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But the Brexit “no deal” minister appears to be very interested in gold....

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This is the Register of Members Financial Interests entry for @SteveBakerHW

Notice the entry for under “other sharerholidngs, valued at more than £70,000”

For something called “Glint Pay Ltd”
Steve Baker registered this shareholding (completely properly) on June 22, 2017

The same month he became Parliamentary Under Secretary at DexEU

(A colleague also spotted a brief appearance in a TSC register from Jan 2017 here parliament.uk/documents/comm…)
What is Glint Pay? A company that helps in “protecting you from systemic risk”

Anyone know anyone with a role in of minimising systemic risk?
Here is what Glint Pay say they do.

From a statement dated May 2 2017. Includes section on currency risks for the company.
So a minister in the Department for Exiting the European Union is a shareholder? See “Shareholder 3” from Companies House:
Risk you say. Anyone in government involved in risk management?
Here’s what the Times says about Glint

“Britain has overtaken Germany to become Europe’s biggest buyer of gold”

thetimes.co.uk/article/7121c6…
This is most interesting. An article on the Glint website talks about Brexit

And poses the question “If brexit does prove to be a mistake...” and says that will push the pound down

glintpay.com/money/how-brex…
Here is some of the latest stuff around Brexit and the value of the pound

google.co.uk/search?safe=of…
For crowdsourcing information purposes, here is a link to Glint Pay Ltd. What do these accounts suggest?

beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/095079…
There is, of course, no suggestion of any wrongdoing here. It’s just interesting.
For more on Steve Baker, see here:

gov.uk/government/peo…
twitter.com/SteveBakerHW?r…
stevebaker.info
youtube.com/channel/UCzgjY…
theyworkforyou.com/mp/24786/steve…
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Amber Rudd told Cabinet:

“History will take a dim view of a Cabinet that presses ahead with No Deal. We have to face world in which we find it, not as we wish it to be and we have to deal with the facts as we find them.”
In response to Sajid Javid pointing out that under No Deal we wouldn’t be able to uphold Dublin agreement and send people back, Amber made clear that, as a former Home Sec, we’d be less safe as a country.
Amber Rudd added:

“More than ever we need to find the centre, reach across the House and find a majority for what will be agreed. Anything will need legislation.

“I want us to proceed with Brexit, I want to find the will of the House.”
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NEW

Tory pro-remain rebels have been plotting to scupper government timetable - and forcing meaningful vote for *THIS THURSDAY*

One minister last night gave it 50/50 chance of success

BUT

Appears to have been scuppered by the government business motion which can't be amended
Remain rebels were going to argue that the business motion being put by government was similar to previous one - therefore you could say 3 of the 5 days of debate had already taken place

... meaning it would happen on Thursday night
Labour would have joined in this effort

Some in government wanted it to come foreward too

But apparently this programme motion is unamendable, sources say.
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Times exc

What next on brexit?

In today’s Times I do a roundup of what people across Westminster - and beyond - are saying at the start of the new term.

A thread below on my conclusions, including details of “Operation Figleaf”

thetimes.co.uk/article/62a2f4…
1. The meaningful vote is set to be either on Tue Jan 15 or Wed Jan 16.

A decision hasn’t been made yet

It partly depends on whether the Commons sits next Friday and Tories have a three line whip to attend the brexit debate - which is unusual
2. Theresa May wants to focus briefing on domestic issues - the NHS? - this weekend

I’m told one advanced plan is for May to appear on the @AndrewMarr9 on BBC 1 on Sunday to launch the 10 year NHS plan, spelling out how the ££ announced over the summer will be spent.
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Gold: After the news earlier that the National Bank of Poland bought a further 13 tonnes of #gold in October taking their purchases to 25t for the year, I thought I would refresh the list of central banks that had bought gold since the start of 2017:

(long-ish thread)
Turkey
Hungary
Poland
Serbia
Russia
Kazakhstan
Tajikistan
Kyrgyz Republic
Belarus
India
Mongolia
Thailand
Philippines
Indonesia
Jordan
Egypt
Qatar
Colombia
Argentina
Suriname
Why are Central Banks adding #gold to their official Reserves?

Natalie Dempster who head's @GOLDCOUNCIL Central Bank and Public Policy team suggests these five reasons:

1) FX reserves are growing;
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The Register of Members' Financial Interests pt II
For Mr Corbyn's second leadership battle, Momentum (£50k) joined the same Unions as major donors:
Unite: £81k, RMT 25k, TSSA 11k, FBU £15k & its Gen Sec Matt Wrack (chair of LRC) £7k. (total £188,779.43).
It was still considerably more than the £13k that poor Diane was able to raise in her bid in 2010. David raised over £600k (inc £5k from Keith Vaz), while Ed raised over £330k (inc £2k from Emily Thornberry & £100k from Unite).
A reminder of the rules:
'or any benefit which he or she receives, which others might reasonably consider to influence his or her actions or words as a Member of Parliament.'
The problem with the register is that if you don't tell anyone, who is to know?
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The Register of Members' Financial Interests: 2 Sep 2009.
Historically Mr Corbyn had few registered interests, but in September 2009 a payment of (up to) £5,000 from Press TV, a wing of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, as well as a similar amount from Al Jazeera appeared.
These (undated) payments were consistently registered for three years, until mid 2012, with the last entry appearing in the 11 June 2012 register.
Mr Corbyn also received an unspecified amount from MEDIA a company associated/affiliated with Press TV.
in June 2010 he also registered £4,000 from the RMT, £5,000 from the Fire Brigade Union (whose Gen Sec is the LRC's Matt Wrack) and £1,750 from the LRC itself.
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Germany earned €2.9 billion from Greece’s debt crisis, their supposed equal members

@EURACTIV euractiv.com/section/econom…
#Brexit 34
Multinationals avoid the total cost2UK of Freedom of Movement & Freedom of Establishment is about £40 Bn/YEAR. The effect on UK public finances is 2drain the resources available 4 OUR pensions & benefits in the future. Get ready 2work until you drop!
globalbritain.co.uk/wp-content/upl…£30bn-cost-of-EU-migration-FINAL.pdf
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Thread on Mr Corbyn's overseas trips and Register of Members' Financial Interests.
The main purpose of the Register is to provide information about any financial
interest which a Member has... which others might reasonably consider to influence his or her actions or words as a MP
Mr Corbyn has already been reported by @ABridgen to the Commissioner for Standards, for not registering his 2014 Tunis trip.
It is of course possible that Mr Corbyn paid for the trip himself (receipts?), but other delegates/speakers were invited by the President of Tunisia.
So I wondered what other trips has Mr Corbyn been on and did he declare them or not?
At the HA committee on antisemitism he told @Nus_Ghani that he had been to Israel/Palestine 9 times & that he had been to the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) & met members of many parties there.
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Corbyn said in the Morning Star: "A one-day conference was held under the auspices of the Center for Strategic Studies for North Africa, just north of Tunis.'
Now can anyone tell me who the "Centre for Strategic Studies for North Africa" are?
No organisation has that name.
An exact search on google reveal 3 hits: Corbyn's MS article, @sirtophamhat asking exactly this question & this article by Toby Cadman, who Corbyn also mentions in his article. It appears that Cadman was invited by the Tunisian Presidency, was Mr Corbyn?
justiceinconflict.org/2014/10/27/the…
Here we go:
It included speech by top Hamas leader who called violence 'magnificent'
A former Tunisian foreign minister took the stage to compare Israel to ISIS
Other speakers included Sabagh al-Mukhtar, who appeared as a witness in the trial of Abu Hamza
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