Thread by @docrussjackson

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This is absolutely catastrophic for Britain.

Gisella Stuart has about as much 'commitment to impartiality' as the law-breaking Vote Leave campaign did when she was Chair.

https://twitter.com/GiselaStuart/status/1468957796418789388

In October 2004, she became the only @UKLabour MP who openly supported the re-election of dimwit warmonger George W. Bush, arguing "you know where you stand with George and, in today's world, that's much better than rudderless leaders who drift with the prevailing wind".

She wrote that a victory for Democratic Party challenger, John Kerry, would prompt "victory celebrations among those who want to destroy liberal democracies. More terrorists and suicide bombers would step forward to become martyrs in their quest to destroy the West".

Stuart is a signatory of the Henry Jackson Society "principles" - the HJS is a divisive hard-right free-market fundamentalist think tank, with close ties to questionable US figures, groups & platforms, such as Steve Bannon, Robert Mercer & Breitbart.

bylinetimes.com/2020/11/03/tru…

The HJS's & Spectator's Douglas Murray spoke at the Horowitz Freedom’s Restoration Weekend in 2017, with Milos Yiannopolous, Katie Hopkins & Sebastian Gorka.

Murray: too much ethnic “diversity” means Europe was becoming “a larger version of Mogadishu”.

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1387338278592991233

Sworn in as a member of the Privy Council in 2015, giving her the title "The Right Honourable" for life, she announced in 2017 that she would not seek re-election at the 2017 snap general election, & in 2019 she announced she would vote Tory at #GE2019.

standard.co.uk/news/politics/…

In 2018, Gisela Stuart & Oliver Letwin joined the Legatum Institute as fellows. The Legatum Institute is another think tank - part of a global network of Libertarian billionaire-funded free-market think tanks - which designed the sadistic Universal Credit.
li.com/news/gisela-st…

Legatum's HQ is in Dubai & invests globally. Set up in 2006 by multi-billionaire Christopher Chandler, it helps fund GB "News" & looks for opportunities arising from deregulation – especially in the #NHS (it already has considerable healthcare interests).

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1386638530378706946?s=20

In November this, in their article "How Political Corruption Works in the UK", @BylineTimes revealed how at least 16 Conservative Party allies have been given supposedly "independent" roles in Government departments, including Gisela Stuart:

bylinetimes.com/2021/11/08/how…

John Palmer replying to Gisella Stuart's pro-Brexit piece in Prospect Magazine: "I am puzzled that she thinks that following the call of right wing Tories & Ukippers & quitting the EU will do anything to help the youth and the working people of Britain or any other EU country."

"To the contrary, it would only incite the radical far right, who are already agitating to destroy the entire process of European integration & unification."

My fear is that this is, in part, what the elite-right-wing Libertarian funded Brexit campaign was fundamentally about.

"Gisela is naïve in supposing that a Tory Govt will not proceed with enthusiasm, after an EU withdrawal, to tear up as many of the EU agreements on equal pay, trade union & employment rights, as well as targets for sustainable development, as they can."

prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/a-res…

Others know more than I about the extent of Gisela Stuart's "impartiality", & their knowledge about Britain's new civil service commissioner is yet more evidence of our dangerous slide into corrupt, antidemocratic, populist nationalist authoritarianism.

https://twitter.com/shahmiruk/status/1468943320936235010?s=20

The (hard) RIGHT honourable Gisela Stuart.

https://twitter.com/brexit_sham/status/1468996119585869830?s=20

Perhaps the greatest irony is that the First Civil Service Commissioner is charged with ensuring that the UK Civil Service is effective & impartial & that appointments are made on merit, & hears appeals under the Civil Service Code.

The post was created in 1855 following publication of the Northcote–Trevelyan Report that advocated the decoupling of appointments of senior civil servants from ministers to insure the impartiality of the Civil Service!

Following a report of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, "Defining the Boundaries within the Executive: Ministers, special advisers & the permanent Civil Service", the appointment of the Commissioner is made by Govt after consultation with main opposition party leaders!😱