These are the MPs who will decide whether or not our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting, which passed 100,000 signatures yesterday, the 13 August (the day after the Inglorious 12th), will be debated. They next meet on 6 September so the more signatures we can amass by then, the better. Are any of you…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
Everybody wants a debate – bring it on
In a fair piece of reporting, the Daily Telegraph covered the arrival of our e-petition at over 100,000 signatures. That was yesterday wasn’t it – seems ages ago now! Nice photo of Henry too! He’ll be unbearable! Ian Gregory of YFTB, who has done so much to help get us to the 100,000 signature threshold,…
Bad losers and partly to blame
It was bound to happen – the internet trolls are claiming that the recent rush of signatures for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has been fraudulent in some way. Ho, ho ho! There certainly has been a rush of signatures, and the speed of growth of the e-petition has taken me by surprise…
Petitions
There have been 20,500+ petitions submitted during this parliament. 13,700 of them were rejected – we weren’t. Of the 6,800 or so not rejected – only 293 have passed the 10,000 signature barrier (we’ve done that twice – in this parliament). Of the 6,800 or so not rejected, only 47 have reached 100,000 signatures…
League Against Cruel Sports press release
Parliamentary debate expected as surge in petition signatures to ban driven grouse shooting reaches magic 100,000 Support for a total ban on driven grouse shooting has rocketed with a key petition achieving the 100,000 signatures needed to trigger a debate in Parliament. As the grouse shooting season opens, support for the e-petition – set up…
100,000!!
We did it – 100,000 of us (so far). Thank you! I hope someone has a screen grab I can add here later (above – although it went past in a blur and I’ve been sent several slightly photoshopped ones like the above – thank you) but now I’m off to get a train home…
Our St Crispins Day
It feels a bit like the eve of a mighty victory. At the battle of Agincourt, the English and Welsh plebeian archers (plebs – the common people, not a perjorative term) gave a metaphorical and actual two fingers to the toffs (a mildly derogatory term for the landed gentry but actually merely a term for…
What a glorious Inglorious 12th
We started the day in the 86,000s and we will end the day in the 96,000s or higher. Have you heard? There’s an e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Please sign it.
Guardian gets it right
Experienced journalist John Vidal calls it right in the Guardian on the attacks on Chris Packham by YFTB. ‘Adding to the shooters’ pain is a parliamentary e-petition that has more than 89,000 signatures calling for an end to the sport. Not since foxhunting with dogs was threatened with legislation in the 1990s has a country…
Flock back to M&S, grouse over
M&S will not stock grouse meat this year. Phew! I’ve been missing shopping in M&S. I may buy a bottle of their champagne to celebrate. In a statement posted on their corporate blog M&S say that they will not stock grouse because there aren’t enough of them on the estate which they intend to use…