Now as promised/threatened I’m afraid I’m returning to the matter of the “take back parliament” coalition. Firstly though a correction to my earlier post in that Mark Ross appears to have no connection to Ekklesia except they published a puff blog for Take Back Parliament, so sorry about that.
Anyway onto looking at how they all sort of hang together, I’ve had to be quite restrictive in this as other wise it all spins out into far too wide a web very quickly. so I’m sticking to only looking at one or two degrees of separation. I’m also having to use a rather horrid table as being fairly new to this presenting this information in a useful fashion is quite tricky.
So anyway hopefully this will make sense and shed some more light on the Take Back Parliament coalition, who doesn’t seem to be that keen on open and transparent or that bothered about foreign influence on our democratic system.
This table just tracks down those groups listed at the bottom of Take Back Parliament and pulls out odds and sods of possibly interesting information. Before we get to that though a few facts about “Take Back Parliament”.
Take Back parliament
is co-ordinated by Mark Ross, Head of Campaigns for POWER2010
the media campaign/website appears to being run by Blue State Digitial a mainly American company but with a UK subsidiary BLUE STATE DIGITAL UK LIMITED (Company No. 06873977).
Now onto that coalition:
| Coaltion member | Controlled by | Supporters/Partners in common | Client of |
|---|
| Power 2010 | The Democratic Reform Company Ltd
Company No. 07087541
Lord David Trevor Shutt of Greetland | - OBV (Operation Black Vote)
- BASSAC
- NEF (New Economic Forum)
- Electoral Reform Society
- Compass
- Unlock Democracy
- Open Democracy
- Ekklesia
- 38 Degrees
| Blue State Digital |
| Electoral Reform Society | ELECTORAL REFORM SOCIETY LIMITED
Company No. 00958404 | – | Blue State Digital
APC
SoapBox |
| Enoughs Enough | Domain registered via an anonymising service | – | Athenaeum Limited |
| Ekklesia | EKKLESIA LIMITED
Company No. 05831226 | – | – |
| AVAAZ.org | Domain registered by a private US individual – Ricken Patel,
organization founded by
Move On and Res Publica | – | – |
| Compass | Neal Lawson
Jon Cruddas | – | SoapBox |
| Open Democracy | OPENDEMOCRACY LIMITED
Company No. 03855274
previous: POWER AND DEMOCRACY LIMITED | - Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
– Lord David Trevor Shutt of Greetland - The Tinsley Foundation
| – |
| OBV | Charter 88 | - Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
- Electoral Commission
- Home Office
| SoapBox |
| Vot for a change | Electoral Reform Society | - John Sauven, Greenpeace
- Neal Lawson, Compass
- Ken Ritchie, Electoral Reform Society
- Pam Giddy, Power Inquiry
- Wes Streeting, NUS
- Peter Facey, Unlock Democracy
- Richard Grayson, Social Liberal Forum
- Benedict Southworth, World Development Movement
- Dr Matthew Sowemimo, Director – Social Liberal Forum
- Katherine Rake, Fawcett Society
| Blue State Digital
SoapBox |
| Unlock Democracy | Unlock Democracy
Company No. 02440899
Formerly:
09/07/1991 CHARTER 88 LIMITED
02/05/2008 CHARTER 88 | - Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
- Enoughs Enough
- Electoral Commission
- European Commission
- Poverty & Environment Trust
| SoapBox |
| Hang em | Open Democracy | Ekklesia | – |
BASSAC
Charity number: 1028784
Company number: 2869337 | – | Novas Scarman | – |
| Greenpeace | Without knowing just which bit of Greenpeace not even attempting this |
| Friends of the Earth | – | – | – |
Fawcett society
Charity No: 1108769 | – | – | – |
Democracy Matters
Charity No: 1108769 | Titus Alexander – Novas Scarman Group | - BASSAC
- Novas Scarman Group
- The Democracy Trust
- Unlock Democracy
| – |
| Social Liberal Forum | James Graham (Secretary and website manager) is currently the Campaigns and Communications Manager for Unlock Democracy | – | – |
| National Union of Students | Not attemtping this one either |
Muslim Council of Britain
charity 1084651 | Not attemtping this one either |
British Muslims for Secular Democracy
Company No. 05905516 | – | – | – |
| World Development Movement | WORLD DEVELOPMENT MOVEMENT
Company No. 02098198
WORLD DEVELOPMENT MOVEMENT TRUST LIMITED
Company No. 03188734
charity 1064066 | – | APC |
So there you have it quite a cosy coalition, not quite sure about the grass roots element of it, but there you go.
Just to have a quick look at some of those names, I’ve already mentioned Blue State Digital – who also have as a client those well known “grassroots” campaigners “38 Degrees”. Soap Box are apprently “communications agency for think tanks, campaigns, politicians and NGOs” with an interesting client list, so a lot like BLue State Digital. The other interesting one which cropped up in a few of those groups DNS records was APC – The association for progressive communications who apparently help grass roots movements like say “the elctoral reform society” and have an intersting list of funders.
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with any of this as such, it’s just a tad obscure and international and not that much that speaks of a ground swell of popular non-activist self-interested involvement. The grass roots bit of thier campaign appears to have gone a bit quiet , despite there still being no-sign of PR on the political agenda, just fixed term parliaments with AV.
Anyway in the interest of our new open and transparent plotics, that’s how the take back parliament campaign and its coalition roughly fit together – at just a very few degrees of seperation.
For those that are interested this data mainly came from domain registration look ups, the various groups websites and then lookups at Companies House, The Charities Commission and the FSA Mutuals Registrar.
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