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Rosanna Lilley ⧖ POET #FBPE
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BIGGEST BREXIT STORY EVER. desmog.co.uk/2019/06/07/bre…
The new interactive map shows o er 2000 connections between brexit supporting think tanks & MPs and CLIMATE DENIALIST think tanks, organisations etc.

This is really serious. Why is the news not running this?

The interactive map shows:
Frontrunners for the Tory leadership including Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Dominic Raab are tied to a network of thinktanks and lobbyists pushing disinformation on the climate crisis, while promoting policies that could harm the environment in the name of a no-deal Brexit;
How a network of free-market thinktanks and organisations based at offices in and around 55 Tufton Street are tied to major US funders of climate science denial including the Koch brothers and Robert Mercer, who also bankrolled Donald Trump;
How this network is influencing UK politics at the highest level, and pushing for a hard or no-deal Brexit.”
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Rosanna Lilley POET #FBPE 🔶🦓
@rosanna_lilley
First draft

I’m not delusional
I know there is very little chance
But that’s no reason to stop
Protest is about speaking up
Even when no one is listening
It is a fight in the face of futility
It’s David and Goliath
And we are still scrambling for our slingshot
The fulcrum
On which the whole situation will turn
Tipping the scales that weigh us against the immense machine of government
Cumbersome, lumbering and creaking with bureaucracy
Massive and able to crush
More often though it will stride right over us
Ignoring us entirely dwarfed by its enormity
Casting its shadow over your movement
Shade blankets as it to put out the flame of our passion
It’s steps over us, in its shadow we are small
We do know our size
But regardless we continue to try
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Rosanna Lilley POET #FBPE 🔶🦓
@rosanna_lilley
We are not trying to overturn the result but update it.

We want to update it in light of the illegality and corrupt practices found to have marred the previous vote.
We are standing up for the integrity of our democracy. We cannot uphold this result, won by significant breaches. The process was undemocratic therefore the result cannot possibly be the real will of the people.
If you can just dismiss some of the most widespread and ranging illegalities our electoral system has seen then how much do you really care about the integrity of democracy? A democracy that is not protected and governed by the rule of law is not a democracy.
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Rosanna Lilley POET #FBPE 🔶🦓
@rosanna_lilley
It's interesting to note that's the electoral commission, (which leave conspiracy theorists claim are biased in favour of Remain) advised Leave incorrectly that they could donate services to Beleave and other subsidiary campaigns provided that there was no working to common plan.
However Remain didn't engage in the same spending with other Remain campaigns. I'm just wondering why? Did they potentially not receive the same advice? If they had been given this advice surely they would have taken advantage of it.
Or if they already knew that this was incorrect advice why would they not tell the electoral commission? Knowing that Leave would get the same advice, giving them an advantage. I'm not sure what I believe here but I just know there's a question to be asked.
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Mat Hope
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10 years on from launching climate science denial campaign group @thegwpfcom, Nigel Lawson is stepping down as its Chair. Seems like a good moment to revisit some of his greatest hits... 🗒🔍

desmog.co.uk/2019/01/16/nig…

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There was that time Ofcom upheld a complaint from none other than Brian Cox after Lawson said "average world temperature has slightly declined". This was a lie ❌

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And that time the BBC was forced to apologise and admit Lawson's disinformation on climate change "should have been challenged" on its flagship Today programme 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♂️

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Mat Hope
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Get your brain into gear this morning with this long read from @ChloeFarand and myself for @DeSmogUK on how US libertarians and fossil fuel interests are infiltrating the UK's #Brexit debate and pushing for environmental deregulation desmog.co.uk/2018/11/18/mat…

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The story centres around a power couple in Brexit politics, Matthew and Sarah Elliott. Matthew was chief of Vote Leave and still has fingers in lots of Brexit pies. Sarah is chair of Republicans overseas, and used to work for fossil fuel magnates the Koch brothers.
In the US, the couple have strong ties to the #Kochtopus network and libertarian Trump-funder Robert Mercer. In the UK, they have strong ties to the remnants of the Leave campaign, and a network of groups lobbying for mass deregulation post-Brexit based out of #TuftonStreet
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Chloé Farand
@ChloeFarand
1. Some background on this major story which broke yesterday: The Taxpayers' Alliance admitted that 9 "linked" organisations coordinated to vilify @shahmiruk These groups are operating from an office at 55 Tufton Street, around the corner from Westminster.
2. Here is what you need to know about these opaquely-funded libertarian groups, which are pushing for a hard (no-deal) Brexit, advocating deregulation to strike a US-UK free trade deal and include climate science denying Global Warming Policy Foundation👇 desmog.co.uk/2018/07/23/map…
3. @shahmiruk accused the 9 groups of mounting a coordinating campaign to push for a hard-#Brexit and deregulation across the media. The Taxpayers' Alliance has just admitted that, indeed, this is the case and climate science deniers and hard-Brexiters are working together.
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Facts Central
@StillDelvingH
Who funds the IEA, the TPA, the ASI &co?
You know, the RW 'free trade' thick tanks advocating tax havens, "freedom" (no regulations like workers' rights or environmental protection), no welfare (no tax & no free healthcare).
Basically, "Only the wealthier survive" philosophy?
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*Could it be* that it has something to do with defending their funders' interests?
Today, I'm going to tell you the Thick Tanks' Hydra tale.
Featuring Atlas, huge piles of money, tradition, "free speech", useful idiots and a very clear agenda that Brexit/Trump are a part of.
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Take a seat: It's a long story, with a lot of players, including politicians, pretty ladies squatting your TV, the climate change denial's network, the global fascist movement, Silicon Valley/multiname data-stealing/misusing company & private companies' involved in elections.
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Nick Reeves #FinalSayForAll #FBPE
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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
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…
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.
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