In 2018 it was revealed that Liz Truss met with ‘dark money’ libertarian think tanks during a taxpayer funded trip to Washington DC, who have close ties to Koch, & were key backers of the Trump administration's drive to slash environmental regulations.
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/12/19/liz…
unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/12/19/liz…
Liz Truss met with representatives of five libertarian groups, including think tanks such as the opaquey funded hard-right Heritage Foundation & American Enterprise Institute, that aim to shrink the size of the US Govt & scrap environmental protections. 
Truss also met with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a controversial organisation that brings together corporate interests and state-level politicians to draft business-friendly legislation that is then enacted in state legislatures across the US.
A number of businesses, including Shell, BP & ExxonMobil, have withdrawn from ALEC in recent years due to its continued attacks on efforts to tackle climate change.
Truss also attended a roundtable with Americans for Tax Reform, an influential campaign to slash taxes.
Truss also attended a roundtable with Americans for Tax Reform, an influential campaign to slash taxes.
Americans for Tax Reform has strong links with the UK’s controversial free-market TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA).
The TPA’s founder, dangerous & influential Brextremist mastermind Matthew Elliot, worked with AfTR early in his career before transplanting its model to the UK in 2004.
The TPA’s founder, dangerous & influential Brextremist mastermind Matthew Elliot, worked with AfTR early in his career before transplanting its model to the UK in 2004.
Truss' meetings:
17th September – Cato Institute; American Enterprise Institute
18th September – American Legislative Exchange Council
19th September – Americans for Tax Reform – Roundtable
19th September – Heritage Foundation – Regulatory Reform Roundtable
17th September – Cato Institute; American Enterprise Institute
18th September – American Legislative Exchange Council
19th September – Americans for Tax Reform – Roundtable
19th September – Heritage Foundation – Regulatory Reform Roundtable
Liz Truss has long standing & extremely concerning links with questionable, controversial, divisive, anti-#NHS & opaquely (US billionaire) funded free-market Tufton St libertarian think tanks such as the Institute of Economic Affairs; TaxPayers Alliance & Adam Smith Institute.
Both the IEA & TaxPayers’ Alliance, which Truss met in May 2018, view Brexit as an opportunity to slash regulations, environmental & worker
protections, & cut taxes.
In a Treasury press release at the time, she said the UK & US are “Bound together by a shared belief in liberty”.
protections, & cut taxes.
In a Treasury press release at the time, she said the UK & US are “Bound together by a shared belief in liberty”.
We joke about Liz Truss, but she's been groomed for the PM job by the global network of frankly evil & insatiable US libertarian billionaires who are systematically subverting & dismantling democracies around the world.
https://twitter.com/bakerstherald/status/1472655714351034372?t=Hz_1SZiTkV6H9PR52Tr1JA&s=19
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