IN-DEPTH: The Billionaire-Funded Group Lobbying for Economic ‘System Change’ in Scotland and Wales

Published on January 31, 2024

A progressive billionaire funded group is steering Scotland and Wales towards policies that align with the controversial “degrowth” movement via a “well-being economy.” The Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), a UK charity, is part of a global network forging close ties with Western governments with the aim of abandoning GDP growth as an objective. The Epoch Times has discovered that accounts filed at the end of last year show the organisation was funded by progressive organisations, one with an anti-capitalist agenda inspired by far-left militants. And one renowned economist and expert on degrowth said that such policies are “going to end up impoverishing the UK.”...

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