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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    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.

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      1 year ago

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

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

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          @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.

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

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      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.

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      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? 🤔