The guide I will show you today was prepared by the New Economy Organisers Network (NEON), an organisation that claims to “help social justice movements win” – mostly by preparing left-wing activists for air. Alumni include Faiza Shaheen who – guess what?! – lobbies for wealth taxes:
Anyone can go onto NEON’s website and access messaging guides on how to advocate for anything from “How to talk about Protest” to “ULEZ and Air pollution”, complete with advice on what words to say/ not say:
NEON is very well-funded, thanks to 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.” These organisations often come up when I am researching ghastly left-wing funding eg. who’s behind the promotion of open borders.
George Soros’s Open Society Foundations also awarded NEON $1,822,049 between 2016-22:
In short, powerful people, who constantly meddle in our democracy, are funding NEON – which in turn pumps out left-wing activists to help manufacture consent for policies. I have written a lot about who has been trained by NEON, including Andy Burnham’s new “policy guru”, as Politico put it:
It’s important to say that we do not know who has read or used parts of the scripts, although I did find stats from NEON’s wealth tax script in Faiza Shaheen’s article for The Guardian explaining why a “wealth tax is really [Rachel Reeves’] only viable option.” A coincidence? (see below for full details).
I just find it fascinating that these scripts exist at all. What I’ve generally found is that the wealth tax movement is coming from the US and EU, with socialist activists (the kind of people who’d vote for Zack Polanski) doing their bidding. Again, it’s worth checking out these pieces to get the details:
Without further ado, I will paste the whole wealth tax script published by NEON below. NB. It was published/ written while Rishi Sunak was Prime Minister, but that doesn’t mean the messaging isn’t being used today:
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