Common Purpose (CP)
- a Hidden Menace in our Government and Schools

COMMON PURPOSE is the glue than enables fraud to be committed across government departments to reward pro-European politicians. Corrupt deals are enabled that put property or cash into their pockets by embezzling public assets.

Although it has 80,000 trainees in 36 cities, 18,000 "graduate" members and enormous power, Common Purpose is largely unknown to the general public.

It recruits and trains "leaders" to be loyal to the directives of Common Purpose and the EU, instead of to their own departments, which they then undermine or subvert, the NHS being an example.

Common Purpose is identifying leaders in all levels of our government to assume power when our nation is replaced by the European Union. Unlike current leaders, CP leaders are taught to rule without democracy, and will bring the EU police state home to every one of us.

It has members in the NHS, BBC, the police, the legal profession, many of Britain's 7,000 quangos, local councils, the Civil Service, government ministries, Parliament, and it controls many RDA's (Regional Development Agencies).

Cressida Dick is the Common Purpose senior police officer who authorised the "Shoot to kill" policy without reference to Parliament, the law or the British Constitution. Jean de Menezes was one of the innocents who died as a result. Her shoot to kill policy still stands today.

Common Purpose trained Janet Paraskeva, the Law Society's Chief Executive Officer. Surprising numbers of lawyers are CP members. It is no coincidence that justice is more expensive, more flawed and more corrupt. And no surprise the courts refused to uphold the law, when a challenge was made to the signing of the six EU treaties, which illegally abolish Britain's sovereignty.

Common Purpose is backed by John Prescott's "Office of the Deputy Prime Minister" (ODPM), and its notional Chief Executive is Julia Middleton. The Head of the Civil Service Commission is a member

It is close to controlling Plymouth City Council, where is has subverted the democratic process. Local people cannot get CP's corrupt activities published, because the editors of local papers are in CP, and refuse to let journalists publish the articles.

CP started in 1985; in the 1990's, with its members' cross-departmental influence, it was involved with what then became the disastrous New Millennium Dome Company and the squandering of £800 million; it appears £300m of this was diverted into the web of quangos set up by CP. There is a fraud case over this, stalled in the courts thanks to CP's influence in the legal profession.

Over £100 million of our money has been spend on CP courses alone, and its been hidden from the public. No published accounts, and members' names are a guarded secret. It charges substantial figures for its courses. Matrix for example costs £3,950 plus VAT, and courses for the high flying 'leader' can be as much as £9,950 plus VAT. This money is ours, paid by government departments financing senior staff to become agents for CP, instead of loyal to their own jobs.

Common Purpose International (Ltd by guarantee) is registered as a Charity No 1056573 and describes itself as being involved in Adult education. Some charity.

Training Our Future EU Rulers
Potential Common Purpose subjects are 'selected' for training. Are they susceptible to being converted; are they in the right job, with the right colleagues and friends? Do they have power, influence and the control of money? If the candidate has some, or all of these key attributes, then the local Common Purpose Advisory Board decides if they can do the course.

Trained leaders are encouraged to act as a network, enable other members' plans, and have meetings under the so-called Chatham House rules. This effectively means their statements are not attributable to them, nor can attendees reveal information heard at a Common Purpose meeting.

Council Officers are having quasi-secret meetings with, for example, property developer Common Purpose friends. No agendas and no minutes. Common Purpose Graduates from the public quango sectors such as the Regional Development Agencies attend, and have the power to award large sums of public money to projects.

It is the worst national example of cronyism, closed contract bids, fraud and corruption. And unseen to the general public.

Common Purpose undermines traditionally effective and efficient government departments with an overwhelming influx of new language, political correctness and management initiatives. The talk is of empowering communities, vision, worklessness, mainstreaming (sucking EU money into a project to sustain it), community empowerment, working partnership, regeneration and celebrating diversity etc etc. Documents appear about change, and reorganisation. In time confusion rules, and things don't seem to work properly. Management decisions are made that seem stupidly destructive. The organisational performance becomes sluggish. Undermining the NHS is Common Purposes' biggest success so far.

David Cameron, who is pro Europe, uses the language of Common Purpose; he has appointed Ken Clarke, the most committed of the pro Europeans, in charge of his "Democracy Taskforce" - rather like putting the cat in charge of the safety of mice.

Common Purpose specifically targets children from the age of 13, and more recently younger, for special leadership and citizenship training. Yes, it is active in schools, and again the average parent has no idea.

People have contacted us to speak of their experiences with Common Purpose. A common theme is its all sweetness and light, until you fail to follow the direction set by the CP leadership.

Then interesting things happen. Ladies in particular have been bullied at work, some have lost their jobs, some have become paranoid and depressed at the pressure from people ganging up on them.

A typical story is a husband describing the decline in his wife from the time she becomes a Common Purpose graduate. Loss of sparkle, enthusiasm, anxious and 'changed', and she initiated a divorce.

Other Common Purpose people lie when they are challenged as to their involvement.

Common Purpose candidates are given a two-day residential course in which they are 'trained' in a closed residential environment, such as a small hotel. They are encouraged to reveal significant personal information about themselves, such as their likes, dislikes, ambitions and dreams. Discussions are then controlled by the course leaders. Some participants have likened this to Delphi technique or the application of group psychology such as Cognitive Dissonance or brainwashing.

If you suspect Common Purpose is active in your organisation, or see a pattern of incredibly bad decisions, money being wasted, notice bullying, fraud, or threats, note the names of those involved (we've tracked down over a thousand) and please contact us. And publish the truth about Common Purpose as widely as you can.
Brian Gerrish and David Noakes
www.eutruth.co.uk

Cameron Has That European Elephant in His Room
By Christopher Booker

PREPARING LAST WEEK to visit my old school of Shrewsbury for a speaking engagement, I was interested to hear that another recent speaker at the school was Lord Butler of Brockwell, formerly Robin Butler, cabinet secretary under five prime ministers.

Apparently he had not only entertained his audience with some caustic comments on Tony Blair's handling of the Iraq war but startled them by observing that the biggest issue at the 2005 election should have been "Europe", because it is in Brussels that most of our important legislation now originates. It was contemptible, Lord Butler said, that the parties had conspired not to discuss this with the electorate.

Naturally this delighted me since the way in which our politicians conspire to conceal how much of our government is now centred in "Europe" has been a theme of this column for years, and last week provided yet another glaring example. Prior to his sacking, Charles Clarke, while attempting to defend his record on the handling of immigrant criminals, had blithely promised new legislation to create a "presumption for deportation" of any foreigner found guilty of an imprisonable offence. (This was later endorsed by Gordon Brown on the Today programme.)

If the Tories were honest, they should immediately have pointed out that the UK Government no longer has the power to do any such thing. It is simply not permissible, thanks to a combination of the European Convention on Human Rights and various EU directives, not least that which came into force only last week, 2004/38, which, for the first time, explicitly lays down, as one of the "fundamental objectives of the Union", that EU citizens and their families should now have an absolute right to take up permanent residence in whichever EU state they wish (and to enjoy all its social benefits).

Whether Lord Butler was right to deplore a "conspiracy" between all the major parties to keep "Europe" out of view in 2005, the silence of the Tories under Mr Cameron has become deafening (above all, as I have noted before, in his bizarre failure to recognise that we long ago ceded to Brussels the power to make laws on that very subject in which he takes such an obsessive interest, the "environment").

Another revealing instance, so far unreported, is the way in which Mr Cameron has quietly dumped what for eight years was arguably the Tories' most distinctive single policy on Europe - the pledge, endorsed by all his three predecessors as party leader, that a future Tory government would extricate Britain from the disastrous Common Fisheries Policy and reclaim national control of Britain's fishing waters.

Last year Michael Howard's fisheries spokesman, Owen Paterson MP, even fleshed out this policy with an exhaustively researched Green Paper, showing how Europe's fish stocks could be saved by adopting the fisheries management methods which are now proving dramatically successful all around the North Atlantic, from the US to the Faroes. All these countries have secured rising fish stocks and prosperous fishing industries through strategies quite contrary to the ludicrous system by which Brussels is devastating our "European fishing waters".

But Mr Cameron has handed over the task of devising a new policy to John Selwyn Gummer, the most unpopular fisheries minister we have ever had. This was precisely because, as a fervent Europhile, Mr Gummer meekly accepted whatever Brussels proposed, however damaging to both fish stocks and British interests. The likelihood is that Mr Gummer will now sign up the Tories to accepting more of the same.

It is unfortunately a measure of Mr Cameron's leadership that he should not have had the courage to admit openly to Britain's surviving fishermen that he has scrapped the only policy in which they could see a glimmer of hope or common sense. How wonderfully logical, too, that he should wish to see his party once again endorsing a policy that has created one of the major environmental catastrophes of our time.

The wider moral is that, by collectively conspiring to hide from us the extent to which our governance is no longer in our own hands, Britain's politicians betray not only our country but themselves. If Lord Butler himself sees this as contemptible, who are we to disagree?
The Sunday Telegraph, 7th May 2006

The Price of a Pound of Spuds Will be £5,000
By Christopher Booker

IT IS NOT OFTEN that I line up alongside the likes of Jools Holland and Jilly Cooper, Sir Tim Rice, Sir Patrick Moore and Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson, the architect Quinlan Terry and the historian Prof Richard Holmes. However, as honorary members of the British Weights and Measures Association (along with Ian Botham and J K Rowling), we were among the 21 signatories of a letter to The Times calling for the repeal of two statutory instruments, 55/2001 and 85/2001.

Astonishingly, the purpose of these edicts is to make it a criminal offence from January 1, 2010 for shopkeepers or stallholders to make any reference at all to pounds and ounces, feet and inches. As we all know, in line with EC directives it is already an offence to sell any item in Britain unless it is measured and labelled in metric. But it is still legal to refer to pounds, feet and inches by way of what is known as a "supplementary indicator", to help those millions of customers (still, oddly enough, the vast majority) who prefer to shop in non-metric quantities.

In four years' time, however, even that concession will be ended. A marketeer who dares explain to his customers that his spuds are selling at so much a pound - even though the price ticket gives this in kilograms and the goods are weighed out on metric scales - will risk a fine of up to £5,000. The point of our letter was to suggest that shopkeepers should still enjoy the freedom to give non-metric equivalents as a "supplementary indicator", should they wish.

Interestingly the various pro-metric zealots who have written to The Times to protest at our letter completely avoided this point. Although eager to heap their usual contempt on our traditional system, not one of them had the courage to defend the proscription, as a criminal act, of the very mention of pounds or inches - something which, as a succession of polls have shown, is opposed by more than 90 per cent of the British people.

Curiously, these new regulations provided the only occasion in 40 years when laws to enforce the exclusive use of metrication were voted on in Parliament. When, in 2002, the Government whipped its supporters into pushing them through the House of Lords, I was surprised to see that one of the majority was Lord Bragg of Wigton.

When I next saw Melvyn Bragg, as I have reported here before, I asked him how he could have brought himself to support such a grotesque curb on our liberties. He claimed to have had no idea he had voted for such a thing, and when I explained to him he was clearly shocked.
The Sunday Telegraph, 7th May 2006

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