Our Woodcock petition passes 45,000 signatures

Our Woodcock petition has passed 45,000 signatures five days after the shooting season opened in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Please share the petition link – https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/619615 – you can help move things along even faster. Thank you.

The leading constituencies for support, so far, are as follows (all those with 100+ signatures). As expected, they are mostly Conservative rural constituencies, but signatures are very welcome from anywhere and anyone. The number of constituencies in this list is now well over 100.

1. 1. West Dorset, Chris Loder MP – 211 signatures
   2. North Norfolk, Duncan Baker MP – 210 signatures
   3. Derbyshire Dales, Sarah Dines MP – 201 signatures
   4. Suffolk Coastal, Therese Coffey MP – 200 signatures
   5. Somerton and Frome, David Warburton MP – 188 signatures
   6. Stroud, Siobhan Baillie MP – 187 signatures
   7. Sheffield Hallam, Olivia Blake MP – 186 signatures
   8. Torridge and West Devon, Geoffrey Cox MP – 185 signatures
   9. South Norfolk, Richard Bacon MP – 182 signatures
   10. St Ives, Derek Thomas MP – 179 signatures
   11. Thirsk and Malton, Kevin Hollinrake MP – 178 signatures
   12. Wells, James Heappey MP – 176 signatures
   13. Lewes, Maria Caulfield MP – 171 signatures
   14. Isle of Wight, Bob Seely MP – 170 signatures
   15. Arundel and South Downs, Andrew Griffith MP – 162 signatures
   16. Central Devon, Mel Stride MP – 161 signatures
   17. Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas MP, 160 signatures
   18. Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron MP – 159 signatures
   19. Skipton and Ripon, Julian Smith MP – 158 signatures
   20. North Herefordshire, Bill Wiggin MP – 158 signatures
   21. South Cambridgeshire, Anthony Browne MP – 158 signatures
   22. Brecon and Radnorshire, Fay Jones MP – 156 signatures
   23. Macclesfield, David Rutley MP – 156 signatures
   24. Ceredigion, Ben Lake MP – 155 signatures
   25. Ross, Skye and Lochaber,  Ian Blackford MP – 153 signatures
   26. Broadland, Jerome Mayhew MP – 153 signatures
   27. High Peak, Robert Largan MP – 151 signatures
   28. West Worcestershire, Harriet Baldwin MP – 151 signatures
   29. Totnes, Anthony Mangnall MP – 151 signatures
   30. New Forest East, Julian Lewis MP – 149 signatures
   31. Rutland and Melton, Alicia Kearns MP – 144 signatures
   32. South East Cambridgeshire, Lucy Fraser MP – 147 signatures
   33. North Cornwall, Scott Mann MP – 147 signatures
   34. New Forest West, Desmond Swayne MP – 145 signatures
   35. Truro and Falmouth, Cherilyn Mackrory MP – 142 signatures
   36. Argyll and Bute, Brendan O’Hara MP – 139 signatures
   37. Monmouth, David Davies MP – 139 signatures
   38. North Somerset, Liam Fox MP – 138 signatures
   39. Hexham, Guy Opperman MP – 138 signatures
   40. Penrith and the Border, Neil Hudson MP – 138 signatures
   41. Forest of Dean, Mark Harper MP – 135 signatures
   42. Hereford and South Herefordshire, Jesse Norman MP – 135 signatures
   43. Preseli Pembrokeshire, Stephen Crabb MP – 134 signatures
   44. South West Surrey, Jeremy Hunt MP – 134 signatures
   45. North Dorset, Simon Hoare MP – 134 signatures
   46. Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP – 134 signatures
   47. Chichester, Gillian Keegan MP – 130 signatures
   48. Newton Abbot, Anne Marie Morris MP – 130 signatures
   49. South West Wiltshire, Andrew Murrison MP – 130 signatures
   50. Berwick-upon-Tweed, Ann-Marie Trevelyan MP – 129 signatures
   51. Wealden, Nusrat Ghani MP – 129 signatures
   52. Wantage, David Johnston MP – 129 signatures
   53. Chippenham, Michelle Donelan MP – 128 signatures
   54. Tiverton & Honiton, Richard Foord MP – 128 signatures
   55. North West Norfolk, James Wild MP – 127 signatures
   56. Winchester, Steve Brine MP – 127 signatures
   57. Hastings & Rye, Sally-Ann Hart MP – 127 signatures
   58. Yeovil, Marcus Fysh MP – 126 signatures
   59. Bexhill & Battle, Huw Merriman MP – 125 signatures
   60. Camborne & Redruth, George Eustice MP – 124 signatures
   61. Dumfries and Galloway, Alistair Jack MP – 124 signatures
   62. North Devon, Selaine Saxby MP – 124 signatures
   63. Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner MP – 122 signatures
   64. Mid Dorset and Poole, Michael Tomlinson MP – 122 signatures
   65. Hove, Peter Kyle MP – 121 signatures
   66. Witney, Robert Courts MP – 121 signatures
   67. Ludlow, Philip Dunne MP – 120 signatures
   68. Romsey and Southampton North, Caroline Nokes MP – 120 signatures
   69. Norwich South, Clive Lewis MP – 119 signatures
   70. Montgomeryshire, Craig Williams MP – 119 signatures
   71. Mid Norfolk, George Freeman MP – 118 signatures
   72. Scarborough and Whitby, Robert Goodwill MP – 118 signatures
   73. York Outer, Julian Sturdy MP – 117 signatures
   74. Calder Valley, Craig Whittaker MP – 117 signatures
   75. Eastleigh, Paul Holmes MP – 117 signatures
   76. Bristol West, Thangam Debonnaire MP – 116 signatures
   77. The Cotswolds, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP – 116 signatures
   78. Folkestone & Hythe, Damian Collins MP – 110 signatures
   79. Lancaster and Fleetwood, Cat Smith MP – 116 signatures
   80. N Wiltshire, James Gray MP – 115 signatures
   81. Mole Valley, Paul Beresford MP – 115 signatures
   82. SW Norfolk, Liz Truss MP – 114 signatures
   83. Exeter, Ben Bradshaw MP – 112 signatures
   84. E Worthing & Shoreham, Tim Loughton MP – 112 signatures 
   85. Louth & Horncastle, Victoria Atkins MP – 112 signatures
   86. St Austell & Newquay, Steve Double MP – 112 signatures
   87. Horsham, Jeremy Quin MP – 111 signatures
   88. Sheffield Central, Paul Blomfield MP – 111 signatures
   89. Taunton Deane, Rebecca Pow MP – 110 signatures
   90. Folkestone & Hythe, Damian Collins MP – 110 signatures
   91. Central Suffolk & N Ipswich, Dan Poulter MP – 110 signatures
   92. Daventry, Chris Heaton-Harris MP – 110 signatures
   93. Canterbury, Rosie Duffield MP – 109 signatures
   94. NW Hampshire, Kit Malthouse MP – 109 signatures
   95. Buckingham, Greg Smith MP – 110 signatures
   96. N Shropshire, Helen Morgan MP – 109 signatures
   97. Oxford W & Abingdon, Layla Moran MP – 109 signatures
   98. NE Hampshire, Ranil Jayawardena MP – 107 signatures
   99. Henley, Greg Smith MP – 108 signatures
   100. Meon Valley, Flick Drummond MP – 106 signatures
   101. Waveney, Peter Aldousy MP – 105 signatures
   102. Bath, Wera Hobhouse MP – 105 signatures
   103. S Suffolk, James Cartlidge MP – 104 signatures
   104. Keighley, Robbie Moore MP – 104 signatures
   105. NW Cambridgeshire, Shailesh Vara MP – 103 signatures
   106. Twickenham, Munira Wilson MP – 103 signatures
   107. Sleaford & N Hykeham, Caroline Johnson MP – 103 signatures
   108. Carmarthen S & W Pembrokeshire, Simon Hart MP – 102 signatures
   109. S Thanet, Craig Mackinlay MP – 102 signatures
   110. Worthing W, Peter Bottomley MP – 102 signatures 
   111. Huntingdon, Jonathan Djanogly MP – 102 signatures
   112. Christchurch, Christopher Chope MP – 101 signatures
   113. Moray, Douglas Rosss MP – 101 signatures
   114. W Suffolk, Matt Hancock MP – 101 signatures
   115. Ochill & S Perthshire,  John Nicolson MP – 100 signatures
   116. Stratford-on-Avon, Nadhim Zahawi MP – 100 signatures
   117. Mid Sussex, Mims Davies MP – 100 signatures
   118. Clwyd W, David Jones MP – 100 signatures
   119. Banbury, Victoria Prentis MP – 100 signatures
   120. Harrogate & Knaresborough, Andrew Jones MP – 100 signatures
   121. Saffron Walden, Kemi Badenoch MP – 100 signatures

Prominent shooters: Bill Wiggin, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Simon Hart

Cabinet members: Liz Truss, Therese Coffey, Ann-Marie Trevelyan, Alistair Jack, Michelle Donelan, Kemi Badenoch, Nadhim Zehawi, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Kit Malthouse, Ranil Jayawardena, Chris Heaton-Harris