The channel was set up by the right-wing comedian (yes, such things exist), Konstantin Kisin (whose website quotes endorsements from the Telegraph and Spectator) and fellow performer, Francis Foster. UnHerd’s Paul Embery, who claims that the left hates the working classes, has been featured on TRIGGERnometry, a YouTube channel with over 180k followers. In 2018, UnHerd was bankrolled by the millionaire Sir Paul Marshall, former director of the trillion-dollar asset firm BlackRock and co-founder of the pro-Brexit, billion-dollar hedge fund, Marshall Wace, which made £50 million betting against companies in the early months of the COVID crisis. The aim of UnHerd actually appears to be presenting a broad spectrum of ideas within an overarching right-wing narrative that generally supports Brexit and ending the national lockdown. Montgomerie quit a year later and under the direction of ex-YouGov chief digital officer,įreddie Sayers, UnHerd’s mission was “to push back against the herd mentality with new and bold thinking, and to provide a platform for otherwise unheard ideas, people and places.” The initial website was unsubtle and included rightists like Lionel Shriver and Douglas Murray as columnists and guests. In 2017, Montgomerie, who is also co-founder of the Christian Conservative Fellowship, established UnHerd with the Tory peer, Sir (now Lord) Theodore Agnew, founder of the private equity firm Somerton Capital and the holdings company WNS. While the NCF rails against “political correctness” and “left wokeness,” UnHerd takes a seemingly more intellectual approach, presenting itself as a sensible alternative to mainstream censorship by providing a “free speech” platform. In response to Black Lives Matter, it has pushed identity politics via a Save Our Statues campaign and promoted on YouTube celebrities and talking heads, including singer-actor Laurence Fox, commentator Melanie Phillips, and historian David Starkey. The NCF has come to prominence in recent years, with its pro-Brexit, lockdown-sceptical stance. Ex-Chancellor Nigel Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation is also located there, as was UK2020, a pro-austerity think tank co-founded by the Tory MP and climate sceptic, Owen Paterson, and advised by the NCF’s Tim Montgomerie, then-editor of. Tufton Street is notorious for being the hub of climate-denying, pro-Brexit think tanks and big Tory donors. Smith, whose HR Smith Group enjoys £20 million-worth of shares. To fight leftist ideas, the NCF was incorporated in 2010 and moved to 55 Tufton Street, a building owned by NCF Advisor and avionics entrepreneur, Richard E. They achieved this with Brexit and are continuing with COVID. Their long-term agenda is to threaten to rob the Tories of votes by capturing working-class voters in a form of strategic blackmail to nudge Tory policies further to the right. As TLE pointed out, those who both oppose lockdown and support Brexit believe in their own notion of “liberty,” which is being exploited by today’s digital press barons. To counter public opinion, pro-Brexit multimillionaire asset manager, Richard Tice, and stock-trader millionaire, Nigel Farage, rebranded their Brexit Party “Reform UK.” Their latest agenda is ending lockdowns. In October, 67 per cent supported a proposed two-week lockdown. In March, 93 per cent supported lockdown. But they have a problem: the public doesn’t. These investors want the economy to remain open, regardless of the human cost. These financial investors have their fingers in many corporate pies, including owning major shares in entertainment, hospitality, leisure, manufacturing, and retail all of which have been crushed by the government’s handling of the COVID crisis. But the Tory-donating, Brexit-supporting uber-class of asset managers, hedge funders, and private equity firms do not want any of this. Even pre-COVID majorities or pluralities supported rent controls and universal basic incomes. Over 50 percent of voters support putting electricity, gas, mail, rail, and water services back into public ownership. Fifty-one to 35 per cent agree that billionaires shouldn’t exist. When it comes to economic issues, majorities or pluralities of Britons want what the Labour Party has to offer.
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