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May 3 • 10 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
An excellent read here on Shanker Singham's insidious influence on @PrifWeinidog by @FiveByFiveTimes
I cannot fathom why the Welsh FM has signed off on 2 Freeports in Wales with one of the most dangerous r/w libertarian Govt consultants in the world.
bylines.cymru/politics-and-s…
@PrifWeinidog @FiveByFiveTimes Worried about 2nd homes in Wales? That's nothing compared to 2nd cities owned by corporations with their own laws with zero Govt oversight. That is Singham's speciality. Wake up Welsh people.
A plutocratic city, where ultra-wealthy property developers buy up public land worth 100s of millions for a fraction of its worth. The poor are expelled from these NIMBY enclaves, the prerogative of the Special Investment Zone is mini-tax havens for off-shoring wealth. #Brexit
What Drakeford has invited into Wales is the final reneging of Government commitments to community development in an egalitarian society. Planning by tax break is a vacuum in place of a vision, where citizens are mere spectators of their own fate.
Sunak's Freeports and their surrounding investment zones have been quietly picked up by Jeremy Hunt (after Sunak said he'd scrapped them).
Bylines network is examining the implications for local communities, the environment and citizen's rights.
bylines.cymru/politics-and-s…
“The EU is the only place where these freeports really don’t exist …”

Rishi Sunak, Today Programme, 1 August 2019
“[We can] use that opportunity of Brexit to do the kind of things that we’ve been precluded from doing for decades, including freeports …”

James Cleverly, BBC Radio 4 Breakfast, 2 August 2019
In 2020, the EU introduced stricter controls on freeports and free zones to be able to identify and report suspicious activities in response to a “high incidence of corruption, tax evasion, and criminal activity” relating to them.
A 🧵post-Brexit 'municipal mercantilism'. What is that?
People must understand what is happening to the entire infrastructure of the UK, politicians are in league with shadow operators like Shanker Singham, Locus Economica, and The Charter City Institute.
Dear Welsh people, If you don't know what a Freeport is, what SEZ's are, why libertarianism is incompatible with democracy, what Charter Cities are, then please read all these threads.

#freeports #BylinesFreeportsDay #FreeportFacts #WorldPressFreedomDay

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May 3
It's a charter city and they are coming to the UK because of Brexit and mega deregulation, it starts with Sunak's Freeports, then his investment zones, then corporations running the regions with their own private laws beyond Govt reach. #Brexit
theguardian.com/world/2023/may…
Sunak went to Stanford, his mentor was Prof.Paul Romer, charter cities advocate. Shanker Singham is a Govt consultant on enterprise zones where he set up his own program at Babson Global developing E-cities where laws are services that companies demand.
How can the msm not be suspicious when corporate tycoons all around the world are implementing whole cities with SEZ's that are anti-democratic? This is insane, 3rd country Brexit UK is ripe for the taking, a privately elected oligarch PM whose mates are libertarian whackjobs.
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May 1
Dear Liverpool residents, are you aware of the stranglehold Truss and her brethren have over your futures? Truss despises balanced redistribution of GDP, Hunt has picked up her investment zones when Sunak said he'd dropped them, charter cities coming.
gmhousingaction.com/commissioners-…
Post-Brexit ushering in 'municipal mercantilism', which means venture capitalists queuing up for stakes in and around Sunak's Freeports and his recently resurrected investment zones, patchworks of semi-sovereignty will eventually form on big tax haven.🧵
Freeports and investment zones hark back to 1600 with the East India Company and continued in the Opium Wars of the mid-1800s, 'zone-fever' spread as colonialism brought 'legalized lawlessness' for unbridled capital accumulation. Spin forward to Brexit!🧵
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Apr 30
🧵on post-Brexit 'municipal mercantilism', which translates as venture capitalists queuing up for stakes in and around Sunak's Freeports and his recently resurrected investment zones. A Brexit-obsessed duopoly is effectively disenfranchising millions of voters to cement the zone.
Truss’s Investment zones have been quietly picked up by Jeremy Hunt, it's worth taking a historical look at Thatcher’s previous efforts to create a Hong Kong-on-Thames in the context of post-Brexit and the Govt’s resurrection of deregulated economic enclaves via Sunak’s Freeports
The Square Mile of the City of London is a zone that's survived since medieval times, known as the Vatican of Capitalism, like Hong Kong it enjoys the peculiar status of political independence as it is governed by different rules, and in its elections, businesses have ballots too
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Apr 28
How delightful...the far right entertaining the far right at No 10.
Meloni praises Sunak’s immigration policies on visit to No 10 theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
This is how destroying democracy goes, 1970's saw the centre left shift to the centre right, social contract shredded. Today's libertarian shitfest where the centre right chrysalis hatches and accedes to the far right, normalizing fascists and dictators...
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Ms Meloni’s determination to take on the “LGBT lobby”, for example, has resulted in pressure on municipalities not to allow most same-sex couples to register their children, a move that has been censured by the European parliament.
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Apr 28
Campaign time is inevitably filled with empty promises about saving the NHS, reducing crime and the usual 'more police on streets' BS. Do people get that politicians, their donors and affiliated press manipulate outrage while stealthily implementing their anti-democracy plans? 🧵
Sunak, Truss, Frost, Badenoch visit r/w think tanks such as Heritage, Cato, AIER, Mont Pelerin, Policy Exchange UK, FREER, IEA, ERG who publish papers like "The Case for an Activist Judiciary to Secure Economic liberty""What Greta Thunberg Forgets About Climate Change" >
"The Real Reason Nobody Takes Environmental Activists Seriously" "Brazilians Should Keep Slashing Their Rainforest" "Reality-based politics and Sustaining the Brexit Revolt""Understanding Islamism" "Why the Centre for European reform is Wrong About Brexit"
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Apr 27
Johnson approved this greenwashing redevelopment site for luxury apartments in a pocket of 1 of the worst deprived areas in Ealing, despite Council and residents campaign to block it, now they are falling ill due to petrol like fumes in the area. Obscene.
theguardian.com/business/2023/…
Case in point
Royal Ins. of Chartered Surveyors do not serve the public interest, they're a powerful lobbying group for venture capitalists with a direct channel into Govt. Housing crisis is no accident, a calculated product of an elite group.
theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
Meanwhile, local authorities have been forced into public-private partnerships for major developments on their own land, including the “regeneration” of estates that leads to the loss of thousands of council houses and the break-up of communities.
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