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@EuropeanPowell
Jun 14 • 12 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Financial checks on £60 billion of public money spent every year on essential services like schools, social care, housing, roads and environmental services has virtually collapsed in England. 350 councils have no independent verification of money spent
bylinetimes.com/2023/06/13/cou…
Situation is “unacceptable” and could lead to loss of  public trust in councils to spend their money. Problem is now spreading to the NHS, housing associations, the Department for Work and Pensions and other public bodies since they are audited by the same firms.
Problem has arisen after the Govt abolished the Audit Commission quango, which kept a tight monitoring of local council expenditure. It handed the job to private accountancy firms to do the work instead.
Scandals involving the loss of public money have started to emerge.
Worst affected authority in England is the London borough of Croydon, which has not been independently audited since 2015 – nearly 8 years.
You see how the collapse of Councils is by design? Private governance.
Councils collapsing like dominoes as they're merged into CCAs, private audit means scrutiny and accountability disappear, as does public money. and public services. Dystopian times coming, corporate takeover of whole enclaves of the UK.
It is worse than I thought, this is the infrastructural dismantling of local councils as the investor classes, private equity, venture capitalists move in for the kill. This is why protest laws are being eradicated. UKs future entails installing corporate fiefdoms of sovereignty.
Then there's this on top.
"Being asked to pay to make an offer felt odd, but I felt pressured to do so while risking homelessness, as so few adverts were responding to me".
bylinetimes.com/2023/06/12/lon…
I've said it before, 3rd country status means 'capital hungry' UK is in a painful transition period where the role of Govt is being shrunk, UK sold off to anarcho-capitalists. A social, judicial and economic bonfire, #Brexit is privatising the entire UK, charter cities up next.
The corporate coup is complete, UK citizens are now part of a privately owned experiment in neoliberalism, public money transferred to the investor classes, councils ripped apart, rents/mortgages skyrocketing, protest laws abolished, do you see it now?
There will be no public sector left to speak of. Off you go to commute to the investment zone and work for the private sector in a 'company town' aka charter city which also happens to be owned and ruled by the corporation you work for. #Libertarian
This is happening fast.
Be aware Sunak and Hunt's SEZs will sell off sovereign territory to foreign investors under 'jurisdictional arbitrage'.
A charter city can be built on vacant land or it can transform an existing one. Rule 'by' law not 'of' law.
If you think the next GE will stop all this you are sorely mistaken, former MPs and business associates will become landlords in corporatized Britain, ensuring private sector interests will 'take back control'. REUL Bill still going ahead... #Brexit

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Jun 16
A great UCL lecture on Neoliberalism, a system whose underlying ideology is market fundamentalism. Post-Brexit encapsulates this to a T, the weakening of public power by ceding it to private power, public money transferred to private hands. #BrexitReality
Just like Trump and Johnson, Neoliberalism is two-faced, freedom for some, oppressive force for others. Main culprits were ideological enemies of social egalitarianism and managed capitalism, Adam Smith and Margaret Thatcher. >
> It was they who leapfrogged the work of economist John Maynard Keynes who exposed the folly of imposing austerity as policy via crises. Why? For Free market corporate hegemony, deregulation, laissez-faire/anarcho-capitalism and the belief that markets will regulate themselves.
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Jun 16
STDC refused FOI citing commercial confidentiality but did reveal land was valued at £13m (STDL accounts of 2021/22). This gives the game away. Taxpayers guaranteed developer value for private gain. Houchen 'joint venture partners put in the work and footed the bill'. Not true! Image
Houchen, Clarke and Gove are screaming indignation about Sunak's golden goose Freeports being called out as illicit transfers of public money to subsidise the investor classes carve up UK into SEZs. They've even set up their own independent inquiry board aside from NAO...right... Image
For the billionth time, Freeports and SEZs will have private laws operating beyond Govt reach, profits made will not return to improve the local regions, those regions will be competing with one another, capital will vanish to tax havens. Locals fucked.
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Jun 14
Know about this?
Investor State Dispute Settlements - Multinational corporations can sue states for enacting policies they don't like.
A system operates beyond Govts' reach where billions of $ can be leeched from poor countries to the richest corporations.
Cases with minimum wage disputes, environmental permits to dig for fossil fuels not granted.
So-called sovereign policy-making is being 'chilled' by the system. 'Carve-outs' of territories (charter cities, SEZs), the sham of World Bank Development Aid to alleviate poverty.
SEZs introduce private laws where strikes are forbidden (ring any bells with Labour and Cons recent mutual backing of destroying rights to protest?). Remember that Shanker Singham has stated that once the deregulatory structure is in place, it cannot be changed by afuture Govt.
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Jun 13
For past and present PMs, attacks on judges or lawyers are a display of contempt for the rule of law and the constraint it represents to their power. And, more consequentially, a desire to be free of it.
British fascism is the Tories endgame move.
WTF
“Why don’t we start directing our protests directly at the trade unions? i.e their offices, picket lines etc.”
“I’ve spoken to some of my local allies about this. Legal things will happen soon surrounding this issue.”
opendemocracy.net/en/alek-yerbur…
Sunak issued a press release last summer that mentioned me ten times by name and led a national newspaper to caption my photo: “Rishi’s Public Enemy Number One”. I had previously given an interview describing how I had been advised to wear a stab vest following death threats.
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Jun 8
How much of a coward do you have to be to ignore urgent pressing issues like the CoL crisis choosing instead to focus on rewarding cronies and sychophants for 13 years of Tory misrule?
Rishi Sunak reportedly set to accept Boris Johnson’s honours list theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
The moment Sunak awakes and opens his eyes, its wrong, getting dressed is wrong, taking jets and helicopters to appointments is wrong, not investigating billions of tax payers money lost to Covid fraud is wrong, being elected by Tory members and not the public is wrong. #GTTONow
Sunak is an oligarch, he studied at Stanford, his mentor was Prof.Paul Romer, a libertarian advocate of charter cities, these monsters want to escape democracy and install private corporate governance in enclaves beyond big Govt reach, to do this you need money and power. #Brexit
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Jun 7
'Brexit gives us a timeframe. Societies can disintegrate in less than a decade. It also helps teach you what social disintegration is. Brexit tore Britain apart'.
The UK has descended into mania. @umairh Great articles
eand.co/why-america-an…
'Our warnings were not — let me emphasize — political. They were predictions about what was to unfold, in almost deterministic terms'. Criticism of Brexit wasn’t allowed. We critics were effectively blacklisted. An omertà developed, a code of silence.
eand.co/can-brexit-bri…
'What kind of future is there for Britain’s social contract? You see, a much poorer country can’t afford to have the generous and expansive social contract a pre-Brexit Britain did. That’s why the NHS is dying. It’s why waterways are full of sewage'.
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