Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting

Hardly anybody wants grouse shooting to continue – or if they do then they can’t be bothered to exert themselves so much as to sign a petition to protect their interests, and hardly anybody wants it to be licensed (even though the RSPB has promoted this idea in its magazine). In contrast, a raggle taggle…

Not much to say about this because nothing much is happening.

Not much has happened this week – although the ‘ban’ e-petition gained a signature! My copy of Nature’s Home magazine came through the post and I can see why that hasn’t produced many signatures for licensing from its alleged readership of over 1 million. The small article hidden on page 41 hardly quickens the pulse….

Another week and Jane Griggs’s and Ed Hutchings’s e-petitions about grouse shooting limp along. At least the ‘license’ e-petition has now, finally (or maybe not finally) passed the ‘pro’ e-petition. Hooray for that! However, RSPB magazines have been falling through people’s letterboxes for several days now (though mine has not yet arrived) and the spurt…

In the week since Gavin Gamble’s e-petition closed, his e-petition has still added far more signatures than the Jane Griggs e-petition supporting grouse shooting and the Ed Hutchings, RSPB-supported, e-petition calling for licensing. Far more than the two of them put together in fact!  How can that be? It’s because for several days people were…