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Sep 24, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
The govt has announced in a press release that Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix has been disqualified as company director for 7 yrs for offering "unethical" political services.

Boris Johnson says he "can't remember" why he met with Nix when he was Foreign Secretary in 2016. Image
Tactfully, the govt press release doesn't mention Cambridge Analytica's role in #Brexit, or that a sister company of CA was paid by Dominic Cummings & Vote Leave to place 1.5 billion highly dishonest ads on UK voters' Facebook pages in the days leading up to the 2016 referendum.
The links between Cambridge Analytica & the Tories run deep. At one time the largest shareholder in CA's parent company SCL was Vincent Tchenguiz, a billionaire Iranian-Israeli and generous donor to the Conservative Party.
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
So why did Boris Johnson meet Alexander Nix in December 2016?

Fraser Nelson of the Spectator reports it was "to try to learn about, & improve links with, Team Trump". Which Nelson sees as entirely normal.

Just the sort of thing anyone might forget.
spectator.co.uk/article/boris-…
What a surprise.

Dominic Cummings, who used a sister company of Cambridge Analytica to place 1.5 billion lying ads on UK voters' Facebook pages in 2016, wants to rewrite data protection law.

The EU is right to be highly suspicious.

theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

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Dec 22, 2023
This is shocking but very far from surprising.

Topham Guerin worked with the Tories' election strategist Isaac Levido on the deeply dishonest 2019 general election campaign.

Palantir is a client of Levido's lobbying firm Fleetwood Strategy.

A small (but very lucrative) world.
I wrote about Isaac Levido, Topham Guerin, Palantir & the intersection between dark money-funded corporate lobbying & political dirty tricks for @BylineTimes.

The Tories' general election campaign will be the dirtiest we've ever seen.
@JolyonMaugham
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@BylineTimes @JolyonMaugham Incidentally, I wonder if Palantir will be showing its appreciation for the award of massive NHS data contracts by contributing its big-data resources for political campaigning purposes, perhaps "unofficially".

It had links to Cambridge Analytica.
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When UKIP won 166 councillors (but no councils) in 2014 the BBC called this a "political earthquake".

@TheGreenParty just gained 200 councillors, taking the total to 737, took control of a council & became the biggest party in several others.

But 0 Green guests on #bbclaurak. ImageImage
That said, the BBC has many excellent journalists, locally & nationally - here's BBC News East reporting in depth on why the Green Party did so well in Suffolk. The political bias comes from much higher up within the organisation.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
And here's BBC Politics West reporting on big @TheGreenParty wins in the Forest of Dean & talking to @carla_denyer about Greens winning on Jacob Rees Mogg's doorstep in North East Somerset.

BBC reporting on the amazing #GreenWave has been much better locally than nationally.
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The photo of Nigel Farage embracing Andrew Tate was taken at the 2019 CPAC conference, where Tate was also pictured with an assortment of other far-right creeps incl. Paul Joseph Watson & Jack Posobiec.

Tate was already notorious for his vicious misogyny.
Later that year. Andrew Tate invited some of his far-right pals to Romania, including Mike Cernovich (famous for claiming that date rape "does not exist"). Cernovich tweeted that it was a "first class event".
And here's Andrew Tate with Donald Trump Jr at Trump Tower, & with Candace Owens of the influential far-right group Turning Point (its UK branch has been endorsed by Priti Patel & Jacob Rees-Mogg). Tate is not just a virulent misogynist under investigation for alleged rape...
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1/ Liz Truss's government is clearly trying to destroy the (already degraded) social contract that underwrote the NHS and the post-war welfare state.

It's doing this on the basis of an extreme version of Hayek's "free-market" ideology, the moving spirit of Britannia Unchained.
2/ Crises present good opportunities for ideologically motivated extremists to push through policies that might have seemed unthinkable before, as Naomi Klein described in The Shock Doctrine.

Pinochet imposed precisely the same sort of ideology on Chile after seizing power.
3/ Truss's extremist ideology will not produce the prosperity it promises, though it will make some already very rich people even richer.

For everyone else, it will only deepen extreme poverty & inequality, and drive social chaos & despair.
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Look, Carrie Johnson was eminently suited to a £100k FO job. Here she is in 2012 with the Russian Ambassador at the launch of Conservative Friends of Russia, set up by the later CEO of Vote Leave with the help of Russian agent Sergey Nalobin.
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...at least, I'm pretty sure this is Carrie Johnson (then Symonds). Also pictured here is John Whittingdale MP, a founder member of Conservative Friends of Russia, whom she accompanied to this delightful event, where raffle prizes included a biography of Putin.
#Carriegate
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... e.g. Hitler: : "I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be a lawyer."
#ToryFascists
Mussolini made himself dictator to put himself beyond the law when his crimes came under investigation. Fascists will make laws to give a legal veneer to oppression, but an independent judiciary is completely antithetical to fascism.
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