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@EuropeanPowell
Jul 12, 2022 • 19 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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UK is fast heading towards a parallel of US evangelical libertarianism. Disenfranchisement of 'unsuitable' voters, suppression of working classes, limited access to educ, ruining local communities by savage spending cuts and environmental devastation (shit in rivers/coastlines).
The billionaire anti democracy movement & it's donor network has galvanized +450 r/w think tanks extreme partisan libertarian ideology which has its roots in early 20th century when Fred Koch sold crude oil separation techniques to Stalin and Hitler in the 1930s. #Libertarian
Economists Hayek, Friedman & Buchanan advised hiding their radical agendas in newly formed think tanks like the IEA, Heritage, Mont Pelerin CATO etc as they knew their proposals would not be accepted by the public and bring unwelcome focus on charity status of these think tanks.
UK is 5 mins behind US not 10 years due to accelerationism; an intensification of fatal right wing political strategies all part of the drive towards the evangelical Anglosphere achieving global dominance, it is replete with anti critical race theory & seeks to end democracy.
Tory hopefuls all shit, each one exemplifying Darwinian political system of self interested individualism above egalitarianism. Their 'low tax' mantra echoing key tenets of libertarianism; eg 'tax is theft of property' which is why Tories are allergic to wealth tax/welfare state.
Tories r dismantling UK's judiciary, rewriting Human Rights Act, stifling protest, deregulating 1000's of EU laws designed to protect citizens/workers rights. Holding corporations to account, ensuring they pay fair share of taxes, protecting the environment is anathema to Tories.
My thread on the despicable world of the ERG who will install a law breaking hard Brexit libertarian lunatic to inflict further economic terrorism on a public battered by Brexit and Covid, they need those corporate lawless charter cities fast.
Post Brexit will see the rise of lawless charters which Sunak, Romer, Thiel and Mordaunt are busy planning with frequent trips to the US funded by the tax payer. The ERG was formed 29 years ago, their endgame move is in play because Johnson proved too soft for their ideology.
I don't understand why this doesn't shock the public into all out revolt & why the opposition parties & msm aren't advocating & showing the public an alternative to the dystopia the Tories have been steadfastly building for decades. Post Brexit hell will be unleashed with new PM.
My🧵on Brexit Freedoms Bill & how it will accelerate the establishing of right wing charter cities in UK. This is a monetised coup, the most ruthless foreign multinationals are queuing up for chunks of your lives where you and your family will be customers for generations to come
@AnnAubert3 article on Charter Cities, please read and share, above all understand how serious the threat is to human rights which Suella Braverman and Dominic Raab are busy destroying so this dystopia can be fully realised.
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/br…
Your lives are being undone for foreign corporate takeover. Think the cost of living crisis is bad? Wait til Tories set up their Darwinian system; exclusion of the poor from their privately owned cities with brutalising commutes under modern day slavery
medium.com/@cormack.lawso…
'Quasi sovereign units located within existing states, which would be maintained by a foreign guarantor nation or nations establishing a legal and political system autonomous from the host state' @fslconsult This is happening right now! #BrexitReality
pressreader.com/uk/the-sentine…
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Do people understand what happens when a country trashes laws it helped write to protect workers, the environment, policing bills/the judiciary itself? Mogg's bonfire of EU regs gives powers to ruthless corporations to make their own beyond Govt reach!
Charter cities can be good and they can be very bad, it depends on what sort of Govt is in power. Tories are busy preparing right wing lawless cities where ordinance is bypassed on building low income housing, 'Home-rule' on steroids, this won't cure poverty, it hides it away
In 2010 Tax Payers Alliance was already salivating at the prospects of eviscerating 'basket cases like Hull, Liverpool and Tyneside' where laws can be remade for shareholder values while abolishing welfare and moving poor voters to slums. Enter Brexit
verfassungsblog.de/the-danger-zon…
When people like Penny Mordaunt talk of a 'big money pot' for Tory constituencies, they will use it to keep the riff raff out, that's average working people born and bred in those cities being pushed out. A Neo Colonialist fiefdom with its own judiciary.
That's total privatisation, Charter Cities with own laws, eg Peel Group Liverpool, DP World London & other sites already being bought up. Private Healthcare, indoctrinated education, security forces, brutal commutes to work for slave wages in Mogg's 'cities shining with commerce'

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Jan 13
It's all coming out.
Listen to the account of Sasha Riley.
Trump bought and sold children with Epstein.
"I watched Trump kill a litter of puppies, they made me stand there, he would carve or kill the puppy and look to see what my reaction was"
"While we were in that room, adults at that party bust in the room, one of them had a gun, they assaulted her at gunpoint, they killed her in front of me"
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During the years SR was trafficked within the Trump/Epstein ring, he was forced to perform sexual acts during the filming of several child pornography films, including a snuff film. He recalls at least 10-12 such films. During the snuff film shoot, SR saw a girl child shot and killed during filming. After another film shoot, a girl child was taken to another room. SR recalls hearing gunshots. He said that when he heard the gunshots, he was scared. He said that another perpetrator still in the room with him, sensing his fear, said, “Don’t worry. Boys are hard to find.” The films were produced within the Trump/Epstein ring.
Pedophile perpetrators Sascha is willing to testify against include Donald J. Trump, Andy Biggs, Jim Jordan, Lindsey Graham and Clarence Thomas.
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Jan 12
Let’s begin with what we can prove beyond doubt.
Guardian documents reveal a corruption scheme so brazen it belongs in a textbook on state capture. Here’s how it works:
The Money: Larry Ellison, Oracle founder and Trump associate, has funneled over £300 million to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI). Oracle already holds £1 billion in existing UK government cloud contracts with the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, and Department for Work and Pensions. In November 2025, the Home Office quietly extended Oracle’s deal by £54 million for five years.

open.substack.com/pub/europeanpo…
The Salon Dinner: In January 2025, at London’s five-star Corinthia Hotel, Tony Blair and Nick Clegg (then Meta’s president for global affairs) hosted six tech company leaders plus Poppy Gustafsson, UK Investment Minister. Days later, TBI received early access to the AI action plan they would publicly endorse.
This is corruption: Private funding of policy development + early government access + public endorsement + funder profits from resulting policy.
The Oracle Advisor Scandal: Oracle’s strategic advisor Hillel Fuld published posts advocating the forced tattooing of prisoners with the Star of David. Australia revoked his visa in June 2025 citing incitement concerns. This is someone advising the company managing UK digital identity infrastructure. No public debate. No ethical vetting. No accountability.
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Jan 7
Updates on Forest City 1
1. Paul Powlesland has confirmed he IS a board member of ACDC - the company receiving 80 acres worth millions. He previously forced me to publicly apologise TWICE for saying this. I was telling the truth. He concealed it.
ribaj.com/intelligence/b…
2. @horton_official 's quote from The Guardian's article dated 23rd Nov 2025 - 'Malik’s almost 800 supporters span the political spectrum, including Green party campaigners and leaders of rightwing thinktanks. He’s also enlisted Paul Powlesland, a nature campaigner and barrister, to join the board of the Albion City Development Corporation, which is overseeing the proposal'.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
3. I've now learned Dame Patricia Hewitt was the Secretary of State for Health from 2005 to 2007, and a member of the Labour Party - she is a key signatory lending establishment credibility to Forest City 1 - Hewitt is Shiv Malik's MOTHER-IN-LAW. This family relationship has never been disclosed in any promotional materials.
4. So the "cross-party support" includes:
Malik's mother-in-law (undisclosed)
Board member presented as independent watchdog (undisclosed)
Libertarian think tanks (disclosed)
80 acres for founders (admitted)
Where's the transparency?
5/ Malik has called me a "liar" and a "grifter" for exposing Forest City 1's charter city structure.
But HE conceals:
His mother-in-law's support
Powlesland's board position
The appointed trustee governance
The SEZ exemptions sought
6. The Guardian never disclosed:
Hewitt's family relationship
The governance structure details
The SEZ exemptions
The 80-acre founder gift
This isn't journalism, it's PR for insiders.
7. When "independent supporters" turn out to be board members and family, "transparency" looks very different.
Suffolk deserves the truth about who profits and who controls Forest City before decisions become irreversible.
Suffolk is not just a housing proposal.
It is the dress rehearsal for the privatisation of British geography.
And the left-wing signatories, however well-meaning, are currently the most effective part of the camouflage.
Forest City 1 Reality: The Community Land Trust (CLT) model is presented as progressive; residents gaining “genuine ownership.” But examine what this actually means: residents purchase property within a corporate-controlled jurisdiction operating under special legal status. Their “ownership” exists within a framework controlled by the Albion City Development Corporation (ACDC).
I have written several articles about Forest City 1, Suffolk. Please read, subscribe and share.
Forest City: The Ideological Coalition That Should Never Exist
open.substack.com/pub/europeanpo…
Forest City 1 (UK) as NRx Prototype: A Critical Analysis
substack.com/@europeanpowel…
URGENT WARNING: Forest City 1 and the Charter City Agenda
europeanpowell.substack.com/p/urgent-warni…
Suffolk's Forest City and the Ghost of Próspera: Why Britain Should Learn From Honduras
europeanpowell.substack.com/p/suffolks-for…
LBC’s Forest City Lovefest: How the Spiked Network Sold a Libertarian Dream as Community Housing
europeanpowell.substack.com/p/lbcs-forest-…Image
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If Forest City proceeds, here’s what you’re accepting:
1. Democratic Accountability Becomes Optional
Appointed trustees with binding charters replace elected local councils.
2. Your Villages Have No Guaranteed Veto
The Secretary of State in Westminster decides your community’s fate, not you.
3. Private Corporations Get Permanent Governance Rights
Through appointed trust boards and 25-year SEZ licenses.
4. Tax Revenue Is Negotiable
“Canary Wharf style” exemptions mean businesses don’t pay what everyone else pays—and you make up the difference.
5. Planning Law Is Bypassed
Development corporation powers override normal democratic planning processes.
6. Basic Services Could Be Weaponized
Próspera charter city (Honduras) cut off water when residents resisted. Who controls your water, electricity, internet in a privately-governed zone?
7. It Sets A National Precedent
If Suffolk accepts this, charter cities spread:
- “Tech City North” (Manchester corridor)
- “Green City Wales” (Cardiff corridor)
- “Innovation City Scotland” (Central Belt)
On 5 December 2025, LBC’s Ali Miraj gave Austin Williams 45 minutes of unchallenged airtime to promote Forest City 1, a proposed million-person city on 45,000 acres between Newmarket and Haverhill in Suffolk. Listeners heard about Tesla robo-vans, nuclear reactors, 400,000 affordable homes, all delivered by private visionaries “independent of the state.”

What they didn’t hear could fill a book. And what was deliberately left out exposes this for what it really is: a coordinated libertarian network using progressive language to advance a charter city experiment that would strip democratic control from Suffolk communities.
Miraj introduced Williams simply as “architect, author, and director of the Future Cities Project.” That’s like introducing Rupert Murdoch as “a media professional”—technically true, but missing the entire story.

Austin Williams is a founding member of the LM network, the libertarian group that emerged from Living Marxism magazine after it went bankrupt in 2000. He’s been a regular Spiked contributor since 2002, writing dozens of articles celebrating deregulation, dismissing sustainability as anti-human control, and praising authoritarian development models that bypass democratic accountability.

But here’s where it gets interesting: Spiked is funded in part by the Charles Koch Foundation, the billionaire libertarian network that bankrolls free-market think tanks worldwide. And Fraser Myers, Spiked’s deputy editor, is a public signatory to the Forest City 1 petition. So is Austin Williams himself.

This wasn’t journalism, it was an infomercial delivered by one Spiked network member, broadcast without disclosure, for a project publicly backed by another Spiked network member. The circle is complete.
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Jan 1
2024 was the year when Starmer's government sealed the fate of the electorate's future by partnering up with the most powerful corporations on the planet, handing over governance powers to corporations under localised freedoms in +140 free zones, which as of Jan 1st 2026 still remain vastly under-reported.
PPP on steroids.
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Here's my guide on how to halt the corporate capture of the Commons👇🏻
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These corporations have now been given access to the UK's critical infrastructure, which they describe as new, additional assets to their financial portfolios.
Both the Tories and Starmer's Labour continue to sell the lie that PPP, disproportionately dominated by corporate interests, is something that will help the vast majority of people. This couldn't be further from the truth, as corporate profits surged to utterly obscene levels, while public services, already in a perpetual state of permanent atrophy, are dismantled.
substack.com/@europeanpowel…
Where do deregulated free zones come in?
Imagine a map of the UK, visualise vast regions ring-fenced as Special Economic Zones, Food Enterprise Zones, freeports, University Enterprise Zones, Industrial Strategy Zones, and AI Growth Zones.
These are known as carve-outs, they form a patchwork of deregulated enclaves with separate laws and regulations to the host country.
The UK Govt lied about these zones having the same laws and regulations as non-free zone regions.
substack.com/@europeanpowel…
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Dec 27, 2025
The Corporate Carve-Up of Britain: 12 Actions to Fight Back Against Enterprise Zones
What You Can Do About UK Enterprise Zones
Labour’s Industrial Strategy Zones are accelerating the transformation of British democracy into corporate fiefdoms. Here’s what you need to know and what you can do about it.

Britain is being carved up. Not through dramatic privatisation announcements or controversial legislation, but through a quiet, systematic network of over 140 enterprise zones that operate outside normal democratic control, offer corporations tax breaks worth billions, and are now being consolidated and expanded under Labour’s Industrial Strategy.
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These aren’t marginal experiments. They cover food production, universities, defence, AI development, data centres, and entire regional economies. They use public money to subsidise private profit while bypassing the democratic oversight that would normally apply to such spending.

The model is simple: designate an area as a “zone,” suspend normal planning rules and democratic accountability, offer corporations tax breaks and regulatory freedom, and lock in these advantages through 25-year contracts that outlast multiple governments.
Labour’s merger of Freeports and Investment Zones into Industrial Strategy Zones isn’t a technocratic reorganisation, it’s a rapid acceleration. More zones. More corporate power. Less democratic control.

But resistance is possible. These zones depend on public money, political protection, legal frameworks, and community acquiescence. All of these can be challenged.
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Dec 17, 2025
Results of UK Freeports under the duopoly (2021-2024)
The underwhelming performance patterns of previous free zones under Thatcher and Cameron continue the neoliberal zonification of the UK under the Starmer Government's 'newer/rebranded' Freeports programme.
In 2022, the UK Govt estimated freeports would create 214,000 jobs, but as of February 2024 only 4% of that target had been achieved.
A 2024 House of Commons report shows freeports missed their job goals by 77% to 96%.
The British public is being scammed yet again, as State aid post-Brexit is being extracted hand over fist, the illusion of corporate welfare for economic growth does what it was always designed to do, destroy the commons and usher in a corporate political model of governance while extracting public money with malice.Image
What’s happening is a repeat of the first rollout of free zones under Thatcher, which were a disaster, the excuse was the EU prevented 'real growth' due to restrictions on State aid, but given the scandalous results at Teesside, exposed by @PrivateEyeNews , £560 million in taxpayers money was splurged on Teesside Freeport, (22.4 times the original amount of £25 million).
This raises serious questions about the efficacy of free zone policy, by repeating the same mistakes again and again.
There is no other way to interpret what has transpired, a corporate political heist of public money under the guise of ‘economic growth’, so-called Brexit freedoms have literally lined the pockets of a few businessmen, such as those at Teesside, which was after all, the flagship Brexit Freeport of Rishi Sunak.
These are important concerns that are well-supported by both the documented historical evidence.
Here are the patterns for all to see:
The Repetition of Failed Policy
A cycle of repeating demonstrably ineffective policies. The evidence shows:
1980s Enterprise Zones → 2011 Enterprise Zones → 2021 Freeports → 2025 Industrial Strategy Zones
Each iteration underperforms against targets, yet the policy gets rebranded and relaunched.
The core problems remain constant across all iterations.

The Teesside Case
The Teesside situation saw £560 million spent (22 times the original allocation) exemplifying critical risks:
Deadweight: Activity that would have happened anyway
Displacement: Simply moving economic activity from one place to another rather than creating new activity
Capture by existing interests: Benefits flowing to landowners and existing businesses rather than creating genuinely new economic opportunities

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) expects Freeports "to generate little additional activity, with most of it being displaced from other areas"
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