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Dec 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Liars and thieves continue to prop up performative wins when the hard truth is absolute carnage of UK infrastructure on all fronts. #BrexitDisaster
Watchdog reprimands Tories over £800bn post-Brexit trade deals claim theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
Tories will not fess up, Labour will not mitigate the damage with common sense approaches like realigning with the EU. The UK has been kidnapped by disaster capitalists, xenophobes, racists and radical right libertarians under the guise of patriotism. What a fucking mess.
The worst is yet to come, 31st Dec REUL Bill sunsets 4000 EU laws in 1 fell swoop, no country has ever done this in world history. Employment rights, food safety, environmental laws, all protections abolished, transition phase mean corporate fascism for UK
Update! Please read this document from the Employment Lawyers Association, Equality Act under threat, womens equal pay to men abolished, safety in work place, rights to sick leave, holiday + thousands more hanging in balance. This bill is horrific!
bills.parliament.uk/publications/4…
Credit to @karenneemcnally Follow her!
The @ClientEarth doc on REUL Bill's impact on UK regulation of neonicotinoid pesticides that are harmful to food, feed, crops, insect life and by extension human consumption of contaminated produce.
clientearth.org/media/irtp0mmt… ImageImageImage
Update! REUL Bill impact on food safety standards, FSA wants to advise on 800 pieces of REUL to be reformed in this bill eg preserving the precautionary principle re:putting food on market, feed additives, GMOs. Govt want to rush REUL through with little to no scrutiny. #Brexit

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Apr 24
What's happening across the UK is an infrastructural hollowing out of all public services, the carving up of the UK into patchworks of corporate sovereignties, we are witnessing the privatisation of the entire country.
I call it Zone Fever.
There are many facets to the corporate coup, they comprise the digital realm and physical infrastructure.
What @Keir_Starmer does not tell you regarding his 'Gold Rush' AI Opportunities Action Plan is that when AI eventually infiltrates the workforce, half of the workforce will be replaced if it is privately owned.
This will entail increasing universal credit, which will not be paid by the Govt, profits will be astronomical for the big tech companies.
If the company is owned by the workers, they would employ the AI, workers would have more time with their kids, more time for educational and creative endeavours, the solution is socialism.
Wealth must be produced and distributed collectively. This will not happen because the UK is capital hungry and desperate after Brexit.

In Starmer's AI Opportunities Action Plan (I know...🙄) he mentions Synthesia – leading the world in AI-powered video, and Blackstone – building Europe’s largest data centre in Northumberland.
Starmer also mentions "We are going to create AI growth zones…breathing new life into sites like Culham, in Oxfordshire'
gov.uk/government/new…
Digital regulation is still in its infancy, it is ripe for exploitation by the private sector, while deregulation on planning permissions (let's call that what it really is, land grabbing), and environmental protections (building on flood zones, all manner of pollution, destruction/loss of habitats, extraction of minerals like lithium for huge battery warehouses, cooling units using excess amounts of clean water) will harm and deplete the physical world.
gov.uk/government/spe…
Back to Starmer's AI Opportunities Action Plan
While Synthesia prohibits use of its technology for misinformation or "news-like content", an October 2023 Freedom House report stated that Synthesia tools had been used by governments in Venezuela and China to create videos of fake TV news outlets with AI-generated avatars in order to spread propaganda.
Synthesia gained a total valuation of $1 billion, and achieved unicorn status, when it raised $90 million from Accel and Nvidiapartnership NVentures, in June 2023, during its Series C funding round.

As for Starmer's choice of Blackstone in his AI race to the bottom...
Blackstone is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City.
As of May 2024, Blackstone has more than $1 trillion in total assets under management, making it the world's largest alternative investment firm.

BlackRock was launched inside Blackstone (three years later) as a bond manager before striking out as its own firm. Keir Starmer has declared his Govt as being in partnership with Blackrock, Blackrock have bought 80% stakes in 3 UK Freeports, Felixstowe, Harwich, and Thamesport.
Blackrock is a shadow bank with $11 trillion in assets and is the world's largest asset manager.
BlackRock owned more oil, gas, and thermal coal reserves than any other investment management company with total reserves amounting to 9.5 gigatonnes of CO2 emissions or 30% of total energy-related emissions from 2017.
It has been claimed that BlackRock is the "biggest driver of climate destruction on the planet", in part due to its opposition to fossil fuel divestment. BlackRock has also been criticized regarding climate change inaction and deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
In August 2021, a former BlackRock executive who had served as the company's first global chief investment officer for sustainable investing, said he thought the firm's ESG investing was a "dangerous placebo that harms the public interest."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock…

Blackstone has an atrocious track record for numerous crimes including; illegal child labor, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, warrantless disclosure of Motel 6 occupancies Blackstone, agreed to settle for $19.6 million for giving guest lists to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) without a warrant.

Blackstone - Ancestry acquisition and data leaks
In 2020, Blackstone acquired a majority stake in Ancestry.com, which controls access to millions of people's genetic data, heightening concern about Blackstone's data privacy practices. This data was disclosed to Blackstone, and it has aggressively defended itself against class action litigation relating to misuse of the data of people who did not consent to genetic testing but were affected through direct biological relations or other means of identification.
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Daniela Gabor’s assertion in The Guardian that "BlackRock will privatise the UK" reflects a critical perspective on the growing influence of private finance, particularly BlackRock, in shaping Britain’s economic and social landscape. Add to this Labour's recent webinar that included 700 lobbyists where Starmer's spokesperson Lord Evermore stated that governance powers were to be handed over to the lobbyists, while the UK Govt takes a 'secondary position' and things get very dark, very quickly. Starmer's announcement on Twitter that the Govt is now a partner with firms like BlackRock is not about rebuilding the UK’s public infrastructure, far from it, this is about facilitating Blackrock's ambitions to expand its financial portfolio by hoovering up housing, education, health, nature, and green energy, by exploiting public-private partnerships (PPPs) to the max. This should be immediately stopped. The most lucrative line of business in the world right now is between governments and corporations.
Starmer is subsidising the privatisation of the UK with taxpayer money, as BlackRock leverages its $11 trillion in managed assets to expand its grip on public goods under its 'Infrastructure Imperative', this means public services are to be turned into additional assets including greens space, ‘nature’s assets’, in their financial portfolio, you can read about that on Blackrock's website.👇🏻
s24.q4cdn.com/856567660/file…
Starmer's changed Labour Party do not work for the public interest, they clearly despise democracy and egalitarianism, they are only interested in corporate hegemony, the dismantling of public services, the ripping up of the social contract, the outsourcing of governance to corporations, the setting up of 86 free zones across England, Scotland, and Wales, while accommodating corporate demands to shape austerity policies, and ensure deregulation completely eviscerates the commons.
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Duopoly's in the US and UK are completely intertwined with their bipartisan backing of AI, digital regulation is in its infancy, this is extremely troubling because AI devours energy on a colossal scale which is a huge environmental threat.
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Apr 21
A reminder that inequality is now at unparalleled levels today
Tax wealth
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of power as costs of elections skyrocket, forcing political parties into the pockets of corporations, this politically bought power quickly translates into legislation that increases the concentration of wealth, fiscal policy, tax policy, deregulation, rules of corporate governance, all of which is the complete antithesis of democracy.
Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations that ‘the vile masters of mankind will exchange the surplus produce of their lands and consume everything themselves without sharing it with tenants’. ‘All for ourselves, and nothing for other people’
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Apr 14
I don’t quite believe what I’m seeing here, the disabled community having to go out and protest over a Labour Government’s decisions that could actually kill them. Image
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Apr 14
Legislation paving the way for 10 corporate city-states in the US should be complete by the end of the year.
Zone Fever is here in the UK, but no one in the MSM or much of the Independent media is talking about the carve-up of Britain into patchworks of corporate sovereignties.
Reminder - Deregulated Freeports and SEZs are stepping stones to free cities.
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…
Inspired by the political philosopher Albert Hirschman, figures including Goff, Thiel and the investor and writer Balaji Srinivasan have been championing what they call “exit” – the principle that those with means have the right to walk away from the obligations of citizenship, especially taxes and burdensome regulation.
Retooling and rebranding the old ambitions and privileges of empires, they dream of splintering governments and carving up the world into hyper-capitalist, democracy-free havens under the sole control of the supremely wealthy, protected by private mercenaries, serviced by AI robots and financed by cryptocurrencies.
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Apr 8
Trump and Blackrock move in on the Panama Canal.
The recent acquisition of key port infrastructure near the canal underscored this initiative. A consortium led by the U.S.-based investment firm BlackRock has secured control over critical maritime terminals in Balboa and Cristobal, which the Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison Holdings previously managed. The U.S. administration has viewed the $22.8 billion deal as a pivotal step toward regaining strategic influence over one of the world’s most vital trade corridors.
Panamanian officials have reiterated their nation’s sovereignty over the canal. President José Raúl Mulino has firmly stated that the ownership and control of the canal are not subject to negotiation. “The Panama Canal belongs to Panama,” Mulino affirmed, pushing back against external narratives suggesting otherwise.
Blackrock has also bought 3 British freeports, Felixstowe, Harwich, and Thamesport.
Keir Starmer announced a UK Govt partnership with Blackrock on November 21st 2024, the Sovereign Corporation is coming.Image
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Mar 31
What @guardian and the entire MSM are ignoring is that a suite of tax reliefs including National Insurance Contributions for employers exist in the UK's 74 deregulated SEZs and 12 Freeports rolled out by Sunak and Truss, and are fully backed by Starmer's cohorts.
Employer National Insurance Contributions relief: eligible employers with a business premises in an Investment Zone tax site will be able to apply a zero rate of secondary Class 1 National Insurance contributions on the earnings of eligible new employees who are expected to spend 60% or more of their working time in the tax site. This rate can be applied on the earnings of all eligible new employees, up to £25,000 per year, for 36 months per employee.
The UK is being privatised under Zone Fever.
theguardian.com/business/2025/…Image
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Somerset is mentioned in the Guardian article.
Below is Somersets Councils website trumpeting the deregulated benefits for companies siged up to their SEZ.
Enterprise Zones were created by Government to provide key sites for economic growth
and regeneration across England, supported by deregulation and financial incentives
attached to each zone. For businesses these incentives potentially include simplified
planning and access to fiscal incentives. In addition, local authorities with jurisdiction over
the area containing the Enterprise Zone are able to retain all the uplift in business rates
income generated by the site for a fixed period of time.
democracy.somerset.gov.uk/documents/s310…
Wiltshire is mentioned in the Guardian article, Swindon is also host to three SEZs or 'Growth Zones' (which is a new one for me)
swlep.co.uk/our-advantage/…Image
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