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Oct 26, 2018 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
1/ To understand #Brexit you have to know about the Koch brothers, who are using their $90bn oil and gas & manufacturing fortune to drive US politics in the direction of ultra-free market 'libertarian' economics, & whose influence extends deep into #Brexit politics.
#PeoplesVote
2/ Here is David Koch's program when he stood as a Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential candidate in 1980. Take your time to read it. It is terrifying in its extremism. For example he opposed all income tax. And remember, he and his brother are worth around $90bn.
3/ The Kochs are spending around $400m on the upcoming US elections. The network of think-tanks political organisations they fund and control is enormous. 3 names stand out with regard to #Brexit, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and the Atlas (Network) Research Fdn.
4/ The Kochs are heavily involved in oil and gas so it is no surprise to see Koch Industries, the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute linked to several of our own #Brexit politicians and right-wing #Brexit-pushing think-tanks (#55TuftonSt) in this chart.
5/ We've seen a quite a bit of the Tax Payers Alliance recently. Here's an article on
@MollyMEP's excellent Brexit Syndicate site thebrexitsyndicate.com/2018/07/04/tax…
Read the article and you'll see the Koch connections - see next tweet.
6/ Funding for the TPA was provided by the Americans for Prosperity Foundation (to which the far-right Koch brothers are major donors), the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation (Koch-linked). Like the IEA, the TPA is a member of the Atlas Network (Koch-linked). #55TuftonSt
6/ Recently Liz Truss told the Cato Institute that “a thicket of regulation and control” is holding back business.
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/09/19/liz…
The Cato Institute is co-funded by Charles Koch.
7/ Remember Liam Fox's Atlantic Bridge which ended in ignominy. It had a US sister organisation set up by ALEC a hugely influential US organisation heavily funded by the Kochs and Exxon theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
8/ The recent self-styled US-UK “shadow trade talks aimed at slashing regulations involved Brexiter Daniel Hannan and his IFT think-tank and the Cato Institute, co-founded by the Koch Brothers, and the Heritage Foundation for which they have been donors. theguardian.com/politics/2018/…

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Feb 17
I think referendums should be banned in England just as they are in Germany. A large part of English society, and even of the political and media elite can't understand the distinction between democracy and dictatorship of the majority.
The Brexit elite used the referendum as the Nazis used referendums, as a battering ram to weaken democratic and legal checks on government power, demonising opponents and judges as enemies of the "Will of the People". ImageImageImageImage
During the 2 years or so after the referendum England was dominated by a fascist culture of the dictatorship of the majority (really minority) and systematic political intimidation. England was not a democracy during that time.
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Feb 15
1/ Brexit Myth - The 2019 election showed Brexit's popularity.

Reality - In the 2019 election 2nd referendum parties gained a clear majority of the popular vote, despite Corbyn, a poor Labour campaign and a wretchedly bad LibDem campaign.
2/ Brexit Myth - Labour was hammered for opposing Brexit.

Reality - Since the referendum Labour has never opposed Brexit. It's electoral failures since then were not brought about by its opposing Brexit.
3/ Brexit Myth - Brexit is inherently popular.

Reality - Since 2017 polls have shown a gradually growing public majority against Brexit. This is in spite of Brexit being supported by almost all of the political & much of the media establishment.

Brexit is not inherently popular
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Feb 12
I utterly loathe Corbyn, Milne and Murray for serving as Kremlin stooges, constantly striving to deflect attention away from the aggression and war crimes of Russia and its allies. They are fake antiwar campaigners - frauds collaborating with Putin's kleptofascist imperialism.
Inspite of my loathing for Corbyn I've voted Labour in the last two elections. Such was the appalling lack of realistic choice offered to British voters under FPTP.
In 2014 Corbyn and Milne parroted the Kremlin line that the West caused Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Milne was rewarded by a handshake from Putin just 6 months after the latter attacked Ukraine.

They are fake antiwar campaigners.
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Feb 9
1/ Rees-Mogg is now Minister for Brexit opportunities. I guess they include his dream of slashing environmental and safety standards, Patel’s hope to slash social and employment protection, and Hannan's dream of privatising the NHS. ImageImageImage
2/ Raab, Patel, Truss and Kwarteng will be hoping their 'Britannia Unchained' dream of Asian low taxes and an Asian work ethic will come true. What they want, of course, is a tax haven for the rich and a deregulated sweatshop for the rest. Image
3/ Rees-Mogg might also be hoping to help realise his daddy's prediction of a world in which super-rich Sovereign Individuals first escape national control and then take control of nation states. Image
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Feb 8
1/ Johnson shows all the signs of being a narcissistic psychopath. The Tory elite put him into office knowing his character. My belief is that given the chance he will gladly destroy democracy and the rule of law in order to cling onto the narcissistic gratification of power.
2/ Johnson, it is said seeks popularity. But now he is unpopular he still wants power.

Johnson's quest for popularity was never to please people. It was to prove his power to manipulate and control others. Now he is PM he doesn't need to please people to control them.
3/ Johnson wants freedom for himself and that means controlling others and smashing democratic, legal and normative curbs on his power. All of that suits his kleptocratic enablers who want the curbs on their power destroyed.
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Jan 21
Please retweet if you want a Progressive Alliance to get the Tories out.

We are sick and tired of infantile and outdated Tory-enabling political tribalism. We want grown-up electoral cooperation.

#FBPA Follow Back Progressive Alliance
Daisy Cooper MP @libdemdaisy has argued that Progressive Alliances don't work. I would argue that she is wrong. The clear tactical voting messages in byelections will be muddied in a General Election, unless there is something like the 1997 Blair-Ashdown pact.
The 1997 Blair-Ashdown pact was kept quiet, but the agreed list of seats for tactical voting was published in the Mirror. It was very effective. I cannot see how that could be reproduced in the present day without the Tory media getting wind of the fact that there was a pact.
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