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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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Dec 2
Why Are Governments Racing to Implement AI Without Protecting Citizens?
A thread on four essential books that explain what's really happening, and why you should read them all.
Want to understand why governments worldwide are falling over themselves to implement AI at Silicon Valley's pace rather than building citizen protections?
These four books together reveal the disturbing answer: We've already lost the plot.
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (2019)
Zuboff showed us HOW this happened: Tech companies learned to claim human experience as free raw material, turning our behavior into prediction products sold in futures markets.
Governments didn't regulate this because they didn't understand it until it was too late.
Zuboff's warning: Surveillance capitalism creates "extreme concentrations of knowledge and power free from democratic oversight."
By the time regulators noticed, these companies had become more powerful than most governments. They now SET the terms, not follow them.
This book explains the foundation of tech's unchecked power.
Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis (2024)
Varoufakis goes further: Capitalism is DEAD. We now live under technofeudalism, where Big Tech owns private cloud fiefdoms and we're all digital serfs.
Every click, every scroll—we're laboring to increase their power while they extract rent from their platforms.
Here's the key insight: Governments can't regulate what they fundamentally misunderstand.
They still think in terms of "markets" and "competition." But Varoufakis shows platforms have REPLACED markets. There's no "free market" to protect anymore—just cloud lords collecting tribute.
This book explains why traditional regulation keeps failing.
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Nov 28
URGENT WARNING: Forest City 1 and the Charter City Agenda
This is not a housing development. This is a pilot project for privatised governance.

Forest City 1 is the first of a planned network of privately controlled charter cities on British soil - 45,000 acres of Suffolk farmland to be transformed into a governance experiment by a consortium of right-wing libertarian ideologues. More developments are in the pipeline. The supporters behind this scheme are not confused property developers. They are the architects of Britain's post-Brexit zone archipelago and charter-city governance model.
Forest City co-founder Shiv Malik contacted me directly, offering to "answer my questions." I did what any responsible citizen should: I asked him for clarity about land ownership, democratic control, SEZ plans, governance, displacement, investor benefits, and transparency.
He answered.
And what he admitted — 'in his own words' — is more damning than any critic of charter cities could invent.
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THE PLAN IN PLAIN TERMS
Forest City's backers have already confirmed in writing they will pursue:

Canary Wharf-style tax exemptions – removing taxation from vast tracts of British land
Building-tax exemptions – no council tax, no business rates, no democratic accountability
Government Development Corporation – unelected bureaucrats, not residents, will control all land distribution
Permanently appointed land-trust board – no elections, ever (justified because "democratic choice often runs counter to long-term interests")
80 acres gifted to the private consortium as profit – public land transferred to private hands as payment

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Q — How does Forest City fit into Suffolk's existing SEZ infrastructure?
A — It's strategically positioned within Suffolk's Investment Zone corridor.

Suffolk has established Investment Zone sites along the A14, A12, and A11 transport corridors.
Forest City, positioned near the A14 between Haverhill and Newmarket, would occupy approximately 182 square km (45,000 acres) — roughly 4.8% of Suffolk's total land area — right in the heart of this existing SEZ infrastructure.

UK Investment Zones are designed with a tax incentive boundary limit of 600 hectares (6 square km), but surrounding this area is a wider investment zone "core" and an even broader "ecosystem" collectively known as a "cluster." As the government's own policy prospectus states, "we do not expect this activity to be limited to a fixed red-line boundary."

Forest City's 182 square km is 30 times larger than the nominal 6 square km Investment Zone limit.Image
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Nov 9
⚠️WARNING⚠️
Britain's Biggest Heist Since the Enclosures: Oracle, BlackRock, and Labour Are Stealing Your Future
Imagine this: Tech billionaire Larry Ellison pumps £300M into Tony Blair's think tank to ghostwrite UK AI policy, then Oracle scoops £54M in secret Home Office extensions and billions in digital ID contracts.
It's not a conspiracy. It's proven corruption, exposed by Guardian docs: backroom access, fake "independent" endorsements, and a revolving door spinning faster than a Ponzi scheme.
But that's just the appetiser.
BlackRock, your pension's shadowy overlord, snags 80% of UK's key ports in a £22.8B fire sale, controlling 60% of container traffic while loading £14B Thames Water debt onto your bills.
Freeports? Promised 80,000 jobs, delivered 5,600, at a blistering £896K per head.
Teesside's "deregulated paradise"? Run by a cocaine-trafficking "security firm" evading £1.5M in taxes.
Labour's betrayal seals it: Starmer's "progressive" zones are Tory tax havens rebranded, overriding local votes, tokenizing your parks on BlackRock's blockchain, and betting £14B on an AI bubble set to pop next quarter.
Water guzzled like a city's thirst, air poisoned with 2,000 tons of smog yearly, communities crushed, all subsidised by your energy levy hikes.
This is a corporate coup enclosing the commons: water, ports, data, nature itself.
FOIs blocked, minutes redacted, 25-year locks unbreakable.
I've joined the dots.
Demand accountability before reversal is impossible. Dive into the full investigation, sources, scandals, and a blueprint for resistance.
Read Now: The Corporate Coup Over the Commons. Please share and subscribe to my Substack.
I am a volunteer exposing the massive Ponzi Scheme that is the duopoly's nationwide stealth rollout of deregulated free zones.
Ask your neighbours and friends if they've heard of free zones, they will look at you like you have two heads.
Keep in mind, this is exactly what our corporate captured government want.
I call it Zone Fever
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I spoke with Spotlight On Corruption a few days ago, and they said I was the only person in the UK raising awareness about free zones!
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Nov 3
Starmer’s government totally, and without any shadow of a doubt are complicit with Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
Over the years, Blair, May, Cameron, Sunak, Truss, Johnson, Braverman, Badenoch, Farage, Starmer, Lammy, all of them, guilty of not standing up to Netanyahu over Gaza, and with that destroying Britain’s reputation on the world stage. It beggars belief they did this.
What they have done is nothing less than total betrayal, the subsequent attacks on the ICC were compounded by Trump’s sanctions against this bastion of International Law, all of it remains beyond sickening.
Sir Keir Starmer supporting a disgusting fascist Israeli government, which saw him confirming, and giving license to Israel their “right” to deny water, food, and electricity, as well as laying siege on Gaza.
Totally illegal under the Geneva Convention.
I’ve started reading Peter Obourne’s book COMPLICIT: Britains role in the destruction of Gaza, going on the YouTube talk between Owen Jones and Obourne, it is absolutely clear that the coordinated, and manufactured consensus to promote Zionism above all ethical adherence to International Humanitarian Law was and continues to be obscene.
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Trump will ensure that the ICC will be dismantled and killed off.
The ICJ will make cases to prosecute Whitehall.
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Nov 2
Scenario - After the UK state becomes privatised by US Blackrock, Blackstone, Vanguard, PEEL Group, Pronomos Capital, via the plethora of deregulated free zones in England, Scotland, and Wales, authoritarianism will expand with surveillance capitalism as its primary digital linchpin.
The ideological architecture behind what might otherwise look like technocratic policy are very real ‘exit strategies’ taking place immediately after Brexit.
What’s happening is a 25-year 'reconfiguration-of-the-UK' phase, where collective sovereignty is replaced in incremental steps with corporate sovereignty via free zones, port by port, zone by zone, region by region, patchworks of feudal enclaves and tax havens, all competing with one another in an unlevel market distorted playing field.
A private equity firm you should know of is Pronomos Capital, they are waiting in the wings. pronomos.vc/people
Pronomos explicitly advocates for “charter cities” - semi-autonomous zones with their own legal/regulatory frameworks, typically positioned as laboratories for governance innovation.
The intellectual lineage here is significant:
The Key Figures’ Models: Patri Friedman (grandson of Milton Friedman) - co-founded the Seasteading Institute, advocating for floating sovereign entities outside existing jurisdictions.
His model: competitive governance where jurisdictions compete like businesses for residents/investment.
Tom Bell - legal theorist who’s written extensively on “proprietary communities” and private governance systems.
His work provides the legal-theoretical scaffolding for how private entities could exercise state-like powers. Michael Strong, involved in various charter city projects globally, particularly in Honduras where this model has been tested.
Shanker Singham - former trade advisor, known as 'the brains behind Brexit' advocates for “regulatory freedom” zones.
His model emphasizes regulatory independence from national frameworks as economic competitiveness strategy.
Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen - venture capitalists who view governance itself as a technology problem solvable through startup-style iteration and competition.

Balaji Srinivasan - More complex. He's been:
CTO of Coinbase
General partner at Andreessen Horowitz (so VC in that capacity)
Angel investor/entrepreneur
But primarily known as an ideologue and theorist of techno-libertarian governance
Balaji is particularly significant because he's explicitly articulated the vision I'm describing.
He's written about:
"The Network State" - his book arguing for cloud-based nations that eventually acquire territorial sovereignty
Exit over voice - explicitly rejecting democratic reform in favor of creating new jurisdictions
Reversing the Reformation - his concept of returning to pre-democratic forms of corporate-sovereign entities
Pseudonymous economy - governance through cryptographic identity rather than citizenship
So while Balaji has done VC work, his primary role in this constellation is as the intellectual architect articulating how tech capital should transform governance itself.Image
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Oct 31
What You Can Do About UK Enterprise Zones

🧵 The UK’s enterprise zone network is expanding under Labour’s Industrial Strategy Zones. Here are concrete actions you can take to resist the corporate carve-up of Britain:

1/ **DEMAND TRANSPARENCY**
Ask your MP and local council: Which companies benefit from zone subsidies? What taxes do they avoid? What environmental damage do they cause? What IP are they acquiring? They’re using public money—you have a right to know.
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2/ **CHALLENGE DEMOCRATIC DEFICITS** Enterprise zones bypass normal democratic oversight. Demand that all zones require local council approval, genuine public consultation with veto power, and annual performance reviews with revocation powers.
3/ **ATTACH CONDITIONS TO PUBLIC MONEY** No more corporate welfare without strings. Push for: living wage guarantees, union recognition, profit-sharing with communities, local hiring quotas, environmental compliance, and IP sharing requirements.
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