Watch: Polanski on Burnham’s hypocritical use of genocide-linked firm

Zack Polanski has publicly taken on Andy Burnham’s appointment of genocide-linked consultants BCG to create his ’10-year plan’.

BCG played a central role in Trump’s ‘Gaza riviera’ ethnic cleansing plan and in the creation of the GHF ‘aid’ force that killed Palestinians seeking food. It was also involved in the mercenary-staffed group that provided security for GHF’s sites and fired on aid-seekers – and in the “Aurora” ethnic cleansing project to expel most of Gaza’s population for Trump’s development plan.

BCG also avoided in-person questioning by Parliament’s business and trade select committee on its role in the GHF killings, saying it had fired the partners involved and had not formally authorised the project and providing only a written statement. This apparently does not disqualify it from government contracts.

Perverse reward

This morning, Polanski has published a video in which he highlights BCG’s role in Gaza – and the hypocrisy of Burnham promising his ’10-year plan’ would end neoliberalism – then outsourcing it to an epically neoliberal firm, alongside other actions to shore up neoliberal privatisation, not end it. And, in a Mrs Merton-like question, Polanski asks how BCG got the contract from a PM whose chief of staff used to be senior in BCG:

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When Burnham took over, Skwawkbox warned that he would be no better than Starmer, because he was indebted to, and run by, the same pro-Israel people who handled his predecessor. How tragically, outrageously true that is turning out to be.

Well done Polanski for speaking out about it. Small wonder the Greens are again rising in the polls despite constant Israel lobby smears, while Labour is falling.