Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has just passed 8000 signatures inside 72 hours – that’s fantastic! Thank you! (click here for up to date map of signatures). Which parliamentary constituency will first reach 100 signatures on our e-petition to secure a debate on the future of driven grouse shooting? Given the strong showing…
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Just six constituencies (and now five)
Hello out there! Does anybody know a friend in any of these six constituencies – the only ones that don’t have a single signature to ban driven grouse shooting at the moment: West Tyrone Sinn Fein Now has a signature Ealing North Labour Battersea Conservative Bexleyheath and Crayford Conservative Barking Labour Aldridge Brownhills Conservative…
6000 signatures
I’m just blown away by the speed at which people are signing the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – thank you to all who have signed. Yesterday, we passed 3000, 4000, 5000 and 6000 signatures and as we pass the 48 hours mark the total now stands at 6689 – that’s two-thirds of the…
Ban driven grouse shooting Facebook page
Our Facebook page is still here. Henry likes it.
Letter to my MP on Fineshade Wood
Dear Mr Pursglove As part of your ‘Listening to Corby and east Northants‘ campaign I’m sure you would like to know how I feel about the possibility of a major development at Fineshade Wood. I’m against it! I was glad to see that you too were against it when you were seeking election and I…
The map is almost filled in
That’s the first 24 hours of this e-petition – and we have whizzed past 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 signatures. Thank you everyone! Almost every one of the 650 UK parliamentary constituencies has already got at least one signature registered in it – and the Calder Valley has 32. The map above is hours out…
What a great start – thank you!
When I woke this morning I knew there was something I had to do – check on the number of signatures on the e-petition I launched yesterday. It was around 1pm yesterday that I noticed that the e-petition had gone live – I wasn’t expecting it to happen at the weekend. By the time I…
Chris Packham was the first…
Timing is everything – and so often a matter of luck! I had noticed that the 3000th post on this blog was coming up shortly but a quick, unplanned blog about Mountain Hares meant that when my third e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting went live a little while ago this announcement could occupy the…
A good reply from my MP
You may remember I wrote to my MP, Tom Pursglove, a little while ago. He and I see the world differently but I was pleased by his thoughtful reply received last week. He writes ‘I appreciate you taking the time to make me aware of your opinions on the subjects of both the EU and…
Dear Mr Pursglove
Happy New Year! This is quite a long communication, so I have structured it into three sections: things I’d like you to know as my MP (and my contribution to your Listening to Corby and east Northants campaign), things I’d like to ask you (not the government – you) as my MP, and things I…