Ban driven grouse shooting petition – 85,000 signatures

Our Ban Driven Grouse Shooting petition has passed the milestone of 85,000 signatures and is now standing at over 88,000 signatures. Fewer than 12,000 signatures, by 22 May, will trigger a parliamentary debate on the subject – that is a very feasible 256 signatures every day.

Thank you to all who have signed – here is the link https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700036

Since the Westminster petitions process reopened after the general election, 3,523 petitions have been submitted of which 2,021 have been rejected as not meeting the criteria for such petitions and 1,502 petitions have been published. Of those 1,502 petitions, only 71 have so far passed the 10,000 signature threshold which generates a response from government.

Of those 1,502 published petitions (and of the current top 713 which have passed 10,000 signatures) the ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’ petition is still the 14th most signed. Here are the top 14 and four other environmental petitions further down the list;

• 1. Call a general election 3million signatures
• 2. Raise the income tax allowance threshold 241,000 signatures
• 3. Ban use of dogs in scientific and regulatory procedures 233,000 signatures
• 4. Suspend all immigration for 5 years 226,000 signatures
• 5. WASPI women 161,000 signatures
• 6. Don’t change inheritance tax on farms 153,000 signatures
• 7. Allow parents to take children out of school for 10 days 146,000 signatures
• 8. Tighten rules on political donations 142,000 signatures
• 9. Apply to join EU 136,000 signatures
• 10. Make 16 years the minimum age for children to have social media 131,000 signatures
• 11. Don’t apply VAT to independent school fees 115,000 signatures
• 12. Decriminalise abortion 102,000 signatures
• 13. End use of cages and crates for farmed animals 92,000 signatures
• 14. Ban driven grouse shooting 88,000 signatures
• 17. End the Badger cull 77,000 signatures
• 21. Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship 50,000 signatures
• 31. Run a public information campaign on climate crisis 24,000 signatures
• 85. Ban windfarms on protected peat lands 7,000 signatures

Thanks to you, the ban driven grouse shooting petition is currently the highest-ranking environmental petition and is up there with issues such as taxation, immigration, social media and Brexit. Wild Justice aims to keep the petition racing along (with occasional pauses while we do other things) and reach 100,000 signatures by 22 May.

Here’s the signature map, by Westminster constituency, which shows where the signatures come from (as of yesterday evening):

When we passed 75,000 signatures there were 55 parliamentary constituencies with more than 200 signatures and we listed them all. Now that list would be 107 constituencies so we will simply list the 22 constituencies with over 300 signatures:

Derbyshire Dales (Lab) 537 signatures

High Peak (Lab) 456 signatures

Skipton and Ripon (Con) 426 signatures

Sheffield Hallam (Lab) 422 signatures

Westmorland and Lonsdale (LibDem) 402 signatures

South Devon (LibDem) 402 signatures

Central Devon (Con) 395 signatures

Thirsk and Malton (Con) 370 signatures

Ceredigion Preseli (Plaid) 364 signatures

West Dorset (LibDem) 362 signatures

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (LibDem) 329 signatures

Hexham (Lab) 329 signatures

Stroud (Lab) 327 signatures

Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey (SNP) 321 signatures

St Ives (LibDem) 316 signatures

North Herefordshire (Green) 313 signatures

Calder Valley (Lab) 311 signatures

Keighley and Ilkley (Con) 307 signatures

South Shropshire (Con) 306 signatures

North Northumberland (Lab) 306 signatures

Torridge and Tavistock (Con) 305 signatures

Argyll, Bute and Lochaber (SNP) 304 signatures

These constituencies cross most borders (though Northern Ireland constituencies are always low ranking in these Westminster petitions). They represent constituencies with and without driven grouse shooting inside their borders, of many political parties and rural and urban.

Over 88,000 people have signed our government petition calling for a ban so far. Help us reach 100,000 and secure a parliamentary debate:

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