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SNP Blackford in bed with City of London


New head of SNP in Westminster, former City of London investment banker, Ian Blackford, has joined a company set up by Tory MP David Davis, with unionist members of the Lords on the board too - so together they can help "shape financial policy" for the City of London - that caused all this austerity.

According to point 8. of Blackford's register of interests on the commons website, as of 27th March 2017 he is now a non exectuive (unpaid) director - he does it out of the goodness of his heart - of London based New City Agenda - a company they prefer to call a "think tank" that is "partnered" with the City of London, HSBC, London Stock Exchange, HSBC, Prudential and private German bank Bergenberg.

According to the company website,

"New City Agenda is a financial services think tank and forum founded by The Rt Hon Lord McFall, The Rt Hon David Davis MP, and Lord Sharkey."

Tory MP David Davis is Theresa May's "Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with responsibility for negotiating the UK's exit from the EU."

Davis worked for sugar company Tate & Lyle and would have been Tory party leader had he not been beat by David Cameron.

The Rt Hon Lord McFall used to be a Co-operative Labour MP for Dumbarton and then for West Dunbartonshire, who was made a "life peer" in 2010 after being chair of the Treasury Select Committee since 2001 - when a lot of banking corruption went on.

Lord Sharkey, the Lib Dem who put forward the so-called Alan Turing law, to wipe out the criminal records of all men who had been convicted of illegal homosexual acts and was former joint managing director of Saatchi & Saatchi UK, Thatcher's favourite PR company.

And now "New" SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford, who used to work for Germany's Deutche Bank is on the board of the company with the New Labour and Lib Dem Lords in their New City Agenda to serve the City of London agenda.

So what was banker Blackford's road to power?

Blackford is a "new" type of nationalist Alex and Nicola picked to send to Westminster, we were told, to settle up to make Scotland independent of the city of London corruption.

Despite being wealthy in his own right, Blackford set up a crowd funding page begging for money from YES voters to send him to Westminster in 2015 - while failing to tell austerity laden YES voters he had already got £3,000 from millionaire Tory party donor and hedge fund boss David Craigen.

When Charles Kennedy revealed his opponent Blackford was a "well funded banker from Edinburgh" police had to be called after Blackford was so enraged (at the truth being revealed) he turned up at the Lib Dem office with a bunch of pals to verbally abuse Lib Dem campaigners, with one female Lib Dem Activist stating banker Blackford was "angry, aggressive and unpleasant".

Police did nothing as they felt nothing criminal had happened - SNP MSP's controlled the police.

The convenor of the local SNP branch, former policeman Brian Smith, was only axed from the SNP party on the day of Charles Kennedy's funeral after he waged a nasty campaign of personal online abuse against Charles Kennedy, who died soon after.

Charles Kennedy was one of the few, if not the only Liberal MP's who said publicly in May 2010 he opposed the Lib Dem Coalition with the Tories.

Blackford wrote in Rupert Murdoch's Times he wanted capital gains tax abolished in an independent Scotland - just the sort of policy that would please rich investors in banks and financial institutions and oil companies.

As well as collecting his Westminster salary, Blackford is also paid £6,129.60 a quarter for eight hours work - or £766.20 an hour from his job at "Golden Charter Trust" - a buy now die later "trust" where you give them your funeral money now and trust them not to have disappeared with your money when the time comes for your funeral payment to be met.

So who else is helping SNP's Blackford set policy for the City of London?

"Advisors" to the New City Agenda board members include Justine Welby, former oil man and head of the Church of England, where their £7.9bn city fund is one of the best performers in the world the "church" boasted in May - while it hands out food parcels we buy via it's Trussell Trust "business franchises" - like McDonalds but you don't get to decide if you eat or what you eat.

A Catholic Monk, Father Christopher Jamison whom the Independent said "The Pope has a friend in Father Christopher" as the "TV's favourite monk" also advises for the City of London Agenda with the head of the Church of England - didn't Jesus throw money lenders from the church?

SNP's Ian Blackford is also advised by former senior advisor to New Labour, Lord Eatwell, German born Baroness Hayter who was a member of New Labour's NEC, Tory peer Baroness Wheatcroft who was editor-in-chief for Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal until she became a peer and was also on the board of Barclay's bank, Dame Helena Morrissey who has nine children and is Head of Personal Investing at Legal & General Investment Management.

The former Chairman of the private German bank Berenberg's UK operations, Andrew McNally, also advises SNP's Ian Blackford and his unionist Lords on the board of New City Agenda - Berenberg being one of the City of London operators who are "partners" with the company.

The final person listed as an "advisor" is Xavier Rolet, the French CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group, decorated by not just the Queen but the French and Moroccan governments - he is also "a member of Her Majesty's Treasury's Financial Services Trade and Investment Board. He was also a member of Prime Minister David Cameron's Business Advisory Group and is a member of the Governor of the Bank of England's Financial Services Forum and of the Bank of England's Open Forum."

So we have the Catholic Church, the Church of England, the City of London, the Stock Exchange, German and British banks, Lords and the leader of the SNP MP's all together serving the City of London and UK Privy Council agenda via New City Agenda - while we are told we must all accept austerity.

London's New City Agenda board member Blackford, once again, begging for donation's from local people, to get him back to Westminster in the "snap election" while he was working for Tory MP David Davis's New City Agenda with the Blackford's crowdfunder page saying

"Who do you trust to speak up for Ross, Skye & Lochaber? When elected in 2015, Ian promised to be a hard-working MP focusing on local issues, and to serve and represent everyone in this vast constituency.

Who do you trust to speak for Scotland? Scotland needs a strong voice at Westminster as never before. With Labour in disarray, the Tories need effective opposition and voters need MPs they can trust. Sending Ian and a strong block of SNP MPs to Westminster allows Scotland's voice to be heard on many fronts.

Who do you trust to hold the Tories to account? Ian and his SNP MP colleagues are the ones holding the government to account each week in parliament and committees, challenging them at every turn and defending Scotland’s interests. Increased austerity, flawed immigration policy and women's pensions. These are just some of the headline issues that Ian has tackled head on.

What do we need to win? After the recent Council elections, funds are somewhat depleted and we need financial support to get our message to the voters. With your help we can pay for campaign materials to make sure our goals of hope and aspirations for Ross, Skye & Lochaber are communicated to all.

How can you help? You can help with a donation to reach our £3,000 target so that, we not only hold this seat for the SNP, we can aim to increase the vote. You can trust that each and every donation you can afford, large or small, will help re-elect Ian Blackford as our MP – a proven strong, articulate and effective voice for Ross, Skye and Lochaber."

Why is Blackford not asking his City of London "partners" or the Catholic Church or the Church of England or his fellow New City Agenda Labour and Tory Lords and advisors to contribute as they are who he really appears to serve?

I wonder what Charles Kennedy, who wrote why he was against the Lib Dem coalition with the Tories on 16th May 2010, only to die weeks after Blackford, his gang and SNP ex policeman pal hounded him using vile tactics during the 2015 general election would think of Blackford's actions so soon after he got elected - sadly he will never get a chance to respond.


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