Big tobacco secretly bankrolling anti-NHS think tank whose bosses donate thousan

[Fulcrum]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/big-tobacco-funding-conservatives-nhs-hancock-raab-davis-a8916561.html?utm_source=reddit.com

A secretive think tank which called for the NHS to be scrapped while its heads pour millions into the Conservative Party – and its MPs’ – coffers is being funded by big tobacco, an investigation has found.
Dominic Raab – who, alongside Mr Hancock, is aiming to succeed Theresa May as Conservative leader – also has close links with the IEA, speaking at its 60th anniversary event, and promoting an annual essay competition as recently as last month.
Ian Gilmore, chair of Alcohol Health Alliance UK, said: “Public health would be an early victim of populist free marketism and the victims would be the most vulnerable – including children.”
Funding cuts have already created a “public health crisis”, Mr Gilmore said. “Shrinking the state would make this even worse.”
The IEA said the report predates its current senior staff by a decade and said theBMJ does not have a monopoly on the health and lifestyle economics debate.

Big _______, secretly bankrolling, anti NHS, political donations. It's the perfect conspiracy headline for the perfect conspiracy

Legit though, real talk, spitting it how it is: Fuck these free market, corporate hegemony types and their bought politicians.

[🆒☑🤡]

They don't want a free market, they want a market that serves them.

[Zonesylvania]

ohh! that explains a whole lot! with the beating big tobacco's been taking the last few years it doesnt surprise me at all they're also in favor of the NHS collapsing in exchange

[thisguy123]

Suddenly things make a lot more sense in a perverse kind of way...

[Helix Snake]

First they give you cancer, then they make it so you can't afford to treat it. What exactly do they have to gain from this unless they're literally evil?

[Zonesylvania]

funding extravagant lifestyles on the backs of exploitation