Standing up for Nature
…our e-petition to get a debate on driven grouse shooting passed 24,000 signatures yesterday. Another milestone – and thank you to all who have helped get there. This was, by far, the slowest additional 1,000 signatures of the lot – but I don’t think that means that the e-petition has lost steam – there are…
The e-petition website is getting rather flashy these days. Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is doing fine, ticking along, and now you can look at a map of where the signatures come from. Just look for the link under the current signature total and click, and you’ll see a map very like the…
Another milestone was passed last week. Please sign this e-petition to get a debate in parliament about driven grouse shooting. BBC Countryfile has an online ‘debate’ on whether we should ban driven grouse shooting but they haven’t posted the link to the e-petition because the BBC can’t be seen to be ‘campaigning’. Hmm! Since when…
Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is today half way through its six-month life. It closes on 21 January. My fear when starting it off in July was that it might fail, in the six months now allowed, to pass the total we reached in over 10 months last year. But I should have…
A strange-looking milestone perhaps… But last year this was the number of signatures gathered by my (our) previous e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. That one was launched in late May 2014 and lasted until the beginning of the general election campaign in late March 2015. This year we have reached the same milestone, not…
And another milestone is passed. Thank you everyone! The next milestone is pretty close too: last year we reached 22,399 signatures in 10.5 months and that total is within reach inside three months. Please sign the e-petition to get a debate on driven grouse shooting and please join the Thunderclap to help spread the word…
It was last Sunday that our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – or at least to get a debate on the subject in the Westminster parliament – passed 20,000 signatures. Yesterday, Saturday it romped past 21,000 and today, it is within a couple of score of 22,000. Please note – we are not even…
Our e-petition to ask the Westminster government to ban driven grouse shooting, reached 20,000 signatures last night. That took less than two and a half months. Last year, the similar e-petition took six and a half months to reach the same milestone. And remember, this has been done by you and me, and 19,998 others…
Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 19,000 signatures inside 2 months (late July, Aug, some of Sept). Last year, it took over 5 months to reach the same level (late May, June, July, August, September, October, early November). Thank you to all who have signed already and promoted it- keep going please! We’re…
To Rory Stewart, Defra Dear Minister The government response to the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is simply awful. It is partial and inaccurate. I have previously asked Defra whether responses of this sort are seen and signed off by ministers and have never received a response. Did you sign off this response?…