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*PREVIEW* Mr. Lobby feat. Ethan Shone

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TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s bonus, it’s Riley, Milo, Hussein, and November speaking with journalist Ethan Shone (@ejshone93), author of The Dark Arts newsletter, about the sheer volume of lobbyists in Parliament and their influence on UK politics. Safe to guess that it’s completely benign, and actually good? Check out Ethan’s work at OpenDemocracy here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/ethan-shone/ Check out The Dark Arts here: https://thedarkarts.substack.com/ Get the full episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/mr-lobby-feat-108854355 KJB LIVE ALERT Kill James Bond are doing three nights at Conway Hall in Central London on 9th, 10th, and 11th August, and there’s also livestream tickets available if you can’t make it! Details are available here: https://www.killjamesbond.com/live MILO ALERT  Milo’s special ‘Voicemail’ is premiering on YouTube on July 10th - check it out here:https://youtu.be/x4oTP3M6ppo Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's look at who a number of prime ministers has appointed as their business advisor,

0:04.6

like the Downing Street business liaison, the main channel for a lot of above the board lobbying to the prime minister.

0:11.0

Rishi Sunak appointed a banker.

0:13.1

Trust picked someone from the energy industry.

0:15.2

Boris Johnson, in classic form, appointed a think tanker.

0:18.4

Theresa May picked a very old investment banker.

0:21.2

And then Starmor hired a guy from a company called Hackliute,

0:25.1

Varun Chandra.

0:27.4

Ethan, can you tell us a little about Hackleyhood?

0:29.9

Yeah, so there are two versions of this.

0:33.7

So there's the thing that's actually true and real and has happened,

0:37.1

which is that they were formed out of,

0:40.2

formed by former MI6 operatives.

0:44.3

Former.

0:45.0

Big, big quotes around former.

0:46.7

We should really emphasize that.

0:48.3

They're very keen to emphasize that.

0:50.3

And for a number of years operated in,

0:53.8

in the shadows, so to speak.

0:55.8

So they were doing what they would term kind of, I don't know, strategic consultancy,

0:59.5

one of those things that doesn't really kind of mean anything.

1:03.1

You're a fairly adopted consultancy.

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