will love, please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition which calls for a ban of driven grouse shooting.

Signature count – 42,540, 42,541 with your signature. Over 350 signatures in the last 24 hours.

Here is an update on the ‘100 signatures’ club: another 10 constituencies have got to or passed 100 signatures in the last three days (bringing the total to 87).  Now, both High Peak and Sheffield Hallam are at or over 200 signatures. Another 40+ constituencies are in the 90s and many look poised to join the ‘100 signatures’ club before midnight on Monday.

1. High Peak, Ruth George MP, 232 signatures
2. Sheffield Hallam, Jared O’Mara, 200 signatures
3. Calder Valley, Craig Whittaker, 183 signatures
4. Derbyshire Dales, Patrick McCloughlin MP, 182 signatures
5. Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP, 179 signatures
6. Thirsk and Malton, Kevin Hollinrake MP, 176 signatures
7. Sheffield Central, Paul Blomfield MP, 173 signatures
8. Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron MP, 171 signatures
9. Skipton and Ripon, Julian Smith MP, 164 signatures
10. Ross, Skye and Lochaber, Ian Blackford MP, 163 signatures
11. Isle of Wight, Bob Seeley MP, 159 signatures
12. Stroud, David Drew MP, 156 signatures
13. North Norfolk, Norman Lamb MP, 156 signatures
14. Richmond (Yorks), Rishi Sunar MP, 156 signatures
15. Suffolk Coastal, Therese Coffey MP, 151 signatures
16. Central Devon, Mel Stride MP, 148 signatures
17. Argyll and Bute, Brendan O’Hara MP, 148 signatures
18. Wells, James Heappey MP, 144 signatures
19. South Norfolk, Richard Bacon MP, 140 signatures
20. Somerton and Frome, David Warburton MP, 139 signatures
21. Bristol West, Thangam Debbonaire MP, 138 signatures
22. Torridge and West Devon, Geoffrey Cox MP, 138 signatures
23. Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas MP, 136 signatures
24. South Cambridgeshire, Heidi Allen MP, 135 signatures
25. East Lothian, Martin Whitfield MP, 135 signatures
26. Penrith and The Border, Rory Stewart MP, 134 signatures
27. Edinburgh North and Leith, Deidre Brock MP, 133 signatures
28. Dumfries and Galloway, Alister Jack MP, 133 signatures
29. Mid Norfolk, George Freeman MP, 130 signatures
30. Norwich South, Clive Lewis MP, 128 signatures
31. Harrogate and Knaresborough, Andrew Jones MP, 126 signatures
32. Lewes, Maria Caulfield MP, 126 signatures
33. Sheffield Heeley, Louise Haigh MP, 124 signatures
34. York Central, Rachael Maskell MP, 123 signatures
35. Ludlow, Philip Dunne MP, 124 signatures
36. St Ives, Derek Thomas MP, 123 signatures
37. Ceredigion, Ben Lake MP, 122 signatures
38. Totnes, Sarah Woollaston MP, 121 signatures
39. Colne Valley, Thelma Walker MP, 121 signatures
40. Witney, Robert Courts MP, 121 signatures
41. North Somerset, Liam Fox MP, 120 signatures
42. Broadland, Keith Simpson MP, 119 signatures
43. Edinburgh East, Tommy Sheppard MP, 119 signatures
44. Ribble Valley, Nigel Evans MP, 119 signatures
45. East Devon, Hugo Swire MP, 116 signatures
46. Berwick on Tweed, Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP, 116 signatures
47. Tiverton and Honiton, Neil Parish MP, 116 signatures
48. Penistone and Stocksbridge, Angela Smith MP, 116 signatures
49. Ochil and South Perthshire, Luke Graham MP, 115 signatures
50. Waveney, Peter Aldous MP, 115 signatures
51. West Dorset, Oliver Letwin MP, 115 signatures
52. Hexham, Guy Opperman MP, 113 signatures
53. Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner MP, 112 signatures
54. York Outer, Julian Sturdy MP, 111 signatures
55. Oxford West and Abingdon, Layla Moran MP, 111 signatures
56. Edinburgh South, Ian Murray MP, 111 signatures
57. South West Surrey, Jeremy Hunt MP, 110 signatures
58. Perth and North Perthshire, Pete Wishart MP, 109 signatures
59. Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweedsmuir, Ian Mundell MP, 108 signatures
60. Macclesfield, David Rutley MP, 109 signatures
61. Chippenham, Michelle Donelan MP, 108 signatures
62. Taunton Deane, Rebecca Pow MP, 108 signatures
63. South West Wiltshire, Andrew Murrison MP, 107 signatures
64. Bridgwater and West Somerset, Ian Liddell-Grainger MP, 107 signatures
65. North East Bedfordshire, Alistair Burt MP, 105 signatures
66. Salisbury, John Glen MP, 105 signatures
67. Rutland and Melton, Alan Duncan MP, 104 signatures
68. Hove, Peter Kyle MP, 104 signatures
69. Stirling, Stephen Kerr MP, 104 signatures
70. Yeovil, Marcus Fysh MP, 104 signatures
71. West Worcestershire, Harriett Baldwin MP, 104 signatures
72. Arundel and South Downs, Nick Herbert MP, 103 signatures
73. South East Cambridgeshire, Lucy Frazer MP, 103 signatures
74. Montgomeryshire, Glyn Davies MP, 103 signatures
75. Lancaster and Fleetwood, Cat Smith MP, 103 signatures
76. North East Derbyshire, Lee Rowley MP, 102 signatures
77. North Herefordshire, Bill Wiggin MP, 102 signatures
78. Edinburgh South West, Joanna Cherry MP, 105 signatures
79. Shipley, Philip Davies MP, 104 signatures
80. The Cotswolds, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, 103 signatures
81. North Dorset, Simon Hoare MP,  103 signatures
82. East Yorkshire, Greg Knight MP, 101 signatures
83. Newbury, Richard Benyon MP, 101 signatures
84. Wantage, Edward Vaizey MP, 101 signatures
85. Twickenham, Vince Cable MP, 101 signatures
86. Scarborough and Whitby, Robert Goodwill MP, 100 signatures
87. Beverley and Holderness, Graham Stuart MP, 100 signatures
88. West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Andrew Bowie MP, 96 signatures
89. North East Fife, Stephen Gethins MP, 97 signatures
90. Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, John Lamont MP, 97 signatures
91. Keighley, John Grogan MP, 98 signatures
92. Leeds North West, Alex Sobel MP, 96 signatures
93. Leeds North East, Fabian Hamilton MP, 91 signatures
94. Selby and Ainsty, Nigel Adams MP, 92 signatures
95. Manchester, Withington, Jeff Smith MP, 97 signatures
96. Congleton, Fiona Bruce MP, 92 signatures
97. Chesterfield, Toby Perkins MP, 91 signatures
98. Amber Valley, Nigel Mills MP, 93 signatures
99. North Shropshire, Owen Paterson MP, 97 signatures
100. Shrewsbury and Atcham, Daniel Kawczynski MP, 92 signatures
101. North West Norfolk, Henry Bellingham MP, 91 signatures
102. South West Norfolk, Liz Truss MP, 92 signatures
103. Bury St Edmunds, Jo Churchill MP, 91 signatures
104. Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, Dan Poulter MP, 97 signatures
105. Ipswich, Sandy Martin MP, 95 signatures
106. South Suffolk, James Cartlidge MP, 91 signatures
107. Forest of Dean, Mark Harper MP, 95 signatures
108. Daventry, Chris Heaton-Harris MP, 91 signatures
109. North West Cambridgeshire, Shailesh Vara MP, 94 signatures
110. Banbury, Victoria Prentis MP, 93 signatures
111. Henley, John Howell MP, 99 signatures
112. North West Hampshire, Kit Malthouse MP, 95 signatures
113. North Wiltshire, James Gray MP, 99 signatures
114. Exeter, Ben Bradshaw MP, 97 signatures
115. South Dorset, Richard Drax, 95 signatures
116. Truro and Falmouth, Sarah Newton MP, 96 signatures
117. New Forest West, Desmond Swayne MP, 92 signatures
118. New Forest East, Julian Lewis MP, 97 signatures
119. East Hampshire, Damian Hinds MP, 91 signatures
120. Reading East, Matt Rodda MP, 96 signatures
121. Moray, douglas Ross 91 signatures
122. Mid Sussex, Nicholas Soames MP, 91 signatures
123. Brecon and Radnorshire, Chris Davies MP, 90 signatures
124. Chorley, Lindsay Hoyle MP, 92 signatures
125. Newton Abbot, Ann Marie Morris MP, 91 signatures
126. Hastings and Rye, Amber Rudd MP, 91 signatures
127. Stratford on Avon, Nadhim Zahawi MP, 93 signatures
128. Horsham, Jeremy Quin MP, 91 signatures
129. Romsey and Southampton North, Caroline Nokes MP, 91 signatures
130. Winchester, Steve Brine MP, 91 signatures

 

If you want to see more sustainable land management in the uplands and an end to wildlife crime then the outcome that will deliver that is certainly a ban on driven grouse shooting – so please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition which calls for a ban on driven grouse shooting.

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