There’s some interesting analysis of the Purple Revolution by IanB over at Counting Cats.
So who are this 38 Degrees mob? Wander for yourself round their website and you’ll soon see. According to their website (which as I write this is dreadful slow; looks like there’s a lot of PuRple Revolutionaries taking a look) is the former Head Of Activism at Friends Of The Earth, and the funny little cabal around him is just stuffed with left wing extremists with direct Green connections, apparatchiks from the watermelon network. And where’s their funding coming from? Well, they espouse a worthy desire to be funded by donations, but for now, sadly, they’ve had no choice but to be funded by Big Green Business. How sad for them. Notable names being Gordon Roddick (husband of Saint Anita, and co-creator of environmentally friendly snake oil merchants the Body Shop) and one Henry Tinsley, who made his fortune with a business called Tinsley Foods, but is now another snake oil merchant, being a director of of organic food company Whole Earth and an eager funder of far left causes, and “progressive” politics.
Ah… So it’s all about self interest, then? Why am I not surprised? And, frankly any movement that involves Billy Bragg tends to make me shy away.
Anyway, read all of Ian’s post, it makes for interesting reading.