On a busy day for environmental news Defra decided to publish their response to the Jane Griggs e-petition in favour of grosue shooting. Funny that. This is what they wrote: Grouse shooting is a legitimate activity that provides economic benefits, jobs and investment in some of our most remote areas and can offer important benefits…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
Well done Gavin Gamble
Yesterday, Gavin Gamble’s ‘ban driven grouse shooting’ e-petition passed another milestone. 25,322 signatures were amassed by a pro-grouse shooting e-petition last year – Gavin’s e-petition has passed that number in only just over half the available time. Well done Gavin and thank you to everyone who has supported him. If you haven’t signed yet then…
Update – we are 10,905 ahead
Here is an update on three e-petitions about grouse shooting: Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting – c25,200 signatures Jane Griggs’s e-petition supporting grouse shooting – c14,300 signatures Ed Hutchings’s e-petition in favour of licensing grouse shooting – c1,900 signatures The last week has seen the ‘Gamble-ban’ e-petition pass 25,000 signatures,…
Gavin Gamble approaches 25,000 signatures
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is fast approaching 25,000 signatures. Next milestone is 25,322 signatures – the number reached by the last pro-grouse shooting petition. Please sign here. Why not ask your partner, friend, workmates, neighbours to sign too? Just send them the link to the petition with a few encouraging words…
Update – we are 10,890 ahead
Here is an update on three e-petitions about grouse shooting: Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting – 24,600+ signatures Jane Griggs’s e-petition supporting grouse shooting – 13,700+ signatures Ed Hutchings’s e-petition in favour of licensing grouse shooting – 1600+ signatures This is the mid-point of the Gamble e-petition – another three…
Update – we’re 10,500 signatures ahead
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…
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…