The World Economic Forum’s Klaus Schwab has been accused of rigging research to make Brexit look like a failure, intervening in the WEF’s annual Global Competitiveness Report to push the UK down the rankings. The Telegraph has more.
Klaus Schwab, the face of the Davos conference in Switzerland for years, allegedly intervened in the WEF’s annual Global Competitiveness Report, which ranks countries on productivity and long-term prosperity.
In the 2017/2018 report, the UK’s ranking improved from seventh to fourth after a change in methodology.
But Mr Schwab, 87, wrote to staff that the UK “must not see any improvement”, as otherwise it would be “exploited by the Brexit camp”.
The final report published in 2017 showed the UK had dropped one place to eighth.
The WEF said at the time the Brexit vote had not fed into the rankings but warned it was likely to undermine UK competitiveness in the future.
“Brexit… will by definition weaken the UK’s markets component as integration with the EU is rolled back,” the report said.
At the time of the report, the UK had voted to leave the European Union but had not yet done so, and the difficult Brexit negotiations were at their beginning.
There was still discussion of the possibility of holding a second referendum in order to reverse the result of the 2016 vote.
Baroness Theresa May, the then-Prime Minister, spoke at the Davos summit in January 2017 and 2018. She said that Britain was looking to its post-Brexit future “with confidence” and planned to “build a truly Global Britain” based around free trade.
Allegations that Mr Schwab ordered the figures to be changed were made in an internal WEF investigation, launched after a whistleblower accused him of misusing funds, making suggestive remarks to younger staff and manipulating research.
Switzerland’s SonntagsZeitung newspaper obtained some of the preliminary findings.
Brexiteers told the Telegraph that allegations of tampering with data exposed “anti-democratic practices” at the WEF.
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“…anti-democratic practices” at the WEF? Well, you could have knocked me down with a feather!
Yeah, what a surprise, who could have possibly guessed?
Absolute tip of the Iceberg on what has been going on though!
Trust nothing from anyone in “authority” unless it can be independently verified.
Why would anyone expect the WEF to be democratic? I don’t recall ever being asked to vote it into existence or to help decide its constitution.
This output of the WEF is clearly not ‘data’. At best it’s the output of a model combining data according to some pre-determined rules. However, this ‘revelation’ about Schwab indicates it’s actually just opinion – his.
Aren’t these the same people who said every bank would leave London? Who told us that millions would be unemployed? The economy crashed?
I work in IT, in banking. Not a single employee left. Staff expanded. Data centres have been built. Projects ad nauseum. Compared to the EUrinal the 1/2 Brexit we got still puts us out in front. Imagine if it had been a full Brexit….
“Imagine if it had been a full Brexit…” Well said, and something I try to do from time to time. Previous governments were half-hearted about the whole thing, keeping us tied into arrangements that weren’t in our favour (without which, I’m sure we would have been in a better position to control immigration) and leaving the door open for a future government to ease us back into the EU, which Starmer seems intent on doing.
So when we are told how badly UK is doing by Remoaners, we can answer “is that according to the WEF or is it true?”
Why is it so difficult to buy UK grown mushrooms? Morrisons mostly sell Irish mushrooms, Asda sells mostly Polish ones. There is a deafening silence online about expanding UK production, to displace EU imports.
Does the govt understand the concept of wealth creation?
Er, no it doesn’t. Wealth destruction? Oh, yes. Experts.
Of course he did, he is Satanic.
Nah, he is just a fool. There is more matter in my daughter’s budgie’s forty-odd daily excrements than there is between his ears.
Fair comment from Jim;
”Brexit didn’t fail. It was never even tried.
The vote gave us the tools – control over borders, laws, money, and trade. But the political class locked them in the toolbox. Instead of using Brexit to rebuild sovereignty, they sabotaged it. First by dragging their feet, then by outsourcing key powers back to Brussels through treaties, regulations, and de facto alignment.
Blame lies not with the vote, but with the cowards and saboteurs who refused to act on it. The civil service, Parliament, and large swathes of the media never accepted the result. So instead of forging a new path, they’ve spent the last decade trying to reverse it by stealth – while pretending it was all a mistake.
If Brexit has cost billions, it s because those in power made sure it would. They refused to seize the opportunities, then pointed to the mess they made as proof the people were wrong.
That’s not failure. That’s betrayal.”
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And where would you rather be Sir Keith Davos or Westminster?
Globalist filth, midwived by the like of the BBC
Lies, damned lies and statistics. Schwab and the WEF specialise in all three. Never forget that Sunak, Two-Tier and Badenough are all WEF-approved Puppeticians.
Our esteemed Prime Minister Mr Starmer, is on record as saying that he prefers Davos over Westminster, he has also further tied us to the EU in total disregard to the will of the electorate and the fact that he had the worst popular vote in more than 100 years. It does make me wonder why people like him are in politics. Perhaps he is angling for a place at the top table in the WEF and a seat in the House of Lords.
Meanwhile people are getting poorer by the day, his rich buddies are deserting the country because of his policies, maybe decamping to Davos and he’s rapidly turning us into a police state where it’s acceptable to jail vulnerable women and have the teeth of any dissenters knocked out using tactics popular in the 1930s.
And we thought Blair and his bunch of charlatans were bad.
When all these people take a plane each to get together in a mountain hideaway to discuss how to run the world; you just know they don’t have us in mind.
The fact they tried to manipulate things to disparage a democratic decision; you know it must have been the right decision
Their cabal isn’t even very original, surely Klaus Schwab is Ernst Blofeld
We have a Davos loving Prime Minister, and most of the rest wipe the arses of the UN and WEF as well, so what hope is there? They all love the EU which is the dummy run for global government. The mass immigration we see is a deliberate attempt to destroy National Identity that the Davos Club sees as outdated and needs modified. After all , they don’t care where all the people live as they want to govern us all anyway.