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Feb 18 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) since 2018 are are taking dark money from corporations like British American Tobacco and Big Tech along with Arms manufacturers & Healthcare
Weapons makers and private firms donate £13m to get exclusive access to MPs opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
businesses. Since 2018 over £25 million in donations from the private sector to APPG's, these are massive conflicts of interest that are the result of post Brexit deregulation and will harm the public sector irreparably. Private donors remain hidden with no accountability
This all amounts to insidious 'back door' lobbying with one Tory MP telling openDemocracy 'I am not releasing anything to you.' In times of crisis disaster capitalists get their foot in the door of democracies and aided by the right wing wreak havoc while cost of living soars.
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APPG's like the ERG/CRG and Net Zero Scrutiny Group are all conspiring towards the clean slate, a tectonic reconfiguring of the UK economy built exclusively for the rich.
#libertarian #BrexitReality #Brexitdisaster #disastercapitalism #ToryCorruption #ToryCovidDisaster

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Feb 18
The right have always conflated Democratic Socialism with totalitarian Communism, history shows how western countries sought to force disaster capitalism on stable economies going so far as to replace an entire culture with off domiciled corporations. Something parallel to this
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Feb 14
Grover Norquist is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform who oppose all tax increases. He is also a board member of the NRA. He said "I don't want to abolish Govt, I want to reduce its size so I can drown it in a bathtub. He is pals with Matthew & Sarah Elliott, who
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The political and financial reach of these billionaire tycoons is staggering, they're against taxation, against welfare state and adept at smoothly ensuring their power perpetuates a never ending loop of societal pain & misery while they hoard their wealth and destroy the planet
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Feb 13
Profiting from Covid and then partying about it is one facet of the Tories disaster capitalist agenda for post Brexit UK. Instability is the new stability for right wing libertarians the world over. Truss's Global network of Liberty is about the freedom to profit from disasters
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Feb 10
There is a name for how Govt's shamelessly profit and subcontract to multinationals during times of crisis, it's known as Disaster Capitalism. Treachery, betrayal, plundering of tax payers money, demonising of the other, endless deflection, lies, partying, criminal negligence,
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