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…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
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…
A bit of perspective
Our e-petition to ask government to ban driven grouse shooting received 33,615 signatures (and it is still going up slowly as people click on their confirmation emails). I think that is pretty good and certainly represents considerable progress on last year. I’d like to thank everyone who helped – but I can’t name everyone here…
The ‘100 club’
Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting closed at midnight on Thursday and now, with most people who signed before midnight having clicked on the confirmation email, it has reached a total of 33,614 signatures; rather satisfyingly, exactly 50% more than last year’s similar e-petition. Without any practical support from our large wildlife NGOs, we…
33,575 (and counting)
33,575* Thank you to the 33,574 of you who also signed my (our) e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. This sends a message to government and the grouse shooting industry that things need to change. You have sent a strong message to wildlife NGOs that there is huge popular support for a much more…
Two days to go
Just two days to go before our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting closes at midnight on Thursday. After that I’ll write about something else, here, for a while! But it’s clear that this campaign is going out with a bang and not a whimper. Yesterday we added 700 signatures which if we maintained that…
That was another milestone
22,399 was the total of signatures we achieved last year on an e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – I thought that was pretty good in the ten months that were allowed for it. That was over 2000 signatures a month – c75 a day – not bad at all, I thought. Today, our similar…
32,000!
Wow! That surprised me. Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting, which will close at midnight on Thursday (so only three days left to get your friends to sign) raced past 32,000 signatures at 22:32 last night. And it was racing along. Makes me wonder whether 35,000 might be possible – probably not, I…
31,000 signatures!
Thank you! Please keep tweeting on Twitter and sharing on Facebook. The Ban Driven Grouse Shooting Facebook page is clearly helping to boost signatures in these last few days. Just today, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and at least part of Thursday to go! If you had a guess at how many signatures our e-petition to ban…
Thank you Wales
Considering that our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is aimed at the Westminster government and refers to England, I am touched that it has 1300+ signatures from the people of Wales, the land of my mother (not my fathers). All UK residents are entitled to sign the e-petition and so I’d like to encourage…