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New UK ‘net zero’ minister linked to oil-funded think tank (www.opendemocracy.net)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/unitedkingdom

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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 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 (2 children)

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 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 3 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 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] merridew 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 -1 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? 🤔