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Jun 10, 2019 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
📍New on @DeSmogUK 📍Over the past few years, we have worked to map the connections between those pushing for a hard-Brexit and the axing of environmental protection and climate science deniers. Today, we publish one BIG map of this network 🗺️
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At a time when a handful of Tory members are about to decide who the next UK Prime Minister will be, this matters, not least because some of Tory leadership front-runners including Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Dominic Raab are tied to this network of thinktanks and lobbyists.
Nov 19, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Big story published this morning: @matjhope and I have mapped out how Matthew Elliott, Vote Leave CEO & TaxPayers'Alliance founder, & his American wife Sarah Elliott, of Republicans Overseas, fit in a network of US libertarians & #FossilFuel lobbyists who want a US-UK trade deal.
The couple met in the US, through Grover Norquist, of the Americans for Tax Reform, a low-tax campaign which Matthew Elliott later said was a model for him to create the TaxPayers'Alliance in the UK. Elliott also said having learned 'campaign techniques' through Norquist.
Nov 12, 2018 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
1. Some background on this major story which broke yesterday: The Taxpayers' Alliance admitted that 9 "linked" organisations coordinated to vilify @shahmiruk These groups are operating from an office at 55 Tufton Street, around the corner from Westminster.
2. Here is what you need to know about these opaquely-funded libertarian groups, which are pushing for a hard (no-deal) Brexit, advocating deregulation to strike a US-UK free trade deal and include climate science denying Global Warming Policy Foundation👇 desmog.co.uk/2018/07/23/map…
