Hi everyone.
I had no idea how these things worked before, but I have just seen from the Petition home page that:
‘All petitions will now close at 00:01am on 3 May 2017
There will be an early General Election on Thursday 8 June. This means that Parliament has to be dissolved at 00:01am (just after midnight) on Wednesday 3 May, and that all parliamentary business – including petitions – has to stop.
Find out more on the Petitions Committee website’
The Petitions Committee website basically, says that all the Petitions are completely cancelled. Any signatures cannot be carried over. A new Petition has to be started after the General Election.
I suppose this would have been even worse if we had been further along the line with the Petition.
I have recently written my third letter to DEFRA. Their first and second responses were just pretty much the government line. I don’t know what happens to things like that now. Whether they are all disregarded as well. I said (amongst other things) that I appreciated there were other matters under way at present, but that hedgehogs did not have the luxury of time. And that a simple decision needs to be taken to remove the licence for the A24 trap immediately.
Looks like the hedgehogs (along with many other things, I suppose) are going to be let down by the General Election.
I hope BHPS will start a new Petition after the Election and then we will all have to sign again!
