UK PM Cameron's press secretary once paid by Pfizer to work for ALEC-backed Atlantic Bridge

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/11/david-cameron-aide-liam-fox

One of the prime minister's most senior advisers was paid £25,000 by a major US drug company to work as a researcher for Liam Fox's charity while he was shadow health secretary.

Gabby Bertin, who is now David Cameron's press secretary, was paid by pharmaceutical firm Pfizer to work for Fox's controversial Atlantic Bridge charity. Bertin was a close colleague of Adam Werritty, Fox's best man and self-styled adviser.

The charity, which was shut down last month after a damning report found it promoted Tory party ideals in defiance of regulations, has funded several of Werritty's 18 trips to meet the defence secretary overseas.

Bertin's job at Atlantic Bridge adds to the close links between the Conservatives and the charity, which boasted Lady Thatcher as its patron and George Osborne, William Hague and Michael Gove among its advisory board. The charity was dissolved by its trustees on 30 September after the Charity Commission said its primary objective appeared to be "promoting a political policy is closely associated with the Conservative party".

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More evidence of ties between British conservatives and ALEC. See this topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2078739

for earlier stories on this scandal. Liam Fox is now the British defense secretary, but he was the shadow (opposition) health secretary at the time the woman who's now Cameron's press secretary was being paid by Pfizer to work for this "charity" that has recently been dissolved because its activities were ruled to be political.

See replies 9 and 10 in that earlier topic for posts from UK blogger Stephen Newton (now a DU member), whose one-man campaign against Fox's non-charity led to it being exposed for what it is.

Stephen asked about ALEC's connections with the defense industry. There is a definite neocon connection, as he's mentioned in some of his blog posts about ALEC.

See my reply 11 in that topic for the neocon background of the director of ALEC's International Relations Task Force, and ALEC's interest in defense export treaties.

More on the harm this corporate-front group is doing in the long compilation topic on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

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1. David Cameron is one of the most corrupt men on the planet

Everything associated with this little prick is linked to some sleaze or some scandal.
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2. I agree.

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3. kick