This week Sir Keir Starmer welcomed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Chequers, where the two men reflected “on the progress made between the UK and Germany in recent months”.
Forget the second referendum, Starmer appears to be taking matters into his own hands – and deciding that Brits want to rejoin the trade bloc.
One organisation that will be very happy about this is Open Society Foundations (OSF), run by US billionaire George Soros (albeit his son Alexander is said to be the main driving force).
Soros appears particularly keen that the UK should rejoin the EU, judging by the numerous Remainer projects funded by the OFS.
Perhaps the most famous is Best for Britain, which has been busy monitoring Starmer’s movements:
A press release published in 2018 (and updated in August 2019) shows the OSF awarding Best for Britain £2,799,689 between 2017 and 2019.
Furthermore, from 2020 to 2023, OSF awarded Best for Britain $1,573,320 (roughly £1,267,326 – according to Grok) – leaving the total at £4,067,015 between 2017 and 2023:
Best for Britain, whose director is Lord Darroch, has some big supporters, such as Carol Vorderman…
… and Anna Soubry, who is known to tag…
…and retweet Best for Britain on X:
Best for Britain is one of a number of groups “working to support and debate engagement on the case for the UK staying in the European Union” (as the OSF put it in 2018) long after the Brexit vote.
Another is the European Movement (EuroMove), which received £200,000 from OSF between 2017 and 2018 and even has access to Parliament via sponsorship of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Europe:
Its Co-Presidents are Dominic Grieve and Caroline Lucas:
And its chair is Mike Galsworthy (above centre), who is a familiar face on the Remainer circuit (photographed with Steve Bray below):
Galsworthy is also founder of Bylines Network and Scientists for EU – the latter of which received £35,000 from Soros in 2017. Its X account mainly recirculates posts by EuroMove, Galsworthy and Dominic Grieve.
Recently Galsworthy posted about the EU youth mobility scheme…
…helpfully flagging a “handy interface” for lobbying purposes…
…as well as trying to convince others to leave X:
That’s when he’s not supporting the Bylines Network, which in September hosted militant Remainer Femi Oluwole at one of its meetings:
What a small world!
In recent months there has been lots of discussion about foreign interference, after there were rumours Elon Musk might fund Reform.
Best for Britain was very vocal on the subject, and even suggested the Electoral Commission should get involved.
How can it complain, given the millions Best for Britain has had from its own foreign benefactor, Soros? It’s outrageous hypocrisy.
But even more importantly, why is Soros – architect of ‘Black Wednesday‘ in which the British pound rapidly devalued – so desperate for the UK to rejoin the EU?
(I touched upon some of the issues in this article in a recent Daily Sceptic podcast.
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