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May 12 • 7 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Property tycoon Ivan Ko hopes to find site for a charter city named Nextpolis between Dublin and Belfast to host 50,000 fellow Hong Kongers #brexit
theguardian.com/world/2020/jul…
China’s recent imposition of national security laws in the region has prompted many Hongkongers to consider leaving. The British government has promised to provide assistance and relocation.
A department of foreign affairs spokesperson in Dublin confirmed there had been talks with Ko but appeared to pour cold water on the idea.
But don't assume there won't be many more property/city developers eyeing post-Brexit deregulated 3rd country UK to install slave cities.
'In the UK plans are underway to liberalise migration laws to enable considerable population transfers over the coming years'.
Sunak, Truss, Johnson, IEA and ERG et al want to transform Britain into a liberalised trading outpost.
theburkean.ie/articles/2020/…
thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/column…
How many of you have heard of Neom?
Neom has been billed as humanity’s next chapter. But beneath the glitzy veneer lies a story of threats, forced eviction and bloodshed.
theguardian.com/global-develop…
Now watch this and try not to be sick.
IEA Research Assistant Daniel Freeman sits down with Dr Vera Kichanova, Senior Economist at the Free Cities Foundation #CharterCities #Libertarian #BrexitReality

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May 12
The British colonized Hong Kong after the opium wars in the mid-1800's. Brexit has eyes on Hong Kong’s coastal experiments in capital accumulation by framing it within SEZs, demonstrating you don’t need to create new nations, you just carve up old ones.
theguardian.com/world/2023/may…
Truss’s Investment zones have been quietly picked up by Jeremy Hunt, consider 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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May 11
“A gift to rogue employers looking to exploit workers and put them through long, gruelling shifts without enough rest”
Deregulation of +800 EU laws and protections will impact food standards, the environment and workers rights. #Libertarian #Brexit
theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
An attack on Food Safety Laws. FSA 'We are critically reliant on REUL to both set the high level principles of food safety and much of the detailed operation of the regulatory framework' food.gov.uk/board-papers/r…
An attack on environment protections means corporate polluters are incentivised by Govt to profit from ecological impacts, they are given carte blanche to dump more sewage, extract more fossil fuels and minerals til there's nothing left but a wasteland.
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May 10
Want to know why capitalism is out of control? Why Govt consulting agencies have exponentially grown from the Thatcher years to the present day? Parasitical interests during crises are unfortunately essential components of corporate hegemony over democracy
The Govt consultancy model is highly problematic, it is feeding off a weak state when it should be strengthening the state, outsourcing to corporations with little to no expertise in climate change or PPE for example results in financial, environmental and human disaster.$$$$$$
After WWII, a new social contract for an equalized economy saw wage share rise and capital accumulation of the 1% decrease. Reagan and Thatcher dismantled this great achievement and here we are again, Brexit UK inflicting a new cycle of economic mayhem.
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May 10
Welcome to Tory Britain
Gaps in regulation are allowing property owners “to profit by providing costly, sub-standard” supported housing “with little or no support, supervision or care”
Landlords ‘profiting from sub-standard housing’ for vulnerable people theguardian.com/society/2023/m…
This is another direct attack on the welfare state, parasites hollowing out the system from within.
“It is a scandal that some private landlords are profiting from letting sub-standard housing that is unfit for 21st-century living”
theguardian.com/society/2023/a…
In stark contrast, Johnson and the Royal Ins. of Chartered Surveyors exacerbate the housing crisis to make way for venture capitalists' luxury apartment developments, beyond obscene that NIMBYists exert such powerful, devastating impacts on local residents
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May 9
Always loved this text piece from Bruce Nauman, couldn't be more apt for today's 'Don't Look Up' crowds. Image
We need something exceptional from our current crop of political leaders, something that rewrites the social contract as an absolute counter to the ruin that illiberal policies and libertarian economics are unleashing on citizens.
The whole point of the post-war social contract was to create an egalitarian economy where profit share was in balance with wage share. 'Managed capitalism' over 30-40 years saw a broadened prosperity and an economy that grew at record rates.
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May 9
'UK free trade zones under an EU scheme were introduced in 1984 but were progressively phased out in the decades that followed. In March 2021, it was announced that 8 new freeport zones would be set up in their stead'.
This is Brexit dystopia.
locuseconomica.squarespace.com/united-kingdom
No one is paying attention to the post-Brexit corporate takeover of the UK. Sunak knows his Freeports could not function in the EU because of protectionism and regulation. He is remaking the UK into 1 giant-tax haven. Charter cities next.
miro.com/app/board/uXjV…
'Access to reliable public transportation that facilitates workers’ daily commutes'. There remains some challenges to overcome in terms of zone operational efficiency for Kigali to be as effective as other zone implementations around the world'.
No shit.
adrianoplegroup.com/post/kigali-se…
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