Thread by @NatashaJahnse, The IEA and @MarkJLittlewood are another one of Matthew Elliott's Tufton St [...]

The IEA and @MarkJLittlewood are another one of Matthew Elliott's Tufton St fossil fuel funded climate denier crew, with a vendetta against Greenpeace. https://iea.org.uk/how-greenpeace-and-the-guardian-believe-the-iea-runs-the-world/

How Greenpeace and the Guardian Believe the IEA Runs the World — Institute of Economic Affairs

This is the strange tale of how Greenpeace and the Guardian newspaper colluded to attempt to show that the IEA is an all-powerful, Illuminati-style puppet-master controlling the apparatus of govern...

https://iea.org.uk/how-greenpeace-and-the-guardian-believe-the-iea-runs-the-world/

This may have something to do with it, they don't like scrutiny at all. https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/07/30/iea-brexit-shanker-singham-mark-littlewood-us-donors/

How the IEA teamed up with US donors to push for environmental deregulation post-Brexit

The Institute of Economic Affairs' Shanker Singham took visitors from Oklahoma into the heart of government

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/07/30/iea-brexit-shanker-singham-mark-littlewood-us-donors/

…https://unearthed-greenpeace-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/07/29/iea-hard-brexit-think-tank-access-ministers/amp/?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15980378932286&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Funearthed.greenpeace.org%2F2018%2F07%2F29%2Fiea-hard-brexit-think-tank-access-ministers%2F

A leading think tank brokered access to ministers for US donors looking to influence Brexit

The Institute of Economic Affairs arranged meetings with ministers for US donors

https://unearthed-greenpeace-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/07/29/iea-hard-brexit-think-tank-access-ministers/amp/?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15980378932286&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Funearthed.greenpeace.org%2F2018%2F07%2F29%2Fiea-hard-brexit-think-tank-access-ministers%2F

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/09/25/think-tank-behind-brexiteers-trade-blueprint-chased-funds-from-us-donors/

Think tank behind Brexiteer trade blueprint chased funds from US donors

Institute of Economic Affairs boss went on tour of US conservative think tanks to fund trade unit that wrote the high-profile 'Plan A+' report

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/09/25/think-tank-behind-brexiteers-trade-blueprint-chased-funds-from-us-donors/

Here is the secretly filmed video from UnEarhed of Mark Littlewood explaining how the IEA brokered access to ministers for US donors looking to influence Brexit.

From DeSmog https://www.desmog.co.uk/institute-economic-affairs

Institute of Economic Affairs

Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Background The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a London-based free-market thinktank and educational charity founded in 1955 by the late Sir Antony Fisher...

https://www.desmog.co.uk/institute-economic-affairs

This is interesting - Boris Johnson's friend Alexander Temenko sits on the advisory council of the IEA. https://bylinetimes.com/2019/12/12/the-russia-conundrum-can-a-critic-of-putin-be-inadvertently-serving-his-interests/

The Russia Conundrum: Can a Critic of Putin be Inadvertently Serving his Interests? – Byline Times

Boris Johnson's friend Aleksandr Temerko is one of a number of wealthy London-based Russians who, while opposing Vladimir Putin, are linked to organisations that are potentially useful to the Kremlin...

https://bylinetimes.com/2019/12/12/the-russia-conundrum-can-a-critic-of-putin-be-inadvertently-serving-his-interests/

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/07/30/bp-funding-institute-of-economic-affairs-gambling/

BP and gambling interests fund secretive free market think tank the IEA

The Institute of Economic Affairs has long kept the identity of its funders secret

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/07/30/bp-funding-institute-of-economic-affairs-gambling/

Watch "Undercover: How the IEA lets donors influence Brexit | #IEAtapes" on YouTube

This has more gory details:

https://www.wikicorporates.org/wiki/Institute_of_Economic_Affairs

Truss has long standing links with UK libertarian groups such as the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA); TaxPayers Alliance and Adam Smith Institute, both see Brexit a chance to slash regulations and cut taxes. https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/12/19/liz-truss-dark-money-think-tanks-koch-brexit/

Liz Truss met with ‘dark money’ think tanks during taxpayer funded trip to Washington DC

The libertarian groups have close ties to the Koch brothers and are key backers of the Trump administration's drive to slash environmental regulations

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/12/19/liz-truss-dark-money-think-tanks-koch-brexit/

A reply to me from Greenpeace. https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceUK/status/1304338827125895168?s=19