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30 terrifying dystopian free-market fundamentalist ideas for 2030, suggested by #TuftonStreet's Mark Littlewood, IEA Director General, Emma Revell, Head of the Free Market Forum, Annabel Denham, IEA Director of Comms, & Sam Collins, FMF Marketing & Outreach Director.🇬🇧😬 ImageImage
#TuftonStreet's opaquely funded IEA's dystopian 'Free Market Forum' has over 60 Parliamentary supporters - including many of the hard-right ideological extremists you would correctly assume to be among them.

Matthew Elliott is on the Advisory Council. 😬

freemarketforum.org/parliamentary-…
The IEA's Free Market Forum grew out of their 2010 Free Enterprise Group, & 2017 FREER.UK, all providing a platform for newly elected MPs to discuss free market policy "solutions" to absolutely everything.

Liz Truss is a central figure. 😬

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The Free Market Forum Chair is free-market crackpot Greg Smith, in 2013 a Co-Founder & former Executive Director of the controversial Young Britons’ Foundation, & a member of Steve Baker's dodgy 'Conservative Way Forward', relaunched at the end of 2021.

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It's genuinely terrifying what's happening in Britain - we now have by far THE most right-wing libertarian free-market economic policies ON EARTH.🇬🇧

The virtual silence about this profoundly important fact in the national news media is utterly chilling.

Aided by the foreign & non-dom billionaire-owned press since at least the 1960s, #neoliberalism has managed to replace Keynesian economics as economic orthodoxy, despite leading us to the 2008 crash, austerity, grotesque inequality, & the #climatecrisis.

Most British citizens are at least becoming aware of just how cruel & unhinged the new #TuftonStreet Govt's insane economic & social policies are, but few realise the full extent of the dangers we face, given the multiple crises #neoliberalism has led to.

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