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StopCP

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If you don't know what Common Purpose is, I suggest you find out.

Common Purpose is an organisation that corruptly abuses millions of pounds of YOUR tax money.

You can find out more about Common Purpose here:

http://www.stopcp.com
 
On the surface they do seem to be naughty but there are usually two side to a story.
Is Tony Blair involved at all?
 
derf said:
On the surface they do seem to be naughty but there are usually two side to a story. Is Tony Blair involved at all?
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It has all the makings of a bilderbergistical conspiracy. :hmm: Fortunately, there is a group aiming to combat them and their wicked works, and it has arrived here at U75.
 
Fullyplumped said:
It has all the makings of a bilderbergistical conspiracy. :hmm: Fortunately, there is a group aiming to combat them and their wicked works, and it has arrived here at U75.
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I think you meant simply 'hysterical' conspiracy. :)

StopCP has take one tab too many. Any kernal of truth that may or may not have been contained in that website link is drowned in a sea of paranoia.

loonspud
 
Fullyplumped said:
Welcome to our little community, StopCP. What are your thoughts on the impending split in the SWP?
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Thank you for the welcome. I know nothing about the internal politics of the SWP and so am unable to comment.

derf said:
On the surface they do seem to be naughty but there are usually two side to a story.
Is Tony Blair involved at all?
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More than "naughty". Downright corrupt. Yes, Blair helped to set Common Purpose up.

dennisr said:
I think you meant simply 'hysterical' conspiracy. :)

StopCP has take one tab too many. Any kernal of truth that may or may not have been contained in that website link is drowned in a sea of paranoia.
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Yawn.
 
"Civic Society means Communism"

we've had more than a decade of this Fabian inspired civic society. Where's the communism?
 
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Strange things have been happening in Britain in recent years. For example, the police have lost their common sense. The existence of Common Purpose helps to explain them.
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At last, an explanation.
 
Perhaps if the site had a little less polemic, and a little more substantive proof of it's claims of "neo-communism" (accusations and name-calling don't count, hard fact does).
 
dah, if it was just a dull substantive political tract we couldn't laugh at it, well, not in the same way, anyhow.
 
Actually I've heard about these guys. The lass who runs them was a staff member for that Cunt Prescott. If you check them out a tonne of funding comes from the public purse for their shitty management courses. The Tories brought it up in parliament and asked for facts and figures.

I have to say the idea of somebody who is a staff member of a Cabinet official, setting up a charitable training organisation, that pulls in millions a year from the public purse sounds err dodgy!

To add to that there was all sorts of jiggery pokery going on, with them using Labour council offices for "free" check this out:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Elite-trainer-gets-11year-state.4053633.jp

It all sounda a bit snouts in the trough and I can think of a far better way of spending that money... the NHS, social housing, urban redevelopment etc.
 
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070626/text/70626w0013.htm

The above page has a lot of other random questions so I have copied out the CP one and pasted below:

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department paid to Common Purpose in each of the last five years; for what purpose; and what the outcome of the expenditure was. [145342]

Derek Twigg: Sums paid to Common Purpose UK in each of the last complete five financial years, inclusive of VAT, are as follows:

Amount (£)
2002-03
56,576.25

2003-04
66,716.50

2004-05
42,958.00

2005-06
58,456.27

2006-07
83,817.89



These payments covered the cost of participation by MOD staff in Common Purpose UK’s training and education programmes. Programmes of this nature help to develop leadership skills, to gain understanding about broader aspects of government and to share experience with and learn from participants from both the private and public sectors.
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If you look at Hansard's there have been a number of questions leveled on the amount of money being wasted on this shite.

TomPaine
 
Psychonaut> I've not seen those sites, but there was a lot of looney sites around last year when I looked at the topic. This is a shame as I believe there is a genuine case of public funds being used in a bad way, however the nuts make it looks like "lizards" are invovled .....
 
TomPaine said:
Psychonaut> I've not seen those sites, but there was a lot of looney sites around last year when I looked at the topic. This is a shame as I believe there is a genuine case of public funds being used in a bad way, however the nuts make it looks like "lizards" are invovled .....
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:D exactly - 'neo-communist conspiracy' my arse - snouts in the trough is a bit closer the mark
 
overpriced pointless shite
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Yep agreed. What I really don't like is the fact you have local gov officials funded by the public purse and companies with a lot to gain e.g. housing firms hobnobbing at these events and networking etc. all under the Chatham house rules.
It just opens itself up to abuse big time unfortunatly.

I aw a funny letetr where the NHS down in Bristol got fucked off when they found out they had sent their staff on the course, and then it came to light that a large Tobacco firm located in the South West had splashed out on the course (thus helping to fund it) :D.

Sounds like the fuckers who run this aren't too bothered where their money comes from.
 
The original OP may as well have thrown in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and be done with it...

I've never heard of Common Purpose before but here is their website:

http://www.commonpurpose.org.uk/home.aspx

There is something slightly unsettling about it, kinda of like a cult with grandiose claims but short on detail.

I was looking at their website thinking, Yeah, but actually is it that you do?

Who are we, what do we do and how?

"Of all the leadership programmes that I know of, those run by Common Purpose are by far the best, you only have to see the lasting effect on those who have participated in them to know that they work and work well. Civil society in a wide range of countries has benefited hugely from Common Purpose." - Professor Charles Handy, Management writer and broadcaster


Common Purpose believes that:

* the problems that most need solving cross boundaries - and the way to solve them is to do the same
* leaders are most effective when they broaden their horizons and their networks
* real change doesn’t just happen: leaders need to make it happen

That’s why we deliver unique leadership development programmes which:

* are rooted in real life, not in the classroom
* attract leaders from unexpected places
* involve participants in a wide range of unfamiliar leadership situations
* prize diversity as a source of creativity and deeper problem-solving

Through this, we aim to:

* give leaders the skills, the connections and the vision they need to lead more effectively
* push them to extend their influence - and take responsibility - beyond their own organisation, locality and culture, not just within it
* inspire leaders to effect real change, both at work and in the wider world.

Very few people emerge from Common Purpose with their prejudices - or working practices - unchanged. As their perspective gets wider, their vision improves. As their vision improves, their decision-making gets better. They forge networks that can have a major impact on their organisation and the community (networks which no other experience can provide).

This can have far-reaching consequences. And can unlock leadership potential in a genuinely different way.

Common Purpose programmes produce people who lead beyond their authority and can produce change beyond their direct circle of control.
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troll alert .. common purpose is a big BNP issue .. and check out loads of nonsense videos on you tube and stuff on wikipedia ..

campaign started by a nutter from plymouth who didn;t get planning permission on something so investigated local council and found many of them had been on CP courses .. hence CP rule europe and want to put us into a social democratic and probabaly catholic dictatorship! bingo

i think they are a just a bullshit leadership orgainisation .. that they are worse makes no sense .. 'they' .. depending on whether they are capitalist or lizards lol have enough clubs and organisations to be going on with without this ..
 
Know a few people who've been on it and mostly said it was fairly crap. Been asked to go few times myself, but politely declined. Think the way the groups are run could be open to a bit of bullying, but lots of management training courses are like that. It's expensive and not particularly effective, but conspiracy? Naw, just crap.
 
durruti02 said:
troll alert .. common purpose is a big BNP issue .. and check out loads of nonsense videos on you tube and stuff on wikipedia ..

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If you type in Common Purpose into Google and you'll come across the BNP article on them.

The comments underneath made my laugh, still the same old conspiracy theory fascism, only they use different organisations and causes now rather than Zionism / Elder Protocols of Zion...

If you read the contributions by the commentators there is at least one reference to the following:
Lisbrun Treaty, Paedophilia, detention camps, Bilderberg, preparation for the ‘Post-democratic era’, communist totalitarianism and the Book of Revelations!

There are my favourites:

To my knowledge no British Primeminister has been selected until after a Bilderburgh session since Wilson.
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Does anyone else share my view that we are seeing the ‘mark of the Beast’ scenario as predicted in the Book of Revelation coming true in our time?
Common Purpose would seem to indicate a ‘one world’ Government in the pipeline.
Or is that too fanciful a vision on my part?
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troll alert .. common purpose is a big BNP issue .. and check out loads of nonsense videos on you tube and stuff on wikipedia ..
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Yep I saw all that crap when I typed them into google last year. I would imagine it has probably gotten worst since then.
Still think they sound like a dodgy management boys club type scenario though. The fact the gov/local council sends people on this and wates money that is really needed in many towns and cities (whilst council tax goes up) fucks me off even more.
Stoping wasting hundreds of thousands every year on shite like this, expensive logo re-designs and consultants who fuck off after they have bodge shit up, might be a bloody good start for the government if they even want to think they are going to get voted back in.
 
CRI said:
Know a few people who've been on it and mostly said it was fairly crap. Been asked to go few times myself, but politely declined. Think the way the groups are run could be open to a bit of bullying, but lots of management training courses are like that. It's expensive and not particularly effective, but conspiracy? Naw, just crap.
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I used to work for them in a past incarnation. :D

So feel free to run any questions by me, Mr StopCP.

I must say, I am well happy to find out that I was doing admin for a bunch of lizards. I always thought they were just a bunch of wet upper-middle-class types with crappy ideas about 'top-down change' who couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery but there you go.

I mean, you'd expect the future robot leaders of the neo-Communist conspiracy to not do things like send private emails meant for the CEO to the whole organisation, then run around people's computers shouting: "Don't open your email!" Perhaps it was all a supremely clever double bluff.
 
if we can all put the 'wilder' cliams made by more 'extreme' elements on the web aside i for one think that this whole industry in giving millions to organisations if it goes on like this in the current econkmic climate iis wrong and all the extremeists are doing is obscuring needed critism of any such organisations
 
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