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Speakers at The Conservative Nationalism Conference (NatCon, London, 13-15 May), include: Braverman; Rees-Mogg; Gove; Emma Webb; Danny Kruger; David Frost; John Hayes; Calvin Robinson; Toby Young; Keven Roberts, president of the free-market Heritage Foundation, & more. Image
You may not be aware of Tory MP Danny Kruger - perhaps better known as Prue Leith's hard-right son - but the malign extremist ideology & influence of this "evangelical Christian" should not be underestimated.

While the sponsors list for London 2023 has yet to be released, the main sponsors of previous events have included Republican billionaire 'libertarian' mega donor Peter Thiel, owner of big data and surveillance company Palantir.

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A #THREAD about John Smith's recognition of the need for unity in @UKLabour.

In an article from May 2014, entitled 'John Smith would have led us to a decent world', John McTernan — Blair’s Director of Political Operations from 2005 to 2007 — wrote:
When John Smith became @UKLabour leader in July 1992. he introduced the ‘one member one vote’ system for electing the Party leader but otherwise wanted to minimise conflict within the Labour Party, which was still smarting from the general election defeat under Kinnock.
John Smith wanted to heal divisions and focus instead on the unpopularity of the Tory Government.

John McTernan stated John Smith and @UKLabour were heading for “certain victory” in the 1997 general election.
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Ideologically extreme MPs on the far-right of the Tory party, led by Bill Cash & Danny Kruger, have proposed a series of amendments to the Immigration Bill intended to reduce the legal avenues for asylum seekers & refugees who face being deported.
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In a very crowded field of Brextremist Tory MPs, 82-year-old Bill Cash is described by Ken Clarke as THE most "Eurosceptic", who was the leader of the Eurosceptics during the Maastricht Rebellion of the early 1990s, reaching its height in 1993.
Hardline Eurosceptic Tory MPs refused to support the government of John Major in votes on the implementation of the Maastricht Treaty (Treaty on European Union) in British law. Major's party had a small majority, giving the relatively small number of extremists great influence.
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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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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.

bylinetimes.com/2022/10/27/the…
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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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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"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." 😬 ImageImage
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#THREAD on the (surely?) ironically named 'The New Culture Forum' - yet ANOTHER shit-stirring-hard-right-free-market-obsessed-anti-woke-#55TuftonStreet-based-think-tank, featuring all the usual suspects, & founded by idiosyncratic Brextremist ex-ukipper, Peter Whittle.
Whittle is founder & director of the 'New Culture Forum' think tank, & host of the right wing @YouTube show 'So What You're Saying Is...' -imagine a kind of self-help group/show for the "silenced" (🤪) 'stars' of the unhinged Libertarian wing of the anti-woke mob.
The New Culture Forum is part of the gang at 55 Tufton St, which since the 2010s has hosted free-market hard-right lobby groups, a group of which, dubbed "THE NINE ENTITIES"😳, use the building for biweekly meetings to coordinate policy & public messages.

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