Adam Smith Institute

To my far right, Henry Hill is political editor of The Critic and was previously deputy editor of Conservative Home.

He's a senior fellow at the Institute for Government and, controversially, has published with various other think tanks, including Policy Exchange, the TaxPayers Alliance, the Adam Smith Institute-

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... and Right Blue.

I don't like him.

The Adam Smith Institute.

for goodness sake, came out in my support.

I'll never leave this down amongst my leftist Marxist friends.

You know, the Adam Smith Institute, Thatcher's favorite institute.

Norman Lamont proved a very decent man and a very good friend.

He said to me that you and I come from completely different political backgrounds, but, you know, you have a point.

This is the story.

"I don't like him-"

The Adam Smith Institute, for goodness sake, came out in my support.

Norman Lamont.

I'll never live this down-

Yeah

... amongst my leftist Marxist friends.

You know, the Adam Smith Institute.

Yeah.

It says, by Newt Gingrich, who certainly likes commercial space, Zitelman has made a major contribution toward the thinking about the future of humans in space.

And then he's got quotes here from our friend at Harvard, who I need to get back on the show, the economist Matt Winsor, Zubrin, Madison Prides, president of the Adam Smith Institute, for those of you who know what that is, Jesus Huerta de Soto of the King Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Zhang, professor of economics at the Peking University, and Professor Hans-Werner Sinn, former president of the IFO Institute in Munich.

So that is next Sunday.

And then

And so the test of the Heritage Foundation, British Aerospace, Cable & Wireless, Amersham International, National Freight, Brit Oil, Associated British Ports, Enterprise Oil, Jaguar, British Telecommunications, British Shipbuilders, British Gas, British Airways, Rolls Royce, BAA, British Steel, Water, British Electricity, they're all privatized by the Thatcher government.

And she also was going to privatize the NHS at the request of another Koch brothers owned industry called the Adam Smith Institute.

But she was backed

off of this

because this would have been like political suicide for at the time although she did try again and it was again sort of rebuffed and then a year later in 1983 she introduced the griffiths bill which basically introduced middle managers into um the the national health service rather than physicians making decisions and this is the sort of slippery slope towards the privatization that um america wants to introduce basically now you know did wilbur ross the chamber of commerce Woody Johnson the UK ambassador and Donald Trump have all said basically yeah we want to get in there we want to basically get our pharmaceutical companies in the NHS which would go against the point of having the National Alliance Health Service it would basically make it far more expensive for UK citizens but as we said the entire Reagan doctrine was based on recommendations from the Heritage Foundation here's one Obamacare was based on recommendations from the Heritage Foundation and The Clinton policy of removing people from welfare or PRWRA was Heritage Foundation policy.

And I think you've noticed that Trump is going to start taking lots of people off food stamps soon as well.

Now, basically, the Heritage Foundation runs, as I said, the Adam Smith Institute, the IEA or the Institute of Economic Affairs and Turning Point UK and the Institute of Free Trade.

And again, these are all think tanks set up in the UK.

back to dan so joining me we've got jasper ossel from the adam smith institute the head of education and sorry research and education we've got will yarwood campaign director of the taxpayers alliance fred de fossard the strategy director from the prosperity institute our very own albion mancona voice for freedom and we've got for the first time maeve halligan joining us from the institute of economic affairs Right, Jasper, one minute.

What are the prospects of liberty under the present government? You're very generous with one minute.

It doesn't take very long to say not much.

You know, the kind of libertarian Republicans of the past, the conservatives who were more libertarian, the classical liberals that are out there, many of them economists, political scientists.

and so on, so the think tanks, you know, places like Cato, and probably, you know, Mises.org, some of it, some of it not, but certainly Fee, and FIRE, and IEA, and the Adam Smith Institute, and there's like a dozen, probably here just in London, of these kind of free market leaning think tanks, and just look at British politics, and don't look at the labor movement right now, look at Look at what happened during Boris Johnson's tenure as the Conservative Party head.

Look at what happened to the Conservative Party, who these people at the Adam Smith Institute, IEA, and all these other think tanks, they had access.

They could knock on their door and walk in.

invite them in their receptions and then the very same people would invite Greta Thunberg and give her a standing ovation or these very same people who sanction these institutions by yeah we're all for liberty