> The [[Policy Exchange](https://archive.ph/uJmh4)] report called for protest laws to be “urgently reformed in order to strengthen the ability of police to place restrictions on planned protest and deal more effectively with mass law-breaking tactics”.
> Sections of Priti Patel’s controversial policing bill, which became the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, appear to come straight from the Policy Exchange report.
Policy Exchange was identified by George Monbiot as one of the “secretly funded lobby groups intent on undermining democracy” in a 2020 Guardian piece which provides further background:
> Last year, Policy Exchange published a polemic that claimed Extinction Rebellion is led by dangerous extremists. As usual, it was widely covered by the media. Less discussed was the report that the lobby group has received funding from the power company Drax, the trade association Energy UK, and the gas companies E.ON and Cadent, whose fossil-fuel investments are threatened by environmental activism. These are among the few funders whose identities we know. Policy Exchange is listed by Who Funds You? as among the UK’s most opaque thinktanks. It might seem remarkable that without having to reveal its funders, while promoting shifts that could harm civil society, Policy Exchange remains a registered charity.
They’ve got to be headquartered in a volcano lair, surely?
opendemocracy are part funded by the Ford Foundation, as in Ford cars. So open democracy funded by secretive foundation linked to big oil and catastrophic environmental damage.
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> The [[Policy Exchange](https://archive.ph/uJmh4)] report called for protest laws to be “urgently reformed in order to strengthen the ability of police to place restrictions on planned protest and deal more effectively with mass law-breaking tactics”.
> Sections of Priti Patel’s controversial policing bill, which became the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act, appear to come straight from the Policy Exchange report.
Based on the quote above, the report is the one titled *Extremism Rebellion* (available [archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220606164133/https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Extremism-Rebellion.pdf) (PDF)).
Policy Exchange was identified by George Monbiot as one of the “secretly funded lobby groups intent on undermining democracy” in a 2020 Guardian piece which provides further background:
> Last year, Policy Exchange published a polemic that claimed Extinction Rebellion is led by dangerous extremists. As usual, it was widely covered by the media. Less discussed was the report that the lobby group has received funding from the power company Drax, the trade association Energy UK, and the gas companies E.ON and Cadent, whose fossil-fuel investments are threatened by environmental activism. These are among the few funders whose identities we know. Policy Exchange is listed by Who Funds You? as among the UK’s most opaque thinktanks. It might seem remarkable that without having to reveal its funders, while promoting shifts that could harm civil society, Policy Exchange remains a registered charity.
— [No 10 and the secretly funded lobby groups intent on undermining democracy](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/01/no-10-lobby-groups-democracy-policy-exchange), Guardian, 1/9/2020
Exxon Mobile … the new Overlords.
Seriously, on hands on decks lads!
Drax?
They’ve got to be headquartered in a volcano lair, surely?
opendemocracy are part funded by the Ford Foundation, as in Ford cars. So open democracy funded by secretive foundation linked to big oil and catastrophic environmental damage.
THE PROTECT RIGHT PROTEST TO.