It’s sometimes difficult to tell how well the message that grouse moor management is environmentally unsustainable, economically harmful and in any case underpinned by wildlife crime is spreading. It also feels like there is a bit of a feeling of ‘ what’s the point?’ around the current e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. That’s a…
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How is it going? The leading constituencies
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is within 500 signatures of triggering a response from Defra – that will mark a valuable milestone. It seems to have been around for ages but it’s only three weeks! Here are the leading constituencies so far – many of them are old friends (these all have…
How are we doing?
It’s less than two full weeks since Gavin Gamble launched his e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. It’s doing pretty well and I’ve slipped back into checking the progress of an e-petition every few hours (or even more frequently!). 123,077 signatures, our last total, seems a very, very long way away – but then it…
Good start!
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has got off to a very good start. It’s already over 6500 signatures and there are only (at the time of writing yesterday) five constituencies (out of c650) which have no signatures; three in Northern Ireland and two in London – we’ve seen this pattern before….
Here we go again…
I really hope that this e-petition by Gavin Gamble (whom I don’t know personally) crashes through the 10,000 signatures mark very quickly and then heads rapidly past 20k, 30k, 40k, 50k, 60k, 70k, 80k, 90k and 100k signatures. It’s a long way – but it’s feasible and I’ll be promoting this e-petition as if it…
Labour on driven grouse shooting – shhhhhhhhh!
The English MP who is the Hen Harrier champion is Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge. She has, in the past, been an outspoken critic of killing of birds of prey, especially in her own Peak District constituency. Angela was also one of very few non-Conservative MPs to speak in the Westminster Hall debate…
It’s been a really bad few days for the grouse shooters (6)
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And then there were all those Hen Harrier Day events – more highly attended than ever before. Here are some photos and estimates of attendances – some revised from earlier. Let’s travel from south to north. Hen Harrier Day South – 500 attendees for speeches – many more interactions through the day. Hen…
It’s been a really bad few days for the grouse shooters (1)
It’s been a really bad few days for the grouse shooters – some of the wounds have been entirely self-inflicted and others have been because they don’t have much defence against the truth or the masses of the people. Let’s start with Findlay Wilde, now luxuriating on holiday somewhere near a mistnet in Portugal. His…
Letter to my MP
Dear Mr Pursglove Thank you for your response to my earlier letters, and I have just received the response from Chris Skidmore MP, Cabinet Office, on the Lobbying Act. But before I comment briefly on those responses, and return to another issue, may I congratulate you on your appointment as PPS to Dr Liam Fox…
Scenes from Highlands Hen Harrier Day yesterday
Any event in the Highlands with 200 attendees is pretty good. The rally in Boat if Garten was standing room only and a great event.