Thread by @EuropeanPowell

In 1955, Etonian Anthony Fisher took advice from Hayek to form a libertarian think tank that would promote the destruction of Socialism while shrinking the role of Govt in peoples lives and change public opinion so they would accept free market principles to 'save Britain'.

His friend Oliver Smedley warned Fisher to be cagey as their libertarian ideology must not indicate any political bias, after all they were funded by tax payer money under charity status. The IEA was formed and quickly followed by the CATO Ins, Heritage and ATLAS.

Brexit is to the UK what Donald Trump was for the Republican party in the US. Ending FOM effectively traps people in the UK, I believe this is a ploy to eventually force people to work for the private sector once the welfare state and the entire public sector has been dismantled.

After the 2016 ref result, think tanks framed Brexit as a historic window of opportunity to radically shrink the welfare state and push through 'supply side economics' via massive deregulation that abolishes protections of workers and human rights to favour corporate hegemony.

Brexit prize is for private interests only, the 1% corporate elite are the winners presiding over the total collapse of UK infrastructure, SME's f**cked, the reduction of Govt to pointless rituals at PMQ's, a pliant population ripe for exploitation as austerity kicks in for years

Shanker Singham was at the core of the IEA, a trade and competition lawyer who worked on the privatisation of UK electricity market, transition of the Soviet, Central & Eastern European economies and the apertura in Latin America, as well as WTO accessions of China & Russia.

IEA a tax payer funded educational charity published this paper in 2018 by Shanker Singham Dr Radomir Tylecote. The gist of it is total corporate hegemony over regulatory protections that workers and citizens had while in the EU to secure economic liberty.
iea.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Daniel Hannan who blocked me has always banged on about Soros funding pro-EU causes all of which are available to the public. In contrast the IEA ERG ATLAS et al r/w think tanks never disclose their donors who we know come from Big oil, Tobacco and off shore financial industries.

So now the IEA/ERG occupy Cabinet, UK economy is in the toilet, austerity as policy is killing people, public services are on the chopping block while people juggle jobs for a pittance and are reminded by the Tories they are the laziest workers in the world. #GeneralElectionN0W

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