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🧵Here are Sunak & Shapps, posing for a photo op at the Savoy, with DP World CEO, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem. DP World own P&O.

In 2016, Sunak saw DP World as a huge benefit to the UK. With plans for it to be ‘at the heart of Britain’s trading future’ Claiming it had the ambition

& resource to boost growth, support businesses, create jobs & (get this) IMPROVE LIVING STANDARDS!! DP World, have just laid off 800 UK staff in appalling circumstances & brought in replacement workers on £1.80 an hour. The company owe billions in loans, took £10m in furlough

support & requested a £150m Govt bailout. Sunak has welcomed DP World with open arms. His big push for these ‘freeports’ has been warned about by many for a while. They are Charter Cities. Deregulated economic enterprise zones. Workers rights mean zilch. It’s the Libertarian

‘sovereign individual’ dream. Erode away & appease big business & its ghouls. DP World is set to benefit from a £50m windfall of taxpayer support in the form of ‘seed capital funding’. It’s all outrageous & will only get worse under this Govt. Tonight they were given the chance

to vote against fire & rehire. They chose not to. Instead, Shapps decides that finding P&O staff new jobs, will make it all better. It won’t. It sets a precedent. Nothing important & ‘valuable’ to our democracy appears to be protected anymore by this cabal.

Here’s Sunak on BBC Sunday Morning speaking to @sophieraworth & yes he’s happy for people to be in work. He’s happy to create jobs. Doesn’t state though that he’s unhappy with DP World. Also doesn’t flinch that the jobs he’s helped create are for £1.80 an hour. Tries desperately

to separate P&O from DP World. Until he’s challenged. Then looks ‘squeaky bum time’. It’s all ridiculous & the hidden agenda is now clear as day.

#GTTO #sunakout #PandO #CorruptToriesOut #JohnsonOut57 #Freeports #ProtectWorkers #LibertarianGhouls #ToriesUnfitToGovern #ToryLiars

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