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Jun 16, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Had a question, why do you think there is such a dearth of info about the Tories charter cities and freeport plans post Brexit? #Libertarian #BrexitLies
Do people know what charter cities are? Because this is actually a key hidden plan behind the Brexit campaign. Sunak is a disciple of Prof.Paul Romer who experimented with r/w charter cities in Honduras and Madagascar, Honduran Supreme Court shut him down. So off they trot to UK.
UK is in transition, an 'emerging economy' now with 3rd country status. A regression has been instrumented whereby the clean slate has foreign frontier capitalists/ UK hedge funders queuing up with multinational pals for their chunk of flesh and a UK ruled by and for shareholders
For this to happen, decades of libertarian think tanks and corporate lobbyists bought Govt policy via the revolving door, the charity staus of think tanks keep getting away with not disclosing their funders or even the details of their meetings. Tax payer pays MP's subscriptions
to ERG, £2000 per year. Over half of FOI requests denied, research of ERG never made public, minutes of meetings never disclosed yet the ERG are known as 'the party within a party' and wield an extraordinary amount of power over MP's
Behind the headlines, this is what the Tories are planning for their post Brexit 'Global Britain' Clue, you and your families are ATM's. Explainer on Charter cities 🧵👇🏻
May 2022 article on Sunak's charter city plans for post Brexit UK now an emerging economy ripe for frontier capitalists to swoop in rewrite laws and 'experiment' on local communities under shareholder diktats. No one is taking this seriously.
policyexchange.org.uk/the-chancellor…
Please look at article, 'levelling up, unleashing potential, harmony between public and private sector, Tory voter don't want an ever-growing state, policy experimentation in unproductive environments' Honduran Supreme Court shut down Romers charter city, he and Sunak off to UK!
@HenryKangaroo @vivamjm @bakerstherald @AnnAubert3 @BylineTimes
Sunak & his mentor Paul Romer preparing the UK for enterprise zones aka charter cities post Brexit. An experiment in policy making in unproductive environments, full blown stealth reconfiguration of UK economy
Please read! Incredibly well researched article on charter cities, that's private cities owned by foreign multinationals rewriting laws beyond Govt reach, the Brexit plan all along, Neo Feudalism. The Tories had their revolution, it's time for ours.
medium.com/@cormack.lawso…

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Oct 14
Deregulation on tap from Starmer's changed Labour Party, they are no different than the Tories.
Corporate governance is coming as the absolute worst companies from around the globe like DP World, Blackrock, and Blackstone are given carte blanche to self-regulate inside the duopoly's 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports.
The UK is being carved up into zones of exception from the host country's laws and regulations. Economies outside the zones will be forced to emulate the big companies as competition increases in an unlevel playing field. This is why Starmer says no rejoining the EU.
All UK free zones contravene EU laws on State aid (public money). Companies chasing State aid in the zones are not looking at the long term, it is literally boom-and-bust.
europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes…
Understand that the corporate model of politics will replace social democracy, this is how SEZs operate via small acts of secession fragmenting the country into small govts with no interventionism from big govt. Free zones perforate holes in the fabric of the nation-state, once this takes hold, the entire country will be privatised.
Of course @Guardian mention none of the above, you have to ask why?
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…
If you hadn't heard of Special Economic Zones or Freeports before seeing my research into the dangers they pose to UK infrastructure, please consider buying me a Ko-Fi.
ko-fi.com/europeanpowell
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Oct 13
I guarantee that Britain is installing the 'preferred' corporate model of politics by 'letting go of democracy' because Brexit has rendered the country's economy 'capital hungry and desperate'.
The MSM completely fails to see what comes next after the 'end of Empire'. A substitution of its colonial excesses turned back onto its own citizens.
The UK is currently carving out 86 feudal enclaves across England, Scotland, and Wales.
Free zones are neo-colonial experiments in corporate governance turbocharged by Brexit, they were a Tory initiative fully backed by Labour MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses who were board members of Sunak and Truss's nationwide SEZs/Freeports consortia.
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Oct 2
The Labour Party has used a sham figure of £90bn to claim that water nationalisation would be too expensive. The water industry paid for the ‘analysis’ that Labour cited in a recent official letter to anti-sewage groups.

thecanary.co/uk/analysis/20…
Once people take the lid off Starmer's shiny new changed Labour Party, they will soon discover they've been sold a dud.
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Sep 27
A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a designated region 'freed' from the host country's regulations, stakeholders and investors are trusted to 'self-regulate', meaning they can create their own rules.
At one end, we have low-wage production, and reduced employment rights for workers.
At the other end zones are basically tax havens where corporations can both onshore and offshore their profits.
Sunak and Truss turbocharged the resurrection of Thatcher’s free zones and added dozens more; there are now 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports currently being installed across the UK under the Labour Govt.
48 SEZs and 8 Freeports in England
18 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Scotland
8 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Wales
Bidding on all free zones closed in 2022.
All 12 UK Freeports are housed inside a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), the zones vary in size from 38 to 75km in diameter.
Example; Forth Ports in Scotland own 8 other Freeports which are owned by parent company Otter Ports Ltd, the managing director of which is Lord Smith of Kelvin, Otter Ports Ltd is registered in the Cayman Islands, Smith did not declare this in the register of interests.
Both Cromarty and the Firth of Forth sit inside much larger Special Economic Zones (SEZs), 70% of the City of Edinburgh is inside Forth Ports SEZ.
From the UK govt website
‘Enterprise zones are a devolved matter and there is no obligation for the devolved administrations to adopt them’ - UK Government 👇🏻👀 researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN05…Image
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The majority of free zones are in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, China has the most, almost half in total. Europe and North America have less than 10%, why would that be? The 82 free zones in the EU are strictly regulated to prevent governments of member states from giving State aid (public money) to companies of their choosing, this distorts the integrity of the EU's Single Market creating an unlevel playing field.
The bidding process for UK free zones took place between 2021 and 2022, businesses lined up for tax breaks and low-regulation were chosen by the UK Govt.
From the EU Commission's website on State Aid and SEZs 👇🏻👀
'(EU) Parliament stresses that State aid should support ecological transformation and foster the development of services, knowledge, and infrastructure rather than providing support to specific companies'.
UK SEZs contravene EU laws and regulations on State aid. When Sunak and Starmer say 'no rejoining the EU', not one reporter in the MSM points out this fundamental component about the EU's rules on State aid. UK SEZs are being installed by stealth.
europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes…
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Sep 26
The simplest way to understand Starmer’s changed Labour Party is that they work for corporations and not for you.
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Sep 21
If you are concerned about how and why deregulation affects key facets of UK society after Brexit including environmental laws, employment rights, and food safety, then take a look at this paper on Secondary Legislation - Plus ça change? Brexit and the flaws of the delegated legislation system.
I have not come across such a wilful and concerted attack on laws and protections without proper scrutiny of the impacts of secondary legislation, it reads like anarchists have sabotaged the entire legal infrastructure to allow 'absolute deregulation' to empower corporations profit gain and screw the state for decades.
The Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 corrected a host of errors, 72 including a ‘tick box’ that was ‘omitted in error’ but was crucial to enable endangered species to be moved within the UK and an amendment which ‘inadvertently altered the operation of an Article’ relating to pesticide products.73
A wash-up SI was also used to correct the accidental removal by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the prohibition on hormone-disrupting chemicals being used in pesticides in the UK, which the Department later described as an ‘erroneous omission.’74 The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Civil and Family) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 were necessary to rectify a mistake which prevented some Scottish claimants from being able to file for child maintenance in Scotland.75 Somewhat extraordinarily, The Animal Health, Plant Health, Seeds and Food (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 proposed amendments to a draft affirmative instrument that had not yet been laid before parliament.76 Some errors have even attracted wider public notoriety. For instance, the European University Institute Regulations 2019 were withdrawn. These regulations indicated the Government (wrongly) thought that membership of the European University Institute was contingent on EU membership.77 There were 97 wash-up Brexit SIs, to correct earlier mistakes, laid up until Exit Day. This compares with 4.6% of SIs being wash-ups in the 2015-2016 parliamentary session. Not only does this show that mistakes can slip through scrutiny processes, it means that the resulting legal framework is complicated further by layering regulations on regulations.
It becomes clear that the Tories took a sledgehammer to EU/UK regulations without any recourse as to the detrimental and chaotic consequences we see coming up now in the headlines.
‘significant aspects’ of the UK’s ‘regime would become less effective or legally inoperable... the UK’s ability to regulate the financial sector effectively would be compromised, affecting market confidence and creating instability.’
Apply this massive deregulatory attack to just about everything we take for granted in society, and consider the UK's upcoming 74 Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports, a Tory initiative backed and signed off by Labour, and it becomes painfully clear that the UK is being privatized, via Zone Fever.
publiclawproject.org.uk/content/upload…
All of the problems detailed here align with the anxieties set out in the first part of the report. 359 Brexit SIs were laid in the four months leading up to March 2019. Those SIs touched on every part of UK life, from haulage to equality to food safety. Very significant policies such as alterations to deportation thresholds or changes to social security law were placed in secondary legislation and the rationale for why they deserved to be in delegated legislation was not explained.
The “Henry VIII clause” is one loaded with constitutional symbolism.
The name echoes the King's “impersonation of executive autocracy”: his attempt to usurp the will of Parliament.
We are told that Parliament is sovereign, 'but retrospective Henry VIII clauses are worrying because they entrust the executive, or potentially some other body, with the power to overturn prior Acts of Parliament: rather than legislation being altered by an elected body, statutes are changed by the largely non-elected, if accountable, executive branch. Democratic processes appear to have been circumvented'.
Prospective Henry VIII clauses thus constitute a fetter on the power of future Parliaments, creating the risk that as yet unthought of statutes will be overturned
through the exercise of the delegated power.
These political concerns are mirrored in the difficulties
that Henry VIII clauses present for the legal concept of parliamentary sovereignty. Most understandings of sovereignty can be reduced to a deceptively simple legal rule: “whatever Parliament enacts is law"
Retropspective Henry VIII clauses cannot change/subvert Parliamentary sovereignty, but prospective Henry VIII clauses absolutely can. 'Prospective clauses bring out an ambiguity in the simple formulation of sovereignty: if all that Parliament enacts is legally binding, what happens if one Parliament tries to create a mechanism by which a later Parliament's law-creating power is constrained?'
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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