Starmer Hires Arch-Remainer Loyalist To Run State Energy Company
Starmer and Miliband today confirmed that former Siemens UK chief Juergen Maier will be chairman of GB Energy. He describes himself as an “industrialist” who is “a passionate advocate for a new economic approach, which should provide stronger leadership for innovation and technology led ‘green frontier sectors’ and industrial tech start-ups… these should gain significantly more support as part of the UK’s Industrial Strategy“. The perfect mix of vacuous and statist…
Maybe Maier’s numerous Question Time appearances caught Labour’s eye, in which he called for a weak Brexit or trashed Tory policies over the years. Or maybe it was that Maier has been full of praise for the Starmer project over the years, especially hailing the glorious leader’s commitment to massive state spending on green subsidies. Typical fare from a corporate tipped for a cushy government job…
Maier has for over two years been pushing hard for the UK to rejoin the single market and reinstitute freedom of movement. More recently he’s been focussed on attacking anything Tory and offering barely-veiled support for every step taken by Starmer. No merit hires here…
