Leaked BNP Membership List: Fishing in Troubled Waters
There is already a denial in the Wakefield Express from the one of the named “clergy” who appears on the BNP “members list”.
There are going to be a series of reactions to that, ranging from “he would say that, wouldn’t he” and “Christianity is one of the most intolerant religions in the history of religions” (quoted from a comment on Indymedia.org.uk) to “phew!”.
In fact if you reverse-lookup the phone number it comes up as a Complementary Medicine Company. Make of that what you will.
Any use of the detailed data about individuals is going to cause a lot of damage to a lot of innocent people. Consider that people move house in the UK every 5 to 7 years, then consider that this data is both padded out and almost a year old, and then work out how much of it is probably wrong. That is how much “collateral damage” may be caused.
A breakdown of numbers to the first half of a post code is about as detailed as I would go on interpreting this information.
Can Political Blogs encourage Local Politics?
There’s been an interesting conversation going on over at Liberal Conspiracy
This was my contribution, which is my current high level thinking about political blogging abd how far it has reached.
The quotes are from the author of the post Mike Killingworth, who was commenting about the website Political Betting.
This stuff is very Marmite - you either love it or hate it.
