It has become increasingly commonplace to see former senior politicians remain in public life and seek to continue to influence policy without a mandate from the public.
Often times this requires substantial funding and the creation of a legal entity. This is a path famously trodden by Tony Blair, who established the immodestly named Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, an entity which recorded just over $60 million (£49m) in costs in 2021. This level of cash burn requires funding from some very deep pockets and the institute has secured funding from some, ahem, unusual sources. These include the billionaire son-in-law of Ukraine’s former President Leonid Kuchma (that is another story) and, of course, Bill Gates via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
These arrangements raise an important question: can a senior politician’s decisions be influenced by thoughts about what he or she intends to do after leaving office?
This brings us to the case of Theresa May.
Following a tumultuous period in office, Theresa May resigned in May 2019 and her term as Prime Minister ended ignominiously on July 23rd 2019. Shortly thereafter she incorporated The Office of Theresa May Limited at the end of October 2019 and received her first keynote speaker’s fee of £100,000 from UBS, Switzerland in December 2019. By March 2021 the entity had accumulated over £1 million in cash.
In total, starting from the Register of Members Interests dated July 20th 2020, Theresa May has earned £2,771,039 in speaking fees and book fees alone, not including gifts and hospitality. Almost all of this money comes from the United States and the few payments that related to U.K. enterprises came mainly from global businesses such as J.P. Morgan and PwC who could only notionally be considered to be British.
The most unusual payment of £404,800 from came from Cambridge Speaker Series, California. This payment was highly unusual as this entity was in dissolution from June 2016 and was finally terminated a few months after the £404,000 payment to Theresa May in October 2022. It is odd for a seemingly dormant company to make such a large cash payment on the eve of its final removal from the corporate register. Furthermore, the company had no meaningful LinkedIn presence and a very limited internet presence.
The wider question, though, remains as to how a politician becomes a member of this highly lucrative speaker circuit in the USA and why people in America would pay millions to listen to a Prime Minister who has received notably low ratings in her own home country.
I suggest that access to this privileged speaker’s circuit is linked to a politician’s willingness to ‘do the right thing’ whilst in office.
Perhaps the only major achievement Theresa May had during her Prime Ministership was the bizarre decision to shift the U.K. from an already onerous target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% relative to a 1990 baseline to a virtually impossible target of achieving a 100% reduction. The timing of this was very unusual as Theresa May finally resigned in May 2019 and this monumental change was introduced via a statutory instrument in June 2019.
The provisions of the Climate Change Act 2008 allow the Secretary of State to make such monumental changes with near zero parliamentary scrutiny. There was a short debate in the Lords about this statutory instrument, where several Lords expressed annoyance that there was no impact assessment or any idea how it was even theoretically possible to get to Net Zero by 2050 or how many trillions this policy would cost. There was at least one Lord who suggested that Theresa May’s move was a vainglorious effort to establish some kind of political legacy. Ultimately, 57 million U.K. citizens would have to foot the bill for this legacy. The final twist in the tale was that every single peer in Theresa May’s own Conservative Party voted against the statutory instrument with only the Labour and Liberal peers voting for it together with additional support from the crossbenchers.
It is not a secret that the uber-wealthy have a strong interest in climate change and members of this group spend an awful lot of money lobbying for Net Zero policies via their respective foundations. The idea that climate change should be used in order to steer society and justify global Government was explicitly raised in the Club of Rome’s 1991 book, The Global Revolution. The book stated:
In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill.
Is it possible that a place on the extraordinarily lucrative speaker circuit may be awarded to those politicians who have done the ‘right thing’ whereby the ‘right thing’ is implementing policies desired by the uber-wealthy? When looking at some of the other speakers on the U.S. speaker circuit, such as Anthony Fauci, you could get the impression that this is the case.
We certainly suspect this and believe that decisions taken by many politicians are drifting further from the interests of the people and correspondingly closer towards the interests of international elites. Could this trend be driven by the fact that politicians now wish to have a well remunerated life after leaving their elected posts? If so, at what point do they start thinking about such plans? Would it be naïve to imagine that this only takes place after the door to No. 10 closes behind them?
You don’t need to be a ‘conspiracy theorist’ to find the following timeline somewhat hard to swallow:
Alex Kriel is by training a physicist and was an early critic of the Imperial Covid model. He is a founder of the Thinking Coalition, which comprises a group of citizens who are concerned about Government overreach. This article was first published on the Thinking Coalition website. Sign up for updates here.
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What a disgusting little money grubber May is, someone of so little moral fibre yet so preachy.
Isn’t she a very regular church goer??
Is she a ‘goer’?
Well she did have lots of photo ops outside church but some questioned whether she actually went into the Church’s. Would she tolerate a rival preacher in the same place?
At least the Queen did actually go into the church at Balmoral.
“Follow the money”.
Never fails.
Always leads to ‘the science’ and associated philosophical gospel and religous sermonising.
I think you will find Tony B’liar will have had a similar payment structure. All his so called “Speech” fundings will be in US dollars via payment’s by the back door for services rendered re Iraq. All his fees will be paid via a group of private companies that are used for the sole purpose of legitimatising payments paid by the US government. Ditto all the other HMG ministers over the years, for services rendered to the USA.
Well at least Tony Blair has admitted whatever the UK does regarding Net Zero, it will have no effect on global climate. How bizarre that a politician whose government gave us the climate change act in 2008, now admits that it is a sham. ——-Why doesn’t he just go the whole hog and admit is was never anything to do with the climate. It is pure eco socialism.
Fascinating
All of this fails to pass the smell test .The troughers present and past in the countries parliament have created a dark haze and stench of corruption fed by their Globalist paymasters .
The law needs changing such that anything that affects UK citizens that is driven by any supranational/ unaccountable ie non UK organisation must be voted on via referendum .
Current example being WHO pandemic policy plus of course the clusterfuck that Nett Zero is now and will be infuture ..
The UN is the devil here ..
The UN is the puppet cross of the devil.
Its just that its too late. ——The whole political establishment, the whole of the media, except maybe a bit of Fox or GB News (at times) and Trump are in on this top down control of the worlds wealth and resources by the global government in waiting at the UN. You and I and all the other readers here can rant all we want but no one is listening. The vast majority tune in at 6 pm to mainstream for their news and are brainwashed daily by climate propaganda and the idea of a climate crisis has become entrenched in their brain.
Not only this, but the various ‘publishing deals’ for politicians’ memoirs. Money laundering bribes, that’s what it is.
Needs a thorough investigation, trials and imprisonment.
Not forgetting David Milliband’s cushty NY based ‘charity’ directorship, Nick Clegg’s cushty role at Meta/Facebook and then there is David Cameron’s decision to make his personal company a private entity rather than a PLC once he left parliament, therefore negating the requirement to publish his accounts.
Related but separate, the rumours of Tony Blair becoming head of the WEF post Schwab are alarming…yet also I suspect the step too far that will blow the lid of this thing.
How could any Tory MP affiliate themselves to the WEF with him in charge? traitors to their party and country.
“How could any Tory MP affiliate themselves to the WEF with him in charge?”
Quite easily. The party of the ‘heir to Blair’ will have no difficulty at all.
And what are to think of the suckers who vote for them? They are dangerous people too.
Career politicians – that’s most of them – of course regard Office as an apprenticeship and where they can showcase themselves with a view to board directorships, consultancy work, speaking tours, sales of their memoirs and jobs on international bodies. The real money comes after they leave behind the wreckage they have caused.
Why do you ask?
On a side note but related topic. It is worth noting how many of the side-events at the recent Labour conference where hosted by the Tony B IFGC. It’s clear who is pulling the Labour party strings.
The speech circuit is the current Western equivalent of African or Arabian suitcases with cash.
Nothing else.
We are equally corrupt, but they are at least more honest than us.
Two further thoughts:
could her screw up of Brexit be another cause of her otherwise incredible earnings. There must be many Remainers who admire that.
could the devil himself be the ringmaster who proposes policies to be followed and procures the payments later. Blair, of course would be the first suspect.
someone in politics will know the answer.
Blatant money laundering. ‘Their’ puppet has danced to ‘their’ tune and must now be amply rewarded but inconspicuously so. Speaking engagements are clearly a good ploy for this but upon scrutiny who on earth would pay someone without a f**king clue about anything so much money? I mean what can Theresa May possibly have to say about anything. She’s got not a single creative idea in her head. It’s a game. Anyone believing that May gets paid for her thoughts on anything is seriously deluded.
When Bliar launched himself on the “speaking circuit” I said much the same. Why would anyone pay money to listen to a thieving, treasonous toe-rag like Bliar.
Money laundering as payment for services delivered.
This is the kind of great investigatory reporting that is now completely missing from the corporate media. That in itself deserves some investigation too.
Leaflet – Your Taxes Enrich Wind And Solar Companies
And failed politicians
How’s that called when politicians take money from shady foreign entities for implementing policies which go against the good of their own country? Ok, nowadays, it’s called Acting for the greater good but how used it to be called?
Its about time the public realised that our politicians are only answerable to external commercial interests.
Obsborne as Chancellor made sure we racked up a huge national debt which is not in our interests but it is in the interests of external UK and foreign commercial concerns.
The words ‘treason’ and ‘traitor’ come to mind.
And Cameron helped him do it.
It is far worse than people realise for example the dreadful way in which retired wind turbines are disposed of. Non-biodegradable plastics of huge proprtions just hidden or buried in the ground. If you really understood the situation with nuclear waste. It is crazy when you look at the big picture and what they are doing to it whilst pretending to do the opposite. You have to understand the level of capture. If you don’t then just try to carry on for the next few years. Trust me you won’t last the next six months this is a different time.
Good God! It’s all about the money. Not a principle in sight. Disgraceful.
Like the EU awarding…ahem…”prizes”. No doubt “grants” from philanthropic foundations serve a similar purpose. Who pays the piper…
It reminds me of the Robin Williams quote
Politicians should wear Sponsor jackets like NASCAR drivers so we know who owns them.
Mummy, where do politicians come from?
Well darling, when a clown and a serial killer love each other very much …..”
The article says “May tied the country to net zero”. ——-What? Do all other politicians not have an opinion then? They had the chance to vote on this amendment and none of them voted against it. It was simply waved through. ——-But ok so most policies you would think are put in place because they will have an effect on something , or at least that is the intention. But Net Zero will have no effect on global climate. So why do it? ——–The answer to that question is crucial and it is this. ————It isn’t about the climate, and it never was.
And let us not forget that all of these payments would be tax deductible. So much of these payments will be funded by your tax money. What a scam these elites have rigged up. Me, me, me, me, me seems to be the theme! Just need to add some music.
My grannie (from Huddersfield) said there was no way I could make a car out of spaghetti. You should have seen her face when I drove past her.