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Aug 13, 2022 • 17 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Here's why Charter cities are not alarmist remoaner rants
Shanker Singham's World Operating System looks at laws as services companies demand
Titus Gebel wants to 'remove politics' he has invited billionaires to invest in CCs
British Govt sold your sovereignty
UK out of EU laws
Private companies can operate jurisdictions under their corporate needs beyond the host countrys laws, a city within a city. A Network of Liberty=Billionaire investors, politicians, economists, think tanks and global business interests.
UK has clean slate
Brexit=Libertarian Exit
Freeports, free zones, free schools, free laws, free cities.
'Free' is for the investor classes (foreign and domestic) to transform the UK into a corporate governed rogue state
These are the stepping stones Sunak is laying while the UK MSM is asleep at the wheel. #Brexit
Uk is a Totalitarian democracy where voting exists but with zero participation in decisions made in Parliament. The Charter Cities Institute has a 286 page (Private) Governance Handbook primed for the UK's libertarian 'exit' from democracy and the ECHR.
A link to all my Twitter threads on Freeports, Special Economic Zones, Charter Cities, Corporate governance, Brexit, right-wing thinktanks, the network of liberty, Neoliberalism, and names of libertarian economists and anarcho-capitalists alike.
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Like Hong Kong, the UK Govt and its so-called opposition parties have reached a verdict, the markets know best, they will be trusted to self-regulate, UK's policymakers are 'free' from Big govt, 12 Freeports and 74 economic zones will install corporate governance post-Brexit.
The UK public are effectively lab rats in a laboratory experiment, this is what happens when Govt is shrunk to its 'proper' function, people know when they fail 'they bear the cost' - Milton Friedman.
The more power the market has the more the state implodes. ECHR, unions, welfare, the rule of law, environmental protections, unemployment, spiking inflation, and public spending are anathema to the Tories and the oligarch leading its cabal. What do you think happens next?
Globalization prioritizes capitalism, off-shoring revenue over core principles of social democracy. The most lucrative line of business is between Governments and the investor classes. Zone fever is the next stage in 'countrypreneurship', public services are 'small potatoes'
The UK is part of the reconfiguration of democracy to a plutocracy, where corporations set up governance in patchworks of sovereignty, in the UK these are represented by 12 Freeports and 74 SEZs, each zone will compete with the other, extract profit then move on leaving ruins.
'Administrative absolutism' will see the end of🇬🇧politics, the obstacle of democracy is being dismantled, and the public are now witnesses to their own fate. All public funding is being extracted to subsidize big corps to set up shop in the 74 zones, these will be charter cities
Freeports, free zones, free schools, free cities. The absence of politics is what our so-called representative parties seek, you do not allow local councils to collapse and then spend billions on setting up SEZs for nothing, these zones are modeled on Hong Kong and Singapore.
1950's, Mont Pelerin Group called its members neoliberals, they each believed that capitalism had to be protected from democracy, they believed that creeping socialism and the welfare state were a threat to their profits and individual freedom. Tories base everything on this.
A Freeport is a tax haven, it's not a regular port for freight, it is a zone designated for maximum capital accumulation beyond the prying eyes of Big Govt, relaxed laws in these ports and their companion SEZS mean relaxed enforcement of laws. Exiting ECHR will seal the fate of🇬🇧
SEZs will have fences and barriers put up around them, this comes from the libertarian maxim of protecting private property, residents in the zones will be issued compulsory purchase orders which are legal in the UK, so anyone objecting can 'opt in or out' of the zone.
Rees Mogg - we are restructuring the role of the state
Leave Campaign - we will write our own laws
Sunak - I will not allow a foreign court, like the ECHR, to block these flights
Singham - we are looking at Laws as services that companies demand
#Brexit
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Oct 30
Actions the @TheGreenParty and @thisisyourparty must consider implementing now that they have both publicly stated they are against deregulated Freeports and Special Economic Zones.
@graceblakeley and @jeremycorbyn discussion on free zones👇🏻
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The Green Party's public page on voting against free zones👇🏻
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A Proposed Plan
Dismantle the deregulatory structure of all free zones, align them with the EU’s regulatory orbit. What must be demanded:
Immediate transparency: Full disclosure of which companies benefit from zone subsidies, what IP they acquire, what profits they extract, what taxes they avoid, and what environmental damage they cause.
Democratic accountability: All enterprise zones must operate under normal democratic oversight, including local council approval, genuine public consultation with veto power, and annual performance reviews with revocation powers.
Conditionality: Attach strings to all public subsidies—living wage guarantees, union recognition, profit-sharing with local communities, IP sharing requirements, environmental compliance, local hiring quotas.
Public ownership: Create genuinely public alternatives—community-owned food processing, publicly-run research facilities, municipal data centres, cooperative enterprise zones governed by workers and communities.
EU realignment: Rejoin EU regulatory frameworks that prevent state aid abuse and protect food standards, worker rights, environmental protections, and data privacy.
Labour organising: Unionise workers in all enterprise zones to resist exploitation and demand fair wages, secure contracts, and democratic workplace governance.
Legal challenges: Challenge the legality of Mayoral Development Orders, compulsory purchase orders, 25-year licenses that lock in corporate advantages, and “regulatory sandboxes” that suspend democratic protections.
Electoral pressure: Make enterprise zone accountability a voting issue in local and national elections. Demand candidates commit to zone reform or abolition.
International solidarity: Connect with communities globally fighting Special Economic Zones, Export Processing Zones, and corporate sovereignty—this is a worldwide phenomenon requiring worldwide resistance.
Alternative economic models: Build and demonstrate that democratic, cooperative, publicly-owned economic development delivers better outcomes than corporate welfare zones.
Media pressure: Force mainstream media to cover the zone network, 140+ zones affecting every aspect of national life deserve front-page investigation, not buried in business sections.
Parliamentary opposition: Demand MPs scrutinise ISZ governance, question the merger of Freeports and Investment Zones, challenge Defence and AI Growth Zone expansion, and investigate conflicts of interest in zone governance boards.
Community organising: Build coalitions between affected communities, farmers losing abattoirs, students in commercialised universities, workers in low-wage zone jobs, residents facing compulsory purchase, and communities losing democratic control.
The corporate carve-up of Britain is systematic, comprehensive, and intentional.
It has cross-party support and billions in sunk costs. But it’s also fragile.
These zones depend on:
Public money (which can be withdrawn)
Public legitimacy (which can be challenged)
Political protection (which can be voted out)
Legal frameworks (which can be challenged in courts)
Community acquiescence (which can be transformed into resistance)
I am a volunteer who has been researching the Tories and Labour's collusion in the nationwide stealth rollout of deregulated free zones.
Please read my findings on here, on Bluesky and on Substack💚
@ZackPolanski @zarahsultana
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@TheGreenParty @thisisyourparty @graceblakeley @jeremycorbyn Have no idea why the bold lettering in my original post has been scrambled...
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Oct 27
Apart from @TheCanaryUK has anyone seen a single left-wing media outlet investigate the duopoly's nationwide rollout of deregulated free zones?
The ongoing proliferation of free zones under Keir Starmer now includes AI Growth Zones, and Defence Growth Zones (the digital layer), while Labour published their paper, Industrial Strategy Zones Action Plan in June 2025. The paper states it will merge the Tories' Freeports and SEZs under the umbrella of Industrial Strategy Zones (ISZs)
@novaramedia @declassifiedUK @TurnLeftMediaUK @DoubleDownNews @owenjonesjourno @The_TUC @RMTunion @UniteSharon @TheGreenParty @yourparty @zarahsultana @jeremycorbyn @ZackPolanski
Jeremy Corbyn 100% against Freeports and Special Economic Zones (SEZs).
@jeremycorbyn
"A freeport is essentially a tax-free zone created by a government to persuade a global corporation to move in there, and be exempt from an awful lot of laws and property taxes, and a number of other taxes as well, a lot of workers protections are lost in these free zones"
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@jeremycorbyn @TheGreenParty voted to oppose the introduction of Freeports and Special Economic Zones across the United Kingdom at its annual party conference in Manchester in 2024
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Oct 18
My article on UK Special Economic Zones is free to read on my Substack. Please subscribe and, where possible, make a donation to my online Ko-Fi tip jar.
ko-fi.com/europeanpowell
Thank you💚
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I think what’s happening in the UK with free zones represents one of the most significant, and underreported transformations of democratic governance in modern British history.
This is Structural State Capture, Not Policy Failure

The evidence I’ve compiled, combined with Private Eye’s Richard Brooks’ recent 8 page article on his Teesside investigation, reveals a systematic architecture of extraction rather than isolated corruption.
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Oct 6
It is patently clear that if the MSM gave as much attention to Palantir and Blackrock's incursions into the public sector, and the duopoly's nationwide rollout of deregulated free zones as much as they give to Nigel Farage and immigration, we would be seeing outrage directed at these actual seismic issues that are secretly changing Britain into an authoritarian state under a right-wing corporate political model.
Palantir – the surveillance tech giant founded by Peter Thiel with deep ties to intelligence agencies is now embedded in our NHS, our police forces, the Ministry of Defence, and across the public sector, including Coventry City Council.

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is quietly absorbing Britain’s infrastructure and housing stock. And across the country, both major parties are rolling out “investment zones” – deregulated corporate free-for-alls that gut planning laws, environmental protections, and democratic oversight.

This isn’t speculation. It’s happening right now.

BlackRock’s infrastructure grab

Meanwhile, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, with £11 trillion under management, is systematically acquiring British public infrastructure and housing. From water companies to energy networks, the assets built with public money are being converted into profit streams for global investors.
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Oct 5
Blackrock have 677 registered entities at Companies House UK, possibly more, many of the addresses are from the Cayman Islands. Blackrock has 80% ownership in 3 British Freeports, Felixtowe, Harwich, and Thamesport, they are moving into critical public infrastructure.
Blackrock also has 4.7% shares in Palantir.
Palantir have 24 contracts with key UK public institutions, the NHS, the Ministry of Defence, the polices forces, the Cabinet Office, the DLUHC, and Coventry City Council whose contract is the 24th and was arranged by Keir Starmer this year.
The UK is being privatised.
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Starmer's enthusiastic partnership announcement suggests policy capture at the highest levels. This isn't ordinary foreign investment; it's a systematic acquisition of control over the infrastructure backbone of the UK's economy by one the most criminally corrupt shadow banks in the world.Image
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BlackRock's own former ESG chief called it a "dangerous placebo that harms the public interest". Blackrock is embarking on what it calls its Infrastructure Imperative. This represents a serious incursion into the public sector, it is wholly dependent on UK public services collapse.
Blackrock's own documents show they view government financial distress as an "opportunity" - making them a vulture capitalist threat to struggling public finances rather than a genuine partner in national development.
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Oct 3
In June 2025, the Starmer government released the Industrial Strategy Zones Action Plan, which consolidates the Tories' 12 Freeports and 74 SEZs with Labour's new AI Growth Zones (200 applications to date), Defence Growth Zones, University and Food Enterprise Zones.
This represents a fundamental shift toward privatisation across the UK.
Areas outside these designated zones simply cannot compete as millions in public funding is lavished on free zone applicants.
Neither the public nor the Press were consulted about these details due to secondary legislation being embedded in the Tories free zone policy, which Labour lapped up behind the scenes while signing off on these carve-outs.
Keir Starmer’s AI Growth Zones, layered atop 86 deregulated free zones (12 Freeports, 74 SEZs), are wiring the UK into a techno-feudal fiefdom, fueled by Bitcoin’s environmental carnage, automation, and corporate land grabs costing £19.78 billion, with £64 billion more pledged.
These dedicated AI Growth Zones (200 bids on sites so far) are designed to speed up planning permission and provide energy connections needed for AI infrastructure.
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Bitcoin’s energy-guzzling mining, water-intensive infrastructure, and lithium extraction threaten landscapes like Dartmoor, while tech lords like BlackRock, Palantir, and libertarian ideologues, Peter Thiel, Nigel Farage, and Balaji Srinivasan, carve nations into corporate sovereignties. This is end-times fascism: billionaires bunkering down in deregulated enclaves, ravaging the planet, and dismantling governments.
The Public Knows Nothing, and The Stakes, Economic, Democratic, and Environmental, are Existential.
europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-genius-a…
Lithium Mining: Poisoning Dartmoor and Beyond
Bitcoin’s hardware, ASIC miners, relies on lithium-ion batteries and semiconductors, driving extraction. Dartmoor, absorbed into Plymouth’s Freeport, faces lithium mining threats, using 500,000 gallons of water per ton of lithium and risking river pollution with arsenic and heavy metals.
@PlymouthGreens on X warns of “ecological devastation,” with habitats destroyed for crypto tech. Globally, lithium mining for crypto and AI tech emits 15–20 tonnes of CO2 per ton, per a 2024 International Energy Agency report, compounding Bitcoin’s carbon footprint.
In Teesside, Houchen’s blockchain push could import lithium-intensive hardware, indirectly fueling this destruction.
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