Standing up for Nature
And here are the results of the Welsh jury… (in red, constituencies which registered more signatures in six months last time, than in six weeks this time around; in blue, constituencies which have already surpassed their previous total): Ceredigion 95, 82 Montgomeryshire 79, 72 Brecon and Radnorshire 62, 72 Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire 54, 59 …
Yesterday, at midnight, Rob Sheldon could stop looking at how his e-petition was doing and relax. His e-petition to ban the use of toxic lead ammunition had passed 17,000 signatures and had run its six-month course. 17,051 is a perfectly respectable total – and is probably more than Rob had hoped for at the beginning,…
Most of Northern Ireland is far away from any driven grouse shooting and yet the support for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is growing all the time. Here are the numbers of signatures from the 18 Northern Ireland constituencies this time (second number, and after just six weeks) compared with last time (first…
It’s interesting (well, I think it is) to see where the signatures are coming from this time around. Remember, we have just passed (in six weeks) the previous total of 33,655 signatures (achieved in 26 weeks). Let’s take a closer look at Scotland (more analysis to follow). You only have to look at the map…
That was quick! We have passed 33,000 signatures inside Week 6 of our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. We will soon pass 33,333 which means that we will be a third of the way to 100,000 signatures in less than 6 full weeks of the 26 weeks at our disposal. It seems unlikely, but…you…
I should apologise to my MP, Tom Pursglove for suggesting that his reply to me was rather tardy – it has now arrived and the delay was clearly in the post and in getting from my letter box to me, rather than his fault! He is pretty quick and efficient at replying even though he…
Yesterday our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 31,000 signatures. Thank you to everyone who has signed, shared and helped. The ‘100 Club’ of constituencies with at least 100 signatures: Calder Valley 179 signatures – Craig Whittaker MP, CON Ross, Skye, Lochaber 155 signatures – Ian Blackford MP, SNP Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and…
Yesterday was, of course, St George’s Day, Shakespeare’s birthday and Shakespeare’s death day too. So what would be more appropriate than the quote above? Henry, and a group of close friends, gathered in the Peak District to celebrate the day, the achievement of 30,000 signatures for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting, and the…
At lunchtime today our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting will have been running for a month – and will have five months to go. We are only 20% of the way through and we are approaching 30,000 signatures (29,870 this morning). Fantastic! Thank you to everyone who has signed, shared and helped. The ‘100…
Defra Press Office has been kind enough to come back to me and confirm that government ministers do, as one would expect, sign off departmental responses to e-petitions. So this one (and see here too), this one, this one and this one, were all signed off by a minister at the time. I’m looking forward,…