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Prescient campaigning

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Much as I hate to bang on about the purple people over at “Take Back Parliament” but just noticed something rather interesting the domains takebackparliament.com and takebackparliament.org were registered before the election. Both domains were registered by Blue State Digitial on the 29th April as can be clearly seen from the whois data: Domain Name: TAKEBACKPARLIAMENT.COM Registrar: TUCOWS INC. Name Server: NS1.BLUESTATEDIGITAL.COM Name Server: NS2.BLUESTATEDIGITAL.COM Updated Date: 03-may-2010 Creation Date: 29-apr-2010 Expiration Date: 29-apr-2011 Domain Name:TAKEBACKPARLIAMENT.ORG Created On:29-Apr-2010 15:47:07 UTC Last Updated On:03-May-2010 16:42:03 UTC Expiration Date:29-Apr-2011 15:47:07 UTC Name Server:NS1.BLUESTATEDIGITAL.COM Name Server:NS2.BLUESTATEDIGITAL.COM Now of course it doesn’t hurt to … Continue reading →

A letter to GreenPeace

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As Greenpeace an international environmental campaign are backing “Take back Parliament” which strikes me as a tad odd, I thought I’d write to them and ask: 1) How it fitted with their other campaigns and will they be campaigning in other countries? 2) If they felt it was appropriate for an international charity such as themselves to be campaigning to change the electoral system of a democratic nation? My e-mail is below, and I shall report on any response I get, I’d also note that they don’t mention this sort of campaigning on their donate page – hardly honest open … Continue reading →

Purple power

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The demands for electoral reform continue apace even if the Take back Parliament campaign isn’t really a grass roots campaign. Apart from the groups acknowledge as being behind it on the website a quick whois lookup shows the campaign is being handled by Blue state digitial which must be costing someone a pretty penny. But that aside a campaign for electoral reform is a good thing, though purely electoral reform without more general parliamentary reform is going to leave things really quite messy. As I muttered earlier I’m against any system (such as the currently mooted AV) which either breaks … Continue reading →