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.
- North Norfolk, Duncan Baker MP – 176 signatures
- West Dorset, Chris Loder MP – 175 signatures
- Derbyshire Dales, Sarah Dines MP – 172 signatures
- Sheffield Hallam, Olivia Blake MP – 165 signatures
- Torridge and West Devon, Geoffrey Cox MP – 161 signatures
- Suffolk Coastal, Therese Coffey MP – 161 signatures
- Somerton and Frome, David Warburton MP – 160 signatures
- South Norfolk, Richard Bacon MP – 158 signatures
- Stroud, Siobhan Baillie MP – 157 signatures
- Thirsk and Malton, Kevin Hollinrake MP – 152 signatures
- Wells, James Heappey MP – 149 signatures
- St Ives, Derek Thomas MP – 144 signatures
- Skipton and Ripon, Julian Smith MP – 143 signatures
- Lewes, Maria Caulfield MP – 141 signatures
- Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron MP – 139 signatures
- Arundel and South Downs, Andrew Griffith MP – 135 signatures
- North Herefordshire, Bill Wiggin MP – 132 signatures
- Central Devon, Mel Stride MP – 131 signatures
- Isle of Wight, Bob Seely MP – 131 signatures
- Macclesfield, David Rutley MP – 131 signatures
- Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas MP, 131 signatures
- New Forest East, Julian Lewis MP – 130 signatures
- Rutland and Melton, Alicia Kearns MP – 128 signatures
- Brecon and Radnorshire, Fay Jones MP – 128 signatures
- West Worcestershire, Harriet Baldwin MP – 128 signatures
- South East Cambridgeshire, Lucy Fraser MP – 128 signatures
- Broadland, Jerome Mayhew MP – 127 signatures
- High Peak, Robert Largan MP – 126 signatures
- South Cambridgeshire, Anthony Browne MP – 126 signatures
- New Forest West, Desmond Swayne MP – 125 signatures
- Truro and Falmouth, Cherilyn Mackrory MP – 124 signatures
- Ross, Skye and Lochaber, Ian Blackford MP – 123 signatures
- Ceredigion, Ben Lake MP – 121 signatures
- Totnes, Anthony Mangnall MP – 121 signatures
- Argyll and Bute, Brendan O’Hara MP – 121 signatures
- Ludlow, Philip Dunne MP – 120 signatures
- Norwich South, Clive Lewis MP – 119 signatures
- Mid Norfolk, George Freeman MP – 118 signatures
- Monmouth, David Davies MP – 118 signatures
- Scarborough and Whitby, Robert Goodwill MP – 118 signatures
- York Outer, Julian Sturdy MP – 117 signatures
- Calder Valley, Craig Whittaker MP – 117 signatures
- Bristol West, Thangam Debonnaire MP – 116 signatures
- Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP – 116 signatures
- North Cornwall, Scott Mann MP – 116 signatures
- North Somerset, Liam Fox MP – 116 signatures
- Wantage, David Johnston MP – 114 signatures
- Dumfries and Galloway, Alistair Jack MP – 113 signatures
- Forest of Dean, Mark Harper MP – 113 signatures
- Hexham, Guy Opperman MP – 113 signatures
- The Cotswolds, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP – 113 signatures
- North West Norfolk, James Wild MP – 113 signatures
- Winchester, Steve Brine MP – 112 signatures
- South West Wiltshire, Andrew Murrison MP – 109 signatures
- Hereford and South Herefordshire, Jesse Norman MP – 109 signatures
- Preseli Pembrokeshire, Stephen Crabb MP – 108 signatures
- South West Surrey, Jeremy Hunt MP – 108 signatures
- North Dorset, Simon Hoare MP – 107 signatures
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, Ann-Marie Trevelyan MP – 107 signatures
- Witney, Robert Courts MP – 106 signatures
- North Devon, Selaine Saxby MP – 106 signatures
- Lancaster and Fleetwood, Cat Smith MP – 105 signatures
- Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner MP – 104 signatures
- Yeovil, Marcus Fysh MP – 104 signatures
- Mid Dorset and Poole, Michael Tomlinson MP – 103 signatures
- Chippenham, Michelle Donelan MP – 103 signatures
- Bexhill and Battle, Huw Merriman MP – 102 signatures
- 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