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MPs launch ‘rule-breaking’ complaint against Institute of Economic Affairs | Good Law Project

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng: if their mini-budget was based on advice from the IEA, then that organisation has been involved in political campaigning, contrary to Charity Commission rules.

This is well-deserved, it seems. Charities must not be involved in political campaigning, or linked with political offshoot organisations. One wonders what the “educational research” entails:

The “extremist” charity the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has been called out for repeated rule breaking, after a cross-party group of MPs and a charity OBE made a formal complaint to the Charity Commission.

Layla Moran MP from the Liberal Democrats called for the commission to act with “utmost urgency”.

“One charity promoting extremist views and acting outside the rules is a blight on the whole sector,” Moran said.

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Along with Moran, Alyn Smith MP from the Scottish National Party, Clive Lewis MP from the Labour Party and Siân Berry AM – parliamentary candidate from the Green Party have joined a former member of the commission’s own board, Dr. Andrew Purkis OBE, to argue that the IEA falls foul of regulations around political campaigning, educational research and inappropriate links with openly political offshoot organisations.

Despite clear guidance from the commission that a charity’s purpose should not be political, the IEA was widely seen as the inspiration for Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini budget. According to political commentator Tim Montgomerie, the disastrous September 2022 mini budget was a “massive moment for the IEA” who had been advocating the policies for years.

Charity rules also state research must avoid presenting “biased and selective information in support of a preconceived point of view”. The IEA promotes extreme views such as there being “no sensible scientific objection” to increasing drilling in the North Sea, that healthcare in the UK should be insurance-based and that regulation on disposable vapes should be removed. It has so far refused to admit who pays for its work, but investigations have revealed some of its funding comes from the gas, oil and tobacco industries.

Commission guidance also states that charities must not “fund or support non-charitable purposes”, yet the IEA backs offshoots such as such as the IEA Forum and 1828 that aim to promote a “free market message”.

It’s a scandal that an organisation which pushes an extreme political agenda and seems so plainly in breach of charity regulations should continue to benefit from the tax advantages charitable status affords.

The Charity Commission, whose job it is to regulate charities and ensure that they comply with charity law, has received repeated complaints about the IEA over the last decade. But so far it has failed to act.

This will be a valuable test case.

Who next? The Campaign Against Antisemitism, perhaps?

Source: MPs launch complaint against Institute of Economic Affairs – Good Law Project


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Thunberg and climate protesters acquitted because new laws are ‘too broad’ and ‘unworkable’

Greta Thunberg: the courts have sided with her against the police.

This is clear: the Tory government’s changes to protest law are unworkable.

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Has Bono’s political posturing crossed the line?

U2 frontman Bono has always been controversial, but it seems he has crossed a line and is now attracting outright hatred.

The wave of abhorrence has been triggered by an on-stage outburst in support of mysteriously-dead Russian politician Alexei Navalny in prison – which came hot on the heels of enthusiastic support for Israel, in the face of that country’s genocide in Gaza:

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Let’s have a few facts about Navalny:

Strange that Bono would want to praise a neo-Nazi, right after voicing support for a country that claims to be the nation-state of the Jews – a race that Nazis tried to exterminate.

Strange that he would want to support Israel, when its actions against the Palestinians in Gaza resemble those of the Nazis in Germany against Jews.

So perhaps it should not be a surprise that people have reacted as they have:

It’s a genuine shame because This Writer is becoming ashamed to admit I still like some of U2’s music.


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After nearly five years, it’s time to end my court crowdfunder

Many of you may remember This Writer was involved in a large court case, involving a nationally-known TV ‘celebrity’, for which I raised funds via the CrowdJustice website.

After nearly five years, and with donations of more than a quarter of a million pounds, it is time to end this campaign.​

My legal team has contacted me to say they are happy to close my account now, meaning there is nothing more for me to pay them and no reason to continue asking for donations.

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So it is time for me to thank everybody who supported me during my long and arduous legal battle – more than 11,000 of you.

Although I didn’t win the case, the fact that it took place made many thousands more people aware of the issues I had raised and allowed them to form their own opinions about my opponent.

So it seems that, in this case, it wasn’t necessary to win. The important thing was that I stood up for what I believed was right – and, in so doing, gave others the chance to decide what they believed as well.

This has been a long and exceptionally difficult campaign, and it would not have achieved anything at all without you. Everything I did achieve, I achieved with your help.

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Trade unionist expelled from Labour Party for supporting Labour political ideas

Expelled: Bernadette Gallagher.

Keir Starmer should slither back out of the Labour Party over this (although we know he won’t):

A higher living – I think ‘troovus’ meant minimum – wage and public ownership of energy firms are good Labour Party policies.

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And supporting the sentiment expressed in a tweet (as they were then known) is not the same as supporting the political organisation that published it.

Starmer has colleagues in the Parliamentary Labour Party who – along with the man himself – habitually say they agree with the policies of other parties. Starmer himself has even publicly agreed with actions of the Tories!

So, in having Bernadette Gallagher expelled, Starmer brands himself a hypocrite, a traitor to his party and a liar (in claiming that she had supported another political party, in violation of Labour rules).

That alone should render him unsuitable for your support in a general election.


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Shaun Bailey doubles down on Carol Vorderman. Here’s more about HIM

Shaun Bailey: instead of shutting up, he has doubled down. At least it’s entertaining for the rest of us.

Some people don’t know when to shut up.

This Writer has said it before and no doubt I’ll have to say it again – especially about Tories.

The case in point is that of Shaun Bailey, the “Partygate Peer” (ennobled for failing to win the election to be London’s mayor, despite having been caught taking part in one of the infamous Tory “lockdown parties”) who attacked Carol Vorderman for having political views while (he claimed) posting revealing photos of herself on Instagram.

He’s been back on the box, doubling down on his claim and adding that he thinks her political views make Ms Vorderman a bully.

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Here’s what he said. Take note of Dr Louise Raw’s comment that prefaces the clip here, and let’s come back to it after you’ve been through all the evidence.

The appearance has attracted more adverse publicity for Bailey from Ms Vorderman’s supporters:

And here’s a nine-minute rundown of Tory misogyny, including that alleged of Bailey himself, that is well worth watching:

Did you notice the part in which Ms Vorderman’s Instagram is examined and the images had nary a bum or boob in sight?

I mention this because Bailey does also have his supporters, like Julia Hartley-Brewer, who insisted that “it’s all bum and boobs”, in the fact of the evidence.

And one of her guests still came out in support of Ms Vorderman! Watch:

Put it all together and the image of Shaun Bailey that has been presented to the public – by people on both sides of the argument – is of an unsavoury individual who is supported by people of similar unsavoury characteristics.

So, going back to Dr Louise Raw’s comment: if you are a parent of a school-age child, would you want this man visiting their school and polluting their mind?

Perhaps the last word for now should go to Florence, below, who refers to a Conservative Women event attended by both Bailey and “Rohypnol Jimmy” – the current Home Secretary, James Cleverly.

Her post refers to both Cleverly’s self-expressed (although he claimed it was humorous) interest in spiking women’s drinks with a date-rape drug and Bailey’s attitude to women’s clothing:

Rishi Sunak should be going frantic. With an election only months away, these men are the poorest advert for the Conservative Party that there could be.


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Are the Russell Brand allegations proving government is stifling social media businesses?

Russell Brand: after it was revealed that a UK Parliament committee had written to his social media platforms, calling for his income to be cut off – despite the fact that he has not been convicted of any crime – it has emerged that governments seem to be regularly exerting pressure on social media platforms to stifle political commentary that conflicts with their views.

This has escalated quickly – after the Commons Culture, Media and Sports chair wrote to online platforms in a bid to take Russell Brand’s income away from him, her fellow Tories are now clamouring to have GB News taken off-air because of Laurence Fox.

The charge appears to have been led by former Sky News mainstay Adam Boulton:

But he was quickly joined – on the same episode of the BBC’s Newsnight – by Tory MP Caroline Nokes:

Some might say, “Sauce for the goose” – at least GB News is attracting the same opinions as Russell Brand.

But now let’s look at some other reactions to those calls for GB News to close. Here’s Tim Montgomerie, founder of the Conservative Home blog – and therefore also a Tory:

And now Nile Gardiner, former aide to Margaret Thatcher and therefore also a Tory:

So countries that shut down news networks are authoritarian and tyrants?

What does that say about the CMS committee chair, Tory Dame Caroline Dinenage, trying to shut down Russell Brand’s channel?

You might suggest that there’s a bit of a difference between a network and a one-man show, but then, we know Brand isn’t the only social media commentator facing shutdown – don’t we?

Is this acceptable?

Twitter/X keeps trying to take followers away from Peter Stefanovic. Is it because he’s a left-wing commentator who publishes facts that the right wing headbangers don’t want you to know?

If you don’t think so, you need to come up with a reasonable alternative explanation. What is it?

Apparently, this is an international phenomenon. I noticed in a piece on the Brand controversy, a YouTube-hosted show called The Comments Section suggested that its parent organisation, The Daily Wire, had faced calls for it to be de-platformed by the US government.

“Guys, this has been happening – this isn’t new,” said host Brett Cooper.

“Literally a month and a half ago, the Daily Wire found out that the US Government had been writing the Facebook specifically … saying ‘Is there anything you can do to, you know, limit their posts a bit during the election cycle – it’s really not great for us, could you limit them?’ Asking a social media site to censor our posts.

“This is happening; it’s all politicised.”

If you’re a regular follower of Vox Political you’ll know that This Site’s readership has mysteriously plummeted, so I tend to believe that Facebook certainly does have the ability to restrict the readership of particular users/pages.

If this is happening internationally, and to organisations with as much clout as the Daily Wire (it’s quite big, you know), then I think it might be time for us all to get together, pool our information and take it to such authorities as may exist to police such matters.

In the UK, I don’t even know if there is an organisation with a duty to ensure that businesses relying on social media exposure don’t get censored for no reason.

I’ll let you know what happens. While the allegations against Russell Brand are vile, it seems something useful may come from them.


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Political lies about poverty and inequality have got to stop

Rishi Sunak: he loves coming out with rousing claims in Prime Minister’s Questions. What a shame so few of them are true.

Rishi Sunak seems to love misleading us all about poverty.

At Prime Minister’s Questions last week, he claimed that 1.7 million fewer people are in poverty now than when the Conservatives came back into power.

But he was almost certainly using the relative definition of poverty – that is, that a person is only define as being in poverty if they receive 60 per cent of the median average income, or less.

He was almost certainly not referring to genuine poverty, in which people cannot afford to eat or buy basic essentials. Peter Stefanovic spells out the distinction here:

14 million people in poverty is a little more than one-fifth of the population.

A million adults can’t afford to eat every day.

Nine million, while eating every day, are skipping meals and cutting back on food. There is a consequent effect on the nation’s health that will impact the NHS, of course – with thousands of people being hospitalised with malnutrition. Then the Tories say they don’t understand why the health service can’t cope after they have put so much (ha ha!) extra funding into it.

A record 2.1 million people are now using food banks. Remember David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ policy? This is its only success – forcing more wealthy people to subsidise those who cannot afford to feed themselves, including lower-paid working people and nurses, let’s not forget, with charity.

The number of children in food poverty has doubled in the last year alone.

Seven million households aren’t being heated properly.

Sunak also mentioned inequality, claiming – again, falsely – that this is also lower. In fact:

In 2022, incomes for the poorest 14 million people fell by 7.5 per cent while those for the richest fifth saw a 7.8 per cent increase.

Could that be partly because Sunak has uncapped bankers’ bonuses while imposing real-terms pay cuts on public sector workers?

Sunak reckons 200,000 fewer pensioners are in poverty today – but the number of pensioners in relative poverty has actually increased by more than 200,000. In 2021/22, more than two million pensioners were living in poverty in the UK.

Sunak’s comment about 100,000 new homes needs no response because the House of Lords rightly rejected the arguments in favour of building on land likely to be flooded with water that had been polluted, not only by developers but also by greedy privatised water firms.

Sunak reckons he’s delivered 4,000 prison officers – so why are there fewer now than in 2010? Does it have something to do with the privatisation – and profitisation – of our prisons?

It would be worth keeping this information handy when PMQs is on over the next few weeks and months.

I’ll try to put out a YouTube clip and a few infographics.


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Labour’s ‘boil a frog’ tactic is pulling the party away from voters but towards rich donors

Many years ago, a right-wing cuckoo in the Labour Party called Peter Mandelson assured the party’s then-leaders that they could shift their policies as far to the political right as they fancied because Labour voters didn’t have anywhere else to go.

He was wrong; at every general election after the 1997 landslide, the party lost voters as socialists abandoned what they saw increasingly as a party of Tories in red ties. It took the arrival of Jeremy Corbyn as leader to reverse the trend, with the re-injection of genuinely transformative policies.

And we all know what happened to him: right-wingers he had allowed to remain in the party (in the belief that it should be a genuinely “broad church”, whatever that means?) stabbed him in the back and sabotaged the 2017 (and probably the 2019) general election, eventually forcing him out.

Now, under Mandelson acolyte Keir Starmer, Labour is once-again a hard-right party. He has abandoned any “continuity Corbyn” left-wing pledges in order to follow policies that are indistinguishable from those of Rishi Sunak’s current Conservative government.

Despite this, Starmer’s Substitute Tory Party (formerly Labour) is being tipped to win the next general election by a landslide. Why?

It could be because the Sunak government is now blatantly corrupt, with new evidence of ministers (including the prime minister) lining their own pockets and those of their cronies in big business emerging every day.

It could also be because Starmer has drip-fed his right-wing policies into Labour’s programme for government slowly – giving party members and tribal followers an opportunity to forget (or simply fail to notice) the cumulative lurch to the far right that they represent:

Look at the recent announcement that a Labour government will continue to inflict poverty on 1.1 million UK children in defiance of the party’s own reason for existing (lifting working and working-class people out of poverty).

After this announcement, polls showed no lessening of enthusiasm for a Labour government – and only 20 Labour MPs seem keen to remind their leaders of the party’s duty to its members and supporters:

Why the lurch rightwards?

Obviously this is where Starmer’s political loyalties lie. He was never interested in re-balancing the economy to stop rich employers from impoverishing their workers, or to stop the destruction of our environment for the sake of a quick profit, or to stop the privatisation of our national treasures like the NHS for another quick profit.

But there’s a financial necessity too. One clear detrimental result of his rightward lurch has been an exodus of members away from a Labour Party they now consider toxic. This, along with a series of poor financial decisions, mean Starmer’s party very quickly frittered away the more-than £12 million Jeremy Corbyn had put in its bank account.

It needed funds – and went looking in the same place as the Tories:

The result is clear: two parties – Labour and the Tories – with the same policies, because they have the same people bankrolling them.

And with Starmer’s Labour working for big business, another element of the UK’s broken political system is coming into clearer focus:

That’s right. It seems the UK has been controlled by the same tiny group of super-rich influencers for many decades, with the wishes of voters coming a distant second to their selfish desires.

Continuing to vote for Labour means continuing to let this tiny minority run the rest of us into the ground for their own profit and perverse enjoyment.

It makes no sense at all.

And yet the polls show that is exactly what the majority of people want.

If you know anybody who has been misled or is deluded in this way, then for the sake of the United Kingdom and everyone in it, please explain their mistake to them. It might take a while but it will be worth it in the long run.


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