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@tansy
Learned how hot it can get living in a shipping container, bunked up and sleeping in shifts. #Jakarta #Freeports
Love your work, Tansy

@tansy
Learned how hot it can get living in a shipping container, bunked up and sleeping in shifts. #Jakarta #Freeports
Love your work, Tansy

The UK Is Being Carved Up—And Nobody's Talking About It

While the mainstream media stays silent, Britain is being systematically divided into 86 deregulated corporate enclaves: 74 Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports, now merged under the banner of "Industrial Strategy Zones," with 200 AI Growth Zones on the way.

#ZoneFever #Freeports #SEZs #CorporateTakeover #Brexit

https://substack.com/@europeanpowell/note/c-168571328?

The UK Is Being Carved Up—And Nobody's Talking About It

While the mainstream media stays silent, Britain is being systematically divided into 86 deregulated corporate enclaves: 74 Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports, now merged under the banner of "Industrial Strategy Zones," with 200 AI Growth Zones on the way.

#ZoneFever #Freeports #SEZs #CorporateTakeover #Brexit

https://substack.com/@europeanpowell/note/c-168571328?

The UK Is Being Carved Up—And Nobody's Talking About It

While the mainstream media stays silent, Britain is being systematically divided into 86 deregulated corporate enclaves: 74 Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports, now merged under the banner of "Industrial Strategy Zones," with 200 AI Growth Zones on the way.

#ZoneFever #Freeports #SEZs #CorporateTakeover #Brexit

https://substack.com/@europeanpowell/note/c-168571328?

The UK Is Being Carved Up—And Nobody's Talking About It

While the mainstream media stays silent, Britain is being systematically divided into 86 deregulated corporate enclaves: 74 Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports, now merged under the banner of "Industrial Strategy Zones," with 200 AI Growth Zones on the way.

#ZoneFever #Freeports #SEZs #CorporateTakeover #Brexit

https://substack.com/@europeanpowell/note/c-168571328?

I want to read this.

The Hidden Globe by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian - Pan Macmillan

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/atossa-araxia-abrahamian/the-hidden-globe/9781529058338

#TheHiddenGlobe #AtossaAraxiaAbrahamian #Wealth #Inequality #Globalization #Freeports #Extraterritoriality

I want to read this.

The Hidden Globe by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian - Pan Macmillan

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/atossa-araxia-abrahamian/the-hidden-globe/9781529058338

#TheHiddenGlobe #AtossaAraxiaAbrahamian #Wealth #Inequality #Globalization #Freeports #Extraterritoriality

Eye-ing up another profitable trough.

#UK #politics #freeports #StinkingFish

Eye-ing up another profitable trough.

#UK #politics #freeports #StinkingFish

UK`s future as a state comprised of feudal fiefdoms owned by rich oligarchs who can impose their own laws, currency, and laws governing slave labour. Welcome to the "new" medieval Italy in the North Sea. People voted for this!

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/maps-of-uk-freeports

#FreePorts #fascism #politics

UK`s future as a state comprised of feudal fiefdoms owned by rich oligarchs who can impose their own laws, currency, and laws governing slave labour. Welcome to the "new" medieval Italy in the North Sea. People voted for this!

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/maps-of-uk-freeports

#FreePorts #fascism #politics

Britain shifts radically to a tax and spend economy http://dlvr.it/TFw7G1 #budget #Business #BusinessCommerceMiscellaneous #Freeports

Britain shifts radically to a tax and spend economy http://dlvr.it/TFw7G1 #budget #Business #BusinessCommerceMiscellaneous #Freeports

And then they weren't....

That plan to establish another five Freeports.... err, seems like Labour are now saying that was never the plan & it was a 'cock up with the comms'.

So its just continuing with the current Freeports then, despite extensive evidence that they generate no new investment, just displace investment from other paces... in other words they are a scam to reduce corporations tax exposure & little else....

Reeves should have been winding them down...

#Freeports
h/t FT

And then they weren't....

That plan to establish another five Freeports.... err, seems like Labour are now saying that was never the plan & it was a 'cock up with the comms'.

So its just continuing with the current Freeports then, despite extensive evidence that they generate no new investment, just displace investment from other paces... in other words they are a scam to reduce corporations tax exposure & little else....

Reeves should have been winding them down...

#Freeports
h/t FT

#Freeports
#CCS
#Reparations (not)
#2ChildCap

As I said, #Labour's "Change" is mostly Lampedusian:
"Everything must change so everything can stay the same".

#Freeports
#CCS
#Reparations (not)
#2ChildCap

As I said, #Labour's "Change" is mostly Lampedusian:
"Everything must change so everything can stay the same".

Zombie policy ahoy:

the FT is reporting, despite their lacklustre performance as engines of regional growth in the past (and when I say lacklustre, I mean negligible), another five Freeport's look like being announced next week in the budget....

When there a real polices that could be enacted, why does our political class still think Freeport's are the 'answer' to anything (other than money laundering & tax evasion..... oh wait..)

Its a policy that just won\t die

#freeports #AutumnBudget

Zombie policy ahoy:

the FT is reporting, despite their lacklustre performance as engines of regional growth in the past (and when I say lacklustre, I mean negligible), another five Freeport's look like being announced next week in the budget....

When there a real polices that could be enacted, why does our political class still think Freeport's are the 'answer' to anything (other than money laundering & tax evasion..... oh wait..)

Its a policy that just won\t die

#freeports #AutumnBudget

@JackTheCat Yep, just another rich man's scam with no benefit to the rest of us
#Freeports

@JackTheCat Yep, just another rich man's scam with no benefit to the rest of us
#Freeports

"Critics of #freeports say there is little evidence they attract new investment or help the economy. The Office for Budget Responsibility said in 2021 that tax breaks in England’s freeports would cost the government £50m a year and that their impact on GDP was likely to be so small it would be “difficult to discern even in retrospect”."

#UKpolitics #Labour

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/25/new-uk-freeports-budget-labour-starmer

"Freeports are both a massive folly, and a deeply misguided and even dangerous attempt to recreate offshore tax environments within the UK."

#UKpolitics #Freeports #TaxAvoidance #TaxHavens

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/09/26/freeports-should-be-abolished/

"Freeports are both a massive folly, and a deeply misguided and even dangerous attempt to recreate offshore tax environments within the UK."

#UKpolitics #Freeports #TaxAvoidance #TaxHavens

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/09/26/freeports-should-be-abolished/

You'll recall that the Tories thought freeports would be a post-Brexit boon for a newly 'independent' UK....

And, you'll like also recall that critic pointed out this had been tried before & UK companies really weren't interested.

Well, since 2021, just six firms have taken up the freeport facilities across four ports.

As Freeport's impact on the UK economy is therefore so small as to be difficult to measure at all... we can see the critics were right!

#freeports #trade

h/t FT

#freeports the unintended consequence #bees #insects #sustainability from the Guardian.
Colony of invasive red dwarf honeybee found for first time in Europe
Discovery of Apis florea in Malta raises fears of devastating impact on native bee populations
"The proximity of the colony to Birżebbuġa freeport, Malta’s major cargo hub, suggests the bees may have arrived via a commercial vessel." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/30/colony-invasive-red-dwarf-honeybee-first-time-europe#:~:text=Colony%20of%20invasive,native%20bee%20populations

#freeports the unintended consequence #bees #insects #sustainability from the Guardian.
Colony of invasive red dwarf honeybee found for first time in Europe
Discovery of Apis florea in Malta raises fears of devastating impact on native bee populations
"The proximity of the colony to Birżebbuġa freeport, Malta’s major cargo hub, suggests the bees may have arrived via a commercial vessel." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/30/colony-invasive-red-dwarf-honeybee-first-time-europe#:~:text=Colony%20of%20invasive,native%20bee%20populations

Understanding Special Economic Zones (SEZ)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zzd9c8zP070&feature=shared

#SpecialEconomicZones
#FreePorts

Understanding Special Economic Zones (SEZ)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zzd9c8zP070&feature=shared

#SpecialEconomicZones
#FreePorts

Gordon Ross with Norrie Hunter #Freeports 🎥 https://youtube.com/live/oF14xQcSnQk?feature=shared

There's something wrong here xxx
#freeports

MPs call for audit office to scrutinise Teesworks - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnke7gl8zexo.amp

There's something wrong here xxx
#freeports

MPs call for audit office to scrutinise Teesworks - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnke7gl8zexo.amp

Der Übergang von #freeports (Freihäfen) zu #deports (Städte für Deportationen von Geflüchteten) ist fließend. Die gemeinsame Klammer ist "Sonderentwicklungszone", in der die normale Gesetzgebung mehr oder weniger außer Kraft gesetzt wird.

Der Übergang von #freeports (Freihäfen) zu #deports (Städte für Deportationen von Geflüchteten) ist fließend. Die gemeinsame Klammer ist "Sonderentwicklungszone", in der die normale Gesetzgebung mehr oder weniger außer Kraft gesetzt wird.

Der Übergang von #freeports (Freihäfen) zu #deports (Städte für Deportationen von Geflüchteten) ist fließend. Die gemeinsame Klammer ist "Sonderentwicklungszone", in der die normale Gesetzgebung mehr oder weniger außer Kraft gesetzt wird.

Der Übergang von #freeports (Freihäfen) zu #deports (Städte für Deportationen von Geflüchteten) ist fließend. Die gemeinsame Klammer ist "Sonderentwicklungszone", in der die normale Gesetzgebung mehr oder weniger außer Kraft gesetzt wird.

Der Übergang von #freeports (Freihäfen) zu #deports (Städte für Deportationen von Geflüchteten) ist fließend. Die gemeinsame Klammer ist "Sonderentwicklungszone", in der die normale Gesetzgebung mehr oder weniger außer Kraft gesetzt wird.

Freeport Fearfulness

Even though this photo of Ryston Bank on Newton Moor was taken right within the North York Moors National Park, every square inch captured, right up to the North Sea in the distance, lies within the Teesport ‘Freeport outer boundary’, an arbitrary demarcation unmistakably drawn by some bureaucrat armed with nothing more than a pair of school drawing compasses.

...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34292

#NewtonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #RystonBank #Environment #Freeports

Freeport Fearfulness

Even though this photo of Ryston Bank on Newton Moor was taken right within the North York Moors National Park, every square inch captured, right up to the North Sea in the distance, lies within the Teesport ‘Freeport outer boundary’, an arbitrary demarcation unmistakably drawn by some bureaucrat armed with nothing more than a pair of school drawing compasses.

...

http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34292

#NewtonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #RystonBank #Environment #Freeports

Just wait until UK's freeports get going. I reckon they'll give Antwerp a run for the money.

#Brexit #BrexitBenefits #freeports

Antwerp drugs: Record seizures at Europe's 'cocaine capital' port
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68004291

Just wait until UK's freeports get going. I reckon they'll give Antwerp a run for the money.

#Brexit #BrexitBenefits #freeports

Antwerp drugs: Record seizures at Europe's 'cocaine capital' port
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68004291

With special economic zones or SEZs locked into statute and in development across most of the country, what is the underlying ideology? | Ann Moody

#Freeports #InvestmentZones #SEZs #SpecialEconomicZones
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/special-economic-zones-in-the-uk-ideology-over-public-interest/?feed_id=206&_unique_id=65a411c22cfc3

With special economic zones or SEZs locked into statute and in development across most of the country, what is the underlying ideology? | Ann Moody

#Freeports #InvestmentZones #SEZs #SpecialEconomicZones
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/special-economic-zones-in-the-uk-ideology-over-public-interest/?feed_id=206&_unique_id=65a411c22cfc3

With special economic zones or SEZs locked into statute and in development across most of the country, what is the underlying ideology? | Ann Moody

#Freeports #InvestmentZones #SEZs #SpecialEconomicZones
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/special-economic-zones-in-the-uk-ideology-over-public-interest/?feed_id=206&_unique_id=65a411c22cfc3

With special economic zones or SEZs locked into statute and in development across most of the country, what is the underlying ideology? | Ann Moody

#Freeports #InvestmentZones #SEZs #SpecialEconomicZones
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/special-economic-zones-in-the-uk-ideology-over-public-interest/?feed_id=206&_unique_id=65a411c22cfc3

With special economic zones or SEZs locked into statute and in development across most of the country, what is the underlying ideology? | Ann Moody

#Freeports #InvestmentZones #SEZs #SpecialEconomicZones
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/special-economic-zones-in-the-uk-ideology-over-public-interest/?feed_id=206&_unique_id=65a411c22cfc3

Michael Gove has binned the requirements for freeports to be inspected or audited independently. They can audit themselves.

In other news, we hear that freeports are cesspools of contraband and tax evasion.

#Tories #michaelgove #freeports

Given the #Tories are not going to stop #localgovernment collapsing into financial chaos, the Q. is what (if anything) do they expect to take its place?

Its unclear (to me at least) whether they think a mosaic of #freeports & enterprise zones can replace local governance, or whether they are just wrecking because they can, or whether its merely more centralising zeal, gathering power & resources in #London?

However whatever it is, the vulnerable & poor are its victims!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/06/english-town-halls-face-unprecedented-rise-in-bankruptcies-council-leaders-warn

Letter to the editor from John Hall at the Yorkshire Party regarding the freeport threat to the North York Moors

#Freeports #NorthYorkMoors https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/letters/letters-to-the-editor-6/