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Reply from Greenpeace

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Well that was terribly quick, Greenpeace have replied to my email already, though they don’t address my second point at all nor mention if they’ll be carrying out similar campaigns in other countries. Oh and it would have been nice if they could have spelt my name correctly. Anyway here’s the reply: “Hello Gioalla and thanks for your e-mail, it’s great to hear from you. Greenpeace is backing the Take Back Parliament campaign http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/about/broken-britain-more-broken-parliament-20100507 because Government policy and political lobbying are so fundamental to our campaigns and environmental change. The Government has huge power, and therefore huge responsibility, when it … Continue reading →

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 →