In November it might have come as a bit of a shock to British taxpayers to see Tracy Brabin, the Mayor of West Yorkshire, at the C40 World Mayors Summit in Brazil, sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Sadiq Khan, co-Chair of C40 Cities, headed up the conference and at least two of his £150k-per-year deputies were in attendance.
Brabin made clear that Bloomberg Philanthropies had sponsored the visit:
I have covered its owner Mike Bloomberg previously for the Daily Sceptic, but to recap: he was the three-time Mayor of New York City (2002-2013) and a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for the President of the US.
Nowadays he is the UN Secretary-General Special Envoy for Climate Ambition and Solutions, and President of C40 Cities (which he also funds), as well as training mayors all over the place (as you’ll soon see). In my view he effectively runs London through Sadiq Khan – hardly a great advertisement for the former’s city management skills.
When I first read about Brabin flying to Brazil, courtesy of Bloomberg, I had assumed their political relationship was quite a recent thing.
However, it goes back to at least 2022, when Brabin took part in his course at the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. Here is the main photograph on its website (“Mayors in the classroom with Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson”).
The website explains that “each year, the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative offers leadership and management training to
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This is actually quite scary. Thanks for highlighting it.
Another pile of depressing information.
Looks like another haul by Charlotte.
Yes it is! Bad though it is, it needs to be revealed, so it can be dealt with.
Someone’s got to do it.
So it’s onward with the subscription on her substack channel.
I suggest everyone looks at the current Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill which is now at committee stage in the Lords.
Look at section 6 – Making decisions and Validity of Meetings.
In mayoral authorities, decisions are made by the majority, but that majority must include the mayor.
If members or substitutes at a meeting do not meet eligibility criteria the meeting is still valid.
The Commons have continued to allow this Local Mayoral Dictatorship throughout all their readings and committee stages.
Will the Lords see this danger?
Has Lord Young seen this section?
I have not seen anything in alternative media highlighting this.
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That is a good spot. So everyone’s vote is equal, except some (whose vote) is more equal than others… what could possibly go wrong?
bloomberg’s gatherings for mayors remind me of the the Mormon, Covey, who developed the business model for organising your work day. All major businesses jumped on the bandwagon to attend covey training sessions, buy his daytimers and become followers of the covey method. Well folks just like the covey method and many before, the Bloomberg training will become a thing of the past as will his disciples until the next “big thing” in managing people, towns, budgets, hits the headlines.
“Where’s there’s muck there’s brass”, I suppose
Bloomberg’s operation seems similar to the World Empire of Fascists Hitler Youth programme that includes Sunak, Rutte, Adolf Trudeau and Horse Face of NZ as attendees.
Just grifting.
Obviously, the most important issue for the leader of Blackpool Council is tackling Climate Change.
There is an opportunity I think to create a very specific role framework for councils – ‘this is what you are here to do’. Nothing less, nothing more. If you want to add to it, it has to be voted on… focus required. Align budget around it – ringfence funds so you can’t rob the park maintenance budget to go on a fact finding mission to Barbados etc
More brilliant sleuthing from Charlotte Gill !
These Bloomberg “Leadership Courses” remind me of the UK Common Purpose Leadership Courses so bravely exposed by retired Royal Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brian Gerrish, founder of the UK Column.
As Brian Gerrish revealed some years ago, “Common Purpose” was founded by Julia Middleton, former Editor of “MARXISM TODAY”, who was actually contracted by David Cameron when he was Prime Minister to offer “Leadership Courses” to Tory civil servants, which urged them to follow her slogan “Go Beyond Authority” when the time came … [for the Marxist Revolution?]
That’s right, the Tory Prime Minister invited a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist to train Tory civil servants in how to “Go Beyond Authority”.
Was this the inspiration for Bloomberg’s own “Leadership Courses”?
And are they any different from Klaus Schwab’s “Young Global Leaders Programme”?
David Icke referenced this article on Rhoda Wilson’s website “The Expose”:
Here are the Names and Faces of WEF’s Young Global Leaders in the United Kingdom – The Expose
Thanks. Why am I not reassured?
Does anyone still read Faust – any version?
Far back in the mists of time, I read it, but I’ve forgotten it all, so thanks for reminding me to read it again. You know, just to cheer myself up… 🙁
🙂 . Well, one curiosity in that list of Young Global Leaders was “Gina Badenoch”, who looks a bit like Hamish, so I wondered if she was his sister, or maybe his long-lost Mexican cousin, minus the sombrero…
If Reform were elected to govern and they did not both remove taxpayer and lottery money funding and refuse these bodies any kind of advisory role with government they will set out to destroy a Reform government.
Brabin is on well over £100K all expenses paid. The article doesn’t say if she has joined the Global Parliament of Mayors (no foreign interference there..) Everyone ready for a world of joined up SMART cities, digital ID and social credit scoring? How they must laugh at us little people.
I suppose it beats actually working.
There is definitely an initial air of ‘fully paid jolly abroad and travel at the front of the plane? Yes please!’ About it … but then it continues. ABAC laws were introduced many years ago – I wonder if they are followed here?
And what is bloomberg expecting as return on this “investment “?
Control
I see the C40 project as an elite agenda to embed globalism (Agenda 30 goals too) at a local level. So, in effect, controlled national establishment party governments deliver the globalist agenda and at a regional/local level C40 mayors push the same agenda so there is very limited room for democratic challenge or obstruction of the agenda.
Absolutely staggering. We have foreign enterprises directly involved in our political systems and yet “nothing to see here.” Are we given sight of the training materials, the course notes, the agendas for these “events?” Are we F.
And Andy Burnham is fully on board, well what a surprise. He has made a tremendous job of firking Greater Manchester and turning the city into a Turd World shithole just like the little khant; anyone might believe they are working to the same script.
More corruption and sleaze.
Fu@king Bravo!
This is the kind of leadership vacuum that got Hitler voted in!
We have to stop this.
Another pile of manure to clear up…is Reform up to it?
There is an absolute wall of this stuff going on, well organised, well funded and deeply embedded.. I don’t think we know the half of it, let alone how to stop it.