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
    52·
    10 months 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
      161·
      10 months ago

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

      • Sodis@feddit.deEnglish
        41·
        10 months 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
          41·
          10 months 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.

    • merridew@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      10 months 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@feddit.ukEnglish
      56·
      10 months 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? 🤔

  • rodolfo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    10 months ago

    brexit, parties during covid, this corrupted government, etc.

    as an Italian, I feel that we could be no longer the most italian country in a very short time

  • RobotToaster@infosec.pubEnglish
    16·
    10 months ago

    To quote the great Oliver Cromwell, they are no more capable of managing the affairs of this nation than they are of running a brothel

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      18·
      10 months ago

      They’re not trying to run the country; they’re just trying to make money off it.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      My favorite Oliver Cromwell fact is that when Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty during the run-up to WWI, one of his jobs was to propose names for new capital ships (i.e. battleships and battlecruisers) although the king made the final naming decision. Presumably to take the piss out of the king, Churchill twice proposed Oliver Cromwell as the name of one of the Queen Elizabeth-class ships, on the quite legitimate grounds that the institution that became the Royal Navy was founded during his rule. The king declined naming a ship after the man who had beheaded his ancestor and went with Valiant instead.

  • phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Is it me or are US and UK governments competing in the “who can be more corrupt” coup?