The days of 13-15 May 2014 were very important in the genesis of our campaign to ban driven grouse shooting – you may recall that the first of three e-petitions was launched just two weeks later and that started the whole thing rolling. I wrote about those days in short summary in this blog (see…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
Hen Harrier missing over…guess what?…a grouse moor
The RSPB announced today that a young male Hen Harrier, fitted with a satellite transmitter as part of the Hen Harrier LIFE+ Project, has gone missing on a grouse moor in the Monadhliath Mountains, south-east of Inverness. The bird, named Elwood, was the only chick to fledge from a nest in Banffshire, which was being…
Writing to your MP – Firm Briefing 1
Here are some words you could use to write to your MP about a hoped-for debate on driven grouse shooting. This link will help you find your MP and their email address or postal address, provided you know their name or the name of the constituency in which you live. You should only write to…
Fizz! Cheers M&S!!
Well, sometimes you need to celebrate, don’t you. And although I would normally go up market from this I did want to spend my money with M&S to mark their sensible change of mind over selling grouse meat in their stores this year. Although M&S do sell champagne in their stores, my local outlet doesn’t…
Letter to my MP
Dear Mr Pursglove Do you remember that e-petition on the parliament website which I have mentioned before? My e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting? Well, it has recently passed 100,000 signatures (with five weeks to go) and so it will be considered by the Petitions Committee on 6 September and is very likely to be…
Great effort!
One man’s leafletting has made the formerly rather underperforming constituency of Warwick and Leamington stand out from the Midland crowd in terms of signatures for our petition to ban driven grouse shooting.. I won’t embarrass him by naming him here but I have thanked him personally. And he’ll be at the Bird Fair this weekend…
Over 109,000
The scores have changed quite a lot since the last update! We are over 109,000 signatures – and our e-petition closes at midnight in five weeks’ time! We expect that the Petitions Committee will consider our petition at a meeting on 6 September, and are very hopeful that we will be given a debate. We…
Countryfile last night
I didn’t watch Countryfile live last night as I was doing some work – but I caught up with it in the evening. I thought Bob Elliot from the RSPB was great (as always) and I also thought that the edit was fair. It was filmed on 28 July at Geltsdale in Cumbria (and the…
A strange thing happened last night
I know many of you have spent months refreshing your browsers to check on the progress of our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. So have I. We can all do it a little less often now as we have crossed the magic 100,000 signature barrier which should deliver us a debate in the Westminster…
Leaflets at the Bird Fair
Just because we have passed the 100,000 signature mark doesn’t mean that handing out leaflets to friends and family and work colleagues, or putting them through letterboxes, isn’t still worthwhile. If anything, knowing that the Petitions Committee will sit on 6 September makes that our new deadline for maximising the number of signatures. If you…