Thread by @docrussjackson

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The Grift is Strong with TalkTV & GB News regular & conspiracy nut, Lois Perry, director & sole shareholder of CAR26, & a representative of Laurence Fox's Reclaim UK.

She's tweeted climate change is a “scam” & “there is no climate emergency”.

desmog.com/car26/

https://twitter.com/LoisPerry26/status/1662873115230195716

Perry is a former PR who worked with her husband Richard Hill, who has an, er, a 'colourful' background. In 2013 it was revealed that Nigella Lawson was the "victim of vicious smear campaign by former Charles Saatchi publicist Richard Hillgrove".

mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/n…

And on 3rd March 2017, "convicted tax fraudster & PR professional Richard Hillgrove was declared bankrupt after failing to pay a £24,500 personal tax bill." A previous conviction came after Hillgrove PR failed to pay nearly £90,000 in VAT & PAYE payments between 2011 & 2012.

Here's a thread from last year which explores in a little more detail the crossover bewtween Perry & Laurnce Fox.

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1472548791890976773?s=20

In 2020, Lois Perry made a name for herself as yet another outrage clickbait merchant when as a guest presenter on #JeremyVine she accused Meghan Markle of 'domestic abuse', suggesting that Prince Harry is a victim of domestic abuse.

She's also tweeted that net zero is “net stupid” & that “2.7 million people in Europe can’t afford to turn the heating on in their homes” because of “Climate Death Cultists”.

Perry has more than alluded to the “climate lockdown” conspiracy theory.

Perry suggested that Oxford’s traffic reduction scheme was related to communist China, saying:

“It’s quite well documented that the Chinese communist party makes huge donations to top universities... Jeremy Hunt’s married to somebody who gets a cheque every week from the CCP.”

In an August 2022 TalkTV interview she said: “I do not believe that man-made climate change is a thing, I really don’t. As I say, we’ve had medieval warming periods, we’ve had the Roman warming period in this country. We’ve had Hippopotamuses in the Thames.”

OpenDemocracy noted that CAR26 is strongly linked to Blue Sky Strategy, run by individuals involved in the pro-Brexit campaign, including Rebecca Ryan, director of the “Defund the BBC” campaign.

opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…

Perry is also a panellist & guest presenter on #JeremyVine, & in December 2021 made the fearmongering & divisive claim in the Mirror that "face masks instil fear & division".

The Mirror neglected to mention she's a representative of Fox's COVID-denying Reclaim Party or Car26.

Perry was spotted on Glasgow Streets with unhinged anti-vaxxer Piers Corbyn during #COP26, & a poll showing public support for a referendum on the UK’s net zero goal which was on the front page of the Telegraph on October 21st, was paid for by Perry's CAR26. It's a small world!

When asked on TalkTV about the leadership race between Truss & Sunak, Perry said: “I like Liz Truss, I think she’s great. She’s pro-fracking, she’s a low-tax politician, she’s pro-business. She seems to be sounding like the most normal person”, adding: “Rishi is a woke”.