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UK health secretary Wes Streeting avoided media inquiries as he departed from the annual Bilderberg meeting held at the Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden.

 

Streeting, who envisions himself as a potential prime minister, spent the weekend mingling with over 120 politicians, media leaders, and corporate executives, including Pfizer’s Albert Bourla and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella.

 

This year’s Bilderberg saw a strong presence of tech billionaires, such as Palantir founders Peter Thiel and Alex Karp, whose company’s extensive data contract with the NHS has drawn criticism from campaigners.

Wes Streeting

Palantir has controversially been granted access to process the entire database of the US population. If knowledge equates to power, then that represents a significant amount of power.

 

The agenda for this year’s closed-door discussions included sessions on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic that likely piqued Streeting’s interest.

 

He is a passionate advocate for AI in the NHS, committing to “modernise our health service for the digital era” and promising to “eliminate unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles” in the adoption of new technologies.

 

The conference concluded with delegates being transported by boat to an extravagant banquet at a palace owned by Sweden’s immensely wealthy Wallenberg family.

 

Onboard the vessel “Sjobris” or “Easy breeze,” champagne flowed freely as Streeting was spotted conversing with Ryan Air’s CEO Michael O’Leary.

 

Images from this boat trip may not resonate well with Streeting’s constituents in Ilford North, where last year an anti-establishment independent candidate, Leanne Mohamad, narrowly missed unseating him by just 528 votes.

 

Jeremy Hunt, a former UK health secretary, was also present but chose to socialize on the more private lower deck with the Bilderberg organisers and John Micklethwaite from Bloomberg.

Unaccountable

 

Bilderberg has rebranded itself as the premier destination on the elite AI conference circuit, providing an experience that no other tech summit can offer: three days of exclusive access to heads of state, senior public officials, and policymakers.

 

Despite the presence of these public figures engaged in government affairs, no press conference was conducted following the discussions. Whom did he meet and what topics were discussed, as well as whether he intended to disclose the hospitality he received from the Bilderberg group and, by extension, the Wallenbergs. He has maintained a resolute silence.

 

The silence encountered by anyone attempting to report on Bilderberg is undoubtedly troubling: the potent mix of lobbyists, public officials, banking executives, and military leaders indicates that policies impacting us all are being formulated behind closed doors at a conference funded by and filled with voracious billionaires.

 

I sought a comment from the UK’s Department of Health regarding Streeting’s participation in the meeting.

 

The reply was: “The Secretary of State will be attending the meeting in Stockholm as a government representative and will engage in discussions across a range of issues.”

 

This creates an intriguing tension in light of the rather misleading statement on the Bilderberg group’s website, which asserts that delegates attend the discussions solely as private individuals.

 

It states: “Thanks to the private nature of the Meeting, the participants take part as individuals rather than in any official capacity, and hence are not bound by the conventions of their office or by pre-agreed positions.”

Bilderberg elite

 

Streeting is among the few Labour MPs who have received an invitation to Bilderberg over the past ten years.

 

His colleague, foreign secretary David Lammy, participated in Bilderberg in 2022 prior to joining the government.

 

Lammy subsequently revealed that his trip, which exceeded £5,000, was funded by Newbridge Advisory, where the only director was former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers.

 

Sawers, a member of Bilderberg’s steering committee, extended an invitation to the current head of MI6, Richard Moore, for this year’s summit, which also focused on geo-politics.

 

As the world stood on the edge of potential conflict, Bilderberg attendees like NATO chief Mark Rutte and his predecessor Jens Stoltenberg enjoyed their time as they travelled to Wallenberg castle with Willem-Alexander, the King of the Netherlands.

 

The conference commenced with a dinner attended by Swedish premier Ulf Kristersson, which effectively served as a ‘welcome to NATO’ celebration for Sweden and Finland, whose president, Alexander Stubb, was present throughout the three-day event.

 

Kristersson arrived just in time for Thursday night drinks before dinner, around 7:30 PM at the Grand Hotel, and departed after midnight. It was undoubtedly an evening filled with toasts as the transatlantic alliance solidified their latest military partnership.

The Grand Hotel hosted numerous hawkish attendees — for instance, Palantir’s CEO Karp recently cautioned: “we are likely to end up in a three-front war with China, Russia, and Iran.” He stated that these three countries are “collaborating against us, and we must unite against them.”

 

This year, two senior US military leaders were in attendance, including the head of the US Indo-Pacific Command, Admiral Samuel Paparo. The Middle East was on the agenda, and coincidentally, the attacks on Tehran began midway through the discussions.

You can draw your own conclusions but no on should be under any illusion why one attends these meetings and its not for our benefit.