My written evidence RSPB’s written evidence Countryside Alliance’s written evidence Moorland Association’s written evidence The inquiry received hundreds of statements of written evidence which will be published over the next few days. It’s a big job for the committee clerks to read it all, exclude any evidence that might be libellous or inappropriate for…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
Evidence session at 2:15pm
Come senators, congressmen please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside and it’s ragin’ It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls For the times they are a’ changin’! The Times they…
What people might say tomorrow.
RSPB: Martin Harper helpfully sets out the RSPB case on driven grouse shooting in his blog today ahead of the evidence session tomorrow at 2:15pm. There is not much between the RSPB and my position when it comes to the litany of problems associated with driven grouse shooting. These arguments have been well rehearsed and…
All change – Portcullis House on Tuesday
The evidence session on Tuesday will take place in Portcullis House – opinions differ as to whether this is the ugliest building in London or just one of them. However, inside it is very nice, and modern – although lacking the charm of Sir Charles Barry’s and Pugin’s masterpiece over the road. The evidence session…
The 123,076 – mostly rural voters
It won’t come as a surprise to regular readers of this blog that the strongest support for our e-petition for banning driven grouse shooting came from rural constituencies. We’ve known this for ages!! Just looking at England, for example, rural constituencies give stronger support for our e-petition than do urban ones: And this difference remains…
31 October
31 October is the date set for a debate on banning driven grouse shooting. The debate will be in Westminster Hall and will start at 4:30pm. Three hours have been allocated to this debate – which is a very long time for this type of thing. It may indicate the interest that MPs have noticed…
Evidence session
A week today, between 215pm and 245pm, I’ll be giving evidence to a joint inquiry into grouse shooting by the Petitions Committee and the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee. It’s not a long time, but we’ll see how it goes. You can see how it goes by attending in person or by watching on…
Those 123,076 of us
123,076 of us signed the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. And you only have to glance at the map of signatures to see that the signatures come predominantly from rural constituencies in England, Scotland and Wales. If you have a map of the last general election’s results in your head you can quickly compute…
Lib Dems all bogged down – Firm briefing 20
There are only eight Liberal Democrat MPs in Westminster and I have now been sent responses from six of them to their constituents. They are all over the place! There are more varieties of response from six LibDems than from scores of Conservatives or tens of Labour responses! Here is a composite letter: As a…
Absolutely last chance
I’m not sure when the cut-off is but you are running out of time to submit evidence to the House of Commons inquiry on grouse shooting. Here is the link. I’ve been sent some of your submissions and several people have quoted our new Prime Minister whose speech to the Conservative Party Conference today included…