Liz Truss has resigned

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29. The likes of the IEA and Tax"payers" Alliance...

...are the ones who I've been most disgusted by from the past few weeks. Truss brings them into the heart of their operation, and they play a major role in creating a financially illiterate mini budget that the markets these people laud based on theory absolutely hate in reality as the sums didn't add up at all.

The IEA and other dark money Tufton Street groups then spend their time furiously gaslighting and doing everything they can to blame everyone else for the mess they played a major role in creating. And ending up making ideological purity arguments that would make a Marxist blush. Maybe they wouldn't be quite so contemptable if they could actually admit to having made serious mistakes.

These groups keep getting invited onto current affairs TV, even though their knowledge on the subjects they pronounce on is somewhere between minimal and non-existent and it's time that TV news channels kicked them off and started inviting on guests who are actual experts with practical experience. Groups like the IEA didn't have much credibility to begin with outside of partisan right wing circles and the Truss disaster should serve to fully discredit them.

And yes, their funding needs to be fully disclosed. These groups tend to call themselves think tanks but it's difficult to avoid the conclusion that they are just high-profile lobbyists for their anonymous donors.