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For the avoidance of doubt (none, I hope!) I despise these people and their agenda.

However I’m not sure I see anything that sinister here. MPs are permitted to participate in interest groups consisting of other like minded MPs and outside organisations to promote matters which particularly exercise them in the hope that they can become part of their own party’s policy agenda. It can’t be much of a surprise to any half awake member of the electorate that Green Party MPs, and the more extreme left wing fringe of the Labour Party, promote something called the Green New Deal.

A couple of years ago you could have written a similar article featuring such characters as Bill Cash and Jacob Rees Mogg participating in a sinister band called the European Research Group and drawn links with their Mete Cobain equivalent (apologies fir the analogy Martin showed KC!) and right wing organisations called the Freedom Association. Nobody voted for the ERG!

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