Today Professor Mariana Mazzucato, the economist whose UCL department received $3 MILLION in 2020 from George Soros, received high praise indeed from Ed Miliband.
The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero said she was “the Godmother of missions” in a speech hosted by the (ghastly-sounding) Good Growth Foundation.
Posting about Miliband’s kind words, Mazzucato wrote:
“Great speech by Ed Miliband. Not sure about being called the “Godmother of missions” (ha!), but thanks for the recognition of our work at IIPP UCL [UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose] on mission-oriented government. Spain demonstrates what the UK’s Clean Power mission can achieve: a gas price cap, accelerated renewables rollout, and wholesale electricity prices 57% below the European average.”
Mazzucato, in case you didn’t know, is the economist who inspired Keir Starmer’s “missions” (the ones that are going sooooo well….).
Never has anyone been so obsessed with the word “mission” (not even Tom Cruise). Let’s just say, if there was a drinking game where you had to down a shot every time she said the word, you’d be dead in five minutes and Putin would be able to use parts of your body for chemical warfare.
