COMMON PURPOSE AT THE BBC

COMMON PURPOSE AT THE BBC

I have begun to dig into BBC connections with a shadowy organisation called Common Purpose.

This, according to some, is a sinister conspiratorial group - run by a scary woman called Julia Middleton - that is seeking to create an alternative government in the UK under the guise of a leadership programme.

Opponents of CP have built interesting evidence that it has already managed to infiltrate many senior posts in organisations such as the police, and is busy consolidating that hold through more than 100 regional operations in the UK and many more abroad.

What are its goals? Broadly - as a perusal of the opponents' website quickly shows - liberal-left elitist, pro-EU and strongly in favour of "sustainability", a word used by greenies as shorthand for a left-wing agenda to destroy the capitalist system and the West. Unsurprisingly for such a group, BBC connections are not hard to find. Bees to a honeypot.

The corporation has spent more than £150,000 on sending dozens of its senior staff on CP "courses", and business editor Robert Peston and International Development correspondent David Loyn are not only acolytes but serve on the board of what seems to be a CP subsidiary called the Media Standards Trust (alongside figures such as Amelia Fawcett, chairman of the Guardian Media Group and Baroness Helena Kennedy QC) which ostensibly aims to improve standards of journalism; in practice this means reporting in line with CP goals and policies.

Scratch the surface of the CP website and it quickly becomes apparent that one of its main goals is to ensure that we are all indoctrinated about the evils of climate change, through projects with names such as CHANGEit(sic).

It works towards doing this with Deutsche Bank, an organisation that is so besotted by AGW that it publishes pamphlets on how to spot and root out sceptics.

CP was brought to my attention the other night by a journalist friend; I had never heard of it, but within seconds of digging was struck by the huge neon-lit signposts leading to the BBC.

Is there nothing the corporation isnotdoing to foster its political agenda?

If B-BBC readers know anything first-hand about CP, or better still, have been on one of its courses (or knows someone who has), I'd love to hear from you: robinhorbury@gmail.com.

I am not normally one for conspiracy theories, but this one is intriguing. Common Purpose may be completely harmless, but somehow, I doubt it.