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#THREAD on Linda Whetstone, daughter of Antony Fisher, founder of the free-market IEA.
She was Chair of the free-market Atlas Network from 2016, & President of the Mont Pelerin Society in 2020.
Here's her 1978 speech at the Conservative party conference:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00…
She was Chair of the free-market Atlas Network from 2016, & President of the Mont Pelerin Society in 2020.
Here's her 1978 speech at the Conservative party conference:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00…
In 1959, aged 17, Linda Whetstone & her dad, Antony Fisher, participated in her first Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Oxford. She was inspired by the revolutionary ideas discussed by participants. & a lecture from free-market extremist, Friedrich Hayek.
She was the Atlas Network Chair of the Board in 2016, which now has around 500 partner think-tanks in 100 countries, & Chair of the Board of Free Social Networks (formerly the International Policy Network) in 2000. She was on the IEA board of directors.
1/ It has gone largely unnoticed that #Brexit is closely tied to climate change denial.
55 Tufton Street in Westminister is home to 8 right-of-centre organisations combining support for #Brexit and climate change denial
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
#55TuftonSt #PeoplesVote
55 Tufton Street in Westminister is home to 8 right-of-centre organisations combining support for #Brexit and climate change denial
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
#55TuftonSt #PeoplesVote
2/ Another article on the pro-Brexit and climate change denial organisations based at 55 & 57 Tufton St, including Vote Leave, the TPA & the IEA (linked to Raab) and some familiar names - Matthew Elliot, Owen Paterson, Nigel Lawson, Hintze & Gove.
desmog.co.uk/55-tufton-stre…
desmog.co.uk/55-tufton-stre…
3/ A graphic showing some of the links between Brexiters and the transatlantic climate change denial network. Some familiar names - Fox, Davis, Gove Paterson, Farage and Arron Banks. 
