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Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I thought the point of the Transition movement was to change things - from energy production to inefficient and unsympathetic institutions that govern and control the people.

Today's Malvern Reporter article highlighting the meeting of 500 transition people looks great at first sight. So many concerned people. But then the paper looks at the story from the top down - Malvern Hills District Council leader Phil Grove finds it 'interesting' - Interesting! What planet is he on? Why are we interested in the voices of politicians who have consistently failed us and continue to fail us.

Interesting how the Malvern Reporter gave an active link to the council's website, but an inactive link to the actual transition group. It says it all about their priorities. Malvern's American owned media machine has no more desire to change things than our career politicians - that is unless they can directly profit from it.

Is Transition going backwards by pandering to these celebrity type/power seeking individuals in their institutions of privilege and an old stagnant media that couldn't care less, save a story or two to fill its paper?
Or is the Transition movement right to think they can persuade these institutions to embrace change and in doing so forego bloated prosperity?