The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), the Adam Smith Institute, Policy Exchange and the Legatum Institute have all received financial support from US backers via this route. They are corporate lobbyists - not think tanks.
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2. They are exploiting a weakness in UK politics in that the parties, so utterly bereft of talent as they are, outsource their thinking to those entities all gussied up to look like part of their tribe. There is no scrutiny not least because MPs are complicit.
3. With the assistance of a largely complicit media they can very easily get party activists doing their bidding. Many of the low grade rags running at a loss are part of the nexus. This is why we see this garbage published uncritically.
https://twitter.com/KateAndrs/status/1045665408529977350
4. Being that the Tory right is a chumocracy an ERG MPs, think tank wonks and news editors are all roughly interchangeable they can very easily get the Telegraph and Spectator onside. Much of what they do is coordinated. Especially with #PlanAPlus
5. This is why we see them all mutually praising each other. This is what the Guido website is set up to do. It is there to popularise narratives in the hard right tribe. As far as I know Breitbart London is not part of it but they are sheep so they tag along for the ride.
6. So if you worship at the feet of Johnson or Rees-Mogg, you are in fact a tool in every sense of the word. You are being used as a pawn of American corporates and providing a career structure for a talentless Toryboy wonkocracy.
7. Moreover, these people are not conservatives. Most of them have no convictions at all - but they are expert manipulators. That is the main talent of Rees-Mogg and Johnson. Both of them wear carefully crafted masks.
8. There are some true believers in their ranks - people who actually believe radical "free trade" and free markets are the medicine Britain needs but they are largely ignorant of their own scriptures in that freedom of commerce bust also be balanced with individual liberties.
9. The true mark of conservatism is a recognition that though capitalism and markets are economically and morally superior, we are custodians and we recognise that not everything has a price and some things are not tradeable commodities.
10. This is not the case with the new Tory right. They have a ruthless zeal in pursuit of their goals which is little more than personal enrichment while they mumble their dingbat theories on creating a Singapore on Thames. They are universally issue illiterate.
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