Here is an update on three e-petitions about grouse shooting: Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting – 23,700+ signatures Jane Griggs’s e-petition supporting grouse shooting – 13,200+ signatures Ed Hutchings’s e-petition in favour of licensing grouse shooting – 1500+ signatures Gavin Gamble’s e-petition had a good Christmas thanks to social media…
Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
RSPB reaction to the e-petition that they ought to have written themselves
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting came out of nowhere as far as I was concerned. But I have supported it and will continue to support it, and it has topped 20,000 signatures which is respectable rather than spectacular, but I remain confident that it will reach a much higher total by the…
Calling all sanctimonious and hypocritical bigots!
This email may have started the spurt of support for the ridiculously-worded e-petition in favour of grouse shooting. It was sent out, as you can see above, by a person whose anonymity I will preserve, at least for a while, as he or she (sounds like a bloke though doesn’t he or she?) has done…
What will the RSPB do?
Now that there is an e-petition asking governments to introduce licensing of grouse shooting, which they could do as part of all shooting or just for grouse shooting I guess, the RSPB and others need to think about whether they will promote this matter to their memberships. I think they should but I’m guessing…
20,000 signatures, 10,563 ahead and the third way
This morning, Gavin Gamble’s e-petition passed a big milestone – it reached 20,000 signatures. Well done Gavin and let’s hope that the e-petition continues to make very significant progress – I think it will. But there’s no getting away from the fact that the rival e-petition, the Griggs e-petition, had a very good week and…