Twenty-eight thousand signatures in just over 24 hours – Wow! I’m not entirely sure why this is going so strongly – except that there are obviously at least 28,500 very sensible people out there. If I were a politician I would have noticed this initial very strong start (in the holiday period, too) and begin…
Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
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Please sign and share this new e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting. The petition was submitted by Chris Packham on behalf of Wild Justice on 4 July and got the requisite five signatures to go into the system on 5 July. Quite why it has been stuck in the system for nearly six…
Guest blog – My e-petition for licensing grouse shooting by Ed Hutchings
Ed writes about his e-petition to license driven grouse shooting. Twitter: @EdHutchings It was in India that I learnt the news that the Government had responded to my petition to license driven grouse shooting. The grouse moors of Britain felt a million miles away from the dusty śāl forests of central India immortalised by Kipling….
Wake up Lib Dems!!
Here are two maps. The first looks like the fairly familiar map of signatures for banning driven grouse shooting although to make it a bit more comparable with the second map it is the slightly different ‘% of constituents signing for a ban of driven grouse shooting’. And the second is the LibDem share of…
Grouse shooting demonstrates lack of public support
The e-petition in support of grouse shooting has now closed – but it actually fizzled our ages ago. It scrabbled together 15 thousand signatures and had the richer parts of London as its most enthusiastic areas of support. We can regard it as having been supported by a network of land agents and their masters…