Another 1000 passed! Hooray! We will soon have 100 Westminster parliamentary constituencies in the ‘100 Club’ and two thirds (or more) of them will be Conservative seats. High Peak becomes the third seat to pass 200 signatures. There are more than 12 weeks to go – I wonder what the final total will be. I…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
Henry’s picnic – of course it rained
A group of 75+ met at Grimwith Reservoir car park yesterday to gather together to protest about the lack of Hen Harriers in the ununited-UK, in the uplands of England, in National Parks and in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. There was sun, there was gloom, there were midges and there was rain – a…
45,000
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Yesterday we passed another major milestone – 45,000 signatures. Our e-petition has plenty of momentum. In May we passed 34k, 35k, 36k, 37k and 38k signatures, but already in June we have passed 39k, 40k, 41k, 42k, 43k, 44k and 45k – how much further can we get before the end of this month? And…
A plug for Gordon Yates
Many have commented on the magnificent images of Hen Harriers that I use on this blog – most of them are the work of the photographer Gordon Yates (who also wrote a Guest Blog here last year after the ‘mysterious’ disappearances of five male Hen Harriers from active nests in England). Here’s a link to…
Picnic with Henry at Grimwith Reservoir
I’m told that the picnic/stroll/chat about the lack of Hen Harriers in England this year – ‘a tiny handful’ (RSPB) – will be held at Grimwith Reservoir car park at midday on Saturday (this Saturday! Saturday 25 June). It will be nice to meet up with many friends and register our anger at the lack…
Half-time!
Our e-petition to get a debate on the future of driven grouse shooting started on 20 March and ends on 20 September – so let’s call this half time. Have a sit down, suck on a lemon, put on a clean shirt, clean your studs, check your shin guards and it’s up and at ’em…
44,444
We are 50% through the time and 44% of the way to 100,000 signatures. Pretty good! Thank you all! See whether you can get someone new to sign this e-petition today, please. More on this tomorrow!
43,000
That’s another thousand in the bag and we still aren’t half way in time yet. And it comes only two days after 42,000 was reached. That was a successful over! Thanks everyone! Take a look at the map which you will see is still dominated by rural constituencies, many of them in grouse moor areas:…
100 days – it’s a run chase
We are 100 days away from 20 September when our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting will close. We aren’t half way through our time yet – that is just over a week away – but let’s have a little stock-take. Today we passed the 42,000 signature milestone! That is just fantastic – thank you…
41,000
Another milestone reached. Many thanks to all who have signed and supported, and huge thanks to Stewart Abbott for the thunderclap yesterday which is giving signatures a boost and pushed us over the 41,000 mark. Also a big ‘THANKS!’ to Natalie Bennett who joined that thunderclap and swelled its social reach. The West Country continues…