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Friday 16th April 2021

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Morning all.
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Good morning.

Oh look, another one...

Second Cabinet Office adviser hired by Greensill while in civil service

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Former Morgan Stanley banker David Brierwood was brought into the heart of government during David Cameron’s administration in 2014, the same year Greensill’s founder Lex Greensill apparently took on a similar role. Two months later, Brierwood was recruited to join Greensill Capital’s board as a director.

Brierwood remained a Greensill director throughout the rest of his Whitehall appointment, which lasted more than three and a half years, according to his LinkedIn profile, which also showed that he resigned from the supply chain finance firm in February this year.
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No wonder the usual suspects were applauding Tory MPs voting down Labour's motion the other night.
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Re: Friday 16th April 2021

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And look, over here we have Charlotte Leslie being all holier than thou...
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Yes, that's the same Charlotte Leslie that conveniently "forgot" to declare donations from the Bristol Port Company and Theo Agnew; and had to apologise to the House.

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Diverts attention from all the other f*** ups.
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It says something about this government that the GB-NI food checks they denied were going to happen are particularly severe because of a possible UK-US trade deal accepting US food standards which they have also denied will happen. Hard to trust a government like this.
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Re: Friday 16th April 2021

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YouGov doing their 1 in 20 outlier is it.
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Any other leader would be 20 pts ahead though.
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People were stupid when they said that in the Corbyn era. They are no better now.
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And in 'least surprising news ever' given some of his crankish outbursts recently, Neil Oliver has joined GB News...
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Barely heard of him, maybe just as well ;)
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Political parties become corporate brokers who oversee the continuous distribution of public revenue and rents into private hands.
Corporate state capture: the degree to which the British state is porous to business interests is exceptional among established democracies
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Re: Friday 16th April 2021

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You might almost say - world beating?
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Re: Friday 16th April 2021

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@gilsey

Thanks for that. It sets out the situation beautifully and simply - and, in my opinion, accurately.

Edited to add -

Undermining the Civil Service (begun, but with perhaps slightly less malign intent, by Tony Blair) is the key to the success of this strategy.
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