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Jeremy Hosking, who is now funding anti-‘net zero’ campaigns & has "given" millions to the @Conservatives, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party/Reform UK, & Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party, is the director of a company with $134million pounds invested in oil & gas.

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A thread from 2020 about Brextremist Jeremy Hosking's funding of Laurence Fox, written in response to an irresponsible tweet from Fox which encouraged people to ignore COVID health advice during the devastating second wave, which peaked in January 2021.

In 2016 Labour Leave received £50,000 from Jeremy Hosking, who had by then "given" the @Conservatives £569,100.

Labour Leave took a further £150,000 from Richard Smith, believed to be the owner of 55 Tufton St, home of the UK's free-market think tanks.

leftfootforward.org/2016/06/labour…
A key passage from Werner Rugemer's book 'Imperium EU', featuring Jeremy Hosking, Richard Smith, Christopher Harborne, George Farmer & Arron Banks. ImageImage
Things get really into Black Mirror dystopian future territory with 'The Nine Entities'...

The Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG) has roots in the libertarian network behind the push for a “hard” Brexit, including the ERG.

Many of the same politicians, think tanks & donors that backed Brexit are deeply involved in opposing climate action.

desmog.com/2022/03/18/map…
The NZSG cloak their demands for more fossil fuel extraction in concern for their constituents’ household bills, the MPs have strong ties to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the UK’s leading producer of climate science denial & misinformation.

Interactive map on link above. Image
Having spent years demonising & scapegoating foreigners, migrants, & the EU, fucking Britain's relationship with Europe & destroying Britain's reputation, turning Britain into a divided angry shithole, Nigel Farage is now focused on climate science denial.
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International nurses working for #NHS trusts & private care homes have clauses in their contracts that require them to pay up to £14,000 if they try to change job or return home early.

This, & P&O, is the stark reality of post-Brexit Cruel Britannia.

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2012's Britannia Unchained championed free market fundamentalism using crass stereotypes to demonise British workers, who are "among the worst idlers in the world": "Indian children aspire to be doctors or businessmen, the British are more interested in football & pop music". Image
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Leaked emails suggest Tory peer Michelle Mone lobbied a health minister on behalf of a company seeking Covid contracts – five months after the point at which her lawyers said she had stopped doing anything for the firm!

But who is she? Well...

theguardian.com/world/2022/mar…
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