Richard Hermer’s New SpAd Is Pro-Extinction Rebellion EU Rejoiner Activist – Guido Fawkes

EXC: Richard Hermer’s New SpAd Is Pro-Extinction Rebellion EU Rejoiner Activist

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Attorney General Richard Hermer’s new SpAd is a rabid EU fanatic with eco-crazed sympathies. Here we go…

Richard Brooks starts today after the only previous Hermer SpAd Chris McQuiggin quit. Over what government sources tell Guido were differences of opinion with the Attorney General that grew too great…

Brooks enters government after a brief f six-month stint at pollster Ipsos and three years at consultancy Portland. Prior to that he worked as communications head at the pro-second referendum outfit For Our Future’s Sake. Which he also founded…

The new SpAd spent two years after his stint as Vice-President of the National Union of Students campaigning against Brexit, for a second referendum, and for freedom of movement. He said in a 2019 newspaper column: “It boggles my mind how there are some who claim that money should be able to move freely, but not people, and still say they are a socialist with a straight face.” Brooks went on:

“A bigger strategic issue, is that the generation changing the face of British politics right now – and a core of the Labour party’s support base – believe in open, diverse and outward looking politics. It’s why we back radical action on the climate crisis, want a people’s vote and defend freedom of movement to the hilt. Putting your party on the other side of a generational culture war isn’t just cowardly – it’s bad politics.”

Self-declared socialist Brooks wrote numerous pieces in favour of a second referendum under the umbrella of the People’s Vote campaign. In an Independent column Brooks praised the work of Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg:

“A whole generation of young people – led by brilliant, diverse leaders like Greta – are rising up to take action where the generations before us have not. Extinction Rebellion – by any definition – has been a huge success. It’s achieved masses of media coverage for an important issue that had been ignored in the UK for at least 2 years. It’s put immense pressure on policy makers to respond.”

Brook’s evidence of that ‘success’ was that “Google searches on climate change have increased by 7 times since the beginning of the campaign.” Should any Labour people be unaware of the kind of brains now advising their lawyer-in-chief…

Hermer is already hated in government by political and civil servant figures alike for his constant obstructionism and disastrous Duty of Candour work. Brooks’ appointment should dispel any worries about the Attorney General straying from his deep progressive leftist beliefs…