George Monbiot in (yet another) forceful defence of democratic transparency draws attention to Atlantic Bridge, founded by the disgraced Liam Fox and registered with the Charity Commission as a thinktank, but actually a lobby organisation demanding the usual right-wing menu of deregulation, privatisation, tax breaks, and cuts in public expenditure (apart from defence of course).
Posts Tagged ‘Lobbying’
The implications of Werrity
Oct 13th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The Werrity saga gets murkier. In particular, apart from any personal matters, did he profit from his friendship with Fox? If he went with Fox on 19 of his trips around the world in the past 18 months, why did nobody in the civil service blow the whistle that something suspicious might be going on, […]
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The real Adam Werrity scandal
Oct 10th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The key point about the weekend revelations over Adam Werrity is not just, or even mainly, whether Fox keeps his job or not. The real scandal is that Werrity was able to inveigle himself into so many compromising situations without anyone calling a stop to it or blowing the whistle. Indeed had it not been […]
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Ministerial ‘buddies’ for business: cutting to the chase
Sep 23rd, 2011 by David Osler.I suppose it is theoretically possible that, at some point in the last few decades, an important chief executive has rung up a government minister, asked to arrange a meeting, and been turned down flat. But my guess would be that this hasn’t happened too often. All mainstream parties are keen to stress their pro-business […]
