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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Grand Commitee - Transcript from 11 May 2023
Baroness Kramer (Lib Dem) raising the issue of transparency and criminal activity in SEZs and Freeports of which there are 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports currently being set up across the UK, initiated by Sunak and fully backed by Starmer's changed Labour Party.
'I think even the Government recognise that freeports are catnip to criminals and money launderers. I would make the point that the kind of people who are attracted to freeports tend to be those who absolutely push the law to the limit, even when they do not go beyond it. We have so many examples from around the world where the players in various different freeports have gone well beyond it. We know that at least one of the major freeports will be under the Dubai Ports World regime, which already has ownership of major docks in London'.
'...but because there are no customs declarations, customs inspections or tax-related declarations in freeports, the normal mechanisms that provide data and direct monitoring and enforcement agencies are simply not available'.
'Why is the register that is going to be put together for freeports not to be made public? If I understood the answer that I got, it was, “Oh, this will all be dealt with when we get to Companies House legislation”.
Well, here we are: that economic crime Bill 2, with Companies House at the heart of it, but I cannot see anything that deals with making that register of beneficial owners in freeports public'
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Baroness Bennet Green Party @natalieben
“Contracts at the site will be a commercial matter for the companies involved”. Official Report, Commons, 10/5/23
There is great public concern about what is happening on Teesside, and it is at the moment extremely opaque.

I shall concentrate mostly on freeports, because, as the noble Baroness said, investment zones are such a “fluffy” area that is very hard to grasp on to it. As to what we know about freeports and what is happening, a lot of the questions are being asked by the independent media and the civil society organisations referred to by the noble Baroness. I would point anyone who is interested to an excellent, 44-page report from the Bylines Network that was put out by local journalists from around the country in areas directly affected. It does a great job of examining some of the issues, but butting up again and again against commercial confidentiality and lack of recording. One of those reports notes that in 2020, the Royal United Services Institute Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies submitted evidence to the International Trade Committee saying that “there is evidence of criminal activity taking place in multiple freeports around the world. It often involves trade in counterfeit goods, drug trafficking, smuggling of untaxed goods or trade-based money laundering”.
'If we were to think of something that is essential to the purposes of the economic crime Bill now before us, shining the light, opening the doors and being able to see what is happening would clearly be it. What we are talking about with freeports are huge concessions from the Government. As the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, said, they include freedom from all kinds of usual customs controls, but also stamp duty land tax relief, enhanced structures and building allowance, enhanced capital allowances, employer national insurance contributions relief, and business rates relief and retention. Those are huge concessions. Surely it would only be absolutely fair and reasonable to demand full transparency about who is responsible and who is making those decisions'.
'It is very evident that there is great public concern. This is one way that the Bill or some other mechanism—I directly put the question, “If not this Bill, where else?”, to the Minister—will make sure of what will happen if we create these structures. The reason why people are so suspicious about this seems to go back to an uncredited blog from 2010 on the website of a right-wing lobbying group, the TaxPayers’ Alliance, which raised the idea of charter cities. People are very suspicious. Surely the Government would want to dispel some of those suspicions by ensuring that there is absolute transparency and openness'.
Here is the link to the 44-page Freeports Gazette Natalie refers to above of which I was a contributor. @BylinesCymru
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Starmer announcing more pain and economic hardship is not what people voted for.
The vast majority of the public already had this from 14 years of Tory austerity policies.
Labour are not being honest with the public, they have been very busy as board members of Sunak’s nationwide SEZs/Freeports consortia.
Here’s what happening behind the scenes and beyond the radar of the MSM.
The UK is being carved up into jurisdictions where governance is given over to corporations along with tax breaks for 10 years, the free zones are licensed for 25 years and contravene EU laws on State aid (public money) that prohibit govts of member states from giving money to corporations of their choosing, this unleashes market distortions that destabilizes the integrity of the EUs Single Market, basically UK SEZs sabotage the UK’s chances of rejoining the EU for the duration of the licenses, 25 years.
Each SEZ is a growth sector for the asset classes, companies include Blackrock, Blackstone, Macquarie, Google, Exxon Mobil, Uber, Caldwell, and many more.
‘Unfortunately, their proposals draw more from right-wing think tanks, astroturf campaigns and asset managers than they do the demands of workers, tenants and the labour movement’
The profits of Cauldwell and BlackRock go up and the costs of housing remain unmoved.
Join up Brexit and the fact that Labour spent a year having meetings everyday with the private sector, including governance consultancies that worked for Cameron and Thatcher, the sad truth emerges that Labour are in thrall to the most malevolent corporations and lobbyists responsible for ever widening contrasts between rich and poor. The UK is being privatised, zone fever is happening right now, and it’s all because of Brexit, the main culprit that Labour refuse to discuss.

tribunemag.co.uk/2024/07/deregu… Now read this, an expose of the inner workings between corporations, governace consultancies, and Lthink tank abour Together.
Be in no doubt that Starmer’s changed Labour Party is handing over the collective sovereignty of the UK to the absolute worst corporations and predatory capitalists both foreign and domestic.
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Are people aware that Rishi Sunak studied at Stanford University in the US? His mentor was Prof.Paul Romer who lectured on Special Economic Zones (SEZs) as the model for a return to colonialism. SEZs are a framework used to exit from democracy by carving out territories under separate laws from the host country.
Are people aware that Labour MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses were board members of Sunak's nationwide SEZs/Freeports consortia?
Why are the MSM concealing this information from the public, it is their communities that will be hollowed out as the public sector is absorbed by stakeholders including Blackrock, and Blackstone, these corporations are the eptiome of laissez-faire capitalism, to them public services are small potatoes, their goal is countrypreneurship, the privatization of entire nations. Look at this!

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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