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UK sees privatisation ‘opportunities’ in Ukraine war

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https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-sees-privatisation-opportunities-in-ukraine-war/

Zelensky meets Starmer and NATO secretary general Mark Rutte. (Photo: Simon Dawson / No 10 handout)

British aid is being used to open up Ukraine’s wrecked economy to foreign investors and enhance trade with the UK.

Amid the devastating war in Ukraine, British economic aid to the country is focused on promoting pro-private sector reforms and on pressing the government to open up its economy to foreign investors.

Recently-published Foreign Office documents on its flagship aid project in Ukraine, which supports privatisation, note that the war provides “opportunities” for Ukraine delivering on “some hugely important reforms”.

The government in Kyiv has in recent months been responding positively to these calls. Last month, president Volodymyr Zelensky signed a new law expanding the privatisation of state-owned banks in the country.

It follows the Ukrainian government’s announcement in July of its ‘Large-Scale Privatisation 2024’ programme that is intended to drive foreign investment into the country and raise money for Ukraine’s struggling national budget, not least to fight Russia.

Large assets slated for privatisation currently include the country’s biggest producer of titanium ore, a leading producer of concrete products and a mining and processing plant.

Ukraine envisaged privatising the country’s roughly 3,500 state-owned enterprises in a law of 2018, which said foreign citizens and companies could become owners.

The process stalled as a result of coronavirus and then Russia’s invasion in February 2022. But hundreds of smaller-scale enterprises are now being privatised, bringing in revenues of UAH 9.6bn (£181m) in the past two years.

“The resumption of privatisation amid the full-scale war is an important step, which is already yielding results,” Ukraine’s economy minister Yulia Svyrydenko said last month.

Another law enacted in June 2023 allows large-scale assets to be sold to foreigners or Ukrainians during the current martial law regime.

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Post author:dizzy
Post published:21 November 2024
Post category:crap pretend Labour Keir Starmer Labour Party Neo-liberalism privatise Ukraine War
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Thoughts of the Day 14 November 2024

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Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that his active support and that of UK's air force has been essential in Israel's mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpA — Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that his active support and that of UK’s air force has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpA

Keir Starmer was having trouble defining genocide at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday but insisted that Israel was not committing genocide. He should have very little difficulty since he is often described as a human rights lawyer. The rest of us know that Israel is committing genocide. While not a definition, we can see that they are from indiscriminate mass-murder, targeting hospitals, healthcare workers, journalists, aid workers, using starvation and disease as weapons of war, forcible displacements and the statements made by Israeli ministers e.g. Smotrich and Ben-Gvir.

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy says that UK is suspending 30 of 350 arms licences to Israel. He also confirms the UK government's support for Israel's Gaza genocide and the UK government and military's active participation in genocide. — UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy says that UK is suspending 30 of 350 arms licences to Israel. He also confirms the UK government’s support for Israel’s Gaza genocide and the UK government and military’s active participation in genocide.

It should be recognised that the UK and US are active participants in Israel’s genocides and that Keir Starmer, David Lammy and others in the UK Labour Party are therefore genocidal war criminals. UK’s military forces are participating in genocide and the cabinet are supposedly held jointly responsible under UK law. [ed: ~~The problem is that t~~] They need to be held accountable, prosecuted and convicted.

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Post published:14 November 2024
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Starmer spy flights over Gaza risk complicity in Israeli torture

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It appears that this video was released between 1 and 2 months ago.

Keir Starmer’s 100 spy flights over Gaza in support of Israel

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Britain’s Labour government has ordered 100 spy flights over Gaza to aid Israeli intelligence, it can be revealed.
This amounts to an average of more than one a day since Keir Starmer became prime minister on July 5.
Starmer’s administration suspended 30 arms export licences for Israel last month, citing “a clear risk” the weapons might be used in a “serious violation” of international law.
But the spy flights, which began in December under the previous Conservative government, have continued apace.
Although the Ministry of Defence (MoD) refused to give details, Declassified independently found the flights departing from Akrotiri – Britain’s sprawling air base on Cyprus – to fly over Gaza on Starmer’s watch.
During Labour’s first full month in office, in August, the Royal Air Force (RAF) flew 42 flights over the devastated Palestinian territory.
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