The International Development Committee today released its report into the UK’s international investment body, British International Investment (BII). It includes some strange recommendations.
The committee, which is led by Labour MP Sarah Champion and includes Corbynites Kate Osamor and Navendu Mishra, criticised the board of the BII for failing to devote enough resources to “gender lens investing”. The report included a separate section criticising the BII for its investments in attractive low-tax jurisdictions, which result “significant lost revenue for countries in the ‘Global South’.” And more cash for actual production…
Only one of the BII’s three priorities is to actually make smart investments and create jobs, the other two being climate change and “inclusive development”. What more do the politicians want?
The report complained that in 2021, “BII invested in just 15 fragile and conflict-affected states, with only Nigeria receiving more than one per cent of BII’s total investment during that year”. If only war-torn countries had more startups…
It criticised that BII investments still had exposure to fossil fuels, in conflict with the government’s climate goals, and demanded that the BII elaborate an exit plan for those investments. The BII retorted that to do so would be to lose taxpayers’ money.
The committee goes so far as to propose that the FCDO abandons its “arm’s length” approach and takes more control over the BII board to bring in crucial “public sector representation”. Those brilliant investors…
Former Shadow Cabinet member and MP for Edmonton since 2015, Kate Osamor, has been found in breach of the Code of Conduct of the House of Commons, after providing a character reference for her drug-dealing son using Parliamentary stationery. He was employed in her office at the time. Nothing like a bit of Red Prince nepotism…
The Commissioner also found that Osamor breached the Code of Conduct when she abused a journalist who was asking about her case, and in breach again “by a number of failures to respond to contacts”. She has now apologised…
Read the Commissioner’s statement here:
Momentum’s pick to be the next Labour candidate for West Midlands Metro-Mayor has put out some pretty professional looking material. But sadly for former Respect Party leader Salma Yaqoob, virtually none of it is her own work. Her main campaign video is completely ripped off from the US Democrats’ new socialist firebrand AOC…
Yaqoob isn’t the first Labour politician to nakedly plagiarise US Democrats. Disgraced Labour MP Kate Osamor stole her campaign victory speech from President Obama, and plagiarised her maiden speech. Plenty of Labour Party precedent…
Across the pond Joe Biden plagiarising Neil Kinnock’s ‘first in my family’ speech destroyed his presidential hopes in 1987. Sadly Guido somehow doubts it will do the same to the Momentum backed candidate…
For our American readers, Guido thought an introduction to Yaqoob was in order:
- She called the 2005 London 7/7 bombings a “reprisal event” for the Iraq war
- She was part of the campaign team which supported the family of Abu Hamza
- She wrote an article in which she imagined Britain becoming an Islamic Republic
- She attended a protest at which the Israeli flag was burned
- She referred to the IHH terrorists on board the Mavi Marmara as “martyrs“
- She endorsed the closure of the Israeli embassy in London
- She supported the pro-Hamas ‘Viva Palestina’ convoy
- She accused “Zionists [of abusing] the memory of the Holocaust to bolster support for today’s Israeli state“
- She is a staunch supporter of the boycotting Israel economically and culturally
The Corbynisation of the Democratic Party is not all one way…
Hat-tip: Milk Media @milkmedianewyor
Disgraced former Shadow Cabinet Minister Kate Osamor reportedly phoned the police’s emergency on two separate journalists, on Friday and Saturday last week. Scotland Yard send six officers to her home in the 24 hour period. What a great use of police resources…
Incredibly, after wide reporting of Osamor throwing water over a Times journalist on Friday, threatening to smash his face in with a bat, and calling the police, she called the police again on a journalist from the Mail on Sunday for politely knocking on her door the following day. Osamor has also blocked half the lobby on Twitter. Is this what Corbyn meant when he said ‘change is coming’ for the media..?
In a very awkward error, the i have illustrated a story about disgraced, journalist-threatening Labour shadow minister Kate Osamor with a picture of on-trial-accused-of-perverting-the-course-of-justice Labour whip Fiona Onasanya. Picture editors elsewhere will be thinking, “there but for the grace of God”…
Former Shadow Cabinet Minister Kate Osamor resigned over the weekend after suggesting she would “smash [a Times reporter’s] face in” … “with a bat” and actually throwing a bucket of water over the journalist. In a double blow she has also now been banned by Wikipedia for editing her own page. She even threatened to sue the company for hosting the fact that she plagiarised “Barak Obama” [sic] for her 2017 election night speech. Osamor’s Wikipedia ban is particularly harsh, given that other speeches of hers were lifted directly from the site. Now she might have to start having original thoughts…
