Graduate list for Common Purpose the Know course Manchester. Note the mix of business, public sector and police. What were they taught. Now they are CP graduates they will be able to network unseen to the general public using the Chatham House rule to hide their activities. Of course only the elite are in the 'know'. Ordinary people are excluded.
Summary of Greater Manchester replies to Freedom of Information requests concerning their expenditure on CP.
Greater Manchester Police spend £22,500 on Common Purpose for 9 officers. For what tangible benefit to the taxpayer?
Article by Joanne Birtwistle apparently comparing CP to the Freemasons. The whole feel of this article suggests CP are defending themselves by trying to say they are not like the Freemasons, yet their mode of operation is very similar. You enter a room and the CP know how to identify each other but the rest of the public don't. CP graduates help each other win business and push through organisational and public authority agendas for CHANGE. They gang up against people who don't like their style.
