Claire Coutinho was senior fellow at Policy Exchange, which drafted law to crack down on XR and other climate activists

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).

  • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.deOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

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

      • Sodis@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.deOPEnglish
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          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.