Common Purpose is a training methodology that has been adopted by a lot of organisations, it teaches a management style that places an emphasis on everyone working towards the same goal in an organisation, ie having a common purpose.Burnaby49 wrote:She's not blaming Cleveland, the American city, she's blaming "Cleveland common purpose terrorists". A quick google check shows Common Purpose to be some form of young people's leadership program;
More information is available on their website http://www.commonpurpose.org.uk/.
It's been drawn into the UK scene by the meandering rantings of Brian "UK Column" Gerrish, who thinks it is something much more sinister than it actually is. Brian thinks that "Common Purpose" is a conspiracy against him and all the other 'alternative thinking types' and that it is secretly trying to oppress the world and take over everything.
Among some of the UK scene common purpose is practical a synonym for local government, even if the training organisation hasn't actually done any training, because those in the truth movement aren't necessarily interested in actual facts when they have so many more outrageous imagined ones.