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Brexitshambles

@brexit_sham

Jul 11, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X

https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/1281864211862355968

Note that Shanker Singham of the Institute of Economics Affairs is also a member of the "newly established" Trade and Agriculture Commission...🤔

https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/1281864211862355968

For the uninitiated, Singham has long been associated with grifter MPs and organisations in the pocket of the American agribusiness such as the Heritage Foundation and the Atlas Network whose membership includes the IEA and most of the Tufton St lobbyists disguised as charities.

A six-day trip to the US by former Brexit secretary David Davis was partly funded by an American lobbying organisation that is alleged to favour weakening European Union regulations on environmental and food standards.
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…

Davis said six organisations and individuals had paid for the £11,464 trip to Washington and Oklahoma - £1,949 was paid by the IEA. Shanker Singham works for the IEA as an adviser. Brexit supporters have relied on Singham to underpin the economic arguments for leaving the EU.

Greenpeace said that those who had pledged money included US agribusiness interests who hoped to profit from a post-Brexit trade deal that scraps EU restrictions on US products, such as chlorinated chicken and hormone-reared beef.

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