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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 →

Beyond the valley of the blogs

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Over at Charlotte Gore’s blog there’s a rather good article on political geekery, which makes two very good points. The first being that if you’re reading this blog (or hers or any of the political blogs) then I hate to say it but you’re probably at the moment either a friend of the blogger or a political geek – or as she more kindly puts it “People Who Are Into Politics.”. The other point picked up more in the comments is one I want to look at a bit closer is that blogging isn’t enough, talking amongst ourselves on blogs … Continue reading →

Opt out of the NHS database

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Just in case you missed it, we’re all being put on a central NHS database unless we “opt out”, and it looks as though we may not be able to even do that fully. Go and read more over at: The Big Opt Out. Of course if you’ve nothing to hide you’ve nothing to fear and will be quite happy having your medical details, phone number, GP details and the like available to “over a million NHS employees and central government bureaucrats“. 00