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.
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- West Dorset, Chris Loder MP – 211 signatures
- North Norfolk, Duncan Baker MP – 210 signatures
- Derbyshire Dales, Sarah Dines MP – 201 signatures
- Suffolk Coastal, Therese Coffey MP – 200 signatures
- Somerton and Frome, David Warburton MP – 188 signatures
- Stroud, Siobhan Baillie MP – 187 signatures
- Sheffield Hallam, Olivia Blake MP – 186 signatures
- Torridge and West Devon, Geoffrey Cox MP – 185 signatures
- South Norfolk, Richard Bacon MP – 182 signatures
- St Ives, Derek Thomas MP – 179 signatures
- Thirsk and Malton, Kevin Hollinrake MP – 178 signatures
- Wells, James Heappey MP – 176 signatures
- Lewes, Maria Caulfield MP – 171 signatures
- Isle of Wight, Bob Seely MP – 170 signatures
- Arundel and South Downs, Andrew Griffith MP – 162 signatures
- Central Devon, Mel Stride MP – 161 signatures
- Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas MP, 160 signatures
- Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron MP – 159 signatures
- Skipton and Ripon, Julian Smith MP – 158 signatures
- North Herefordshire, Bill Wiggin MP – 158 signatures
- South Cambridgeshire, Anthony Browne MP – 158 signatures
- Brecon and Radnorshire, Fay Jones MP – 156 signatures
- Macclesfield, David Rutley MP – 156 signatures
- Ceredigion, Ben Lake MP – 155 signatures
- Ross, Skye and Lochaber, Ian Blackford MP – 153 signatures
- Broadland, Jerome Mayhew MP – 153 signatures
- High Peak, Robert Largan MP – 151 signatures
- West Worcestershire, Harriet Baldwin MP – 151 signatures
- Totnes, Anthony Mangnall MP – 151 signatures
- New Forest East, Julian Lewis MP – 149 signatures
- Rutland and Melton, Alicia Kearns MP – 144 signatures
- South East Cambridgeshire, Lucy Fraser MP – 147 signatures
- North Cornwall, Scott Mann MP – 147 signatures
- New Forest West, Desmond Swayne MP – 145 signatures
- Truro and Falmouth, Cherilyn Mackrory MP – 142 signatures
- Argyll and Bute, Brendan O’Hara MP – 139 signatures
- Monmouth, David Davies MP – 139 signatures
- North Somerset, Liam Fox MP – 138 signatures
- Hexham, Guy Opperman MP – 138 signatures
- Penrith and the Border, Neil Hudson MP – 138 signatures
- Forest of Dean, Mark Harper MP – 135 signatures
- Hereford and South Herefordshire, Jesse Norman MP – 135 signatures
- Preseli Pembrokeshire, Stephen Crabb MP – 134 signatures
- South West Surrey, Jeremy Hunt MP – 134 signatures
- North Dorset, Simon Hoare MP – 134 signatures
- Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP – 134 signatures
- Chichester, Gillian Keegan MP – 130 signatures
- Newton Abbot, Anne Marie Morris MP – 130 signatures
- South West Wiltshire, Andrew Murrison MP – 130 signatures
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, Ann-Marie Trevelyan MP – 129 signatures
- Wealden, Nusrat Ghani MP – 129 signatures
- Wantage, David Johnston MP – 129 signatures
- Chippenham, Michelle Donelan MP – 128 signatures
- Tiverton & Honiton, Richard Foord MP – 128 signatures
- North West Norfolk, James Wild MP – 127 signatures
- Winchester, Steve Brine MP – 127 signatures
- Hastings & Rye, Sally-Ann Hart MP – 127 signatures
- Yeovil, Marcus Fysh MP – 126 signatures
- Bexhill & Battle, Huw Merriman MP – 125 signatures
- Camborne & Redruth, George Eustice MP – 124 signatures
- Dumfries and Galloway, Alistair Jack MP – 124 signatures
- North Devon, Selaine Saxby MP – 124 signatures
- Cambridge, Daniel Zeichner MP – 122 signatures
- Mid Dorset and Poole, Michael Tomlinson MP – 122 signatures
- Hove, Peter Kyle MP – 121 signatures
- Witney, Robert Courts MP – 121 signatures
- Ludlow, Philip Dunne MP – 120 signatures
- Romsey and Southampton North, Caroline Nokes MP – 120 signatures
- Norwich South, Clive Lewis MP – 119 signatures
- Montgomeryshire, Craig Williams MP – 119 signatures
- Mid Norfolk, George Freeman 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
- Eastleigh, Paul Holmes MP – 117 signatures
- Bristol West, Thangam Debonnaire MP – 116 signatures
- The Cotswolds, Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP – 116 signatures
- Folkestone & Hythe, Damian Collins MP – 110 signatures
- Lancaster and Fleetwood, Cat Smith MP – 116 signatures
- N Wiltshire, James Gray MP – 115 signatures
- Mole Valley, Paul Beresford MP – 115 signatures
- SW Norfolk, Liz Truss MP – 114 signatures
- Exeter, Ben Bradshaw MP – 112 signatures
- E Worthing & Shoreham, Tim Loughton MP – 112 signatures
- Louth & Horncastle, Victoria Atkins MP – 112 signatures
- St Austell & Newquay, Steve Double MP – 112 signatures
- Horsham, Jeremy Quin MP – 111 signatures
- Sheffield Central, Paul Blomfield MP – 111 signatures
- Taunton Deane, Rebecca Pow MP – 110 signatures
- Folkestone & Hythe, Damian Collins MP – 110 signatures
- Central Suffolk & N Ipswich, Dan Poulter MP – 110 signatures
- Daventry, Chris Heaton-Harris MP – 110 signatures
- Canterbury, Rosie Duffield MP – 109 signatures
- NW Hampshire, Kit Malthouse MP – 109 signatures
- Buckingham, Greg Smith MP – 110 signatures
- N Shropshire, Helen Morgan MP – 109 signatures
- Oxford W & Abingdon, Layla Moran MP – 109 signatures
- NE Hampshire, Ranil Jayawardena MP – 107 signatures
- Henley, Greg Smith MP – 108 signatures
- Meon Valley, Flick Drummond MP – 106 signatures
- Waveney, Peter Aldousy MP – 105 signatures
- Bath, Wera Hobhouse MP – 105 signatures
- S Suffolk, James Cartlidge MP – 104 signatures
- Keighley, Robbie Moore MP – 104 signatures
- NW Cambridgeshire, Shailesh Vara MP – 103 signatures
- Twickenham, Munira Wilson MP – 103 signatures
- Sleaford & N Hykeham, Caroline Johnson MP – 103 signatures
- Carmarthen S & W Pembrokeshire, Simon Hart MP – 102 signatures
- S Thanet, Craig Mackinlay MP – 102 signatures
- Worthing W, Peter Bottomley MP – 102 signatures
- Huntingdon, Jonathan Djanogly MP – 102 signatures
- Christchurch, Christopher Chope MP – 101 signatures
- Moray, Douglas Rosss MP – 101 signatures
- W Suffolk, Matt Hancock MP – 101 signatures
- Ochill & S Perthshire, John Nicolson MP – 100 signatures
- Stratford-on-Avon, Nadhim Zahawi MP – 100 signatures
- Mid Sussex, Mims Davies MP – 100 signatures
- Clwyd W, David Jones MP – 100 signatures
- Banbury, Victoria Prentis MP – 100 signatures
- Harrogate & Knaresborough, Andrew Jones MP – 100 signatures
- 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