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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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Sep 7
Imagine your company is offered several million pounds of State aid (public money) to set up inside any one of Sunak and Starmer's 74 Special Economic Zones or 12 Freeports, you will get tax breaks for the next 10 years while the zones are licensed for a quarter of a century, not only that but your company is trusted by the UK Govt to 'self-regulate' in the zone where employment rights, food safety, and environmental protections have been shredded with 1000s more EU/UK laws for the chop by 2026, any economic or environmental damage to the region will be billed to residents in the zone, all manner of illicit activity is now possible because secondary legislation means zero scrutiny by Parliament including public FOI requests being swept under the carpet, plus compulsory purchase orders give your company carte-blanche to buy up (on the cheap) dozens of business, agricultural, and residential properties, public services will crumble, your company can replace them with their own private services.
What would you do?
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Sep 1
Grand Commitee - Transcript from 11 May 2023
Baroness Kramer (Lib Dem) raising the issue of transparency and criminal activity in SEZs and Freeports of which there are 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports currently being set up across the UK, initiated by Sunak and fully backed by Starmer's changed Labour Party.
'I think even the Government recognise that freeports are catnip to criminals and money launderers. I would make the point that the kind of people who are attracted to freeports tend to be those who absolutely push the law to the limit, even when they do not go beyond it. We have so many examples from around the world where the players in various different freeports have gone well beyond it. We know that at least one of the major freeports will be under the Dubai Ports World regime, which already has ownership of major docks in London'.
'...but because there are no customs declarations, customs inspections or tax-related declarations in freeports, the normal mechanisms that provide data and direct monitoring and enforcement agencies are simply not available'.
'Why is the register that is going to be put together for freeports not to be made public? If I understood the answer that I got, it was, “Oh, this will all be dealt with when we get to Companies House legislation”.
Well, here we are: that economic crime Bill 2, with Companies House at the heart of it, but I cannot see anything that deals with making that register of beneficial owners in freeports public'
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Baroness Bennet Green Party @natalieben
“Contracts at the site will be a commercial matter for the companies involved”. Official Report, Commons, 10/5/23
There is great public concern about what is happening on Teesside, and it is at the moment extremely opaque.

I shall concentrate mostly on freeports, because, as the noble Baroness said, investment zones are such a “fluffy” area that is very hard to grasp on to it. As to what we know about freeports and what is happening, a lot of the questions are being asked by the independent media and the civil society organisations referred to by the noble Baroness. I would point anyone who is interested to an excellent, 44-page report from the Bylines Network that was put out by local journalists from around the country in areas directly affected. It does a great job of examining some of the issues, but butting up again and again against commercial confidentiality and lack of recording. One of those reports notes that in 2020, the Royal United Services Institute Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies submitted evidence to the International Trade Committee saying that “there is evidence of criminal activity taking place in multiple freeports around the world. It often involves trade in counterfeit goods, drug trafficking, smuggling of untaxed goods or trade-based money laundering”.
'If we were to think of something that is essential to the purposes of the economic crime Bill now before us, shining the light, opening the doors and being able to see what is happening would clearly be it. What we are talking about with freeports are huge concessions from the Government. As the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, said, they include freedom from all kinds of usual customs controls, but also stamp duty land tax relief, enhanced structures and building allowance, enhanced capital allowances, employer national insurance contributions relief, and business rates relief and retention. Those are huge concessions. Surely it would only be absolutely fair and reasonable to demand full transparency about who is responsible and who is making those decisions'.
'It is very evident that there is great public concern. This is one way that the Bill or some other mechanism—I directly put the question, “If not this Bill, where else?”, to the Minister—will make sure of what will happen if we create these structures. The reason why people are so suspicious about this seems to go back to an uncredited blog from 2010 on the website of a right-wing lobbying group, the TaxPayers’ Alliance, which raised the idea of charter cities. People are very suspicious. Surely the Government would want to dispel some of those suspicions by ensuring that there is absolute transparency and openness'.
Here is the link to the 44-page Freeports Gazette Natalie refers to above of which I was a contributor. @BylinesCymru
bylines.cymru/wp-content/upl…
Shanker Singham's role in the implementation of the UK 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports must be exposed.
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Aug 27
Starmer announcing more pain and economic hardship is not what people voted for.
The vast majority of the public already had this from 14 years of Tory austerity policies.
Labour are not being honest with the public, they have been very busy as board members of Sunak’s nationwide SEZs/Freeports consortia.
Here’s what happening behind the scenes and beyond the radar of the MSM.
The UK is being carved up into jurisdictions where governance is given over to corporations along with tax breaks for 10 years, the free zones are licensed for 25 years and contravene EU laws on State aid (public money) that prohibit govts of member states from giving money to corporations of their choosing, this unleashes market distortions that destabilizes the integrity of the EUs Single Market, basically UK SEZs sabotage the UK’s chances of rejoining the EU for the duration of the licenses, 25 years.
Each SEZ is a growth sector for the asset classes, companies include Blackrock, Blackstone, Macquarie, Google, Exxon Mobil, Uber, Caldwell, and many more.
‘Unfortunately, their proposals draw more from right-wing think tanks, astroturf campaigns and asset managers than they do the demands of workers, tenants and the labour movement’
The profits of Cauldwell and BlackRock go up and the costs of housing remain unmoved.
Join up Brexit and the fact that Labour spent a year having meetings everyday with the private sector, including governance consultancies that worked for Cameron and Thatcher, the sad truth emerges that Labour are in thrall to the most malevolent corporations and lobbyists responsible for ever widening contrasts between rich and poor. The UK is being privatised, zone fever is happening right now, and it’s all because of Brexit, the main culprit that Labour refuse to discuss.

tribunemag.co.uk/2024/07/deregu…
Now read this, an expose of the inner workings between corporations, governace consultancies, and Lthink tank abour Together.
Be in no doubt that Starmer’s changed Labour Party is handing over the collective sovereignty of the UK to the absolute worst corporations and predatory capitalists both foreign and domestic.
opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
We are used to thinking about rich donors and corporations having the ear of the Tories but there is plenty of evidence to suggest this issue won’t disappear once Keir Starmer enters Downing Street.

opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
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Aug 24
Are people aware that Rishi Sunak studied at Stanford University in the US? His mentor was Prof.Paul Romer who lectured on Special Economic Zones (SEZs) as the model for a return to colonialism. SEZs are a framework used to exit from democracy by carving out territories under separate laws from the host country.
Are people aware that Labour MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses were board members of Sunak's nationwide SEZs/Freeports consortia?
Why are the MSM concealing this information from the public, it is their communities that will be hollowed out as the public sector is absorbed by stakeholders including Blackrock, and Blackstone, these corporations are the eptiome of laissez-faire capitalism, to them public services are small potatoes, their goal is countrypreneurship, the privatization of entire nations.
Look at this!


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Aug 7
Rachel Reeves has refused permission for the National Audit Office to investigate England's 48 SEZ's and 8 Freeports despite a damning report from the House of Commons Committee in April 2024, citing lack of transparency, questions over value for taxpayers money, and ignoring of the Nolan principles. This stinks.
Reeves refusing the NAO from investigating England's SEZs and Freeports is extremely worrying given the context of far-right riots occurring throughout England and the clampdown on legitimate environmental protests.
It is a well-established pattern of behaviour in free zones that corporations when given governance powers prohibit workers from utilizing union representation, along with banning protestors from coming near their warehouse/factories.
Labour are colluding with Corporations and oligarchs representing the very worst of anarcho-capitalism such as Blackrock, Macquarie, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, the London Stock Exchange, Amazon, Uber, Raytheon, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, British American Tobacco UK, Labour Friends of Israel, and dozens more.
'This has led to a major lack of transparency, which even the lobbying industry’s representative body, the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), says is a problem'
'We have identified hundreds of meetings that senior figures in the party held with corporate lobbyists, financial institutions and business groups. On average, they met with influential business leaders every single working day of the past year'.
There it is, Starmer's changed Labour Party refuses to answer questions from @openDemocracy on their relationships with the private sector.
Can someone explain to me why the scandal of the stealth installation of deregulated 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports in post-Brexit UK is not being covered by the MSM?
You've all been taken for fools.
opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
Performance of investment zones and freeports in England
This is a House of Commons Committee report, with recommendations to government.
Freeports and investment zones have different objectives. While both are designed to increase employment, freeports are designed to drive regeneration, where-as investment zones are intended to increase national productivity.19 20 The different policy objectives are reflected in the different choices of location for freeports and for investment zones.

All freeports have been established near major ports, some of which have high levels of deprivation and low levels of income and employment.
In contrast, investment zones are situated in larger city regions. These regions were selected because they include “local research institutions like universities, strong local leadership, and evidence of an existing cluster of high potential businesses”.
In the November 2023 Autumn Statement, tax breaks available in freeports and investment zones were extended from five to 10 years. The Government has also introduced a new “freeport delivery plan”, announced in December 2023, to provide freeports and investment zones with wider support.
Each investment zone will now receive a maximum of £160 million over 10 years, which can be split between tax incentives for businesses or spending on a portfolio of interventions such as skills or infrastructure.
Total public spending by region has not changed significantly since the publication of the Levelling Up White Paper in early 2022. The Government spent £126 billion on economic affairs in 2022–23 (4.9% of GDP, an increase from 2.1% of GDP in 2012–13), across three policy areas, namely transport (£44 billion), enterprise and economic development (£21 billion) and science and innovation (£7 billion).26 27 As Figure 2 shows, however, public expenditure on economic affairs per capita was 49% higher in London than the English average in 2022–23.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmse…
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Aug 2
If you are suspicious that all is not well in Brexitland, this is because both our main parties have been colluding on reconfiguring the UK to a kleptocracy, the framework for this lies in Special Economic Zones (SEZs) of which there are 86 in total, 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports.
Sector by sector, region by region, the UK is being privatised, this has come about because of massive deregulation after leaving the EU.
On Dec 31st 2023 Mogg's REUL Bill revoked +600 EU/UK laws overnight with 1000's more for the chopping block by 2026, will Labour halt this deregulation frenzy? The 3 main areas targeted were employment rights, food safety, and environmental protections.
UK SEZs contravene EU laws and regulations on State Aid (public money), Governments of member states are prohibited from giving State Aid to companies of their choosing because this distorts the integrity of the Single Market creating an unlevel playing field. Starmer knows this which is why he says no rejoining the EU/SM/CU.
Watch as Labour now and again quietly mention 'ports' and investment zones which imply public ownership, do not be fooled, UK Freeports and SEZs are privately owned ring-fenced areas that range from 38 to 75km in diameter.
This is about corporate sovereignty replacing collective sovereignty, it is no coincidence that protest is being shut down with heavy sentencing, this is preparing people for corporate governance for citizens entrapped inside the zones.
All UK free zones are tax-exempt for businesses for 10 years and licensed for a quarter of a century. Brexit is being forced to work by the duopoly. The Green Party are 100% against Freeports and SEZs.
#FollowbackFriday
Starmer will not tell the truth about why he says no to rejoining the EU, the Single Market and Customs Union, but for the last few years Labour MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses were particpatory board members of Sunak's nationwide Freeports/SEZs consortia.
48 SEZs and 8 Freeports in England.
18 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Scotland.
8 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Wales.
Each SEZ receives £160 million in State Aid (public money) multiplied by 74 = £11 billion 840 million.
Rachel Reeves recently refused permission for the National Audit Office to investigate England's 48 SEZs and 8 Freeports despite the House of Commons Committee's April 2024 citing lack of transparency, questions over value for taxpayers money, and ignoring the Nolan principles. The licenses for all free zones are for 25 years, companies setting up in the zones are tax-exempt for 10 years.
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