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Aug 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
How to explain what a charter city is to a 10 year old.
One day the Govt allows a big company to buy the land your homes are on, they're so wealthy they decide to change the laws so they can make more money. They will draw up a new contract that you have to sign where you agree to live by their rules and not the Govt's anymore.
If the company don't like you for disagreeing with them because they lowered your wages and demanded you work more hours for even less pay, they might force you to leave their town and go and live in a special area they built for the very poor just so you don't bother the company
Ta-Daaaa! #CharterCities #BrexitChaos #Libertarian #EnoughlsEnough

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Aug 16
The ERG was formed 29 years ago in 1993, it is considered the most influential right wing think in British political history and has since its inception been holding the Govt hostage with far right radical libertarian ideology. It is tax payer funded🧵
Anthony Fisher🇬🇧 was encouraged by libertarian economist Milton Friedman🇺🇸 to form a think tank that would not disclose it's true r/w policies because a charity is politically neutral and 'our ideas would not prove popular with the public', Fisher formed the IEA in 1955 #Brexit
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Aug 16
The biggest issue here is ignoring that UK 3rd country status means it is an 'emerging economy' sitting on a clean slate surrounded by frontier capitalists. Deregulation+Brexit=Libertarian exit. Lawless charter cities are coming to Britain. Wake up!
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Aug 15
The civil service delivers public services from education and the environment, to transport and defence. Civil servants are politically impartial. Of course they're being axed, corporatist privatised powers waiting in the wings. Charter cites coming next. theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
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Aug 15
Here's Tom Bell arch r/w libertarian extolling virtues of privatised/charter cities. 'You don't own the apartment you live in, you are leasing it and you own a share in a corporation that owns the entire community'
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Aug 14
Yellow lines all linked to #Brexit Red lines all linked to Honduras (ZEDEs) #CharterCities Green lines to daughter and grand daughter of Anthony Fisher who formed IEA London in 1955. There is no way that the overlaps are benign. @bakerstherald
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@raycraib has written the very first book on right wing libertarian charter cities: Adventure Capitalism - A History of Libertarian Exit.'
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