Keir Starmer's time is up

[DotCommunist]

just a reminder that BlackRock gave Osborne a non job worth many hundreds of thous after he prioritised them for the buying of 'accidentally' undervalued Post Office shares. They made out like fucking bandits and so did Osborne. Pure rent seeking extractors, makers of nothing.

 

[brogdale]

just a reminder that BlackRock gave Osborne a non job worth many hundreds of thous after he prioritised them for the buying of 'accidentally' undervalued Post Office shares. They made out like fucking bandits and so did Osborne. Pure rent seeking extractors, makers of nothing.

Classic wealth creators

 

[brogdale]

Thing is that BlackRock is such a vast, complex and all encompassing shadow bank that it is well beyond the ken of most people; it would genuinely be hard to explain to many voters just how troubling it is to see the revolving door/corruption extend to the LP.

Just one mind-blowing metric from Wiki:

In 2021, BlackRock managed over $10 trillion in assets under management, about 40% of the GDP of the United States

 

[Pickman's model]

Thing is that BlackRock is such a vast, complex and all encompassing shadow bank that it is well beyond the ken of most people; it would genuinely be hard to explain to many voters just how troubling it is to see the revolving door/corruption extend to the LP.

Just one mind-blowing metric from Wiki:

Extend? Has the corruption of the Blair administration been so soon forgotten?

 

[brogdale]

Extend? Has the corruption of the Blair administration been so soon forgotten?

Yes, point taken. Remain would have been more appropriate.

 

[teuchter]

This is probably more accurate on the figures for the numbers of farms affected.

The Agricultural Weasel Problem — Adam Smith Institute

Farmers say that around 70,000 farms will be affected by the restrictions on inheritance tax relief in Rachel Reeve’s Budget. The government and their cheerleaders say it will only be a tiny minority, just a few hundred. Who is right, and how do they get such widely different ‘facts’? The answe

www.adamsmith.org

The Adam Smith Institute.

 

[brogdale]

The Adam Smith Institute.

Gotta love the way the ASI calibrate the extent of those affected by including all those that, probably after taking professional advice, will dodge paying any tax at all.

 

[brogdale]

Damn, i said i wouldn't talk about this topic in this thread; my bad.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I reckon Clive Lewis will have another stab at leader once Sir Starmer is dust

Could do a lot worse. He'd be torpedoed by the grey goo faction though.

 

[brogdale]

Appropriately enough (to Pickman's model point above) this Substack entry today from Peter Geoghegan neatly draws the line of New Labour corruption straight into the Starmer fold:

The lobbying watchdog is currently investigating his ‘advisory’ firm Global Counsel following revelations in this newsletter about its undeclared lobbying for a Qatari state freeport business.

Now Democracy for Sale has discovered that senior staff at Mandelson’s lobbying firm are behind an industry-funded think tank that is urging Labour ministers to adopt controversial private finance deals.

Two senior staff at Global Counsel have leading roles at the Future Governance Forum, a Labour-aligned think tank that has called for Keir Starmer to adopt a new form of private finance initiatives (PFI) to build new schools and hospitals.

Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell, who has been suspended from the parliamentary Labour Party, told this newsletter: “In the late 1990s it was corporate lobbyists who sold PFIs as the solution to New Labour’s financing challenge. They proved to be a hugely costly failure.

“It’s hard to believe that Labour policymakers are taking us round the same track as the lobbyists of the corporate vultures sell the PFI snake oil once again.”