Our Woodcock petition passes 36,000 signatures


Our Woodcock petition has passed 36,000 signatures two 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 has almost doubled since Friday.

  1. North Norfolk, Duncan Baker MP176 signatures
  2. West Dorset, Chris Loder MP175 signatures
  3. Derbyshire Dales, Sarah Dines MP172 signatures
  4. Sheffield Hallam, Olivia Blake MP165 signatures
  5. Torridge and West Devon, Geoffrey Cox MP161 signatures
  6. Suffolk Coastal, Therese Coffey MP161 signatures
  7. Somerton and Frome, David Warburton MP160 signatures
  8. South Norfolk, Richard Bacon MP158 signatures
  9. Stroud, Siobhan Baillie MP157 signatures
  10. Thirsk and Malton, Kevin Hollinrake MP152 signatures
  11. Wells, James Heappey MP149 signatures
  12. St Ives, Derek Thomas MP144 signatures
  13. Skipton and Ripon, Julian Smith MP143 signatures
  14. Lewes, Maria Caulfield MP141 signatures
  15. Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron MP139 signatures
  16. Arundel and South Downs, Andrew Griffith MP135 signatures
  17. North Herefordshire, Bill Wiggin MP 132 signatures
  18. Central Devon, Mel Stride MP131 signatures
  19. Isle of Wight, Bob Seely MP131 signatures
  20. Macclesfield, David Rutley MP131 signatures
  21. Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas MP, 131 signatures
  22. New Forest East, Julian Lewis MP130 signatures
  23. Rutland and Melton, Alicia Kearns MP128 signatures
  24. Brecon and Radnorshire, Fay Jones MP128 signatures
  25. West Worcestershire, Harriet Baldwin MP128 signatures
  26. South East Cambridgeshire, Lucy Fraser MP128 signatures
  27. Broadland, Jerome Mayhew MP127 signatures
  28. High Peak, Robert Largan MP126 signatures
  29. South Cambridgeshire, Anthony Browne MP126 signatures
  30. New Forest West, Desmond Swayne MP125 signatures
  31. Truro and Falmouth, Cherilyn Mackrory MP124 signatures
  32. Ross, Skye and Lochaber,  Ian Blackford MP123 signatures
  33. Ceredigion, Ben Lake MP121 signatures
  34. Totnes, Anthony Mangnall MP121 signatures
  35. Argyll and Bute, Brendan O’Hara MP121 signatures
  36. Ludlow, Philip Dunne MP120 signatures
  37. Norwich South, Clive Lewis MP119 signatures
  38. Mid Norfolk, George Freeman MP – 118 signatures
  39. Monmouth, David Davies MP118 signatures
  40. Scarborough and Whitby, Robert Goodwill MP118 signatures
  41. York Outer, Julian Sturdy MP117 signatures
  42. Calder Valley, Craig Whittaker MP117 signatures
  43. Bristol West, Thangam Debonnaire MP116 signatures
  44. Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey,  Drew Hendry MP116 signatures
  45. North Cornwall, Scott Mann MP116 signatures
  46. North Somerset, Liam Fox MP116 signatures
  47. Wantage, David Johnston MP – 114 signatures
  48. Dumfries and Galloway, Alistair Jack MP113 signatures
  49. Forest of Dean, Mark Harper MP113 signatures
  50. Hexham, Guy Opperman MP – 113 signatures
  51. The Cotswolds, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP – 113 signatures
  52. North West Norfolk, James Wild MP – 113 signatures
  53. Winchester, Steve Brine MP – 112 signatures
  54. South West Wiltshire, Andrew Murrison MP109 signatures
  55. Hereford and South Herefordshire, Jesse Norman MP109 signatures
  56. Preseli Pembrokeshire, Stephen Crabb MP108 signatures
  57. South West Surrey, Jeremy Hunt MP – 108 signatures
  58. North Dorset, Simon Hoare MP107 signatures
  59. Berwick-upon-Tweed, Ann-Marie Trevelyan MP – 107 signatures
  60. Witney, Robert Courts MP – 106 signatures
  61. North Devon, Selaine Saxby MP106 signatures
  62. Lancaster and Fleetwood, Cat Smith MP105 signatures
  63. Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner MP104 signatures
  64. Yeovil, Marcus Fysh MP104 signatures
  65. Mid Dorset and Poole, Michael Tomlinson MP103 signatures
  66. Chippenham, Michelle Donelan MP103 signatures
  67. Bexhill and Battle, Huw Merriman MP102 signatures
  68. Penrith and the Border, Neil Hudson MP – 101 signatures

 

Prominent shooters: Bill Wiggin, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown

Cabinet members: Therese Coffey, Ann-Marie Trevelyan, Alistair Jack, Michelle Donelan

Other government ministers: James Heappey, Andrew Griffith, David TC Davies, Jesse Norman, Marcus Fysh