Ban driven grouse shooting petition – 6 February update

Our Ban Driven Grouse Shooting petition is flying with over 55,000 signatures.

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, 1,599 petitions have been submitted of which 823 have been rejected as not meeting the criteria for such petitions and 776 petitions have been published. Of those 697 petitions, only 45 have so far passed the 10,000 signature threshold which generates a response from government (see below for more on this).

Of those 776 published petitions (and of the current top 45 which have passed 10,000 signatures) the ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’ petition is 12th most signed. Here are the top 13 and two more environmental petitions further down the list;

• 1. Call a general election 3million signatures
• 2. Suspend all immigration for 5 years 211,000 signatures
• 3. WASPI women 155,000 signatures
• 4. Don’t change inheritance tax on farms 148,000 signatures
• 5. Tighten rules on political donations signatures 135,000
• 6. Make 16 years the minimum age for children to have social media 126,000 signatures
• 7. Don’t apply VAT to independent school fees 114,000 signatures
• 8. Decriminalise abortion 88,000 signatures
• 9. License use of fireworks 86,000 signatures
• 10. Apply to join EU 85,000 signatures
• 11. Reverse changes to Winter Fuel Payment 59,000 signatures
• 12. Ban driven grouse shooting 55,000 signatures
• 13. End the Badger cull 52,000 signatures
• 20. Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship 34,000 signatures
• 27. Run a public information campaign on climate crisis 22,000 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, Brexit and, yes, fireworks. Wild Justice aims to keep that 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 this morning):

Here are the 23 top-scoring constituencies with over 200 signatures each:

Derbyshire Dales (Lab) 334 signatures

High Peak (Lab) 292 signatures

Skipton and Ripon (Con) 291 signatures

Sheffield Hallam (Lab) 285 signatures

Westmorland and Lonsdale (LibDem) 261 signatures

Ceredigion Preseli (Plaid) 258 signatures

Thirsk and Malton (Con) 248 signatures

South Devon (LibDem) 247 signatures

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (LibDem) 245 signatures

Central Devon (Con) 239 signatures

Argyll, Bute and Lochaber (SNP) 230 signatures

Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey (SNP) 229 signatures

Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (LibDem) 227 signatures

Hexham (Lab) 220 signatures

Stroud (Lab) 218 signatures

Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire (LibDem) 217 signatures

Angus and Perthshire Glens (SNP) 215 signatures

Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr (Lab) 211 signatures

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (Con) 210 signatures

Calder Valley (Lab) 206 signatures

North Herefordshire (Green) 203 signatures

St Ives (LibDem) 202 signatures

Sheffield Central (Lab) 200 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.

Please sign our petition to ban driven grouse shooting – click here.