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New UK ‘net zero’ minister linked to oil-funded think tank (www.opendemocracy.net)
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Claire Coutinho, appointed minister for energy security and net zero this week, was a senior fellow to the opaquely funded right-wing Policy Exchange, a think tank that helped write the UK’s controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act after explicitly stating the government should pass legislation to target Extinction Rebellion (XR).

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[-] li10@feddit.uk 52 points 1 year ago

I can’t deal with the sheer amount of corruption in this government.

I subscribed to Private Eye and these days I don’t even read it anymore because it’s so genuinely depressing.

Reading about the blatant conflicts of interest actually makes me feel hopeless about the future of the country.

[-] 0x815@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

I feel somehow that's not just in Britain, unfortunately.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

As a stupid American, I think you might be right. Not sure though. Hmm.

[-] Sodis@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

It's the whole western world. Wealthy people amassed too much power and now protect their wealth against the interest of the many.

[-] 0x815@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

@Sodis

It's the whole western world.

That's not limited to the west. Corruption and nepotism may be harder to detect in some non-western countries with authoritarian regimes, opaque (or non-existent) public data and their crackdown on free speech, but it's nevertheless a global phenomenon. If you published an article like that about a government rep in a dictatorship, you quickly ended up in jail or got killed.

[-] FatLegTed@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Asia has joined the chat, along with Africa and South America.

[-] merridew@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

It feels very similar to the dying days of the Major government.

Hopefully this, too, will end in the Tories getting resoundingly booted from power.

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

I can’t deal with the sheer amount of corruption in this government.

Is this just a general statement or are you suggesting that the newly appointed minister has broken corruption laws? 🤔

[-] rodolfo@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

brexit, parties during covid, this corrupted government, etc.

as an Italian, I feel that we could be no longer the most italian country in a very short time

[-] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 21 points 1 year ago

Hands up anyone who is surprised..

[-] RobotToaster@infosec.pub 16 points 1 year ago

To quote the great Oliver Cromwell, they are no more capable of managing the affairs of this nation than they are of running a brothel

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

They're not trying to run the country; they're just trying to make money off it.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My favorite Oliver Cromwell fact is that when Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty during the run-up to WWI, one of his jobs was to propose names for new capital ships (i.e. battleships and battlecruisers) although the king made the final naming decision. Presumably to take the piss out of the king, Churchill twice proposed Oliver Cromwell as the name of one of the Queen Elizabeth-class ships, on the quite legitimate grounds that the institution that became the Royal Navy was founded during his rule. The king declined naming a ship after the man who had beheaded his ancestor and went with Valiant instead.

[-] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

This is a bit like the time Boris appointed a Bullingdon club friend as ethics advisor

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