The Government has tabled a motion proposing that an early general election be held. The motion is in the terms set out in section 2(2) of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. If agreed to by a super-majority of the House of Commons, an early election will take place in accordance with that Act.In the event…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
You could watch this Westminster Hall debate at 16:30
Watch the debate online from 1630 -1900 or so. I’ll be out looking for a Starling murmuration, but I’ll catch up with it in Hansard tomorrow. I wonder what the attendance will be like and what MPs will say. the government response, back in May, wasn’t as awful as many are – click here. Could…
The RSPB and game shooting
Saturday’s welcome announcement from the RSPB that they are reviewing their position over game shooting is just that – welcome. None of us yet knows what that review will look like nor what, if anything, the RSPB has in mind might change; but we can guess. First, you don’t announce a review if your attention…
Waiting for a debate date
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There are only six open petitions on the Westminster parliament website which have overtopped the 100,000 signatures and are therefore eligible for a debate in Westminster Hall. Of those, one is about to become largely irrelevant (and is talked about incessantly anyway), two have been debated, one has had a debate date set and two,…
E-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – update
The total has passed 111,111 signatures and the prospect of a general election campaign (which would close all such petitions on the UK Parliament website) keeps approaching and receding, more often than the movement of the tides it seems to me. It’s unclear whether the time for ‘one last big push’ is today or in…
Dear Mr Pursglove
Dear Mr Pursglove It’s quite some time since I last wrote to you. So may I congratulate you on your new post as Assistant Government Whip. I appreciate getting your newsletter and keep an eye on what you are doing. In which regard, I looked you up on the recent Guardian review of MPs’ votes…
Please sign this e-petition
I’m grateful to what I imagine were lots of readers of this blog, as well as others, who signed the e-petition calling for the repeal of the Weeds Act 1959. Thank you. If you didn’t sign that one earlier then please have a look at it now even though it has passed the important 10,000…
RSPB on driven grouse shooting
There was an interesting bit on the Today programme yesterday (click here, between 0845 and 0850) when Beccy Speight of the RSPB talked about the State of Nature report (and see here). Beccy did well but then, rather out of the blue, she was asked about grouse shooting and the fact that some people, including…
Ban driven grouse shooting e-petition update.
It’s exactly seven weeks since this e-petition launched and we are approaching 108,000 signatures. Progress has been slow over the last three weeks but then no-one has put any effort into bumping up the signatures. As we enter the last 2-3 weeks (probably) of this e-petition then it would be good to put on a…
After one month
It’s exactly a month since this e-petition launched and we are over 106,000 signatures. That’s amazing! Here’s the ever-growing list of constituencies with more than 200 signatures already (as of this morning): Calder Valley, Craig Whittaker MP (Con), 491 signatures Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP (SNP), 489 signatures High Peak, Ruth George…