By Mike Hammersley
http://newworlddoublethink.blogspot.com/2009/03/common-purpose.html

In a recent Edge TV exposé, retired naval commander, Brian Gerrish spoke of the insidious infiltration of Common Purpose (CP) into nearly all avenues of government and industry. I reported on CP some time ago and since then its tentacles of power have been extending. Cloaked in the altruistic clothing of a charity ‘empowering people and communities’, it is really anything but. In reality CP is an elitist pro-EU political organisation which is usurping the democratic framework and sovereignty of this country while at the same time threatening personal free will.

To save you time digging back through my archives, I have brought my original 2007 blog forward and included some further comments on this secretive 'charity', which are ever more relevant to current political trends in this country.

I was originally alerted to Common Purpose, back in 2007, by an article written by David Icke, but before reading his article in full, I first went to Common Purposes' website to get my own first impression on what it was all about. I was confronted by a lot of convoluted prose, but the best I could ascertain from their mission statement was that they run courses for various age groups and people of varying degrees of managerial responsibilty to help them understand the world in which they live and help make society and/or their organisation more efficient. Good aims you might suppose on the surface of it, but very light on specifics the way most advertising is. That begs the question - just how do they intend participants to achieve these goals and ultimately, whose goals are they?

The title ‘Common Purpose’ may sound altruistic - conjuring up a structured way of bettering society, working together as communities or within organisations with more transparency, honesty and accountability all for a common good. And it is this altruistic message that will appeal to many ambitious younger people in junior management with their lifetime stretching in front of them. They feel they can be part of a team that can improve our lot in a world distraught with famine, war, duplicity and evil. So far so good, or is it?

But dig deeper, as Icke did, and you will find out something that is not stated on their website. Common Purpose’s Chief Executive is Julia Middleton who just happens to be Head of Personnel Selection in the office of the Deputy Prime Minister! We are also told that DEMOS, the political think tank that strongly influenced Tony Blair during his administration and is now advising parties across the political spectrum, is closely involved with Common Purpose. This then provides an immediate link between political direction and the appointing and grooming of those who are considered to be specially selected and 'politically correct' future leaders, hardly the work of a 'charity' I would have thought! Given this no small coincidence that a direct conduit runs from central government to CP and the real nature of the beast comes sharply into focus. Any altruism must surely be heavily tainted by government and the puppeteers that run it.

It is clear that CP is aimed at people in senior positions in politics, education, policing, local government, business, health and the media - it is estimated that possibly 1,000 senior employees in the BBC are members - and because of this it immediately becomes apparent that any 'common purpose' is the reserve of those in these senior decision-making positions. All members of CP, the 'Inner Party' members to take an Orwellian parallel, are given a politically-charged set of values which they must adhere to in the execution of their work and those values and directives are then passed down to us, the 'Outer Party' members who are clearly meant to comply.

Given this government’s long legacy of depriving us of our liberties, building up the police state and control grid, then CP appears to be just another part of that armoury but with its connections to government policy covertly hidden as a semi-secretive 'charity', it is not immediately obvious that this is intended as another tool in achieving a state-sponsored control down through the ranks. Indeed, according to DEMOS, charities in future, are to become politicised and act as maid servants to government doctrine.

Common Purpose seems to adopting all of the hallmarks of Illuminati's Tavistock Institute modus operandi that other manipulator of social behaviour.

Consider this. John Rawlings Rees, one of Tavistock's founders once said this: 'Public life, politics and industry should all ... be within our sphere of influence (the Institute's and the Illuminati they represent)... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity!'

'We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity in our national life ... We have made a useful attack upon a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church: the two most difficult are law and medicine.'

As if to underline CP's hidden agenda, here's one experience (with acknowledgement to David Icke's newsletter.

Brian Gerrish at http://www.eutruth.org.uk discovered Common Purpose when he was involved with a group in Plymouth in the west of England helping people find jobs and one of their projects was repairing wooden boats. He said they had lots of public support and backing from the local authorities and everything was going fine. But then it suddenly changed and the council support was withdrawn. When they tried to continue alone, he said that within a short time key people were being threatened:

'When we started to explore why we were being threatened we were absolutely staggered to find a very strange organisation called Common Purpose operating in the city. And we were absolutely amazed that there were so many people involved but they were not declaring themselves ...

'[Common Purpose] was operating throughout the structure of the city, in the city council, in the government offices, in the police, in the judiciary. Essentially we discovered what is effectively, at best, a quasi secret society which doesn't declare itself to ordinary people.'

Further research has led Gerrish to establish that Common Purpose is recruiting and training leaders to be loyal to the objectives of the organisation and the European Union and preparing the governing structure for what it calls the 'post-democratic society' after nations are replaced by regions in the European Union. 'They are learning to rule without regard to democracy, and will bring the EU police state home to every one of us', Gerrish says. Common Purpose 'graduates' are increasingly everywhere.

When the organisation was given an award in 2005 by one of it clients, Newcastle University in the North East of England, it was revealed that among its graduates in that area were: Michael Craik, Northumbria Police Chief Constable; Andrew Dixon, Executive Director of the Arts Council England, North East; Glyn Evans, City Centre Chaplain; Chris Francis, Centre Manager of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust; Anne Marshall, Chief Officer of Age Concern; Anthony Sargent, General Director of The Sage Gateshead; Miriam Harte, Director of Beamish Museum; and Sue Underwood, Chief Executive of NEMLAC (the North East Museums, Libraries and Archives Council). Brian Gerrish has found them to be throughout the government structure with more than £100 million of taxpayers money spent on Common Purpose courses for state employees. It has members in the National Health Service, BBC, police, legal profession, religion, local councils, the Civil Service, government ministries,! Parliament and Regional Development Agencies.'

With a network of CP members occupying a large cross section of senior positions in every town and city in Britain, we now see, in place, a control grid of un-elected intermediaries who are acting as a conduit for the flow of state dictat to we, the common people, while our role, at the bottom of the pile, is to snoop on our fellow citizens' dustbins or pry on them to see if they acting suspiciously and not in accordance with that received dictat.

To view Edge TV's Interview with Gerrish go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzhMvutuvU

Jeremy Clarkson writes:-

I’ve given the matter a great deal of thought all week, and I’m afraid I’ve decided that it’s no good putting Peter Mandelson in a prison. I’m afraid he will have to be tied to the front of a van and driven round the country until he isn’t alive any more.
He announced last week that middle-class children will simply not be allowed into the country’s top universities even if they have 4,000 A-levels, because all the places will be taken by Albanians and guillemots and whatever other stupid bandwagon the conniving idiot has leapt onto in the meantime.
I hate Peter Mandelson. I hate his fondness for extremely pale blue jeans and I hate that preposterous moustache he used to sport in the days when he didn’t bother trying to cover up his left-wing fanaticism. I hate the way he quite literally lords it over us even though he’s resigned in disgrace twice, and now holds an important decision-making job for which he was not elected. Mostly, though, I hate him because his one-man war on the bright and the witty and the successful means that half my friends now seem to be taking leave of their senses.
There’s talk of emigration in the air. It’s everywhere I go. Parties. Work. In the supermarket. My daughter is working herself half to death to get good grades at GSCE and can’t see the point because she won’t be going to university, because she doesn’t have a beak or flippers or a qualification in washing windscreens at the lights. She wonders, often, why we don’t live in America.
Then you have the chaps and chapesses who can’t stand the constant raids on their wallets and their privacy. They can’t understand why they are taxed at 50% on their income and then taxed again for driving into the nation’s capital. They can’t understand what happened to the hunt for the weapons of mass destruction. They can’t understand anything. They see the Highway Wombles in those brand new 4x4s that they paid for, and they see the M4 bus lane and they see the speed cameras and the community support officers and they see the Albanians stealing their wheelbarrows and nothing can be done because it’s racist. And they see Alistair Darling handing over £4,350 of their money to not sort out the banking crisis that he doesn’t understand because he’s a small-town solicitor, and they see the stupid war on drugs and the war on drink and the war on smoking and the war on hunting and the war on fun and the war on scientists and the obsession with the climate and the price of train fares soaring past £1,000 and the Guardian power-brokers getting uppity about one shot baboon and not uppity at all about all the dead soldiers in Afghanistan, and how they got rid of Blair only to find the lying twerp is now going to come back even more powerful than ever, and they think, “I’ve had enough of this. I’m off.”
It’s a lovely idea, to get out of this stupid, Fairtrade, Brown-stained, Mandelson- skewed, equal-opportunities, multicultural, carbon-neutral, trendily left, regionally assembled, big-government, trilingual, mosque-drenched, all-the-pigs-are-equal, property-is-theft hellhole and set up shop somewhere else. But where?
You can’t go to France because you need to complete 17 forms in triplicate every time you want to build a greenhouse, and you can’t go to Switzerland because you will be reported to your neighbours by the police and subsequently shot in the head if you don’t sweep your lawn properly, and you can’t go to Italy because you’ll soon tire of waking up in the morning to find a horse’s head in your bed because you forgot to give a man called Don a bundle of used notes for “organising” a plumber.
You can’t go to Australia because it’s full of things that will eat you, you can’t go to New Zealand because they don’t accept anyone who is more than 40 and you can’t go to Monte Carlo because they don’t accept anyone who has less than 40 mill. And you can’t go to Spain because you’re not called Del and you weren’t involved in the Walthamstow blag. And you can’t go to Germany ... because you just can’t.
The Caribbean sounds tempting, but there is no work, which means that one day, whether you like it or not, you’ll end up like all the other expats, with a nose like a burst beetroot, wondering if it’s okay to have a small sharpener at 10 in the morning. And, as I keep explaining to my daughter, we can’t go to America because if you catch a cold over there, the health system is designed in such a way that you end up without a house. Or dead.
Canada’s full of people pretending to be French, South Africa’s too risky, Russia’s worse and everywhere else is too full of snow, too full of flies or too full of people who want to cut your head off on the internet. So you can dream all you like about upping sticks and moving to a country that doesn’t help itself to half of everything you earn and then spend the money it gets on bus lanes and advertisements about the dangers of salt. But wherever you go you’ll wind up an alcoholic or dead or bored or in a cellar, in an orange jumpsuit, gently wetting yourself on the web. All of these things are worse than being persecuted for eating a sandwich at the wheel.
I see no reason to be miserable. Yes, Britain now is worse than it’s been for decades, but the lunatics who’ve made it so ghastly are on their way out. Soon, they will be back in Hackney with their South African nuclear-free peace polenta. And instead the show will be run by a bloke whose dad has a wallpaper shop and possibly, terrifyingly, a twerp in Belgium whose fruitless game of hunt-the-WMD has netted him £15m on the lecture circuit.
So actually I do see a reason to be miserable. Which is why I think it’s a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article6907747.ece

DECEMBER 1st. 2009

The Lisbon Treaty comes into force and the UK's betrayal is complete. We are no longer a sovereign nation but a province of the European Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (EUSSR).
We are subject to unelected leaders and no longer have the power to remove them or to make our own laws.
Today we have become slaves.

Broken Covenant from Banyak Films on Vimeo.

In the UK there exists a 'duty of care'. A duty which Britain acknowledges it owes to its armed forces.

Known as the military covenant, it is an unspoken pact between society and the military that dates back to the reign of Henry VIII, and which was formally codified as a 'covenant' in 2000.

The 'duty of care' to troops includes paying towards physical and mental healthcare, access to accommodation and also the provision of support for bereaved families.

Yet out of the 25,000 men and women that were discharged from the military services in 2007, it is estimated that 10 per cent will live on the poverty line and face homelessness. To date there is over 230 veteran aid charities operating in the UK.

In February 2006, plans for a 'Veterans day' were announced by Gordon Brown, the then finance minister and current prime minister, who said the aim was to ensure that the contribution of veterans was never forgotten.

In November 2007, Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart Tootal resigned from the British army over "the governments appalling treatment of the troops".

Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the British army, said his troops felt "devalued, angry and were suffering from Iraq fatigue". He went on to say "the military covenant is clearly out of kilter".

Veterans day was introduced three years ago and is now incorporated into armed forces day, a new national day announced by Kevan Jones, the veterans minister, to be celebrated this year on June 27.

People & Power follows Stuart Griffiths, a veteran who became homeless after leaving the armed forces and who now works as a photographer raising awareness for veterans who feel that the military covenant and the government's duty of care is not being upheld.