Labour prime minister Andy Burnham has enlisted the help of an American consulting group that worked with the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for his 10-year economic plan to rescue British capitalism.
The company, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) includes amongst its former employees Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was established jointly by the US and Israel in 2025, did not operate as a independent relief organisation but was described as ‘slaughter masquerading as aid’.
Over 26,000 Palestinians were killed at the four GHF ‘aid distribution’ sites in Gaza by Israeli forces or US security contractors.
The Financial Times revealed last year that BCG was paid over $4 million for its work with GHF that involved modelling the costs of ‘relocating’ hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza.
After the international outcry over this genocidal campaign BCG immediately attempted to deny any involvement claiming the project was ‘run secretly’ while expressing ‘shock and outrage’ and promising an internal investigation.
The children’s charity ‘Save the Children International’ broke off its relations with BCG but their involvement in Gaza genocide is no deterrent to Burnham.
Labour MP Clive Lewis told the Middle East Eye (MEE) that he found hiring BCG ‘problematic’ and that Labour MPs outside of the Cabinet had not been consulted on Burnham’s 10-year plan due to appear by Christmas.
Lewis told the MEE: ‘The irony will not be missed that a radical ten-year programme to end neoliberalism and rewire our economy and constitution is going to be handed down from a closed room with a corporate entity.’
Meanwhile Palantir, the giant US software company co-founded by Peter Thiel, a billionaire fervent Israeli supporter, was revealed this week to be putting pressure on Labour ministers to increase its role in the NHS to include control over GP data.
Access to the private medical records of every UK citizen would be a goldmine for the US health industry and something they have long attempted to achieve.
Despite NHS campaigners, medics and two House of Commons committees calling for Palantir to be forced out of the NHS completely as soon as the existing contract, worth £330 million, expires next spring, the Financial Times reported that Burnham would refuse to remove the firm’s AI technology from the health service.
Palantir is a company notorious for its software tools being used by the Israeli military in their genocide against Palestinians.
They also supply Trump’s ICE force with the computer tools used to track and survey US citizens as part of Trump’s war on migrants and the American working class. Alongside its penetration of the NHS, Palantir continues to expand its reach within UK policing.
This week the company announced it had secured a major new contract worth £10 million with police forces in the east of England for a ‘real-time data sharing network’. Palantir also won a £9 million deal to operate a firearms licensing system used by all UK police forces.
It defies belief that the revelation this week that former Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick had been recruited by Palantir as a paid advisor for the last year was just a happy coincidence.
Dick was forced out over accusations that she had presided over a police force found to be institutionally racist and misogynistic.
Burnham intends to give a company with proven links to genocide in Gaza a major role in determining Labour’s 10-year plan to remodel the crumbling UK capitalist economy at the expense of the working class.
Meanwhile, Palantir, another US company with strong links to the genocidal Zionist regime, is allowed to continue its exploitation of the NHS with the approval of Burnham’s government and is seeking to expand its control into the UK police force.
The working class must demand the TUC act now to put a stop to Burnham’s drive to hand the NHS and the future of British workers to these US companies by calling a general strike to bring down the Labour government and bring in a workers government and socialism!
