The MPs (and peers) above added their support to a letter in support of the British Game Alliance. You can read the letter here. I haven’t checked the peers but all the MPs are Tories (plus Jim Shannon DUP). I don’t have any problem with their doing this, nor really with the content of the…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
Hen Harrier Day – 2 weeks today
If you want to learn more about the plight of the Hen Harrier and the motives of those who so ruthlessly persecute it, then read my book. My publisher tells me that the paperback (updated 2016) edition is down to its last 250 or so copies in the warehouse so they will soon be gone…
Westminster update
Did you notice that we have a new Prime Minister? That’s not the only movement… Michael Gove goes (to Cabinet Office) – I’m sorry to see him go because I would have liked to see him deliver on some of his best promises. All bets are off on everything – is that any way to…
You might have missed this rally in the news
Back in April they said this – we’re going to have a rally. And they had help, advice and support from the Countryside Alliance, the National Gamekeepers Organisation (I always want to put the apostrophe in there, but they don’t…) and BASC (but it’s not just shooters, oh no!) And they did get a crowd…
Hen Harrier Day 2019
Some more information here. List of speakers increasing all the time.
Yesterday in Edale
Yesterday I went to Edale and back. I met some old friends, and made some new ones, and had an interesting day – oh yes, and was called a liar by a gamekeeper. Not a bad day all round. This is an annual event which basically has the feel of a rather up-market village fete…
Hen Harrier Day 2019 #HHDay19
It looks like there will only be one Hen Harrier Day event in the UK in 2019 – but everyone who cares about this bird and wants to see an end to its persecution is invited. Hen Harrier Day events started in 2014 and have been held at locations from Northern Ireland to inside the…
Dear Petitions Committee
Dear Petitions Committee (petitionscommittee@parliament.uk) I am a great supporter of the petitions process set up by the Westminster Parliament – at least I am in principle, but in practice my enthusiasm is waning a little. I’d like to suggest some changes to the system that, I believe, would improve its ability to command the confidence…
Government response: not so much poor as awful.
Les Wallace’s epetition, having secured over 10,000 signatures, was entitled to an honest, serious and lucid response from Defra but it failed to get one. We know that these responses are signed off by government ministers and we assume that this one was signed off by the minister responsible for the areas covered by the…
Poor government response
Les Wallace’s petition has now received its expected poor government response. To be fair, it is quite a quick, poor response. Therese Coffey and the rest of Defra say ‘No’. In fact they say ‘No, no need’. I’ll be coming back to this later, probably today, as there are some very interesting aspects to it….