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Awful government response to our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
To Rory Stewart, Defra Dear Minister The government response to the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is simply awful. It is partial and inaccurate. I have previously asked Defra whether responses of this sort are seen and signed off by ministers and have never received a response. Did you sign off this response?…
That government response – what you thought
Yesterday, as I was talking to the East Berks RSPB local group, our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 19,000 signatures. Last year it took over five months to reach this level – this year we got there in under two months. Momentum is building and we are gaining support all the time. Thank…
Guest Blog – Plenty more fish in the sea by Emma Garnett
Emma Garnett is an ecologist who is usually happiest when hiking through mountains. After graduating with a first in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 2011, she spent two years studying in five different countries for a Masters in Applied Ecology. She has a keen interest in marine conservation and for her thesis spent four months…
Government response to our e-petition
Our (there are very nearly 19,ooo of us) e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has just received a government response. I’ll write a few words about it tomorrow evening – but you can see for yourselves that it isn’t very7 good. More on this tomorrow. Nobody could find this response the least bit convincing –…
New Shadow Defra SoS on World at One
The sun was shining yesterday lunch time so I thought I’d go out and pick some blackberries – I’d been in Canterbury on Saturday and then it had rained on Sunday, so the weekend had not been a harvesting opportunity. I think others must have been similarly occupied or put off because the hedgerows were…
Misleading, errors, apologise – Daily Telegraph
Yesterday the Daily Telegraph admitted errors of reporting (see previous blogs: We’re not really the complaining type but… 14 August, A lie can travel… 6 August, It gets worse, or better, depending which side you are on 5 August, You forgot the truth 4 August) about the RSPB and Hen Harrier nests after a number of…
18,000 signatures
I was chatting to Bill Wiggin MP at the WCL meeting in the House of Commons yesterday when our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 18,000 signatures. Indeed, I think we were talking, in a friendly way, about how Mr Wiggin’s constituents were flocking to the cause of banning driven grouse shooting. Or maybe…
Corbyn watch – anthems
Speaking as one who loves a good sing – as part of a crowd anyway – I’d have been belting out the words of the National Anthem (which nation is that by the way?) with more gusto than skill if I had been in Jeremy Corbyn’s position. I miss the alternate Saturdays at Nene Park…