- cross-posted to:
- climate@slrpnk.net
- cross-posted to:
- climate@slrpnk.net
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).
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.
I feel somehow that’s not just in Britain, unfortunately.
As a stupid American, I think you might be right. Not sure though. Hmm.
It’s the whole western world. Wealthy people amassed too much power and now protect their wealth against the interest of the many.
Asia has joined the chat, along with Africa and South America.
@Sodis
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.
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.
Is this just a general statement or are you suggesting that the newly appointed minister has broken corruption laws? 🤔