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On this Brexit day, I give you (here promoted by Vote Leave CEO Matthew Elliott ) Cummings in 2004
Already working on anti-EU / pro US-UK "special relationship" (to rule the world, app.) stance
&by US, he already meant Mercer/Koch bros funded Heritage Foundation.
Note that the "non-MPs in power" (him, Matthew Elliott)...
"Make the country run by unelected bureaucrats!"
Also note the "Have policies defined by business-funded lobby group" -the official stance of the Heritage Foundation.
Finally note the ads were in cinemas back then.
Please understand what "have policies defined by business-funded lobby group" means.
(There's a name for that now: "astroturfing".)
Tobacco companies defining health policies.
Oil&Gas companies defining environmental policies.
Private insurance funds defining welfare policies...
And here's the guy who just advised to put unelected people in power explaining that most people really, really do not want this to happen. (But hey, as long as it's framed as an anti-EU argument it can discreetly happen in the UK!)
Plus note Leave score: 13 %.
(Enters Murdoch)
"Selling privatisation 1.0.1"
From Mercer/Koch bros UK boys.
Yes, because it's not just Cummings, there's a co-author.
If you don't know him yet meet James Frayne
It's verbatim what he/Cummins advocated in 2004
(Side note: Labour voter you might want to read his article about why Tories had to go negative on Corbyn)
conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/…
Oh what an amazing coincidence!
That is also exactly what infamous now-erased-from-the-Heritage-Foundation website, former Legatum Institute now IEA (all arms of the Atlas Network anyway) trade commission member Singham said!
(Not selling it that well tho)
What were the odds?
People working for think tanks part of the same network all funded by (Cambridge Analytica's...) Mercer, Oiligarchs Koch Bros & friends all happen to spout the exact same rhetoric good for said funders, bad for the people voting for it!
Unbelievable.
It's almost as if the (wealthy, anti-regulations) people who could benefit from a GFTA/Eurasian Union had worked together to achieve a common goal with modern manipulation technics.
I tell you, it's like they are working together!
(Which kind of could explain why so many of the involved mouthpieces have links to both the US/Russia -eg Elliott, Hannan, Farage, Cummings)
But hey "Will of the (gaslighted by disinfo campaigns) people"
Anyway, back to Cummings in 2004.
Gosh he wish he could have said more about the "professional industry of referendum campaigners"
Not wrong about the "EU laws everywhere!" arguments -conveniently forgetting laws to have cleaner air for instance ain't such a burden.
I'll let you reflect on the highlighted bit.
OK still 15 pages to go and I need to go get my kids. Will get back at it tonight.
ITM if you can't wait here's the link.
(Do not forget to rearchive/print it just in case.
Basically the arguments didn't change much since 2004.
They were made viral is all.
web.archive.org/web/2007102115…
(Also note that the NHS didn't seem to matter that much in the debate before the push to bring it down started.)
Alright, just one quick addentum.
Guess who else thinks unelected people should be given 'senior roles' in the governement?
"The will of the (wealthy) businesses"
OK, you know what?
I can't.
I can't sink into the "let's inspire from the gaslighting technics of anti-modernist extremists and capitalise on humanity's worse side" (FTR also praised by Dugin/Bannon).
Not tonight.
If you'll excuse me I need to go look at otters' pictures.
Oh boy.
While closing all the pages I had opened I realised -There are more docs.
Meet "Bureaucracy gone mad":
"the right to education &training"
"work-life balance"
"not hit your children"
This is the ideology behind current Henri VIII power govt
(Quick: Otters' pictures)
OK, I found the strength to get back into the sewer.
Are you ready UK people?
Tonight I'll answer a pressing question.
"What happened to the BBC?"
Cummings happened.
Not all on him, right, but the "problem" and the "strategy to counter the problem" comes from him&his pal.
In 2004
Ladies and Gentlemen -The Right domination vs the BBC/Truth/accountability, part 2.
(Also Murdoch's mud in the mix, but that was less effective when a respected, deemed reliable news outlet countered it.)
Again -from 2004.
@carolecadwalla @BylineTimes @peterjukes @PeterKGeoghegan
@carolecadwalla @BylineTimes @peterjukes @PeterKGeoghegan And there we ended.
The guy getting inspiration from Soviet propaganda technics and Al Qaeda's way of selling unicorns to ppl nostalgic of the time-that-never-was, using the powerful tools of faith&xenophobia met unchallenged micro-targeted propaganda -his wildest, wettest dream.
@carolecadwalla @BylineTimes @peterjukes @PeterKGeoghegan Spread with Russian disinfo weapons/billionaires media/mouthpieces calling themselves think tanks or *news*papers, designed to blur the border between truth and bullsh**
Add a few foreign/offshore billions to fund all that
And there you go:
It was time for "patriotic" Brexit.
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