At around 35 mins in the Channel 4 documentary, How to Get Filthy Rich with Gary Stevenson, Stevenson and his activist group Patriotic Millionaires UK join a protest “alongside workers at the sharp end of cuts to our public services.”
One of these workers is Andrew Meyerson, “a doctor working for the NHS”, whom Stevenson asks “can you see poverty growing in this country?” Meyerson goes on to list “all the public services that have been taken from us over the last decade”, prompting Stevenson to shed a tear.
Post-interview, a shaken Stevenson says “obviously you see a doctor working in the NHS coming out, shivering in the cold, no jacket, listing off all the services that have been cut. It’s emotion, isn’t it? What can you say? Emotion.”
But who is this doctor? Well, Meyerson is actually something of a mega activist who is currently the CEO of campaign group “EveryDoctor”. On its website, his bio mentions he has been “has been a prominent campaigner within the SOSNHS coalition alongside Keep Our NHS Public, Just Treatment, NHS Workers Say No, and We Own It”, the latter being an organisation that fights for most/ all UK services to be put into public ownership.
Not only that but Meyerson was trained at the New Economy Organisers Network (NEON), a media school for left-wing activists. Notable alumni include left-wing activist Grace Blakeley, open-border-lover Zoe Gardner, Labour MPs Miatta Fahnbulleh and Dr Jeevun Sandher MP, and Corbynista Faiza Shaheen, who stood as an Independent candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green in 2024’s General Election (and who appears at the end of Stevenson’s documentary).
NEON offers everything from hostile panel training to messaging guides, including one published on 17 June 2024 on “How to talk about Taxing wealth”. One of its proposals is in Stevenson’s documentary (more on this and Shaheen in my next piece).
Meyerson was trained by NEON in 2022, through its “Spokesperson Network” programme (essentially getting activists geared up for media):
He’s also promoted on NEON’s feed:
NEON is funded by the European Climate Foundation, Urban Movement Innovation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Polden Puckham, Partners for a New Economy, Oak Foundation, Friends Provident, JRF, Unbound Philanthropy, Paul Hamlyn, among many others.
It also received $1,822,049 from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations between 2016-22:
The super rich, ey!
If you want to find out more about Meyerson, head to his X feed where you can find a veritable feast of ghastly socialist content (think retweets of the Good Law Project, Zohran Mamdani…
… and Richard Burgon (who has campaigned for Patriotic Millionaires UK):
What a small world!
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It is frustrating to think of this vast conspiratiorial network with huge resources devoted to propagandising in favour of policies which are so harmful to us all, and definitively not funded by the ordinary person in the street, but by pots of money from misguided wealthy people, trusts captured by left wing ideology, and sometimes from public funds.
The right wing (to use a term I dislike) is far less clever and Machiavellian, and far less organised and subsidised, and if a think-tank from the 'right' is lucky enough to be quoted, is invariably prefixed with 'right wing' to prejudice the hearer. Imagine the collosal fuss and threats to legislate if, say, Musk decided to fund a similar training orgisation.