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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 (7 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.

[–] 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.

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