I'm pleased to see that our website www.independentmercia.org is No. 6
out of 338,000 on Google, i.e. on the Google front page, just ahead of
the West Mercia Constabulary. So we've made a lot of progress.

We've had just over 4000 hits in the first 6 months of this year,
including nearly 1000 in June.

The single source of most of these hits is the Google search (182
hits), then Wikipedia (72 hits), at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_autonomist_and_secessionist_movement\
s
though the source of the vast majority of hits, 3600 or so, could not
be identified. Another Wikipedia page was No. 10 of the top ten, with
15 hits,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_not_fully_sovereign_nations At
least it suggests there's a fair bit of interest in secessionist
movements.

Jeff pointed out to me, reference the link I sent to everyone last
week about Transition Towns, www.transitiontowns.org that our regional
approach, with its regional currency, could be quite congruent with
the Transition Towns when it came to them making connections further
afield e.g. on a regional basis. I think, as I said, that it could be
a very good way forward for us. For example, we could give talks to
them about how they could extend their reach towards other towns,
cities etc along the same lines as we're saying.

Philip