Rachel Reeves has refused permission for the National Audit Office to investigate England's 48 SEZ's and 8 Freeports despite a damning report from the House of Commons Committee in April 2024, citing lack of transparency, questions over value for taxpayers money, and ignoring of the Nolan principles. This stinks. Reeves refusing the NAO from investigating England's SEZs and Freeports is extremely worrying given the context of far-right riots occurring throughout England and the clampdown on legitimate environmental protests.
It is a well-established pattern of behaviour in free zones that corporations when given governance powers prohibit workers from utilizing union representation, along with banning protestors from coming near their warehouse/factories.
Labour are colluding with Corporations and oligarchs representing the very worst of anarcho-capitalism such as Blackrock, Macquarie, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, the London Stock Exchange, Amazon, Uber, Raytheon, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, British American Tobacco UK, Labour Friends of Israel, and dozens more.
'This has led to a major lack of transparency, which even the lobbying industry’s representative body, the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), says is a problem'
'We have identified hundreds of meetings that senior figures in the party held with corporate lobbyists, financial institutions and business groups. On average, they met with influential business leaders every single working day of the past year'.
There it is, Starmer's changed Labour Party refuses to answer questions from @openDemocracy on their relationships with the private sector.
Can someone explain to me why the scandal of the stealth installation of deregulated 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports in post-Brexit UK is not being covered by the MSM?
You've all been taken for fools.
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If you are suspicious that all is not well in Brexitland, this is because both our main parties have been colluding on reconfiguring the UK to a kleptocracy, the framework for this lies in Special Economic Zones (SEZs) of which there are 86 in total, 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports.
Sector by sector, region by region, the UK is being privatised, this has come about because of massive deregulation after leaving the EU.
On Dec 31st 2023 Mogg's REUL Bill revoked +600 EU/UK laws overnight with 1000's more for the chopping block by 2026, will Labour halt this deregulation frenzy? The 3 main areas targeted were employment rights, food safety, and environmental protections.
UK SEZs contravene EU laws and regulations on State Aid (public money), Governments of member states are prohibited from giving State Aid to companies of their choosing because this distorts the integrity of the Single Market creating an unlevel playing field. Starmer knows this which is why he says no rejoining the EU/SM/CU.
Watch as Labour now and again quietly mention 'ports' and investment zones which imply public ownership, do not be fooled, UK Freeports and SEZs are privately owned ring-fenced areas that range from 38 to 75km in diameter.
This is about corporate sovereignty replacing collective sovereignty, it is no coincidence that protest is being shut down with heavy sentencing, this is preparing people for corporate governance for citizens entrapped inside the zones.
All UK free zones are tax-exempt for businesses for 10 years and licensed for a quarter of a century. Brexit is being forced to work by the duopoly. The Green Party are 100% against Freeports and SEZs.
#FollowbackFriday Starmer will not tell the truth about why he says no to rejoining the EU, the Single Market and Customs Union, but for the last few years Labour MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses were particpatory board members of Sunak's nationwide Freeports/SEZs consortia.
48 SEZs and 8 Freeports in England.
18 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Scotland.
8 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Wales.
Each SEZ receives £160 million in State Aid (public money) multiplied by 74 = £11 billion 840 million.

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What does it mean to rethink “new forms of governance”? In a new book called Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, historian Quinn Slobodian chronicles the efforts of billionaires to create “alternative political arrangements at a small scale” through “acts of secession and fragmentation, carving out liberated territory within and beyond nations.”
newrepublic.com/article/177733… This is happening right now while you sleep.
Sunak’s 12 Freeports and 74 SEZs are being installed ‘below the surface of the nation’, yet they warrant urgent exposure within the post-Brexit landscape as zone fever radically carves-out the UK into patchworks of corporate sovereignties.

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6,000 people could have their homes torn down as part of a £2.2bn project in which 1,266 council houses and 567 properties belonging to private homeowners could be repossessed in a mass compulsory purchase order for the area.
“I own the freehold. I’ve put everything in here, this was a lifelong home. I had no thoughts I would ever need to move and, if I did, it would be on my own terms,” he said. “It’s the real injustice of it all, and at the same time the council are being totally incompetent at meeting with us.”
What have I been repeatedly telling you about zone fever and compulsory purchase orders?
There are 6 SEZs in Birmingham, these are deregulated carve-outs with separate laws and regulations from the host country.
Compulsory purchase orders apply to business, agricultural, and residential properties.
theguardian.com/uk-news/articl… Been warning about this for years, there are deregulated 74 Special Economic Zones currently being implemented all over the UK.
48 SEZsand 8 Freeports in England.
18 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Scotland.
8 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Wales.
All backed by Labour who were board members of Sunak's nationwide Freeports/SEZs consortia.

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Dear peeps,
Been on Twitter since 2016, tweeting several times a day.
My main focus is on raising awareness about the dangers of deregulated Freeports and Special Economic Zones (SEZs) that will transform the UK into a privatised kleptocracy under corporate governance, no more public services, councils bankrupted and absorbed by predatory capitalists who will ‘rescue’ democracy from its failings. The UK is going to become a tax haven, collective sovereignty is being sold off and replaced with corporate sovereignty.
Politics will become a thing of the past as 1 vote becomes 1 share and contract citizenship is introduced by corporations ‘governing’ the zones, this is a return to colonialism.

Important questions about the theft of billions of taxpayers money on PPE are still not being answered by those who dished out public wealth to their mates during crisis, but this gets raised because of MSM exposure.
There is however another scandalous waste of public money that gets next to no attention in the press, namely the astronomical sums of State Aid (public money) currently being spent on installing 86 corporate fiefdoms across the UK known as Special Economic Zones and Freeports.
Once Labour takes office serious questions about these free zones, must be answered.
The House of Commons Committee published a report April 2024 on the lack of transparency, ignoring of the Nolan principles, and questioning value for taxpayers' money in UK SEZs and Freeports, they have pushed for the National Audit Office to investigate, as Michael Gove's Independent Audit Committee was evidently, total bullshit.
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmse… Below is a list of material references the HOCC report cited in its report.
1 ACE (PIZ0003)

2 British Chambers of Commerce (PIZ0010)

3 Brooks, Richard (Journalist, Private Eye) (PIZ0016)

4 Clark, Dr Andre (PIZ0002)

5 Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (PIZ0009)

6 East Midlands Freeport (PIZ0008)

7 Fothergill, Professor Steve (Professor, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University) (PIZ0001)

8 Freeport East (PIZ0012)

9 Hibbert, Dylan (Chief Executive, Spyder Network) (PIZ0011)

10 Holmes , Dr Peter (Emeritus Reader in Economics at the University of Sussex Business School, UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO)); Holden, Dr Patrick (Associate Professor of International Relations and Politics , University of Plymouth); Harmer, Dr Nichola (Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Plymouth); and Larbalestier, Guillermo (Research Assistant in International Trade, UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO)) (PIZ0004)

11 Institute of Export & International Trade (PIZ0007)

12 Liverpool City Region Freeport (PIZ0015)

13 Plymouth and South Devon Freeport (PIZ0014)

14 Solent Freeport Consortium Ltd (PIZ0006)

15 Tees Valley Mayor (PIZ0017)

16 Thames Freeport (PIZ0013)

17 What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth (PIZ0005)

“The Government must publish the evaluation reports of freeports and investment zones. In the meantime, the dashboards being created to monitor freeports should be published, with commercially sensitive information redacted, if required"
After reading this lengthy House of Commons Committee report, I would conclude that Teesside Freeport and the SEZ it is housed in, is a symptom of a much larger corporate coup that will utterly destroy the public sector in the UK.
Each free zone will see a chain reaction of predatory corporate monopolization of State Aid (public money) like those in Teesside as the private sector wages war on the public sector across all 12 Freeports and 74 SEZs currently being set up across England, Scotland, and Wales.
In August 2021, the STDC Board (Teesside) agreed to change ownership of the joint venture partnership (TWL) to be split 90/10 in favour of the private partners!
Rinse and repeat, zone fever is here and it's all because of Brexit. Don't say I didn't warn you time and time again. publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmse… 'With increasing sums of public money being devolved to local regions through the creation of mayoralties and freeports, comprehensive and prompt audit and scrutiny are critical to ensuring value for money for the taxpayer. We note the recent Report from the Public Accounts Committee, which observed that the backlog of audit opinions for local government bodies remains unacceptably high'.
Teesworks has received a total of £560 million of public resources to date, including £246 million in Government grants and £257 million in prudential borrowing, with a further £238 million investment planned.

Charter means ‘private’, charter/academy schools target state-owned comprehensives by leeching public funding. The private sector is comprised of the asset classes who are aghast that their taxes fund state-owned schools, this is viewed as 'theft of property' by libertarian and anarcho-capitalists alike. Extend this loathing of socialism to healthcare, prisons, energy utilities, courts, council housing, and police/security, the next step is to shift gears and attention onto state-owned cities by privatising them as well.
Do you see where this is going? Free of unions and public bureaucracy, corporation’s next step after privatising cities is targeting entire countries, the rubric comes under a term coined by libertarians as ‘countrypreneurship’ where public services are deemed ‘small potatoes’ and entire nations are viewed as sites for economic experiments in corporate governance.
For this to happen you need an ‘exit’ plan that removes the constraints and restrictions placed on corporations by social democracies. Countries that pride themselves on protecting citizens with stringent regulatory frameworks prevent market distortions by establishing a level playing field such as the EU’s Single Market. In the case of Brexit 12 Freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones have been turbocharged for development by focusing on land-grabbing of entire regions including the cities contained within them.
A predatory tactic of corporations is to work with Govt’s by lobbying them with the expectation of getting something in return for their investments, the most lucrative line of business today is in governance itself. To enact the changes that corporations are seeking, a pincer movement is required to entrap public services, and local councils by rendering them bankrupt through chronic underfunding, the infrastructure of communities and public services are effectively hobbled, this paves the way for private equity, and corporations both foreign and domestic to seize their moment.

⚠️OMG! Check out how many Labour MPs, councillors and advisors have links to fossil fuel companies, the South African apartheid regime, and pro Israel groups 👇🏻👀
Gareth Barret - works for a giant PR relations company in the US that works for Shell, Exxon Mobil, and Chevron. They are the main firm for the lobbying communications firm for the oil industry.
Julie Mint - Was a PR consultant for Bell Pottinger, founded by Sir Tim Bell, Thatcher’s favourite PR advisor, who stirred up racial tensions in South Africa.
Jade Botterill - Director of a lobbying firm Portland, whose client include Southern Water who were fined £90 million for sewage dumping, she also worked for Yorkshire water, another big polluter.
Polly Fillington - works for lobbying firm Hannover who lobby for Amazon, Uber, Meta, and the London stock exchange.
Luke Akehurst - Director of We Believe Israel, he selected himself for the safe Labour seat of North Durham.
Chris Ward - former Director for Hanbury Strategy, a lobbying firm set up by advisors to David Cameron. Clients included Amazon, Deliveroo, gambling company Flutter, finance firms UBS and Blackstone, and UK oil company Rockhopper who sued the Italian Govt for £210 million in compensation in 2022 for the introduction of a ban on off-shore drilling
Corporate lobbying of politicians always entails them wanting something back for their money, usually massive deregulatory privileges.
Q - Where do you think those privileges will be enacted?
A - Sunak’s 12 Freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) that neither party (backed by the MSM) are divulging any information to the public about. @mlothianmclean @NoJusticeMTG
It just keeps getting worse👇🏻👀
Dictatorial control will escalate once Labour are in office, this of course is shutting down peoples role in the decision making processes of government.
The above tweet is the tip of the iceberg, to date there are 31 corporate lobbyist/candidates operating/standing for Labour.
Terrifying.
Miss socialism? Vote Green💚

It is becoming clearer by the day that once Labour are in power those very same SEZs that Sunak and Truss are currently setting up, all 12 deregulated Freeports and 74 SEZs, will be continued under Labour.
Understand it is not a case of Labour inheriting the Tory's chaos, we know this because Labour are board members of Sunak's nationwide Freeports/SEZs consortia. 👇🏻👀

We are witnessing the reconfiguration of the UK to a kleptocracy, SEZs are enclaves carved out of the nation and 'freed' from the laws and regulations of the host country. Companies flocking to the zones are chasing State Aid (public money) of £160 million per SEZ, the zones are tax-exempt for 10 years and licensed for a quarter of a century. 74 SEZ = £11, 84 billion of public money.
What do you think happens to public services, failing councils, and their assets when companies chosen by the Govt don't pay their taxes?
The reason why the MSM are not touching this story is because it's about money and corporate power replacing social democracy. This is how Brexit is being forced to workmiro.com/welcomeonboard… Been getting messages from Labour voters that while they find this a serious problem, they will not RT my research! Politics is a filthy business.

This is what I would ask Starmer or Rayner if I was in the audience at one of these TV GE debates -
'Why did you agree to fully back Sunak's 12 deregulated Freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones as sitting board members of his nationwide Freeports/SEZs consortia considering SEZs flawed histories?'
The honest answer would be, 'because Brexit has allowed us to make our own laws and carve up the UK into 86 tax havens' My next question to both Labour and Cons would be -
If these zones are tax-exempt for 10 years how exactly does this ensure economic growth and 'Leveling Up' for the residents of communities inside these SEZs?

There are 12 Freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones currently being installed in the UK. This is a massive undertaking, ask yourselves why Cons and Labour are not mentioning them in the GE campaigns, or informing the public of the inherent dangers deregulated SEZ pose to regions across the UK.
Remember Thatcher's SEZs failed because the UK was in the EU.
Brexit has turbocharged SEZs, zone fever has arrived.
Investment Zones will not produce the type of levelling up outcomes needed to produce better outcomes for everyone living in the UK👇🏻👀
birmingham.ac.uk/news/2023/inve… Check our MIRO Boards on which cross-party board members are on the Freeports/SEZs consortia, they include MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, Baronesses and multiple private stakeholders, including Locus Economica, a private governance consultancy firm who specialise in SEZs.

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OMG read this Parliamentary transcript, Kemi Badenoch's comments are a total disaster.
Brexit is an extremely serious issue that both our main party's are ignoring in the GE Campaign👇🏻👀
Chair: You used the phrase there "zero sum game". I think the zero-sum game would be a gain on what has happened because it has been less than a zero-sum game. It has been a loss of GDP. Your own figures, Secretary of State, give you—
Kemi Badenoch: Which figures are you referring to?Chair: There are OBR figures of 4% and the Treasury has published figures of 4.8%, and 4.9%. The gains that you have flagged for the trade deals that are not yet in operation are about 0.08% for Australia, 0.08% for CPTPP and 0.02% for New Zealand. If this was horse racing, these figures are the equivalent of going to the races with £490, £500 and £400 and betting and losing that money, only to be told you are winning £8, £8 and £2. You have got £18, but the bookie has not yet paid out. Secretary of State, this is not really a good way for the Government to conduct economic stewardship.
Kemi Badenoch: I think you know what I am going to say next, which is that I disagree with every single thing that you have said.
committees.parliament.uk/oralevidence/1… Chair: Secretary of State, just for clarification, this “Race to a Trillion” that was set, will that be met, given that the Financial Times has reported that the world saw an average increase of 8.2% in exports, other advanced countries saw a 5% increase in exports between 2020 and 2021, but the UK saw a 14% decrease? It is very different. Again, not zero-sum but less than zero. Will the trillion target be met for 2030?
Kemi Badenoch: From all the stats and numbers that I have seen, I think the answer is yes. The UK is a major world exporter: seventh for goods, and second in services. There will always be difficulties. Some things we cannot control. We cannot control the demand that our international—
Chair: Do you seriously think it is going to be met?
Kemi Badenoch: —consumers have, but from all our projections and figures we are still going to meet it. I have not seen the FT figures that you mentioned, but I do think so.

The corporate lobbying industry has spent the past 12 to 18 months embarking on an unprecedented rush to forge ties with Starmer’s Labour in anticipation of a change of government.
Mike Craven is executive chair of a leading Westminster lobbying firm, Lexington which boasts a list of public affairs clients, including construction giants like Kier, energy firms like United Utilities, Big Pharma mainstays including Pfizer and Novartis, and a number of leading house builders. One standout individual client is Labour mega-donor Gary Lubner. But in terms of sheer size, the firm’s biggest client is likely the Australian asset manager Macquarie. Though perhaps not as infamous as competitor BlackRock, Macquarie is no less of a corporate bogeyman, reviled by many for its role in developing and popularising the model of buying up infrastructure relied on by the public, piling on the debt and stripping out value for the benefit of shareholders.
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'Good little citizens and good little consumers'.
Social solidarity has been utterly smashed into pieces, and tragically Thatcher's legacy continues like a baton being handed on to Labour who willingly take it up, Tony Blair being her 'greatest achievement'.
Collective sovereignty is being replaced with corporate sovereignty.
Remember it is all your fault, never the fault of predatory capitalists and the politicians who accept the dark money to shape austerity policies.
Presumed consent should never be accepted in politics.
In the early 20th century, social research groups were set up to monitor and rein in the excesses of capitalism, but they were quickly replaced with neoliberal think tanks, many of whom enjoyed charity status.
And here we are. There is no such thing as British collective sovereignty, foreign states own almost all of Britain's public services. How is that acceptable?
British patriotism is an oxymoron, totally hypocritical and total bullshit.
If an opposition party wants to make radical policies, they have to let people know beforehand, the Starmer methodology is not going to suddenly spring into progressive left social policies upon entering No. 10 they don't exist in his changed Labour Party!

Extraordinary interview where @yanisvaroufakis condenses the history of capitalism and reveals exactly what is wrong with the political and corporate power systems in place, and why they are designed to ignore the majority of the electorate's wishes for a fair and equal society.
Mayor of North Tyne @JamieDriscollNE was thrown out of the Labour Party for watching a Ken Loach movie, that is fascism at work.

Brexit is a time-based project, the transition phase to full-blown corporate governance has already laid its foundations in the form of 12 Freeports and 74 SEZs, backed by Labour.
Brexit has induced desperation by design, the UK is letting go of democracy by allowing corporations to take up the mantle of governance where 'democracy failed'.
There is a violent govt repression at play whose only purpose is to ensure capital accumulation is achieved as the nation state and all of it laws and regulations are collapsed. Attacks on citizens' protests will ramp up, targets will invariably be the 'woke' and LGBTQ+ communities, all those on the left, academics, writers, artists, intellectuals, and the independent press.
SEZs fragment local territories by ring-fencing them from the host country's laws and protections.
Collective sovereignty has been successfully targeted and commodified.
SEZs are primed to reconfigure each region of the UK by licensing the zones for 25 years, with tax-exemption for 10 years. It is no coincidence that Labour are members of the nationwide Freeports/SEZ consortia.
Our main parties are quick to wave the glossy brochures of Freeports and SEZs replete with the usual 'growth, innovation, and lifting deprived areas out of poverty' ad nauseam, but the truth is countries with low taxation and rampant deregulation reveal high levels of crime, frozen wages for ordinary working people, huge increases in wages for the rich and absolute government corruption, and political instability. In 2023 Kemi Badenoch announced that the UK will shortly commence negotiations with Singapore for a "new, modern investment treaty […] guaranteeing clear standards of fair treatment to investors". The UK’s accession to CPTPP includes a range of investment protection standards and – in the words of the UK Government - a "modern and transparent" ISDS mechanism.
Undoubtedly, the Investor-State Dispute Settlement ISDS (established in 1966 by The World Bank) will be a key component to insulate corporations from any future govts wishing to revoke contracts in place inside the UK 86 SEZs.
Sandy Springs USA (pop.100,000) was seceded to Prospera, a move that cut off tax revenue to the inner city and outsourced all govt services to private providers, @NaomiAKlein called this "the glimpse of a disaster-apartheid future" Oliver Porter, advisot to Prospera (see video) neglected to mention that Sandy Springs struck its own reverse course in 2019 bringing govt services back in-house, why? Privatisation had proved much too costly, the option of public ownership was much cheaper and turned its back on the open markets.
Understand that Prospera is currently suing the Honduran Govt via ISDS for $11 billion, that is nearly two thirds of the Honduran economy. This is why ISDS and decades long licensing of SEZs are 2 peas in a pod.

How to kidnap a country.
Create division and sow chaos in the economy.
Exit social democracy and start replacing it with corporate governance, the nation-state will quickly atrophy and wither away.
Deregulate laws and worker's rights that protect people from predatory capitalists.
Engineer insolvency across all councils.
Always blame the 'other' for the problems this creates.
Establish dozens of Special Economic Zone subsidized with billions in public money given by the govt to their favoured companies, allowing them to asset strip all councils and public services.
Replace collective sovereignty with corporate sovereignty.
Dismantle big govt and remove the obstacles of 'intervention' and fair redistribution of GDP.
License the SEZs and Freeports for +25 years, future proofing them from any incoming govts that may wish to revoke contracts.
Should a new govt pursue revocation of SEZ licenses and contracts, hit them with Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), sue the govt.
Establish private courts, security forces, education curricula, and a new system of legalized lawlessness within the zones.
Rebuild towns, cities, and villages not with concrete or glass but with private laws.
Ensure by corporate lobbying that the main political parties mirror each other's policies but take care to fool the public that whoever is in power maintains a pseudo-adversarial role, buoyed by a compliant press.
By privatising an entire country, its population will become desperate and fatigued as crises mount, they will become dependent on whatever jobs are available to feed their families, this is how you exit democracy and pave the way for a total corporate coup.
#BrexitDisaster @kenanmalik

Good that you have read Crack-Up Capitalism by
@zeithistoriker Quinn Slobodian.
Please go further and investigate Sunak's 86 SEZs, which are backed by Labour MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses who are members of a nationwide Freeports consortia.
I have been researching this for about 6 years, and have been speaking at public meetings in London, Liverpool, Inverness, and Plymouth, (hosted by
@GeorgeMonbiot ).

Locus Economica are a private governance consultancy outfit who specializes in SEZs deregulatory infrastructure, they are working very closely with the UK Govt. locuseconomica.com/what-we-do
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Voting is not the be all and end all of democracy, the vilification of the media and judiciary by the far right is about refusing to outsource power to ordinary people, PR is the voice of the majority, it has been placed in a chokehold.
The project of disenfranchisement is no accident, the struggle is now against the technological means of power to entrench algorithms with a corporate backed fascist hegemony.
The logic of the lesser evil is embraced by the right, but it is dictated by corporations, Labour are not a better choice either because corporate lobbyists and donors have switched to Starmer’s changed Labour Party, Gary Lubner is now Labour’s biggest donor in the party’s history and was a virulent supporter of apartheid in South Africa, Lubner is also a supporter of Israel’s genocidal regime. The lesser evil always leads to the gulag.

Cons and Labour are working together to give massive tax breaks, subsidies, and (de)regulatory freedoms to the investor classes across 12 Freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones (SEZ) - 48 in England, 18 in Scotland, and 8 in Wales.
The key to this neoliberal reconfiguration of the UK is Brexit. Thatcher set up 11 SEZs during her time in office, but they failed, why? Because of EU rules on State Aid that prohibit Govt's from giving preferential treatment in the form of State Aid to companies of THEIR CHOOSING. Brexit is the UK's inflection point, these zones will transform working-class neighbourhoods into financial districts.
This is about establishing a second empire via a reverse-colonialism, something Sunak, Gove, Truss, Mogg, Braverman, Baker, etc, and thinktanks like Mont Pelerin and the Heritage Foundation dreamt up to remove big govt interference in highly damaging forms of capital accumulation at the expense of working peoples lives and livelihoods. This is a class war.
Cons and Labour have the same donors, they share and collude with the same stakeholders, and corporations within a nationwide Freeports consortia.
This is setting the course for total corporate control over the next 25 years of the UK economy, you should have been informed about what amounts to a corporate coup. SEZs have been designated in areas where the 'Queen's writ does not run', taxation, labour laws, and health and safety regulations will all be eliminated. Instead of offshore island, these zones are using sites in 'inner-cities like Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Edinburgh to onshore tax exempt wealth creation, there is no legal obligation for companies to contribute their capital back into local community infrastructure, in fact residents in the zones will be presented with bills for things like clean-up costs, just like the water companies are doing now by charging 40% extra on bills. I don't understand why the public are not up in arms about what's happening.

False trading, duplicity, electoral gaming, the Brexit elephant in the room will not disappear.
"How then does the UK get growth not being in the single market?"
Still, zero mention of Sunak's 12 Freeports and 74 SEZs, fully backed by Labour, and why these free zones depart from EU rules on State Aid (public mnoney), and why this sabotages rejoining the EU. Things couldn't be more serious for the future of the UK outside of the EU.

On top of that a Jan 2024 Govt report Retained EU Law (REUL) stated 'EU ports are publicly owned and unsuitable for the UK economy'
+600 EU/UK laws were revoked on 31st Dec 2023, the 3 main areas were employment regs, food and safety standards, and environmental protections, 1000's more for the chop by 2026. Know that Starmer's changed Labour Party sit on the nationwide Freeports consortia comprised of MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses. I despair.
@TheNewEuropean
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