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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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Oct 2
The Labour Party has used a sham figure of £90bn to claim that water nationalisation would be too expensive. The water industry paid for the ‘analysis’ that Labour cited in a recent official letter to anti-sewage groups.

thecanary.co/uk/analysis/20…
Once people take the lid off Starmer's shiny new changed Labour Party, they will soon discover they've been sold a dud.
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Sep 27
A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a designated region 'freed' from the host country's regulations, stakeholders and investors are trusted to 'self-regulate', meaning they can create their own rules.
At one end, we have low-wage production, and reduced employment rights for workers.
At the other end zones are basically tax havens where corporations can both onshore and offshore their profits.
Sunak and Truss turbocharged the resurrection of Thatcher’s free zones and added dozens more; there are now 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports currently being installed across the UK under the Labour Govt.
48 SEZs and 8 Freeports in England
18 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Scotland
8 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Wales
Bidding on all free zones closed in 2022.
All 12 UK Freeports are housed inside a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), the zones vary in size from 38 to 75km in diameter.
Example; Forth Ports in Scotland own 8 other Freeports which are owned by parent company Otter Ports Ltd, the managing director of which is Lord Smith of Kelvin, Otter Ports Ltd is registered in the Cayman Islands, Smith did not declare this in the register of interests.
Both Cromarty and the Firth of Forth sit inside much larger Special Economic Zones (SEZs), 70% of the City of Edinburgh is inside Forth Ports SEZ.
From the UK govt website
‘Enterprise zones are a devolved matter and there is no obligation for the devolved administrations to adopt them’ - UK Government 👇🏻👀 researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN05…Image
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The majority of free zones are in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, China has the most, almost half in total. Europe and North America have less than 10%, why would that be? The 82 free zones in the EU are strictly regulated to prevent governments of member states from giving State aid (public money) to companies of their choosing, this distorts the integrity of the EU's Single Market creating an unlevel playing field.
The bidding process for UK free zones took place between 2021 and 2022, businesses lined up for tax breaks and low-regulation were chosen by the UK Govt.
From the EU Commission's website on State Aid and SEZs 👇🏻👀
'(EU) Parliament stresses that State aid should support ecological transformation and foster the development of services, knowledge, and infrastructure rather than providing support to specific companies'.
UK SEZs contravene EU laws and regulations on State aid. When Sunak and Starmer say 'no rejoining the EU', not one reporter in the MSM points out this fundamental component about the EU's rules on State aid. UK SEZs are being installed by stealth.
europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes…
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Sep 26
The simplest way to understand Starmer’s changed Labour Party is that they work for corporations and not for you.
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Sep 21
If you are concerned about how and why deregulation affects key facets of UK society after Brexit including environmental laws, employment rights, and food safety, then take a look at this paper on Secondary Legislation - Plus ça change? Brexit and the flaws of the delegated legislation system.
I have not come across such a wilful and concerted attack on laws and protections without proper scrutiny of the impacts of secondary legislation, it reads like anarchists have sabotaged the entire legal infrastructure to allow 'absolute deregulation' to empower corporations profit gain and screw the state for decades.
The Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 corrected a host of errors, 72 including a ‘tick box’ that was ‘omitted in error’ but was crucial to enable endangered species to be moved within the UK and an amendment which ‘inadvertently altered the operation of an Article’ relating to pesticide products.73
A wash-up SI was also used to correct the accidental removal by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the prohibition on hormone-disrupting chemicals being used in pesticides in the UK, which the Department later described as an ‘erroneous omission.’74 The Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments (Civil and Family) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 were necessary to rectify a mistake which prevented some Scottish claimants from being able to file for child maintenance in Scotland.75 Somewhat extraordinarily, The Animal Health, Plant Health, Seeds and Food (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 proposed amendments to a draft affirmative instrument that had not yet been laid before parliament.76 Some errors have even attracted wider public notoriety. For instance, the European University Institute Regulations 2019 were withdrawn. These regulations indicated the Government (wrongly) thought that membership of the European University Institute was contingent on EU membership.77 There were 97 wash-up Brexit SIs, to correct earlier mistakes, laid up until Exit Day. This compares with 4.6% of SIs being wash-ups in the 2015-2016 parliamentary session. Not only does this show that mistakes can slip through scrutiny processes, it means that the resulting legal framework is complicated further by layering regulations on regulations.
It becomes clear that the Tories took a sledgehammer to EU/UK regulations without any recourse as to the detrimental and chaotic consequences we see coming up now in the headlines.
‘significant aspects’ of the UK’s ‘regime would become less effective or legally inoperable... the UK’s ability to regulate the financial sector effectively would be compromised, affecting market confidence and creating instability.’
Apply this massive deregulatory attack to just about everything we take for granted in society, and consider the UK's upcoming 74 Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports, a Tory initiative backed and signed off by Labour, and it becomes painfully clear that the UK is being privatized, via Zone Fever.
publiclawproject.org.uk/content/upload…
All of the problems detailed here align with the anxieties set out in the first part of the report. 359 Brexit SIs were laid in the four months leading up to March 2019. Those SIs touched on every part of UK life, from haulage to equality to food safety. Very significant policies such as alterations to deportation thresholds or changes to social security law were placed in secondary legislation and the rationale for why they deserved to be in delegated legislation was not explained.
The “Henry VIII clause” is one loaded with constitutional symbolism.
The name echoes the King's “impersonation of executive autocracy”: his attempt to usurp the will of Parliament.
We are told that Parliament is sovereign, 'but retrospective Henry VIII clauses are worrying because they entrust the executive, or potentially some other body, with the power to overturn prior Acts of Parliament: rather than legislation being altered by an elected body, statutes are changed by the largely non-elected, if accountable, executive branch. Democratic processes appear to have been circumvented'.
Prospective Henry VIII clauses thus constitute a fetter on the power of future Parliaments, creating the risk that as yet unthought of statutes will be overturned
through the exercise of the delegated power.
These political concerns are mirrored in the difficulties
that Henry VIII clauses present for the legal concept of parliamentary sovereignty. Most understandings of sovereignty can be reduced to a deceptively simple legal rule: “whatever Parliament enacts is law"
Retropspective Henry VIII clauses cannot change/subvert Parliamentary sovereignty, but prospective Henry VIII clauses absolutely can. 'Prospective clauses bring out an ambiguity in the simple formulation of sovereignty: if all that Parliament enacts is legally binding, what happens if one Parliament tries to create a mechanism by which a later Parliament's law-creating power is constrained?'
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Sep 18
This is totally unacceptable, Labour are entrenched with corporate corruption. These figures are astronomical sums, they represent an obscene capitulation to neoliberalism and the predations of the asset classes on representative democracy. This is exactly what Starmer meant by ‘changing ‘the Labour Party, by expunging morality, ethics, and all traces of the left courtesy of Peter Mandelson, and Morgan McSweeney.
The Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds in fossil fuels, private health firms, arms manufacturers and asset managers.
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Sep 7
Imagine your company is offered several million pounds of State aid (public money) to set up inside any one of Sunak and Starmer's 74 Special Economic Zones or 12 Freeports, you will get tax breaks for the next 10 years while the zones are licensed for a quarter of a century, not only that but your company is trusted by the UK Govt to 'self-regulate' in the zone where employment rights, food safety, and environmental protections have been shredded with 1000s more EU/UK laws for the chop by 2026, any economic or environmental damage to the region will be billed to residents in the zone, all manner of illicit activity is now possible because secondary legislation means zero scrutiny by Parliament including public FOI requests being swept under the carpet, plus compulsory purchase orders give your company carte-blanche to buy up (on the cheap) dozens of business, agricultural, and residential properties, public services will crumble, your company can replace them with their own private services.
What would you do?
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