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In November 2021, the MET Police were asked to investigate the #CashForHonours scandal after it was revealed 15 of the last 16 @Conservatives' treasurers had been offered a seat in the House of Lords having EACH donated more than £3 MILLION to the Tories!
#EnoughIsEnough
In 2007, Dominic Johnson co-founded Somerset Capital Management (SCM) with Jacob Rees-Mogg and Edward Robertson.

All three were colleagues at Lloyd George Management in Hong Kong. Rees-Mogg was CEO of SCM until Johnson succeeded him in 2010.
In September 2022, SCM with assets under management of about $5 billion was up for sale, with Johnson planning to move into politics.

From 2006 to 2010, Johnson was a Conservative councillor for the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.

bylinetimes.com/2022/06/09/who…
Crispin Odey, the hedge fund manager & prominent Leave backer who has just made another killing through Kwarteng's insane mini-budget, provided support to Somerset when it set up & was an early investor. SCM is the poster child for Brexit Britain.

ft.com/content/b94d15…
In 2016, Johnson's friend David Cameron stood down as PM, so Johnson gave him the use of his £2,650-a-week Chelsea house, & Cameron accordingly declared a benefit of more than £37,000 in the register of MPs' interests. In 2017, Johnson was appointed a CBE "for political service".
Johnson donated £338,391 to the @Conservatives in cash and non-cash donations between 2006 and 2021, & was its vice-chairman from 2016-19. Johnson has just been appointed as a minister in the Cabinet Office & the Dept for International Trade.

How cosy!

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

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Oct 3
The UK now has a record number of billionaires with 177, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.

The combined wealth of the UK's billionaires stands at £653 BILLION, up more than £55bn (9.4%) on the total wealth of the billionaires in last year's Rich List.

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Out of 275 parties in 61 countries, the unhinged UK
@Conservatives are now THE most economically right-wing major party in the western world.

They are completely unmoored from the British public on economics, & way out of step even with their own voters.

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The "general recipe for creating highly satisfied citizens: ensure that state institutions are of high quality, non-corrupt, able to deliver what they promise, & generous in taking care of citizens in various adversities".

The opposite of Britain then.🇬🇧

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Oct 2
Well did you hear? There's a natural order

Those most deserving will end up with the most

That the cream cannot help but always rise up to the top

Well I say, "Shit floats".

'Running the World', by Jarvis Cocker. ImageImage
If you thought things had changed

Friend, you'd better think again

Bluntly put, in the fewest of words

Cunts are still running the world

Cunts are still running the world

Oh yeah!
Now the working classes are obsolete

They are surplus to society's needs

So let 'em all kill each other

& get it made overseas

That's the word, don't you know

From the guys that's running the show

Let's be perfectly clear boys & girls

Oh cunts are still running the world
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Oct 1
"Calling Liz Truss thick is sexist". Is it fuck, you pathetic identity politics snowflake. What SHOULD critics call her then?

A dangerously irresponsible extremist? A cold-hearted fundamentalist? A profoundly damaged ideological puppet? A cruel sociopathic free-market fanatic?
Professional shit-stirrer & Brextremist ex-Daily Mail hack, mystic Isabel Oakshott - never knowingly right about anything. Ever.
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Sep 30
Attacks on Great British institutions like the @nationaltrust, the @RNLI, the @BBC, the #NHS - & #NetZero - are linked, & co-ordinated from #TuftonStreet & the global network of free-market "anti-woke" "think tanks" (lobbyists) now dictating Govt policy.

A #thread featuring #TuftonStreet, the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF - which also campaigns as Net Zero Watch), Neil (broken) Record, Steve Baker, & private equity billionaire Jeremy Hosking, who has huge financial interests in fossil fuels.

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Sep 28
#THREAD

New Met police commissioner, Mark Rowley, has refused to meet the president of the National Black Police Association, & suggested he will ban officers from “taking the knee” - but he HAS met lobbyists from the hard-right Henry Jackson Society...

theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/s…
In 2018 we found out that Rowley, at the time the UK's top counter-terrorism police officer, had met officials from the right-wing extremist US think tank, the anti-abortion Henry Jackson Society, after agreeing to endorse a report on Islamist terrorism.

Mark Rowley is linked not just to the Henry Jackson Society, & the anti-abortion Heritage Foundation, he is also an "Academic Advisor" to the Tories' favourite opaquely funded free-market lobbying group, 'Policy Exchange', who have attacked our Police.
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Sep 27
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Multimillionaire hedge funder Crispin Odey, who has donated £1.7m+ to the Tories, UKIP & pro-Brexit campaigns, has made another killing betting on Britain's economic meltdown, saying his bets against Govt bonds are “the gifts that keep on giving”.
theguardian.com/business/2022/…
Odey, who was a leading backer of Brexit, came to prominence during the 2008 financial crisis, when he made a fortune shorting banking shares.

And now Odey has made another killing by wagering against British government bonds, with his firm's main fund up 145% in 2022. Image
Odey is on the Sunday Times Rich List for his £825 million fortune, & he has personally managed some $4 billion in assets Odey Asset Management.

Back in 2007 Odey’s firm incubated Jacob Rees-Mogg’s just-launched Somerset Capital Management before it received regulatory approval. Image
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