Is the Tech Giant Who Gave Blair £257 Million in Line for Huge ID Card Contract?
A cronyism row has englufed the Government after it emerged that Tony Blair secretly lobbied for his tech billionaire backer, who could rake in millions from Labour’s digital ID cards. The Mail has the story.
Documents seen by the Mail on Sunday reveal the former Prime Minister urged Business Secretary Peter Kyle to consult a technology institute founded by his friend Larry Ellison in a private meeting last year.
Mr Ellison, the world’s second richest man, has donated or pledged a staggering £257 million for the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
He founded the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), a research centre in Oxford, and is chairman of tech giant Oracle, which has a £700 million IT deal with four Whitehall departments.
Experts say Oracle is now in pole position to profit from plans to force millions of adults to sign up for a digital ID card.
And an exclusive MoS analysis can reveal that after Sir Tony’s meeting with Mr Kyle, Mr Ellison’s organisations have enjoyed astonishing access to the very top of Government.
Indeed, staff from Oracle and EIT have met with ministers and senior officials no fewer than 29 times in nine months.
Mr Kyle, Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Chancellor Rachel Reeves have met bosses from Oracle.
Meanwhile science minister Lord Vallance has met EIT representatives seven times – one was to discuss “EIT plans for expansion and alignment with Government’s priorities”, official records show.
Sir Tony has had a decades-long ‘bromance’ with Mr Ellison, who is worth £290 billion, and last year enjoyed a lavish Mediterranean holiday on his superyacht. …
It is understood the ID cards will rely on a huge ‘Right to Work’ database that is estimated to cost between £150 million to £400 million.
Oracle already has a series of major NHS technology contracts and provides so-called cloud competing services for the Home Office, Department of Work and Pensions, Ministry of Justice and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in a deal worth up to £1 billion.
The firm landed a further tech contract with the Home Office worth £53 million last week, Government documents reveal.
Technology writer Andrew Orlowski said: “The Government’s digital identity system creates lucrative new opportunities for Oracle, a database company. …
“Tony Blair is really just a salesman for the tech companies, and flies around the world looking for naive Governments who want to believe in magical solutions.”
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He is an absolute tw#t. One of the most evil men walking the planet at this time.
All UK corporate employees have to complete annual compulsory training, one of which covers bribery and corruption. The scenario above should be added to the training material.
You don’t have to be a Sicilian Mafioso to be a corrupt mobster.
The Mafia have nothing on the true gangsters, the Globalists.
There really isn’t much difference between Blair and the Yorks it seems to me, all hangers on, all lacking any ethical or maoral compass, all grifters.
Tony Blair, the socialist millionaire.
There is nothing quite as conducive to the advancement of the welfare of the proletariat as having a leader with few millions in the bank and a few good dictator friends.
Cronyism?
I think you mean corruption.
Blair looking intensely relaxed, wishing he was filthy rich, and quite prepared to sell the whole English nation to try to be.
He is filthy rich! 🙂
Where there be troughs, there be pigs.
Like Net Zero, Digital ID will be a failure but it will attract all the grifters to get as much money plundered from taxpayers as they can before it goes belly-up.
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
He’s not exactly trying to hide it, is he? He takes money in exchange for his contacts and influence. The front is sone bullshit story about trying to make the world better. And like with every leftist project, the apparent good intentions are supposed to be taken at face value and are assumed to legitimise everything they do.
To me it’s astonishing how brazen the global oligarchy has become. And how hopeless the general population have in turn become.
And they complained about the tories; who seem like babes in arms compared to this lot.
The petition “Do Not Introduce Digital ID Cards” has received almost 12,000 signatures in the last hour, 2.3million in total. Surely even tone death Liebour will take a bit of notice of this and the continual outcry they’ll be about ID cards and do a quick reverse ferret.
http://www.petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194
One can only hope that this petition will somehow be taken up by 2TK brain – or maybe not.
Digital ID……aka…….Tony’s Crony Card…
…Who’d have thought it?
Busted
I don’t want digital ID. Should we be thinking about what to do if these government forces this through?
Will enough people not comply?
Switzerland has apparently voted for digital ID with a narrow margin.
This post on X gives an interesting perspective.
https://x.com/TheGriftReport/status/1972274511698710871
Watch out for ID’s of mass destruction
I don’t often wish someone dead ……
If Suck-Ear was more capable of independent thought, the ID scheme could be an attempt to expose who really rules Britain; knowing the scheme to be unpopular and generate an outcry against his political masters, given that they’re about to discard him. Trouble is, he’s way too robotic to have such depths of insight.
Whatever’s happened to Lady MacBliar?