@Guardian keep presenting only one side of the 'economic growth' narrative, it goes like this companies don't like paying their fair share of taxes, they don't like the rise in National Insurance Contributions (NICs), they don't like wage rises for their workers, it will mean less profits for those at the top'.
But the other side of the story is about 10 year corporate tax breaks in special economic zones (SEZs) for example Employer National Insurance Contributions relief.
Know that companies in SEZs are already pushing to extend the tax breaks beyond the set deadlines.
From the UK Govt's website (Note: this page is out of date there are 48 SEZs in England not 13)
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Did you know that Labour MPS, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses signed off on Sunak and Truss's SEZs/Freeports as board members of their nationwide free zones consortia between 2021 and 2022? So when Labour say they inherited the Tories free zones they are flat-out lying to the public. Labours Metro Mayor Andy Burnham signed off on the Manchester SEZ. Labours Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram signed off on the Liverpool SEZ and Freeport. Former FM Mark Drakeford signed off on 8 SEZs and 2 Freeports with Sunak, present at the signing was Shanker Singham, known as the brains behind Brexit.

Once again the Guardian ignores zone fever, its long history which is part and parcel of for its current influence over UK Govt policy regarding free zones.
Not one mention of deregulated privately run special economic zones which are the criminally corporate bedrock of Dubai's economy in the article.
It is also clear that Wiki has been censored to not reveal the harsh human rights, smuggling, and environmental abuses that are key facets of zoning in Dubai/UAE.
theguardian.com/world/2024/dec… Starmer's changed Labour Party are working with major stakeholders from dozens of companies and are being advised by governance consultancy's who specialise in deregulatory frameworks for Special Economic Zones, Locus Economica is one such consultancy. locuseconomica.com
Locus Economica worked very closely with the Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai, our former Queen officiated at the opening ceremony of the Free zone in 1979. Jebel Ali Freezone is the flagship zone of DP World.
Welcome to Brexit dystopia where deregulation that follows the culling of EU/UK retained laws on employment rights, food safety, and environmental protections were shredded on 31st Dece 2023, with 1000's more for the chop by 2026.
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It’s official. Labour ALREADY has a worse track record on corporate lobbying than the Tories did.
Of 12 recommendations for government transparency and the lobbying register on Spotlight on Corruption’s ‘scorecard‘, the Tories fully met three, while Labour has fully met just one proposal.
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/20… Look at the tables for from Spotlight on Corruption, Labour appalling lack of transparency.
The ethics committee also said that the government should incorporate all transparency releases into a single searchable database. Labour may have backtracked here and has made no public commitment to such a database.
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UK farmers mean absolute zero in the US/UK free trade deal, Starmer will like the spineless servile lackey he is, throw the UK under the US bus, destination Vassal State.

theguardian.com/politics/2024/… Trump already pressuring UK to agree Free Trade deal, Starmer will dance to his tune because Blackrock will order him to do so as well.
Watch Trump and Musk's 'free cities' turbocharge in 2025, UK 74 SEZs will follow suit and become charter city/company towns and privatise citizenship, 1 vote will equal 1 share. UK totally fucked under Zone Fever.

Want to know how and why the left has been extinguished from Starmer’s ‘changed’ Labour Party? Find out which politicians from Cons and Labour are members of the British American Project (BAP) set up in the 1980’s, the group does not formally disclose its funders or members.
A key component of the establishments smear campaign against Jeremy Corbyn was a secretive US embassy group formed in the early 1980s called the British American Project whose focus was to curtail anti-American drift' in The Labour Party.
In June 2019, then US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited the UK and was recorded saying privately: “It could be that Mr Corbyn manages to run the gauntlet and get elected. You should know, we won’t wait for him (Corbyn) to do those things to begin to push back. We will do our level best. It’s too risky and too important and too hard once it’s already happened.”
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‘BAP’s aim was to push British progressives into a pro-American political position at a time when the CIA was worried about the strength of the Labour left and its ‘anti-American’ views’.
declassifieduk.org/the-secretive-… Three senior Labour politicians have recently joined a secretive lobby group which was set up in coordination with the US embassy in London to cultivate the British left Four senior members of Boris Johnson’s administration were also made fellows this year while working inside the UK government.
The BAP’s aim was to push British progressives into a pro-American political position at a time when the CIA was worried about the strength of the Labour left and its ‘anti-American’ views.

UM, so that growth thing Reeves and Starmer are constantly banging on about, who is that for exactly?
The mortgage payments of half of UK homeowners will rise over the next three years, leaving 4.4 million households facing extra pressure on their finances, the Bank of England has said.
theguardian.com/business/2024/… Policymakers also released the results of their first stress test into the shadow banking sector. It found that hedge funds, pension funds and other companies in the largely unregulated sector were at risk of amplifying market shocks and triggering a £17bn asset sell-off.
The exercise, the first in the world by a central bank, tracked how non-bank financial institutions – often referred to as the shadow banking sector – would react in a short and sharp shock affecting financial markets.
Step up Starmer & Blackrock Ltd, the UK is going to be privatized as zone fever carves up the UK into 86 free deregulated zones with tax breaks for companies set at 10 years including licenses for a quarter of a century.
Game Over Brexit Britain
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Dear UK people, Starmer has announced that he and Blackrock have formed a government partnership, why the hell are you not reacting to this news? Do you realize what this means? The UK is going to be privatised! Councils defunded, NHS defunded, public services defunded, military heavily funded, welfare benefits defunded, the wealthy heavily funded, Net Zero defunded, 86 free zones funded, it all adds up and points to one thing, total privatisation.
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The MSM will continue to fail in its duty of responsibility to the public over revealing what's really behind the duopoly's 86 deregulated SEZs, Freeports (soon to be Free cities, now Trumop is back)
Within the pages of William Rees-Mogg and James Davidsons 1997 book 'The Sovereign Individual - How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State' was a template that saw the birth of a new exit space for libertarians to virtually occupy, it was a digital public space that was rapidly privatised, the internet.
The intention was to destroy the nation-state by subverting the freedoms of online public access by corporatising and politicising them for exorbitant profit.
Digital regulation was and still is in its infancy, the rise of the internet proved to be the perfect transition period for venture capitalists to exploit. In this scenario, the elites would delete national identity, along with a proclamation that they didn't owe ordinary citizens 'anything'.
Ordinary citizens were regarded as both 'parasites and predators' on taxes and profits, the redistribution of wealth under the terms of the social contract was to be torn up along with the shredding of the EU's protectionist laws and regulations under the still ongoing REUL Bill, (remember Sunak's video where he paper shredded EU/UK laws and regulations?)
es paid rent to Amazon, Google, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Musk. Frontier capitalism has morphed from physical land grabbing to digital land-grabbing, we now have cloud capitalism and digital techno feudalist overlords.

Deloitte's revenue in 2023 was $64.9 billion, here's a page from their website gleefully eyeing the UK's 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports and the numerous tax breaks for corporations.
Deloitte has an atrocious track record of hacking employees data, theft of intellectual property, serial fraud, filing misleading reports into the Tobacco Industry, added credibility to the tobacco industry's effort to undermine the Australian Government's plain cigarette packaging legislation
In September 2017, The Guardian reported that Deloitte suffered a cyberattack that breached the confidentiality of its clients and 244,000 staff, allowing the attackers to access "usernames, passwords, IP addresses, architectural diagrams for businesses and health information".
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced on 29 September 2022 that Shanghai-based Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Certified Public Accountants LLP (Deloitte-China) had agreed to pay $20 million to settle charges relating to failures in complying with requirements for auditing US companies in China and Chinese companies in the US.
Deloitte was awarded a $44 million no-bid contract by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States to build a website to manage scheduling, inventory, and reporting for COVID-19 vaccination. However, the website functioned poorly, leading very few states to adopt it for their vaccination management.
A Deloitte network firm named Brightman Almagor Zohar & Co, sometimes known as Deloitte Israel, gave an unqualified audit opinion on the accounts of Tingo Group, Inc for 2022. This became controversial when a report by Hindenburg Research identified "obvious errors" in Tingo's financials, making Hindenburg "suspect Deloitte Israel missed or rushed through procedures that would have uncovered important findings", and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused Tingo Group and others of a fraud of "staggering" scope.
Deloitte is in bed with the duopoly and is very happy about Starmer's changed Labour Party's deregulation plans announced at their recent 'Investment Summit' deregulation is catnip for malign criminal corporations setting up shop subsidised with public money at £160 million per SEZ in the UK's 86 Free zones.
taxscape.deloitte.com/article/freepo… Deloitte had acted as internal auditor at construction and services giant Carillion before it went into liquidation in January 2018. The "excoriating" and "damning" (The Guardian) final report of the Parliamentary inquiry into Carillion's collapse was published on 16 May 2018, and criticised Deloitte for its involvement in the company's financial reporting practices.
Carillion grew from the hot new ideas of the 2000s, and it collapse is the cold wet patch left by the public service policies followed under the Blair, Brown and Cameron governments. Blair said his “third way” meant “Investment must drive radical reform” of the public sector: Labour spent more on public services, but expanded privatisation by insisting new “private partners” run public services.
When David Cameron became Prime Minister in 2010, Tory-led governments embraced and expanded the New Labour policy of handing public services to private “partners”, but under austerity reduced the amount they spent, making the situation even worse.
Zone Fever has arrived by stealth in Brexit Britain, just know that Trump is a big fan of zoning aka carving out private jurisdictions and building free cities for his kind of right-wing customer/citizen.
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Still able to go it alone UK?
Rejoining the EU is the only option if you want your economy to grow, and not be destroyed by Trump, the UK must get its act together and be on the right side of history.🇪🇺 “The UK is a small, open economy and would be one of the countries most affected,” Kaya said. NIESR has estimated that over two years the UK inflation rate would be 3-4 points higher while interest rates would be 2-3 points higher.
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A corporate coup means everything is up for grabs, the UK is desperate and capital-hungry after Brexit. Deregulated SEZs were a Sunak and Truss initiative fully backed by Labour MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses, who were active board members of the Tories nationwide SEZs/Freeports consortia.
Free zones = privatisation on steroids, that's all public infrastructure within the zone, schools, hospitals, public utilities, police, housing, councils.
Free zones are regulated in the EU to prevent govts of member states from giving advantages to companies by exploiting State aid for profit motives without giving anything back to local infrastructure, deregulated free zones distort markets and create an unlevel playing field, this is Brexit.
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State aid is public money, UK tax payers are subsidizing the dismantling of their public services.
UK 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports are licensed for a quarter of a century with tax breaks for companies set at 10 years.
Each SEZ gets £160 million in State aid, multiplied by 74 = £11 billion 840 million
Sunak's flagship Brexit Freeport in Teesside has already spent half a billion of taxpayers money, profits are split 90/10 in favour of the private sector. Rinse and repeat across all UK free zones.
UK free zones contravene EU laws and regulations on State aid, this information is on the Govt's website, it explains why SEZs failed under Thatcher.
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN05…
WTO rules on State aid are more 'flexible' for developing countries, but massive deregulation benefits corporations and not workers, this is the price ordinary people pay trying to stay afloat with 2, 3 more jobs, it will get far worse once the 86 free zones are fully operational.
It is an absolute travesty that the UK MSM is ignoring the dangers of deregulated SEZs, scores of councils collapsing through engineered insolvency are catnip for private equity to step in and 'rescue' entire regions from the 'oppressive constraints' democracy.
On top of this mass Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPOs) are taking place in Birmingham, and Cornwall, 6 SEZs in Birmingham, 16 SEZs in Cornwall.
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CPOs apply to business, agricultural and residential properties.
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The state is being abolished, the most lucrative line of business is between malign corporations and govts who despise an egalitarian system of democracy. Wage share and profit share of GDP under managed capitalism are kept in balance, not so when deregulated SEZs hollow out social governance and replace it with corporate governance.
Labour are continuing the Tories SEZs policy with the same contempt right-wing libertarians harbour for the nation-state that hands over social governance powers to corporations.
Starmer's changed Labour Party are in hoc to Blackrock, Deloitte, Blackstone, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, the IEA, Adam Smith Institute, Centre for Policy Exchange, Starmer's Labour an absolute disgrace, they have betrayed the core foundations of the social contract, the impacts on ordinary working people will be catastrophic for decades to come.
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Understand that the UK's 12 deregulated Freeports each sit in much larger Special Economic Zones which range in size from 38 to 75km in diameter, there are 74 SEZs being set up across the UK, 48 in England, 18 in Scotland, and 8 in Wales.
Free zones have a colonialist mindset embedded in them along with secondary legislation that bypasses Parliamentary and public scrutiny. I made a list of the dangers SEZs pose to
communities, towns, and cities across the UK.
Please read it and know that as the UK is carved up into corporate governed sovereignties, deregulation has already begun under Jacob Rees-Mogg's REUL Bill, 600 EU/UK laws were revoked overnight on 31st Dec 2023 with 1000s more laws for the chop by 2026, the 3 main areas targeted were employment rights, food safety, and environmental protections.
This bill is now in Labour's hands, last week at the Labour Investment Summit, Starmer et al announced a whole raft of deregulatory attacks (because that is what they actually are) to entrench profit over protections that took 40 years to develop as members of the EU.
It still astonishes me that people assume Starmer's changed Labour Party is for the working people of the UK, it is clearly not, this incarnation of Labour is even further right than Blair.
Brexit has rendered the UK economy 'desperate and capital hungry', the 'quick silver capital' solution is to deregulate the hell out of everything by allowing corporations to 'rescue' democracy from its negatively framed statist failings.
Brexit was an outgrowth of 'exit strategies' from democracy developed in the 50s and 60s by right-wing libertarians and economists, think tanks like the IEA and ATLAS network incubated what were once deemed radical fringe ideologies by academia.
As the world turned, these ideologies became flesh, and this involved fomenting state capture resulting in the transfer of public wealth to private hands, you have all been conned; now watch as 'zone fever' tips the UK into kleptocratic authoritarianism.
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Deregulation on tap from Starmer's changed Labour Party, they are no different than the Tories.
Corporate governance is coming as the absolute worst companies from around the globe like DP World, Blackrock, and Blackstone are given carte blanche to self-regulate inside the duopoly's 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports.
The UK is being carved up into zones of exception from the host country's laws and regulations. Economies outside the zones will be forced to emulate the big companies as competition increases in an unlevel playing field. This is why Starmer says no rejoining the EU.
All UK free zones contravene EU laws on State aid (public money). Companies chasing State aid in the zones are not looking at the long term, it is literally boom-and-bust.
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Understand that the corporate model of politics will replace social democracy, this is how SEZs operate via small acts of secession fragmenting the country into small govts with no interventionism from big govt. Free zones perforate holes in the fabric of the nation-state, once this takes hold, the entire country will be privatised.
Of course @Guardian mention none of the above, you have to ask why?
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I guarantee that Britain is installing the 'preferred' corporate model of politics by 'letting go of democracy' because Brexit has rendered the country's economy 'capital hungry and desperate'. The MSM completely fails to see what comes next after the 'end of Empire'. A substitution of its colonial excesses turned back onto its own citizens.
The UK is currently carving out 86 feudal enclaves across England, Scotland, and Wales.

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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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…

The simplest way to understand Starmer’s changed Labour Party is that they work for corporations and not for you.

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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.

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.

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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