This map of signatures for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting (approaching 54,000 signatures) is endlessly fascinating for me – I’m that type of guy. You can see that a lot of the support is coming from large rural upland constituencies near grouse shooting areas, and that much of the rest comes from…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
Four weeks today
Four weeks today join Chris Packham and others at what is expected to be the biggest Hen Harrier Day rally yet – at the RSPB Rainham Marshes nature reserve. We are expecting well over a thousand people to assemble to express their outrage at the state of the Hen Harrier population and to call for…
53,000
Another thousand passed! I was on a grouse moor in Yorkshire with Chris Packham, in the Skipton and Ripon constituency actually, when I noticed we had passed this milestone and I texted the Moorland Association to ask whether they had yet found a landowner to represent their ‘sport’ at the Bird Fair. These are the…
Letter to my MP
Dear Mr Pursglove You must be pleased that our constituency of Corby, the East Midlands, England, and the UK all voted for a Brexit. Personally, I was gutted by the result. I read your Westminster newsletter with interest and I must commend you on the way that you wrote about the result; very calm, very…
Your guesses for the end of July
You are an optimistic bunch – really you are! Here are the guesses as to how many signatures we will have gained by my bedtime on 31 July: 51495 Robert Kingsbury-Barker 51798 Roger Little 53471 Sue 54356 Peter Swallow 54731 notso 55333 Steven Savage 56000 Emma Thompson 57356 Graham Sorrie 58713 Kate Cartmell Done 61645…
Win a signed copy of the new paperback Inglorious
It’s not a big prize, but it’s better than nothing! Let’s see whether you can predict the number of signatures on our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting at my bedtime on 31 July. That will be after 10pm but might well be before midnight – although if timing is critical, because it might be…
50,000 signatures
50,000!! Pardon my excitement – but I am excited! A couple of years ago the idea that there would be popular support for banning the favoured hobby of the rich – blasting Red Grouse out of the air for fun – seemed somewhat optimistic. Now it seems like a popular movement. Thank you to all…
49,000 signatures
49000 signatures. That sounds very close to 50,000 signatures. And that is half way to 100,000 signatures. And that gets us a debate on the future of grouse shooting in the Westminster parliament and much more understanding of the problems caused by the hobby of a few at the expense of the many. Here, in…
48,000 – put the guns down, walk away from the guns!
Today our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting reached 48,000 signatures. Thank you to all of you who have signed, asked your friends and relatives to sign, supported the promotion of the e-petition financially and helped in many other ways. There has been quite a surge in signatures from Scotland recently and a bit of…
Scotland signs up for a ban
Here are the Scottish constituencies – and what a fantastic contribution they are making to the overall total of almost 47,000 signatures for a ban on driven grouse shooting. Last time, Scotland, in 6 months, produced c2900 signatures out of 33,700. This time, in just over three months, Scotland has already produced c4800 signatures out…