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May 21, 2022 • 20 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
Never forget that between 2010-2018 £340,000 per year of tax payers money funded the ERG. Each Tory MP that paid £2000 subscription fee claimed that back on expenses. Information on ERG research was never made public, Rees-Mogg's staff denied he was even a member. #BrexitLies
ERG also has a 2nd bank account for private donations, the extent of their funding runs into the millions. Tax payer money was crucial to ERG's success. Westminster 'regulator' looked the other way. Brexit was forced by a cartel of far right libertarians and disaster capitalists
Private foundations have very few legal restrictions, by law they have to donate 5% of their earnings to 'no-profit' charities. Well guess what? They get tax deductions so they can impact society under the aura of generosity to salve public resentment. The ultra wealthy run Govt
Govt refuse to comply for over half of FOI requests, your taxes are supposedly a guarantor of that info. IPSA (Parliamentary Standards Authority) aggressively fought any attempts to release ERG's research effectively legitimizing the 'party within a party' status of the ERG.
Here's WHY the ERG aggressively shaped Govt policy, it's for post Brexit libertarian hell, their 'hard Brexit' ideology is stealthily underway; deregulation/repealing of EU laws, charter cities/freeports, Neo-Feudalism coming to UK🧵
The tax payer picked up the tab for a cartel of far right ideologues intent on razing a stable country's economy, rule of law, to the ground. A revolving door of corporatist cash buying political influence copied and pasted from the US, Austria and Australia=Disaster capitalism
Large % of ERG 'research' was done via whatsapp, you know what happens when mobile phones are requested as evidence of dodgy Govt dealings? They get burned, lost, replaced, 'high school excuses for missing homework' Rampant libertarianism rife in UK. I just got blocked by Hannan.
How much public awareness is there about Charter cities? Mordaunt, Mogg, Baker, Truss etc are readying the UK for them, all those small farms given Govt bungs to close, provides land for property magnates to invest in private homes, schools, hospitals...
verfassungsblog.de/the-danger-zon…
Your families lives are being shoehorned into a post Brexit dystopia. Curricula in 'academies' as Mogg wants to call them means indoctrination, private healthcare, 'Home-rule' will push poor out of rich cities into slums forcing workers to commute from them to earn slave wages.
Add it all up, cost of living crisis, fuel and food poverty, ambulances queued up outside overwhelmed hospitals, wealth tax on oil magnates 100% voted against by Tories, water companies slap on wrist fines encourage them to ignore improvements and reap profits, same for partygate
Charter cities under corporatism can make their own laws beyond reach of Govt because they aggressively lobby policy changes that furthers all out deregulation. Thiels(Paypal) charter experiments in Honduras have had disastrous impacts on locals, it fails,he takes money and runs.
This is anarcho-capitalism, Brexit under the guise of patriotism, the populist mantra smuggled in a Trojan horse choc full of +450 r/w think tanks funded by a global cartel of oil and property magnates. They lept out onto UK soil and now they are wreaking disorder and chaos.
Fred Koch sold crude oil separation techniques to Stalin and Hitler in 1930's, Koch empire born from world war. Their contempt for welfare state seen as 'theft' of their taxes has shaped r/w policy and poisoned democracy for decades, it has steadily grown into a corporatist giant
In defence of tearing up the NIp imperiling GFA, Frost just had a meeting with guess who? Heritage Foundation the worlds most influential r/w think tank. Rev $86,808,369 Exps $75,065,736. Truss's Global Network of Liberty will cause UK free market mayhem, you are chattel to them
Operation Yellow Hammer a Govt doc that actually predicts what is happening now in the UK save for the cherry on top the pandemic that accelerated a situation that disaster capitalists thrive on. Great British PPE Heist and Covid Fraud Goldmine for criminals and Govt alike.
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Public money is one big giant ATM for this Govt. Enough!
Deregulation is well underway for the UK's post Brexit future, take a look at this thread on UK Govt awarded #Palantir £5.9m for ‘Provision of Data Integration Services’ 18 months ago
£1.7m extension last week
Peter Thiel is extremely dangerous
Understand that Govt regulatory bodies and watchdogs such as they are will be dismantled under the next wave of Tory libertarian despotism. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) already turned a blind to partisan Brexit policies of ERG
Typo - blind 'eye' of course

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May 7
Cons and Labour are working together to give massive tax breaks, subsidies, and (de)regulatory freedoms to the investor classes across 12 Freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones (SEZ) - 48 in England, 18 in Scotland, and 8 in Wales.
The key to this neoliberal reconfiguration of the UK is Brexit. Thatcher set up 11 SEZs during her time in office, but they failed, why? Because of EU rules on State Aid that prohibit Govt's from giving preferential treatment in the form of State Aid to companies of THEIR CHOOSING. Brexit is the UK's inflection point, these zones will transform working-class neighbourhoods into financial districts.
This is about establishing a second empire via a reverse-colonialism, something Sunak, Gove, Truss, Mogg, Braverman, Baker, etc, and thinktanks like Mont Pelerin and the Heritage Foundation dreamt up to remove big govt interference in highly damaging forms of capital accumulation at the expense of working peoples lives and livelihoods. This is a class war.
Cons and Labour have the same donors, they share and collude with the same stakeholders, and corporations within a nationwide Freeports consortia.
This is setting the course for total corporate control over the next 25 years of the UK economy, you should have been informed about what amounts to a corporate coup.
SEZs have been designated in areas where the 'Queen's writ does not run', taxation, labour laws, and health and safety regulations will all be eliminated. Instead of offshore island, these zones are using sites in 'inner-cities like Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Edinburgh to onshore tax exempt wealth creation, there is no legal obligation for companies to contribute their capital back into local community infrastructure, in fact residents in the zones will be presented with bills for things like clean-up costs, just like the water companies are doing now by charging 40% extra on bills. I don't understand why the public are not up in arms about what's happening.
These zones have left the EU's laws and regulations in the dust, 31st Dec 2023, the UK Govt quietly revoked +600 pieces of UK/EU laws overnight, the 3 main areas were employment rights, food and safety, and environmental laws, 1000's more are for the chop by 2026. SEZs have been referred to as 'political animals', their goal is to install a 'frontier community in the heart of a major city' and change not only the mentality of the citizens/customers residing in them from a reliance on big govt to that of control by a corporation, but to ensure residents behave appropriately inside the zones, meaning no unions, no workers rights, legalised lawlessness under modern-day slavery conditions.
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May 5
False trading, duplicity, electoral gaming, the Brexit elephant in the room will not disappear.
"How then does the UK get growth not being in the single market?"
Still, zero mention of Sunak's 12 Freeports and 74 SEZs, fully backed by Labour, and why these free zones depart from EU rules on State Aid (public mnoney), and why this sabotages rejoining the EU. Things couldn't be more serious for the future of the UK outside of the EU.

On top of that a Jan 2024 Govt report Retained EU Law (REUL) stated 'EU ports are publicly owned and unsuitable for the UK economy'
+600 EU/UK laws were revoked on 31st Dec 2023, the 3 main areas were employment regs, food and safety standards, and environmental protections, 1000's more for the chop by 2026. Know that Starmer's changed Labour Party sit on the nationwide Freeports consortia comprised of MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses. I despair.
@TheNewEuropean
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May 3
Labour MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses are sitting members on a cross-party alliance of Freeports consortia spanning 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
If you look at council websites where Freeports are mentioned, you will get the glossy brochure version, these councils won't even mention the Special Economic Zones currently engulfing the entire UK, the MSM are quiet, the public have no idea what's happening, the councillors themselves are clueless, yet these seismic changes will negatively impact ordinary peoples lives for the next 25 years.
This is Brexit, a deceitful and cruel experiment in libertarian exit from democracy. I absolutely despair.
Deep dive on all things Freeports and Special Economic zones here, their history and why these zones have been resurrected by the Tories, and backed by Labour.👇🏻👀
BlackRock has sought to position itself as an industry leader in environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). It has been criticized for investing in companies that are involved in fossil fuels, the arms industry, the People's Liberation Army and human rights violations in China Where do you suppose Blackrock's interests lie now Britain is being rapidly privatised because of Brexit?
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Apr 19
PORT LABOUR IN THE EU
'Despite signs of considerable improvement in the past decades, scattered data suggest that the port worker continues to have one of the most dangerous occupations in the entire EU economy'
Do you understand why the TUC and RMT are against Sunak's Freeports?
Do you know that the Labour Party are referring to Sunak's Freeports as ports in their GE campaigning?
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Brexit is about capitalism without democracy, it is economic freedom that depends on political disenfranchisement. In the UK human labour is now effectively an entrapped domestic workforce, it is a required necessity in Cons and Labour's 12 deregulated Freeports and 74 SEZs. That same workforce is a result of corporate coercion working with neoliberal politicians to inflict pain and desperation as the public sector is absorbed into the private sector.
Each SEZ and Freeport spins a narrative of 'fragile zones of freedom' under siege from the regulatory state that oppresses the purity of unfettered capital accumulation.
Labour and Cons are a unity party who have betrayed social democracy. It is time for a seismic challenge to take place across the world, we must form new parties and break away from this toxic corporate imperial order.
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Apr 16
An Oil Baron Wants to Build Over a Local Park for His ‘Green’ Energy Project
Locals are taking him to court.
@novaramedia A 'port' is publicly owned, the 2 Freeports in Cromarty Firth, and the Firth of Forth are privately owned and fall under corporate governance.
Hydrogen, is not a green energy source which is why it is beloved by the fossil fuel industry since much of it is extracted from natural gas. Nigg is just one of 18 Special Economic Zones spread across Scotland.
novaramedia.com/2024/04/10/an-…
SEZ chaos hits Torry in Scotland.
Aberdeen councillors yesterday voted to back the leasing of St Fittick's Park for an energy transition zone in the face of strong opposition from Torry residents.
Campaigners gathered outside the Town House to protest the decision, which divided the chamber with the Labour group voting in opposition and the SNP, Liberal Democrat and Conservative groups in favour.
aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-…
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Apr 10
Our main parties continue to exchange petty insults, playing the blame game while shredding public trust, and confidence in our democratic political system. This pantomime will get worse as the GE approaches.
We can no longer depend on the MSM to tell us the truth of what is going on behind closed doors. There are reasons for this subterfuge, corporations are dictating the terms.
It again falls to independent grassroots organisations to reveal what's actually happening, they are the ones who are exposing the rampant corruption. Please support them.
We must challenge politicians on all sides who are complicit in reducing the public to being mere spectators of their own fate.
We must demand public participation in decision-making processes that affect the lives of the majority of people in the UK.
We must insist that our representative MPs close the revolving door of big donors and prevent them once and for all from shaping policy to create wealth for themselves, their friends, and families.
The consequences are plain to see as austerity policies ravage towns, cities, and the environment.
The public sector, and the councils that are supposed to provide services are being privatised and bankrupted, it is all by design and down to Brexit.
What comes next is terrifying, corporate governance in 86 Special Economic Zones that are tax-exempt for 10 years.
Each of Sunak's 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports must be publicly owned and publicly governed, otherwise, the UK can forget rejoining the EU.
Brexit allows the UK Govt to give State Aid (public money) to companies of their choosing, this is illegal in the EU because it distorts markets creating an unlevel playing field, which sabotages rejoining.
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