We are at the end of the second week of this petition and it has passed 55,000 signatures. In the last week signatures have been adding at 1000/day. This demonstrates how very angry many people are about government’s assault on one of our most loved native mammals. Inhumane Badger slaughter is not a vote winner.
A week ago there were 123 constituencies with over 100 signatures and five with over 200 signatures of which Derbyshire Dales led the way with 327 signatures.
Derbyshire Dales still leads the list and High Peak joins it in the ‘300 signatures’ club and there are now 10 constituencies with over 200 signatures. And it’s still a very Conservative list:
Derbyshire Dales, Sarah Dines MP, 377 signatures
High Peak, Robert Largan MP, 307 signatures
West Dorset, Chris Loder MP, 254 signatures
Stroud, Siobhan Baillie MP, 247 signatures
Sheffield Hallam, Olivia Blake MP, 236 signatures
Torridge and West Devon, Geoffrey Cox MP, 229 signatures
Wells, James Heappey MP, 229 signatures
Isle of Wight, Bob Seely MP, 203 signatures
St Ives, Derek Thomas MP, 201 signatures
Mid Derbyshire, Pauline Latham MP, 201 signatures
There’s a long way to go, and a lot of work to keep promoting this petition up to and including 24 March when it closes. Unlocking signatures in inner cities is a key task. Those 377 signatures in the Derbyshire Dales slightly exceed all the signatures in the nine constituencies with ‘Birmingham’ in their names. Lower rates of sign-up in London, Manchester, Liverpool and Tyneside and Wearside are similar to those in Birmingham. We have some ideas to crack these issues!
Please have a look at this petition and sign it if you can – thank you!
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RSPB Membership 1.2m. Should be a doddle.
I’ll note that the petition over banning driven grouse shooting reached 100K+ signatures and is still awaiting a decision for a debate in parliament.
https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/266770
Apparently it closed early due to a general election. Was it ever opened up after the GE? If it was never re-opened, why the automatic assumption that a petition cannot have validity spanning more than one parliament?
It got a response, of types. Perhaps the silence on the decision on a debate is just a proverbial middle finger. It is over a year now. 403 days and counting.
Wildlife Trusts membership over 800,000. Badger as their logo. should be a doddle.