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Jul 15, 2022 • 24 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
Tories already expanding vocabulary of Freeports by adding 'zones' into the mix, they're not just ports! The #Liverpool zone has a population of 2,3 million! Entire regions under corporate laws dictated and enforced under a privately owned judiciary. Brexit deregulation hell.
Excellent article by @eyes_lilly on Tories post Brexit Charter cities which are well underway as the next ERG PM takes the UK to it's authoritarian corporate run conclusion.
medium.com/@cormack.lawso…
Of course none of this was on the side of a bus, r/w #libertarian policies have for decades proven notoriously unpopular with the public, that's why think tanks were used under a pretext of 'charity status' so r/w ideologues could carry on with their destruction by stealth
Prof.Paul Romer (mentor to Rishi Sunak) who along with Penny Mordaunt is now installing UK’s Charter Cities post Brexit. Once deregulation is hastily done, it's open season for the radical right to do whatever the f*ck they want, privatising whole cities
taxpayersalliance.com/charter_cities…
Great blog here on pros & cons of charter cities, basically when the right have control, it will be awful. Cities have long exercised power over land use and zoning (notice how Tories talk of zones)& they have frequently used this power to exclude needy outsiders #Brexit
verfassungsblog.de/the-danger-zon…
They do this by passing local ordinances that prevent the construction of public and low-income housing. Home-voters fear that the presence of low-income residents will diminish their quality of life and increase the crime rate. Ring any bells on hostile Govt policies?
Don't think that a new Govt can repeal those laws, they will be irreversible and under the jurisdiction of private companies, why do you think Truss, Sunak, Mordaunt, Trevelyan have been back and forth to the US? They are importing r/w charter cities model to UK. ERG's endgame.
@5by5Creativity writes on the whole libertarian package that comes with right wing charter cities now being installed in post brexit UK. Please follow her, she's fantastic
bylinetimes.com/2022/06/30/bor…
@AnnAubert3 I believe has written the first article on UK charter cities, read it here and please give her a follow she's brilliant!
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/br…
@fslconsult wrote this astonishing piece on charter cities 'Beware the Tories New Threat to our Democracy' Please follow him. #CharterCities
pressreader.com/uk/the-sentine…
Tories 'Global Britain, leveling up' slogans belie the truth of what's actually being planned for the 'emerging economy' of 3rd country UK. Frontier capitalism is a form of corporate colonialism, it swoops in when a country's economy is in crisis & severely weakened by disasters.
Cherry on top for Tories was the pandemic, an opportunity to cripple the public sphere by stealing billions via non tendered contracts to mates with no experience in PPE. Lack of competition was copied from the Bush administration during 9/11. 'Ramped up' military funding next.
Tories have for years been emptying public coffers, your taxes intended for public spending stolen for corporate gain & ultimate control of your lives, welfare state will be a thing of the past. R/w revolution took chunks out of public services, next step is ripping out the core.
Need your help in getting this out to the public at large, time is running out, next Tory PM is an ERG libertarian evangelical zealot who will ensure the harshest of r/w policies are unleashed on an unsuspecting UK public. Please read, research and RT before its too late.
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Appeal to my followers & anyone alarmed by what the Tories are not saying about their post Brexit plans for privately run cities (charter cities) to please RT/like this thread. I need your help to create momentum and raise awareness in the hope the msm & opposition pick this up.
“Don’t be daft, it couldn’t happen here”
Charter cities are a ploy to enrich the rich even further, increasing inequality. US billionaire Peter Thiel, a key financier of Trump campaign, sees them as a route to replacing the US Govt with corporate power.
thenational.scot/politics/20267…
Honduras perfect example of why Romer’s model is ultimately unrealistic & can be oblivious to particular contexts, cultures -especially a country currently in political and economic turmoil. Ring any bells? Brexit, Covid ravaged UK incoming Sunak/Mordaunt!
faithandpubliclife.com/a-case-against…
Our cost-effectiveness model suggests that over 50-years horizon charter cities would have a 127x return on investment. See that 50 years bit?
'We don’t believe that charter cities are a cost-effective method to lift individuals out of poverty directly'
rethinkpriorities.org/publications/i…
'Laboratories of governance' model means additional risks involved. Corporatised Neocolonialism. Many charter city projects already riskier than traditional real estate investments. Reminder Russia report states: Brit Est compromised beyond prevention, estate agents, lawyers, PR
Honduras, Romer's idea became mired in controversy almost immediately. Residents in the proposed sites complained that officials had not consulted them. The Govt signed an investment deal without the consent of the Transparency Commission. Remind you of anything in UK?
Those who voted for Brexit knew nothing about Tories plans for r/w lawless charter cities, info was scant in the public domain save for @bakerstherald & a few independent/obscure sources, Don't forget that advocates of charter cities leaned on the above report I just shared.
My 🧵on ERG who for 29 years have been shutting down all moderation, taking public money and astronomical sums from private corporate donors and using that to push the most radical libertarian ideologies into Govt policy making under mask of charity status

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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?
transport.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2…Image
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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Apr 7
‘States exerting power on behalf of corporations in SEZs’.
The most lucrative line of business is between corporations and the Govt.
The UK Govt is working to help companies enforce their rules and private laws within 86 Special Economic Zones, and this is tax payer funded. The cannibalisation of all our resources is stealthily underway, and the zone (being a complex subject) camouflages its agenda with culture wars. Watch @kennardmatt discuss corporate welfare in the form of State Aid (public money), SEZs, and how the obstacle of social democracy has been removed to pave the way for corporate hegemony. #BrexitDisaster @novaramedia

I have shocking news for Labour supporters.
Labour MPs, Mayors, Councillors, Lords, and Baronesses are sitting members of a cross-party alliance of Freeports consortia spanning England, Scotland, and Wales.
Labour Party members backing Sunak's 12 Freeports
Kim Johnson
Mick Whitley
Jon Cruddas
Margaret Mullane (candidate)
Keir Starmer
Rachel Reeves
Liam Byrne
Nick Fletcher
Gill Furniss
Dame Rosie Winterton
Clr Alan Nimmo
Clr Altany Craik
Clr Cammy Day
Baroness Blake of Leeds
Mayor Steve Rotheram

miro.com/app/board/uXjV…
If you are not shocked at the huge amount of corporations waiting in line to extract resources, pay no tax for 10 years, enjoy SEZ status for 25 years, receive tax payer's money to the tune of billions to subsidise them, introduce appalling work standards, ruin local communities, collapse, and absorb councils and public services, set up private security, private banking, money laundering, drugs, weapons trade, human trafficking, modern-day slavery, stolen art in 12 deregulated Freeports looking to expand into the surrounding zones, some of which are 75km in diameter then you are either an anarcho-capitalist or you are asleep.
miro.com/app/board/uXjV…
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Apr 3
Q - What's the difference between Special Economic zones in the UK and SEZs in the EU?
A - SEZs in the UK are tax havens
A - SEZS in the UK are deregulated
A - SEZs in the UK are experiments in corporate governance
A - SEZs in the UK are privately run
A - SEZs in the UK distort competition
A - SEZs in the UK allow the Govt to give State aid (public money) to companies of their choice
A - SEZs in the EU, none of the above europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/155707…
Where is all this going?
Gove introduced Compulsory Purchase Orders in his Levelling Up Bill last Ict 2023, CPIs apply to business, agricultural, and residential properties.
Private equity is making aggressive incursions into the public sector as engineered insolvency bankrupts councils, and public assets are sold off.
Please watch the @PoliticsJOE_UK interview ‘Why we need to abolish landlords’ with @NickBano
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Mar 25
Labour = No rejoin, got it.
So we should be focusing on those spectacular Brexit benefits, right? But, here's what's coming next.
Labour are backing the Tory initiative of installing 12 Freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) the length and breadth of the UK.
48 SEZs in England
18 SEZs in Scotland
8 SEZs in Wales
8 Freeports in England
2 Freeports in Scotland
2 Freeports in Wales
0 SEZs and Freeports in Northern Ireland...I wonder why?
Labour are part of a cross-party alliance that sits on the Freeports consortia in England, Scotland, and Wales, the members include MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses. They are working with major stakeholders from dozens of companies, and being advised by governance consultancy's who specialise in deregulatory frameworks for Special Economic Zones, Locus Economica is one such consultancy.
Locus Economica worked very closely with the Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai, our former Queen officiated at the opening ceremony of the Free zone in 1979. Jebel Ali Freezone is the flagship zone of DP World. Welcome to Brexit dystopia where deregulation that follows the culling of EU/UK retained laws on employment rights, food safety, and environmental protections were shredded on 31st Dece 2023, with 1000's more for the chop by 2026.
So Keir Starmer will not inherit the turmoil of Brexit or Sunak's Free zones to remedy the Tories attacks on just about everything publicly owned, because he and the Labour Party actively back the reconfiguration of the UK into a privatised plutocratic libertarian hellhole.locuseconomica.com
Now for the technical side of things which comes down to differences between WTO and EU State Aid rules.
For the Tories and Labour, Supply-Side Economics means low taxes and deregulation, so those at the top make the profits while those at the bottom watch society fall into oblivion. The cherry on top for those wilfully ignoring Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is State Aid under WTO rules allows Govt's in 3rd country's (the UK) to give preferential treatment to companies of their choosing inside the Freeports and SEZs, this is the trick of the zone, a state within a state, a bit like how the Mafia operates.
EU State Aid is strictly regulated to prevent Govt's doing this because it distorts markets creating an unlevel playing field, Brexit allows the Govt to break the rules under what I call 'legalized lawlessness'. The UK is now a Russian doll.
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