Thread by @fossilfreeLDN

Introducing… the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. Here’s a bit about Nadhim Zahawi....🧵

He ‘banked £1.3million from an oil company while working as an MP, but has been able to keep his total second job earnings hidden due to a parliamentary loophole. 1/8

#resignations #PMQs

Mr Zahawi’s total earnings from Gulf Keystone Petroleum included a final £285,000 “settlement payment” after he first became a Government minister in 2018. 2/8

The new Chancellor was also co-chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Kurdistan in 2015 when he landed the job with Gulf Keystone, which has an oil field in Kurdistan and which paid him more than £1,000 an hour.’ [14 Nov 2021, The Mirror] 3/8

When the phrases ‘addicted to fossil fuels’ or ‘hooked on oil and gas’ come up next, remember this dependency is only there at all because it is shored up by the industry’s cold, hard cash. 4/8

Payments from the oil executives to decision makers, in a variety of guises, keep our democratically elected ministers non-democratically answerable to this killer industry. 5/8

The oil and gas business is setting our life support systems on fire, then pouring more fuel on the flames every time they are warned people are dying. 6/8

Government ministers like Nadhim Zahawi are licking the boot that’s keeping all of us crushed under the weight of fossil fuels. And now he’s Chancellor! 7/8

Sounds like a moment to help us resist, right?

Message us today to come to a welcome call and join in our organising against oil and gas! 8/8

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