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Brendan Clarke-Smith is the ERG crank who described food banks as a "political weapon", saying it is "simply not true" that "people can't afford to buy food on a regular basis", & compared footballers taking the knee to the Nazi salute.
Liz Truss has just promoted him.
Clarke-Smith signed a letter to The Telegraph in 2020 from the "Common Sense Group" of Tory MPs, accusing the National Trust of being "coloured by Cultural Marxist dogma" - 'cultural Marxism' is the antisemitic conspiracy theory in far-right terrorist Anders Breivik's manifesto.
On May 24, 2022, Mystic Brendan explicitly admitted he would happily back a lawbreaker as PM during a @Channel4News interview, saying about Boris Johnson, "I think he's still got a long time in office as well!" The mass resignation followed 6 weeks later.
channel4.com/news/partygate…
At the end of May 2022, Carol Vorderman labelled Brendan Clarke-Smith "pathetic", accusing him of mocking the millions of voters who had obeyed lockdown rules, after he tweeted making light of Boris Johnson's lawbreaking during the #Partygate scandal.
In June 2022, after a vote of no confidence in the leadership of Boris Johnson in which 41% of his party voted to get rid of him, Clarke-Smith announced he'd be supporting him, describing the vote as "one of the most ridiculous acts of self-harm I have witnessed in a long time!"
Brendan Clarke-Smith's new role includes oversight of the Government Digital Service, tasked with transforming the provision of online public services & the wider use of digital & data right across government.
With Ministers like Brendan in the Cabinet, Britain is fucked. 🇬🇧
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