Thanks for the info Roger - I strongly support the petition in
support of the Hunting Act (which should be extended and
strengthened, not repealed). However, just clicking on the
link does not open up the petition page - my browser assumes
that the terminating '*' is part of the URL, so it should just be:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/antihunting/

Despite the widespread support for the Hunting Act in the
country as a whole I will be very surprised if the pro-Bill
(anti-hunting) petition gets more votes than the anti-Bill
(pro-hunting) petition because when it comes to
online/telephone/newspaper polls and petitions it is well
documented that the hunting lobby are very well organised with
email and telephone networks to ensure that they get their
vote out - "vote early and vote often". And all such polls
are wide open to abuse, as is our wildlife, sadly.

Terry
(in Somerset)

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:07:41 +0000
>From: Roger Driver <roger@cornwallbadgergroup.org.uk>
>Subject: [UKWildlife] Hunting petition
>To: PENINSULA BADGERS <peninsulabadgers@yahoogroups.com>,
"ukwildlife@yahoogroups.com" <ukwildlife@yahoogroups.com>,
Cornish Wildlife <CornishWildlife@yahoogroups.com>,
Nature_Spot@yahoogroups.com
>
> The hunting fraternity are utilising a test web site
> operated by 10
> Downing Street in another attempt to get the Hunting
> Act repealed.
>
> As a result there is a counter petition.
>
> At the last count they had over 21,000 signatures,
> we had just over 500.
>
> Don't be down hearted, they had a head start.
>
> Please sign up and pass it on.
>
> *http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/antihunting/*
>