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The Blair family are looting the British people with the help of the government.
This is a tale of how your taxes flow into the pockets of those connected to power in a closed loop.
The UK government is handing £500 million of taxpayers money to a Sovereign AI fund to be led by Suzanne Ashman, daughter-in-law of Tony Blair.
That same government has already been funnelling tens of millions into Multiverse, an AI training company founded by Euan Blair, Tony Blair's son.
Yes, Euan Blair is married to Suzanne Ashman.
Multiverse receives up to £18,000 per person. Cohorts of 100. Multiple rounds. You do the maths.
They generated £79.6 million in revenue last year, largely from government contracts and taxpayers money. This is despite falling below the targets for the service they are supposed to be providing.
They don't need to compete for customers in any meaningful market sense. They need to maintain proximity to the people who control the budget. That is a completely different incentive structure.
No price signal exists to tell anyone whether £18,000 per head for an AI business analysis course represents value for money. No profit and loss mechanism. No competitive pressure. No consequences for overpaying.
The bureaucrat who signed off on this contract will never feel the cost. The taxpayer who funded it will never know the counterfactual.
Now look at Multiverse's AI Advisory Board.
Doug Gurr, former Chair of the Alan Turing Institute, the body that directly advises government on AI strategy, also sits on Multiverse's advisory board.
The same Multiverse being paid by the government whose strategy he helped shape.
Kersti Kaljulaid, former President of Estonia and member of Microsoft's AI advisory board, is also advising Multiverse.
Professor Michael Wooldridge, Head of Computer Science at Oxford.
Dame Wendy Hall, one of the most connected figures in UK technology policy.
Think about the circularity. The Alan Turing Institute advises government on AI strategy. Its Chair advises Multiverse. Multiverse receives government funding.
The people shaping the policy are advising the company that benefits from it.
It is a closed loop.
This is the Cantillon effect in its purest form. Money does not flow equally across the economy. It flows first and most generously to those closest to the people who control the budget.
This has received zero coverage from the mainstream media.
This should be a national scandal.
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