NEON alumni Faiza Shaheen's appearance on BBC Question Time
NEON-trained activists are all over our TV screens
Last night “Economist and author” Faiza Shaheen appeared on BBC Question Time to reject the “idea that somehow we should be scared of all asylum seekers” and to advocate for a wealth tax.
It’s fairly predictable that Shaheen made these points when you know about her training at The New Economy Organisers Network (NEON), which is effectively a media school for left-wing activists:
It’s clear NEON staff regard her as one of their star pupils, her professional relationship with NEON lasting from at least 2018…
… to the present…
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Shaheen is not NEON’s only “star pupil”:
NEON trained, among many others, Zoe Gardner and Grace Blakeley, as well as Labour MPs Dr Jeevun Sandher (a big proponent of the Assisted Dying Bill) and Miatta Fahnbulleh (the Minister for Devolution, Faith & Communities). Fahnbulleh is pictured below in “hostile panel” practice with Ash Sarkar:
NEON is very well funded, as you can see in my previous article.
It has received hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations:
With its handsome funding NEON has created enormous resources to train activists. These include scripts to tell them what to say. Here are some examples:
How to talk about unsafe asylum sites in the UK
As I have written before, some of the talking points in the wealth tax guide are in one of Shaheen’s articles for The Guardian:
Furthermore, earlier this year Shaheen became the Executive Director of Tax Justice UK, whose advice features in the wealth tax messaging guide:
Interestingly, Tax Justice UK is a partner of, and shares the same registered address as, Tax Justice Network - though it makes clear it’s independent from this organisation:
Tax Justice Network is yet another outfit that has received plenty of funding from Soros’s Open Society Foundation’s:
Long story short, there’s a lot of funding and organising going into the wealth tax lobby, fronted by the likes of Faiza Shaheen and Gary Stevenson - who NEON has also been very keen to promote (suggesting he went to their school too):
Here’s a nice clip of him picking his nose:
The idea that any of these activists made their own way onto BBC Question Time is utterly laughable.
Unfortunately their Soros-funded talking points are all over our TV screens.
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Shaheen's bio describes her as an "economist and activist", which straight away indicates that she's not really an economist: activism and applying a uncompromising, objective view to something like economics, as an economist should do - likewise a scientist, engineer, mathematician and so on in their disciplines - is like chalk and cheese. Activism shouldn't come into it, just the bare objective facts, backed up by data; if you're an activist then you're failing in your professed area of expertise.
Outrageous underhanded Leftist propaganda, aided and abetted by the BBC.