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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDisgraced MP with close links to ALEC appointed as UK International Trade Secretary
Liam Fox, who left the post of defence secretary in 2011 following revelations that his close friend the lobbyist Adam Werritty had travelled with him on official business, was made secretary of a new ministry for international trade.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/13/philip-hammond-appointed-chancellor-as-george-osborne-exits
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/13/philip-hammond-appointed-chancellor-as-george-osborne-exits
Liam Fox resignation exposes Tory links to US radical right
Fox's organisation, which was wound up last year following a critical Charity Commission report into its activities, formed a partnership with an organisation called the American Legislative Exchange Council. The powerful lobbying organisation, which receives funding from pharmaceutical, weapons and oil interests among others, is heavily funded by the Koch Charitable Foundation whose founder, Charles G Koch, is one of the most generous donors to the Tea Party movement in the US. In recent years, the Tea Party has become a potent populist force in American politics, associated with controversial stances on global warming.
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Fox resigned on Friday after admitting that he had allowed his friendship with Werritty, a lobbyist who portrayed himself as an adviser to the defence secretary, to blur his professional and personal interests. His resignation followed a drip-feed of revelations about the links between Werritty and businessmen and organisations with defence interests.
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The charity's political agenda, which it articulated in conferences devoted to issues such as liberalising the health sector and deregulating the energy markets, chimes with the thinking of many on the right of the Conservative party whom Cameron has been keen to check as he holds the Tories to the centre ground of British politics.
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Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/15/liam-fox-resignation-exposes-tories
Fox's organisation, which was wound up last year following a critical Charity Commission report into its activities, formed a partnership with an organisation called the American Legislative Exchange Council. The powerful lobbying organisation, which receives funding from pharmaceutical, weapons and oil interests among others, is heavily funded by the Koch Charitable Foundation whose founder, Charles G Koch, is one of the most generous donors to the Tea Party movement in the US. In recent years, the Tea Party has become a potent populist force in American politics, associated with controversial stances on global warming.
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Fox resigned on Friday after admitting that he had allowed his friendship with Werritty, a lobbyist who portrayed himself as an adviser to the defence secretary, to blur his professional and personal interests. His resignation followed a drip-feed of revelations about the links between Werritty and businessmen and organisations with defence interests.
...
The charity's political agenda, which it articulated in conferences devoted to issues such as liberalising the health sector and deregulating the energy markets, chimes with the thinking of many on the right of the Conservative party whom Cameron has been keen to check as he holds the Tories to the centre ground of British politics.
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Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/15/liam-fox-resignation-exposes-tories
It's fucking outrageous. I hate her already.
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Disgraced MP with close links to ALEC appointed as UK International Trade Secretary (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2016
OP
Brexit: Trading liberal 'EU elites' for far-right ALEC (but Britain First) elites.
pampango
Jul 2016
#4
Moreover, while a sitting MP here, he was actively working for Romney's campaign in 2012.
LeftishBrit
Jul 2016
#5
Rex
(65,616 posts)1. Wow, they just love keeping the fox in the hen house!
Government is married to big business, seems that way the world over.
Mc Mike
(9,118 posts)2. Those swine are getting their tentacles into UK parlaiment now?
They've just got too much money. It should be taken away from them and redistributed.
lapfog_1
(29,243 posts)3. Nothing good is going to come of the new Prime Minister
worse than Maggie Thatcher.
pampango
(24,692 posts)4. Brexit: Trading liberal 'EU elites' for far-right ALEC (but Britain First) elites.
Th far-right may be devious but they are not stupid. Allow a vote on getting rid of elites but make sure that only liberal elites are on the ballot as a focus of populist discontent. Conservative elites can just look on and smile.
LeftishBrit
(41,219 posts)5. Moreover, while a sitting MP here, he was actively working for Romney's campaign in 2012.