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The Who Funds You? project initially ran from 2012-19. @openDemocracy relaunched the project with a series of new audits.
Organisations are rated on a scale from A to E. A is the most transparent. Organisations given an E grade are the least transparent about funding.
The Who Funds You? project initially ran from 2012-19. @openDemocracy relaunched the project with a series of new audits.
Organisations are rated on a scale from A to E. A is the most transparent. Organisations given an E grade are the least transparent about funding.
I agree with @openDemocracy that debates about important issues that affect us all should be as transparent as possible.
That means we need to know who is being paid what, and by whom, to influence public policy.
#TuftonStreet
That means we need to know who is being paid what, and by whom, to influence public policy.
#TuftonStreet
In the UK – and many other countries – there are organisations that describe themselves as ‘think tanks’ & expressly set out to explore ideas & influence public policy. They usually produce research reports & promote them through the media and in policy circles.
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.
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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.
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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'.
The Institute of Economic Affairs are on #PoliticsLive AGAIN?
The IEA is a dodgy free-market fundamentalist think tank which refuses to say who funds them, & represents the interests of billionaires who want to reduce taxes & remove worker, consumer, & environmental protections.
The IEA is a dodgy free-market fundamentalist think tank which refuses to say who funds them, & represents the interests of billionaires who want to reduce taxes & remove worker, consumer, & environmental protections.
Ask the IEA's Annabel Denham about THIS @BarryGardiner @MrJohnNicolson @SteveReedMP.
#PoliticsLive #PMQs #ToryCorruption #DowningStreetParties #ToryHypocrisy
#PoliticsLive #PMQs #ToryCorruption #DowningStreetParties #ToryHypocrisy
Johnson's govt finally publishes *some* economic analysis on a UK-US trade deal:
Economic benefit is expected to be £3.4bn - equivalent to 0.2% of UK GDP*
*This is unchanged from analysis by May's govt in 2018
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Economic benefit is expected to be £3.4bn - equivalent to 0.2% of UK GDP*
*This is unchanged from analysis by May's govt in 2018
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gov.uk/government/new…
The UK economy in 2019 was £2,200,000,000,000 (£2.2trn).
The govt thinks a US-UK trade deal us worth £3.4bn.
This is Brexit's sunny uplands.
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The govt thinks a US-UK trade deal us worth £3.4bn.
This is Brexit's sunny uplands.
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Govt analysis says Scotland and North East will benefit the most from tariff free access to US.
Where's the cost of a no deal, currently called an [imaginary] "Australian deal" by our lying govt.?
Here's the 2018 govt analysis.
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Where's the cost of a no deal, currently called an [imaginary] "Australian deal" by our lying govt.?
Here's the 2018 govt analysis.
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@lbc #r4today #politicslive #c4news
