The Barclay Brothers and Brexit Circles of Interest
This is an important thread by Fun-sponge @FFbpe about the media and business interests wrapped up in Brexit.
1) Here are the Barclay brothers, they own the famously Pro Brexit Telegraph, the Spectator and the Ritz Hotel to name a few. They avoid paying tax, so much so that they moved to an island in the channel & are constantly trying to avoid tax. https://t.co/pcI0XgiCfq
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
2) They also don’t like their paper to report on people not paying tax, here is their chief political commentator, Peter Oborne (Brexiter) resigning over the Telegraph’s reduction in reporting standards and influence of advertisers re HSBC scandal. https://t.co/5lEOGxIykv
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
3) Allister Heath, current editor of Telegraph wrote a book, advocating end of national insurance, inheritance tax, corporation tax & a flat tax rate for all. His sister formed Taxpayers alliance with Matthew Elliott of Vote Leave at 55 Tufton Street. https://t.co/AsWVdSZfcp
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4) Florence Heath works for Oil Companies. https://t.co/X6V6Jo5Fi0
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4) Florence Heath works for Oil Companies. https://t.co/X6V6Jo5Fi0
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
4) Florence Heath works for Oil Companies. https://t.co/X6V6Jo5Fi0
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
4) Florence Heath works for Oil Companies. https://t.co/X6V6Jo5Fi0
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
8) Sarah Sands is now Editor of Radio 4 Today programme. Here is a picture of her with Nigel Farage, Rupert Murdoch and Liam Fox and a picture of her with our PM. pic.twitter.com/jQ4WoBeogo
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
9) Sands is Editor of #radio4today program, BBCs flagship news program. Remainers are mystified by its coverage of Brexit, lack of rigour in interviews with prominent Brexiters, lack of coverage of transgressions & lies in campaigns. Why could that be?https://t.co/bfaBbChLBT
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
10) Perhaps because her son, Henry Sands, set up a firm in March 2015, called SABI Group, which managed to get a contract with Vote Leave prior to referendum. The publicly available accounts show the firm already has reserves in the millions… not bad https://t.co/ITHGrxGlU5
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
11) Perhaps it’s b/c her husband, Kim Fletcher (also ex of the Telegraph) is a partner at Brunswick Group, an international PR & lobby group working to change govt policy & advise on crisis management. So Brexit is good for business there too. https://t.co/zw0NhJlrx0
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
12) I’m sure Sarah Sands, the person whose wages we pay through licence fees, really really does support Brexit, her mate is in No 10, her husband’s firm has a route to heart of government, her son has made a ton of money & launched a successful business on the back of it.
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
13) I’m sure she doesn’t want to bring up the illegality of the Vote Leave campaign or the problems a post Brexit environment will cause small/medium uk firms. And here is a screen shot of what the Telegraph really wants pic.twitter.com/UymIckBJ4Q
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
14) And all I would ask is whether, protesting that huge swathes of UK small businesses don’t know what’ll happen to them in 60 days & we can’t crash out of Europe with no deal b/c it’ll destroy them makes me a traitor? https://t.co/q5z1Aau82m
— Fun-sponge (@FFbpe) September 1, 2019
I have been grumbling about this for ages, but others just don’t believe that Radio 4s flagship programme would actually do this. Or not do it depending on which way you are looking. A programme I have been listening to for 35 years. I’m disgusted.
Towards the end of her life, after her husband died, Mrs Thatcher lived at the Ritz …. as a guest of the owners, in appreciation, no doubt, of the way in which she changed the rules so that people like The Barclays could make loads of money.
As for the editorship of the BBC Today programme, are any of us really surprised? Increasingly and arrogantly dismissively, BBC News and Current Affairs has become part of this right wing propaganda operation. How often, for example, do we have a ‘spokesperson from the independent Taxpayers’ Alliance commenting on and dismissing any proposal which will redistribute wealth from the rich to the the rest of us? Of course redistribution in the other direction, also known as ‘austerity’ is always approved.
Oh, oh! Tom Harris – Vote Leave Scotland bagman, Telegraph columnist, BoJo’s number 1 Scottish fan, former PPS to Northern Ireland Secretary (cough cough DUP dark money)and fully paid up member of the Pacific Quay Pals Act
But we all know this do we not? The Tory governments over the years have connived at bribery and corruption in high places; they have skewed the rules to suit their wealthy pals and treated the rest of us as serfs. A simple example was the highland shooting estates were made Rates/Council tax exempt by Westminster.
The Barclay brothers are just one corner of this oligarchy.
Excellent information. I tweeted it, tagged to people in the UK and US, and also included it in the compendium of news articles I publish daily via my blog.
Great work!
Thanks, Not my work, but thanks for sharing.
Surprised ? Moi ?