Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting keeps making significant progress. Highlights: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey approaches 100 signatures – next week? The number of constituencies with 50+ signatures has jumped from 18 to 26 in the last week. Foyle and Barking remain the only two UK constituencies without a single signature Here…
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Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has had another good week – it passed 14,000 signatures and is now closer to 15,000. Well done! It is not yet a third of its way through its lifetime but it’s getting close to that. Having passed 10,000 signatures and prompted an inadequate and disappointing…
Whither Gavin Gamble’s e-petition?
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition has already achieved something – it has shown us that Defra gives not a fig about wildlife crime. That may not surprise many people but it is a useful stake in the ground. I know that many people are suffering from petition fatigue (and I have as much cause to feel that…
The first seven weeks
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting now stands at over 13,000 signatures and it has now had a poor government response (see here and here). Here are the leading constituencies so far – many of them are old friends (all with 50+ signatures): Inverness, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP, 87 signatures Thirsk…
The Defra response – a few comments
The biggest problem with the Defra response is that it still ducks the issue of wildlife crime – and how can a government turn its back on crime? I’ll come back to that tomorrow morning. But for now, let us thank Gavin Gamble (and 9,999 others) for flushing out these comments. It’s always enlightening to…
A Defra response only scores 3 out of 10
Defra responded yesterday to Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Congratulations to Gavin for having moved things on a bit – it’s always interesting to get a glimpse of what is going on in the government mind. Here is the government response: Defra is working with key interested parties to ensure the sustainable…
12,000 signatures
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is still waiting for a response from Defra 20 days after passing 10,000 signatures. Today it has just passed 12,000 signatures. Well done Gavin – slow but steady progress. You seem to have the minister stumped for a reply… Here are the leading constituencies so far –…
The first six weeks
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is still waiting for a response from Defra. It now stands at 11,154 signatures. Here are the leading constituencies so far – many of them are old friends (all with 50+ signatures): Inverness, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP, 85 signatures Skipton and Ripon, Julian Smith MP,…
The first five weeks
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is still waiting for a response from Defra. It now stands at 10,867 signatures. Here are the leading constituencies so far – many of them are old friends (all with 50+ signatures): Inverness, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP, 83 signatures Skipton and Ripon, Julian Smith MP,…
The first four weeks
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 10,000 signatures on Friday. This, importantly, will trigger a response from Defra – a valuable insight into whether the government is still in denial about wildlife crime or whether the message is getting through. Here are the leading constituencies so far – many of them are…