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Unlike Andrew Neil, I haven't got the luxury of being Chairman of an establishment magazine which represents its billionaire-owner's interests.
Nonetheless, we need to talk about Andrew Neil's climate change stance & history of working for overseas-based billionaires.
Unlike Andrew Neil, I haven't got the luxury of being Chairman of an establishment magazine which represents its billionaire-owner's interests.
Nonetheless, we need to talk about Andrew Neil's climate change stance & history of working for overseas-based billionaires.
Here's Andrew Neil in 2013, asking: "Is the whole global warming schtick over?"
Global warming is, as kids know, the long-term heating of Earth’s climate due to human activity, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.
Global warming is, as kids know, the long-term heating of Earth’s climate due to human activity, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.
And here's a testy & revealing exchange following Neil's bizarre question, between journalist Andrew Neil & climate expert Bob Ward, who has served as policy & communications director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment at the LSE since 2008.
Emily Carver is an ideological extremist from Conservative Home, who works for the opaquely funded free-market #IEA, & represents the interests of fossil fuel corporations & rich libertarians who want to kill the #NHS & remove worker & environmental protections.
#PoliticsLive
#PoliticsLive
The @BBC gives their influential platform to the opaquely funded free-market corporate propagandists, the #IEA, which represents the interests of overseas billionaires, & pushes for lowering taxes, & abolishing the #NHS & worker, consumer & environmental protections.
#PolitcsLive
#PolitcsLive
Ideological extremist Emily Carver moved seamlessly from the #IEA to Conservative Home last year. It doesn't really matter - the global network representing billionaire-interests includes the billionaire-owned/funded press/media, Govt Ministers, & #TuftonStreet 'think tanks'.
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Last year, the @GoodLawProject launched a legal campaign to uncover the insidious network of 'think-tanks' & lobby groups based around #55TuftonStreet.
These shadowy organisations have a disproportionate & harmful influence over UK politics.
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Last year, the @GoodLawProject launched a legal campaign to uncover the insidious network of 'think-tanks' & lobby groups based around #55TuftonStreet.
These shadowy organisations have a disproportionate & harmful influence over UK politics.
goodlawproject.org/update/success…
The @GoodLawProject set out to expose who’s behind them & who’s funding them.
They've recently been looking into @RestoreTrustNT, who unsuccessfully tried to infiltrate the @nationaltrust & want to shut down debate on issues like slavery & LGBTQ+ rights.
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They've recently been looking into @RestoreTrustNT, who unsuccessfully tried to infiltrate the @nationaltrust & want to shut down debate on issues like slavery & LGBTQ+ rights.
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In 2021, 'Restore Trust' had 6,100 current & former @nationaltrust members - just 0.1% of its membership - & endorsed Stephen Green, leader of anti-homosexuality Christian fundamentalist lobby group, Christian Voice, which has claimed abortion is comparable to the #Holocaust.
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Very little publicly available info on Kate Andrews.
This site claims she attended Christian Heritage School from 2000-04, & Green Farms Academy from 2004-08, completing an MA (Hons) in International Relations & Philosophy at St Andrews in 2012.
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Very little publicly available info on Kate Andrews.
This site claims she attended Christian Heritage School from 2000-04, & Green Farms Academy from 2004-08, completing an MA (Hons) in International Relations & Philosophy at St Andrews in 2012.
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Good news tho! If you're rich you can hire Kate Andrews to give talks!
Prior to her new role as Economic Editor at the tax-avoiding non-dom billionaire-owned #Spectator, Kate was Associate Director for the #55TuftonStreet free market think tank the IEA!
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Prior to her new role as Economic Editor at the tax-avoiding non-dom billionaire-owned #Spectator, Kate was Associate Director for the #55TuftonStreet free market think tank the IEA!
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"Kate has also worked as Head of Communications at (#55TuftonStreet's) the Adam Smith Institute and was an intern at Townhall .com and worked on the Romney for President and Linda McMahon for Senate campaigns in 2012." 😬
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'Leftist @BBC Maitlis' - here pushing the 1935 myth - did her bit to help Johnson's Tories beat Corbyn's Labour in 2019. And in the ashes of our broken, polarised country, with millions facing poverty, & our economy & public services ruined, NOW she's found her voice? 🧐
'Leftist @BBC Maitlis' - here pushing the 1935 myth - did her bit to help Johnson's Tories beat Corbyn's Labour in 2019. And in the ashes of our broken, polarised country, with millions facing poverty, & our economy & public services ruined, NOW she's found her voice? 🧐
In July 2007, Maitlis was appointed as a (unpaid) contributing editor to billionaire Barclay's right-wing #Spectator. This was approved by her immediate manager, then head of @BBCNews Peter Horrocks, but the decision was subsequently overturned by BBC News director Helen Boaden.
By 2019/20, Maitlis was amongst the highest paid @BBCNews & current affairs staff, receiving a salary between £370,000-£374,999!
This was just over a decade after Peter Mandelson said: "We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich - as long as they pay their taxes."
This was just over a decade after Peter Mandelson said: "We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich - as long as they pay their taxes."
Tax-avoiding non-dom billionaire Frederick Barclay's Telegraph: "The suspicion must be that the only real purpose to the Chancellor’s announcements was to distract attention from the #Partygate saga... Taxpayers & investors in energy firms will bear the immediate cost."
Tax-avoiding non-dom billionaire Barclay's #Spectator editor Fraser Nelson, in the Telegraph: "After years banging on about the moral case for low taxation... the Tories have now given up. Handouts are preferred to general tax cuts, allowing the state to choose winners & losers."
Tax-avoiding foreign billionaire Rupert Murdoch's Sun warns of the "danger that a nation kept afloat by borrowing £400billion during Covid, & now bailed out again, starts to believe a Corbyn-style “magic money tree” really CAN cushion them from the harshness of reality."
The Story so far...#DominicCummings (#DomCum) Tour 2020
19.03.20: The Prime Minister, #BorisJohnson makes a nationwide statement about #CoronaVirus aka #Covid19
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19.03.20: The Prime Minister, #BorisJohnson makes a nationwide statement about #CoronaVirus aka #Covid19
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23.03.20: The Prime Minister, #BorisJohnson announces measures for a nationwide #UK #Lockdown as a response to contain #CoronaVirus aka #Covid19
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23.03.20: The Prime Minister, #BorisJohnson announces measures for a nationwide #UK #Lockdown as a response to contain #CoronaVirus aka #Covid19
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23.03.20: The Prime Minister addresses the nation once more.
"That is why we have given the clear instruction that people must stay at home – unless they have one of the reasons we have set out, & with your help we will slow the spread of the disease."
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"That is why we have given the clear instruction that people must stay at home – unless they have one of the reasons we have set out, & with your help we will slow the spread of the disease."
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@JamesDelingpole Two issues with your piece.
N°1: you assert, "Britain traded perfectly well for the large chunk of history it has spent outside the EU." This is a spurious argument. The EU didn't exist then. We are going from the best possible trade terms with the EU (SM+CU) to worst (#WTO).
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N°1: you assert, "Britain traded perfectly well for the large chunk of history it has spent outside the EU." This is a spurious argument. The EU didn't exist then. We are going from the best possible trade terms with the EU (SM+CU) to worst (#WTO).
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@JamesDelingpole This will not just impact our trade with EU27 + EEA/EFTA4, but also with those countries with trade with via EU FTAs and those countries we trade with on WTO+++ terms, the '+++' furnished by the EU's 759 facilities that improve on #WTO terms.
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@JamesDelingpole Only 16% of UK's trade is on WTO terms alone.
You're proposing that we dramatically downgrade 100% of our trade to WTO terms alone, at the stroke of a pen. This is insanity. It has taken decades to reach to position we're in today. No wonder Mogg says 50yrs to recover!
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You're proposing that we dramatically downgrade 100% of our trade to WTO terms alone, at the stroke of a pen. This is insanity. It has taken decades to reach to position we're in today. No wonder Mogg says 50yrs to recover!
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