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Brexiter MP Owen Patterson aggressively lobbied for food & health companies he was paid hundreds of thousands of pounds by under the cover of being an advisor in breach of Parliamentary rules.
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Brexiter MP Owen Patterson aggressively lobbied for food & health companies he was paid hundreds of thousands of pounds by under the cover of being an advisor in breach of Parliamentary rules.
More to follow...
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The amount MP Owen Patterson is expected to cash from these lobbying efforts is expected to exceed “half a million pounds” in this parliamentary session alone.
This is ofcourse in addition to his MPs salary\expenses of £100 000 a year.
The amount MP Owen Patterson is expected to cash from these lobbying efforts is expected to exceed “half a million pounds” in this parliamentary session alone.
This is ofcourse in addition to his MPs salary\expenses of £100 000 a year.
..Owen Patterson also “used House of Commons resources and involved other MPs & cabinet members” in his lobbying efforts.
...Owen Patterson was also called out for false statements by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) that Patterson was making as part of his lobbying activities.
In addition £40 000 in secret donations were used to promote campaign for a hard Brexit.
This was used to fund a secretive lobby “think tank” - UK2020.
However actually the think tank was a company....
This was used to fund a secretive lobby “think tank” - UK2020.
However actually the think tank was a company....
Essentially Owen Paterson uses a supposed think tank (in fact a company) as a conduit for secretive non transparent payments to subsidize himself.
The amount that Owen Paterson is this channeling to himself through these means could run to “millions of pounds”.
....& here’s the kicker...
The think tank UK2020 doesn’t actually exist.
It operates as a irregular & quite possibly illegal way of scooping up untraceable money for Owen Paterson MP to enrich himself lobbying on behalf of corporate interests - many of them outside UK...
The think tank UK2020 doesn’t actually exist.
It operates as a irregular & quite possibly illegal way of scooping up untraceable money for Owen Paterson MP to enrich himself lobbying on behalf of corporate interests - many of them outside UK...
...but there’s more..
...the other member of the “think tank” is Matt Ridley - coincidentally Paterson’s brother-in-law who uses it to actually cheer for climate change as being beneficial - your reminder that Paterson’s last job in govt was environment minister..
...the other member of the “think tank” is Matt Ridley - coincidentally Paterson’s brother-in-law who uses it to actually cheer for climate change as being beneficial - your reminder that Paterson’s last job in govt was environment minister..
...now here’s for some interesting facts about good old “Matt” Ridley 1st he’s the “5th Viscount Ridley”
2nd the name may be familiar..
Oh yes he was chairman of Northern Rock at the time of massive mismanagement which collapsed after the 1st run on a British bank in 150 years.
2nd the name may be familiar..
Oh yes he was chairman of Northern Rock at the time of massive mismanagement which collapsed after the 1st run on a British bank in 150 years.
Now tying the thread together we return to Brexit.
Paterson & Ridley are die hard brexiters who have claimed UK must leave EU due to the “massive corruption of the EU” and to set our own standards...
& yet, there is no other way to describe this, the 2 of them are effectively..
Paterson & Ridley are die hard brexiters who have claimed UK must leave EU due to the “massive corruption of the EU” and to set our own standards...
& yet, there is no other way to describe this, the 2 of them are effectively..
Ridley/Paterson are proveably trading on his role as ex UK environment Minister & MP to scoop up millions in irregular lobby payments + untraceable foreign donations to shill for hard Brexit, right wing orgs & pro polluting corporations.
Welcome to your Brexit future everyone!
Welcome to your Brexit future everyone!
Post thread cherry on top:
Why is one of the companies - Random - paying Owen Paterson so much money?
They need govt access to ensure continued business after being caught in “UKs biggest forensic scandal in decades” & peverting the course of justice.
bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
Why is one of the companies - Random - paying Owen Paterson so much money?
They need govt access to ensure continued business after being caught in “UKs biggest forensic scandal in decades” & peverting the course of justice.
bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
Sorry damm predictive text “Randox” not Random.
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