Protect British seafaring by introducing a ‘Jones Act’ into British law

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Popularity

This petition has 3,321 signatures in total, with signatories from 541 constituencies. That makes it the 3,744th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 36% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 56% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 90 - Dover
• 90 - South Shields
• 81 - Orkney and Shetland
• 55 - Argyll and Bute
• 54 - Na h-Eileanan an Iar
• 50 - Tynemouth
• 46 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 43 - Moray
• 42 - Ynys Môn
• 31 - Sefton Central
• 30 - Inverclyde
• 30 - Banff and Buchan
• 29 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 27 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 25 - Jarrow
• 25 - South Dorset
• 23 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 22 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 22 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 21 - North Tyneside
• 20 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 20 - North Thanet
• 20 - Liverpool, Walton
• 20 - Stockton North
• 20 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 19 - Dwyfor Meirionnydd
• 19 - South West Devon
• 19 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 19 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 18 - Beverley and Holderness
• 18 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 18 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 18 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 17 - Glasgow Central
• 17 - Bootle
• 17 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 17 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 17 - South Thanet
• 16 - Barrow and Furness
• 16 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 16 - Hartlepool
• 15 - Gordon
• 15 - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
• 15 - Birkenhead
• 15 - Cleethorpes
• 15 - South East Cornwall
• 15 - Aberdeen North
• 14 - East Yorkshire
• 14 - Gosport
• 14 - Fareham
• 14 - Garston and Halewood
• 13 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 13 - Wallasey
• 13 - Aberdeen South
• 12 - Portsmouth South
• 12 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 12 - North East Fife
• 12 - Glasgow North West
• 12 - Glasgow North East
• 12 - Portsmouth North
• 12 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 12 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 12 - East Antrim
• 12 - Angus
• 11 - Waveney
• 11 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 11 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 11 - Truro and Falmouth
• 11 - Blyth Valley
• 11 - Louth and Horncastle
• 11 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 11 - Southampton, Itchen
• 11 - Redcar
• 11 - Knowsley
• 10 - Edinburgh West
• 10 - Meon Valley
• 10 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 10 - Isle of Wight
• 10 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 10 - Stockton South
• 10 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 10 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 10 - New Forest East
• 10 - Dundee West
• 10 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 10 - Easington
• 10 - Stirling
• 10 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 9 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 9 - City of Durham
• 9 - West Dorset
• 9 - Central Ayrshire
• 9 - West Dunbartonshire
• 9 - Rochester and Strood
• 9 - Eastleigh
• 9 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 9 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 9 - North Durham
• 9 - New Forest West
• 9 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 9 - Glasgow North
• 9 - Hexham
• 9 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 8 - Eastbourne
• 8 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 8 - Sunderland Central
• 8 - Glasgow South West
• 8 - Torridge and West Devon
• 8 - Havant
• 8 - St Austell and Newquay
• 8 - Clwyd West
• 8 - Glasgow South
• 8 - Wirral West
• 8 - Great Yarmouth
• 8 - Great Grimsby
• 8 - Brigg and Goole
• 8 - Canterbury
• 8 - North Cornwall
• 8 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 8 - Chichester
• 8 - Wirral South
• 7 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 7 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 7 - Dundee East
• 7 - Aberconwy
• 7 - Ceredigion
• 7 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 7 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 7 - North West Durham
• 7 - Mid Sussex
• 7 - Gateshead
• 7 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 7 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 7 - East Lothian
• 7 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 7 - East Renfrewshire
• 7 - Ogmore
• 7 - Broadland
• 6 - Glasgow East
• 6 - Morley and Outwood
• 6 - Livingston
• 6 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 6 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 6 - Edinburgh East
• 6 - Somerton and Frome
• 6 - Sedgefield
• 6 - South Down
• 6 - Wansbeck
• 6 - Arfon
• 6 - St Ives
• 6 - Warrington North
• 6 - Totnes
• 6 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 6 - West Lancashire
• 6 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 6 - Southampton, Test
• 5 - Central Devon
• 5 - Glenrothes
• 5 - Mid Norfolk
• 5 - North Down
• 5 - Belfast West
• 5 - Norwich South
• 5 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 5 - Blackpool South
• 5 - Bolton West
• 5 - Halton
• 5 - The Wrekin
• 5 - Gower
• 5 - Strangford
• 5 - Stourbridge
• 5 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 5 - Newbury
• 5 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 5 - Southport
• 5 - Bournemouth West
• 5 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 5 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 5 - Maldon
• 5 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 5 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 5 - Copeland
• 5 - East Dunbartonshire
• 5 - Doncaster Central
• 5 - Witham
• 5 - Winchester
• 5 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 5 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 4 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 4 - Weaver Vale
• 4 - Leeds North West
• 4 - Kettering
• 4 - Middlesbrough
• 4 - Thurrock
• 4 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 4 - Wyre and Preston North
• 4 - Mid Derbyshire
• 4 - Yeovil
• 4 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 4 - Harwich and North Essex
• 4 - Hastings and Rye
• 4 - Macclesfield
• 4 - Warrington South
• 4 - Worcester
• 4 - Salford and Eccles
• 4 - Mid Worcestershire
• 4 - Ashford
• 4 - Vale of Clwyd
• 4 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 4 - High Peak
• 4 - Mansfield
• 4 - Llanelli
• 4 - Hemsworth
• 4 - Bishop Auckland
• 4 - Surrey Heath
• 4 - North Dorset
• 4 - Camborne and Redruth
• 4 - South Northamptonshire
• 4 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 4 - North Norfolk
• 4 - Fylde
• 4 - Esher and Walton
• 4 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 4 - Salisbury
• 4 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 4 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 4 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 4 - Oldham West and Royton
• 4 - East Devon
• 4 - South Ribble
• 4 - Congleton
• 4 - Suffolk Coastal
• 4 - Stroud
• 4 - Daventry
• 4 - Ribble Valley
• 4 - Stone
• 4 - Chippenham
• 4 - St Helens North
• 3 - Orpington
• 3 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 3 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 3 - Reading West
• 3 - Sevenoaks
• 3 - Saffron Walden
• 3 - Workington
• 3 - Scunthorpe
• 3 - Romford
• 3 - Tatton
• 3 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 3 - Rochdale
• 3 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 3 - Worthing West
• 3 - Wigan
• 3 - Skipton and Ripon
• 3 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 3 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 3 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 3 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 3 - North Antrim
• 3 - Telford
• 3 - Swansea East
• 3 - Newport East
• 3 - Tooting
• 3 - Newark
• 3 - Southend West
• 3 - Redditch
• 3 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 3 - Nottingham South
• 3 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 3 - North Wiltshire
• 3 - North West Leicestershire
• 3 - South Antrim
• 3 - South Cambridgeshire
• 3 - Newton Abbot
• 3 - Cardiff West
• 3 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 3 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 3 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 3 - Falkirk
• 3 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 3 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 3 - Chorley
• 3 - Exeter
• 3 - Clacton
• 3 - Horsham
• 3 - Blaydon
• 3 - Bristol North West
• 3 - Bromsgrove
• 3 - Carlisle
• 3 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 3 - Cardiff Central
• 3 - Chelmsford
• 3 - Gravesham
• 3 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 3 - Guildford
• 3 - Gainsborough
• 3 - Bury North
• 3 - Halifax
• 3 - Forest of Dean
• 3 - Hove
• 3 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 3 - Croydon Central
• 3 - Bassetlaw
• 3 - Croydon South
• 3 - Buckingham
• 3 - Aberavon
• 3 - Barnsley East
• 3 - Barnsley Central
• 3 - Darlington
• 3 - Ashfield
• 3 - Arundel and South Downs
• 3 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 3 - Belfast East
• 3 - East Surrey
• 3 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 3 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 3 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 3 - Eddisbury
• 3 - Edinburgh South West
• 2 - Reigate
• 2 - Dartford
• 2 - Rother Valley
• 2 - Derbyshire Dales
• 2 - South Derbyshire
• 2 - Devizes
• 2 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 2 - Chesterfield
• 2 - Colne Valley
• 2 - Chingford and Woodford Green
• 2 - Sheffield Central
• 2 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 2 - Rochford and Southend East
• 2 - Aldershot
• 2 - City of Chester
• 2 - Sherwood
• 2 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 2 - Colchester
• 2 - Coventry North East
• 2 - Stretford and Urmston
• 2 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 2 - Torbay
• 2 - Torfaen
• 2 - Alyn and Deeside
• 2 - Tunbridge Wells
• 2 - Wakefield
• 2 - Walsall South
• 2 - Belfast North
• 2 - Wealden
• 2 - Batley and Spen
• 2 - Weston-super-Mare
• 2 - Basildon and Billericay
• 2 - Barking
• 2 - Woking
• 2 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 2 - Amber Valley
• 2 - Thirsk and Malton
• 2 - Bolton North East
• 2 - Cardiff North
• 2 - South Leicestershire
• 2 - South Norfolk
• 2 - Cannock Chase
• 2 - Bury St Edmunds
• 2 - West Worcestershire
• 2 - South West Norfolk
• 2 - St Albans
• 2 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 2 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 2 - Brent Central
• 2 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 2 - Braintree
• 2 - Bournemouth East
• 2 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 2 - Taunton Deane
• 2 - Wyre Forest
• 2 - Selby and Ainsty
• 2 - Hertsmere
• 2 - Gloucester
• 2 - North East Bedfordshire
• 2 - Kingswood
• 2 - Monmouth
• 2 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 2 - Keighley
• 2 - North West Norfolk
• 2 - Epping Forest
• 2 - Nuneaton
• 2 - Northampton North
• 2 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 2 - Hertford and Stortford
• 2 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 2 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 2 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 2 - Milton Keynes South
• 2 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 2 - Newport West
• 2 - Newry and Armagh
• 2 - Ilford North
• 2 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 2 - East Hampshire
• 2 - Lewes
• 2 - Ludlow
• 2 - Leeds East
• 2 - North East Hampshire
• 2 - Leeds North East
• 2 - Penrith and The Border
• 2 - Poole
• 1 - Birmingham, Perry Barr
• 1 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 1 - Blaenau Gwent
• 1 - Wrexham
• 1 - Twickenham
• 1 - Midlothian
• 1 - Aylesbury
• 1 - Leigh
• 1 - Blackley and Broughton
• 1 - Hyndburn
• 1 - Mid Ulster
• 1 - Milton Keynes North
• 1 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 1 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 1 - Bradford East
• 1 - Beckenham
• 1 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 1 - Boston and Skegness
• 1 - Bolton South East
• 1 - Tamworth
• 1 - Montgomeryshire
• 1 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 1 - Mitcham and Morden
• 1 - Tewkesbury
• 1 - The Cotswolds
• 1 - Bolsover
• 1 - Lewisham East
• 1 - Huddersfield
• 1 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 1 - Upper Bann
• 1 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 1 - Beaconsfield
• 1 - Manchester, Withington
• 1 - West Bromwich East
• 1 - Bath
• 1 - Manchester Central
• 1 - West Ham
• 1 - Basingstoke
• 1 - Westminster North
• 1 - Maidenhead
• 1 - Wimbledon
• 1 - Westmorland and Lonsdale
• 1 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 1 - Makerfield
• 1 - Wells
• 1 - Wellingborough
• 1 - Doncaster North
• 1 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 1 - Wolverhampton South West
• 1 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 1 - Islington North
• 1 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 1 - Walsall North
• 1 - Islwyn
• 1 - Walthamstow
• 1 - Witney
• 1 - Banbury
• 1 - Warwick and Leamington
• 1 - Meriden
• 1 - Luton South
• 1 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 1 - Leeds Central
• 1 - Don Valley
• 1 - Eltham
• 1 - Corby
• 1 - Clwyd South
• 1 - Nottingham East
• 1 - Erewash
• 1 - Christchurch
• 1 - Norwich North
• 1 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 1 - Finchley and Golders Green
• 1 - Chipping Barnet
• 1 - North Warwickshire
• 1 - Foyle
• 1 - Shipley
• 1 - North Somerset
• 1 - North Shropshire
• 1 - North Herefordshire
• 1 - Coventry North West
• 1 - Edinburgh South
• 1 - Rotherham
• 1 - Preston
• 1 - Pudsey
• 1 - Putney
• 1 - Derby North
• 1 - Denton and Reddish
• 1 - Delyn
• 1 - Ealing North
• 1 - Peterborough
• 1 - Rhondda
• 1 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 1 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 1 - Pendle
• 1 - Croydon North
• 1 - East Londonderry
• 1 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 1 - Coventry South
• 1 - Chesham and Amersham
• 1 - Solihull
• 1 - South West Wiltshire
• 1 - Spelthorne
• 1 - Stafford
• 1 - Hammersmith
• 1 - Broxbourne
• 1 - Stevenage
• 1 - Bristol West
• 1 - Harborough
• 1 - Bristol East
• 1 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 1 - Harlow
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Harrow West
• 1 - Brent North
• 1 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 1 - South West Surrey
• 1 - South West Hertfordshire
• 1 - Burton
• 1 - Lichfield
• 1 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 1 - Charnwood
• 1 - Castle Point
• 1 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 1 - Gedling
• 1 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 1 - North East Derbyshire
• 1 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 1 - Grantham and Stamford
• 1 - North Devon
• 1 - Northampton South
• 1 - Caerphilly
• 1 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 1 - South Suffolk
• 1 - South Swindon
• 1 - Streatham

This petition was submitted under the Parliamentary boundaries prior to June 2024, so the names may not be current constituency names

Signatures by Region

• 866 - Scotland
• 448 - South East
• 394 - North East
• 370 - North West
• 247 - South West
• 243 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 180 - Wales
• 139 - East of England
• 88 - East Midlands
• 83 - West Midlands
• 80 - London
• 50 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 3,251 - United Kingdom
• 9 - Spain
• 8 - Australia
• 8 - United States
• 7 - Thailand
• 6 - Ireland
• 5 - France
• 4 - Cyprus
• 4 - New Zealand
• 2 - Jersey
• 2 - Isle of Man
• 2 - Canada
• 2 - Guernsey
• 1 - Croatia
• 1 - Egypt
• 1 - Singapore
• 1 - Qatar
• 1 - Falkland Islands
• 1 - Norway
• 1 - Mexico
• 1 - Malta
• 1 - Italy
• 1 - Hong Kong
• 1 - South Africa