A Poppet Or A Puppet?
According to a poll in “More In Common”, 52% of the UK electorate would prefer Kamala Harris to win the US Presidential Election, compared to 25% hoping for a Donald Trump victory.
https://x.com/LukeTryl/status/1847674479465681314
I have no idea how many people were surveyed in that poll, or who it constituted, however doubtless those same people hoping for a Harris victory would have been touched by a recent photo of Angela Rayner, UK Deputy Prime Minister, on the arm of US billionaire and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. How touching to see the girl raised in a council house, who made such a big deal of asserting she was still living in one until its sale in 2015, hobnobbing with someone so steeped in the corporate world.
https://x.com/democracyOK/status/1845800790855655902
The venue of course was the recent International Investment Summit in London attended by numerous corporate grandees. The Labour Government was indulging in a PR exercise that purported to show a host of international corporations eager to invest in Britain and that this summit was securing this investment.
The reality of course was much of this had already been agreed and indeed announced many months earlier, as illustrated in an excellent thread on X.
https://x.com/tapas321/status/1845887153404105113
Even then, the motormouth of the Transport Minister, Louise Haigh, had a determined crack at alienating one of the leading attendees, DP World (owners of P and O Ferries) to the point that they were going to withdraw from their proposed £1 billion investment in London Gateway until the Prime Minister personally intervened to push her to the sidelines.
https://www.ft.com/content/02fdaa68-ce6b-4d8b-8489-b063eb71c34b
As for the presence of other luminaries of international “stakeholder capitalism” such as Bill Gates and Larry Fink, be sure that they would not have given up their time for such gatherings for nothing. They will be well briefed on the Labour Government’s spending plans on Great British Energy and Ed Miliband’s “Carbon Capture Project”, amongst other vast government spending programmes. Billions of pounds of public spending are presumably waiting to be hoovered up and they will doubtless be eager to get their share of those spoils. Even Labour supporting publications such as The Guardian have been voicing concerns over this for months.
BlackRock are already major investors in several carbon capture projects across the United States including Occidental’s “direct air capture” project in Texas and an aborted carbon capture pipeline across the Midwest. Occidental is reported to have plans for around a hundred other such plants to the one in Texas despite repeated construction delays and cost increases, no doubt a harbinger of what lies ahead for any British project of a similar nature. Initial cost estimates for this plant in Texas have already soared from $800 million in 2022 to $1.3 billion.
BlackRock has been cosying up to the Labour Party for at least 12 months now in anticipation of it being re-elected to government . This relationship can hardly be viewed as being born out of altruism. BlackRock with over $10 trillion dollars of assets, and already the owner of major pieces of infrastructure, including airports and energy companies, will be sure to drive a hard bargain. They will also be a major player in deciding which other private infrastructure companies are allowed onboard, as well as being a key source for funding any likely borrowing that is required.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-starmer-blackrock-support-fink-b2432113.html
Bill Gates would have been delighted to hear of the selection of Eli Lilly, a company with which he and his foundation have been connected, being awarded a contract to provide weight loss treatments, including jabs, on the NHS. I wonder too whether rumours that farmland will no longer be exempt from taxation when passed on to the children of deceased parents on their death will be confirmed in the forthcoming budget. If so, it is a surefire way to erode and end the traditional private ownership of farmland in the UK. Gates, as the biggest owner of agricultural land already in the USA, would hardly be displeased at the opportunity such a policy potentially offers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk7l30egjeo
The UK has already been definitively asset stripped over recent decades, probably more so than any comparable Western nation. American corporations have steadily carved up so much of the British economy, often at the behest of shortsighted Governments of both main political hues, that all that remains left is a bunfight over it’s corpse. A country blessed with huge amounts of natural energy and fertile farmland, the UK ought to be completely secure in terms of resources. However much of it has been sold off to overseas corporations or sacrificed on the altar of “net zero”.
Returning finally to Angela Rayner, after a bumpy spell earlier this year, the Deputy Prime Minister’s star appears to be on the rise. Reports suggest she is about to be given charge of a £1 billion council house building programme.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13981659/Angela-Rayner-sets-council-housing-revolution.html
She has also just been appointed to the UK’s National Security Council, which is tasked with assessing the biggest security threats to the UK. Maybe knowing that will help us sleep more soundly in our beds at night. Or far more probably, it won’t.
However, if and when Starmer is finally viewed as too toxic even for his own MPs, is it not too fanciful to speculate that in the near future the fate and the security of the free world will rest in the hands of Kamala Harris and Angela Rayner? For those keen to get to know her better, permit me to recommend a parody YouTube channel called Intel Lady which hosts a series of videos called “No Brainer With Angela Rayner”. There’s so much material it seems to need a new video uploaded on an almost daily basis!