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It's difficult to determine who is at the top, like in the UK. Who are the principle people who control PM Johnson? There's the royal family, but without resour
by pbhjpbhj 5y ago
It's difficult to determine who is at the top, like in the UK. Who are the principle people who control PM Johnson? There's the royal family, but without resources of the secret service it's impossible to know who he's taking direction from. There are occasional glimpses: connection of Russian money to Brexit, delay of the Russia Report, delay of sanctions against oligarchs showing them to handle their finances before sanctions take effect, etc., but that's one small block, I suspect. Clearly there's heavy interplay with media tycoons. But really it's all pretty opaque.
- jen20 5y ago> Who are the principle people who control PM Johnson? The editors of the Daily Mail and The Sun, donors like the Elliotts, and whoever has financial kompromat.
- javajosh 5y agoThere are far too few technologists in that list. Twitter, for example, certainly drives the decisions of politicians these days; politicians perceive it a pretty good substitute for polling, for better or worse, and have the donations to prove it.
- jen20 5y agoI'd imagine politicians only care about it because the media may report on it.