The Blair family are looting the British people with the help of the government.
This is a tale of how your taxes flow into the pockets of those connected to power in a closed loop.
The UK government is handing £500 million of taxpayers money to a Sovereign AI fund to be led by Suzanne Ashman, daughter-in-law of Tony Blair.
That same government has already been funnelling tens of millions into Multiverse, an AI training company founded by Euan Blair, Tony Blair's son.
Yes, Euan Blair is married to Suzanne Ashman.
Multiverse receives up to £18,000 per person. Cohorts of 100. Multiple rounds. You do the maths.
They generated £79.6 million in revenue last year, largely from government contracts and taxpayers money. This is despite falling below the targets for the service they are supposed to be providing.
They don't need to compete for customers in any meaningful market sense. They need to maintain proximity to the people who control the budget. That is a completely different incentive structure.
No price signal exists to tell anyone whether £18,000 per head for an AI business analysis course represents value for money. No profit and loss mechanism. No competitive pressure. No consequences for overpaying.
The bureaucrat who signed off on this contract will never feel the cost. The taxpayer who funded it will never know the counterfactual.
Now look at Multiverse's AI Advisory Board.
Doug Gurr, former Chair of the Alan Turing Institute, the body that directly advises government on AI strategy, also sits on Multiverse's advisory board.
The same Multiverse being paid by the government whose strategy he helped shape.
Kersti Kaljulaid, former President of Estonia and member of Microsoft's AI advisory board, is also advising Multiverse.
Professor Michael Wooldridge, Head of Computer Science at Oxford.
Dame Wendy Hall, one of the most connected figures in UK technology policy.
Think about the circularity. The Alan Turing Institute advises government on AI strategy. Its Chair advises Multiverse. Multiverse receives government funding.
The people shaping the policy are advising the company that benefits from it.
It is a closed loop.
This is the Cantillon effect in its purest form. Money does not flow equally across the economy. It flows first and most generously to those closest to the people who control the budget.
This has received zero coverage from the mainstream media.
This should be a national scandal.
⚡️BREAKING
Iranian military has announced that it has replaced all damaged air defenses
The country's airspace has also been fully opened to air traffic
I’m a British Jew in England
I didn’t interpret #DeathToTheIDF as a call for people to kill me because
1. I’m not in the IDF
2. It doesn’t call for the death of individuals - the clue is in “The IDF”
3. I’m not brain dead
😂😂😂 Fucking hilarious! I wonder how long it took Neil and his crusty hairpiece to come up with that one? “It’s effectively a call for a second Holocaust…”
Some nonentity rapper shouts ‘death, death to the IDF’ from a Glastonbury stage. The audience of idiots repeat the refrain, again and again.
It’s effectively a call for a second Holocaust because the IDF is all that stands between Israel and a second Holocaust.
And the BBC broadcast it live.
Which at least let us see with our own eyes how Glastonbury can morph from music concert to Nazi-style rally, more Nuremberg than Glasto.
This is quite simply disgusting. A music festival audience urging the deaths of Israelis who were literally slaughtered at a music festival. Glastonbury ought to be ashamed of themselves…
https://t.co/6thZUBU9iQ