Over the weekend, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy was at the Global Progressive Summit in Barcelona with Alex Soros and Mia Amor Mottley, the Prime Minister of Barbados – who thinks that the UK owes $24tn in reparations.
Posting about the event, Alex Soros wrote:
“It was an honor to welcome so many incredible leaders and advocates to Barcelona for the inaugural Global Progressive Summit — a first-of-its-kind gathering that brought together thousands from over 100 countries and organizations.
“For the first time, partners including Progressive Alliance, Global Progress, and the Party of European Socialists came together under one roof, alongside a broad coalition of movements and leaders committed to advancing a more just and democratic future.”
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Soros Junior posted a photo of himself with Pedro Sánchez, the Prime Minister of Spain and President of Socialist International, whose wife was recently charged with corruption after a two-year criminal investigation. Lammy was also photographed embracing Sánchez; how lovely!
Sánchez spearheaded the conference and had a lot to say about “the far right”. In one speech he warned:
“No matter how much they shout. Nor how many lies they invent. The time of the international ultraright has come to its end.”
In another he said: “‘Spain is the daughter of migration, it won’t be the mother of discrimination’” (what a catchy phrase…)
Others in attendance included Tim Walz, the Governor of Minnesota (and, of course, Kamala Harris’s pick for VP of the US in the 2024 presidential election)…
… the Mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, albeit via webcam…
… and Professor Mariana Mazzucato, the world’s worst economist, who inspired Keir Starmer’s so-called “missions”, and whose UCL department has received $3 million from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
She never misses an opportunity to travel for work, despite constantly banging on about climate change (it’s different for her, you see).
The first of its kind, the Global Progressive Mobilisation conference brought together “progressives from over 72 countries”…
… some sporting hats reading “MAKE LOVE NOT FASCISM”:
Despite the size of the event, it has received barely any coverage from the UK media, and David Lammy certainly hasn’t flagged his attendance.
Interestingly, at the time of writing, Lammy’s X and Instagram feeds contain no mention of the conference…
Doesn’t he want us to know about his involvement in “the global mobilisation of progressive forces”? as Socialist International put it.
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