#freeports — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #freeports, aggregated by home.social.
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Understanding Special Economic Zones (SEZ)
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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.
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http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=34292
#NewtonMoor #NorthYorkMoors #RystonBank #Environment #Freeports
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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 -
FFS: Bozo has nominated Benjamin Houchen for a peerage. For anybody who has followed coverage of the Teeside freeport in Private Eye and the FT this is genuinely shocking.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65861936
#UKPolitics #BorishJohnson #BenjaminHouchen #Teeside #Freeports #PrivateEye #FinancialTimes
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the racism is a smokescreen for all the sinister legislation they are shoving through for their donors tho turn the UK into a libertarian hellhole that the rich can use to ignore international law, and tax.
the whole problem was the EU was making it difficult for their callous business practices so they got in bed with UKIP and only the amoral Tories stayed to peddle their xenophobic lies to the public.
they won
THE END
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@ChrisMayLA6
Is the Charter Cities moment here?
https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/is-the-charter-cities-moment-here/
Sunak called Stanford professor Paul Romer "inspiring".
Romer, who described #CharterCities as 'quasi-sovereign units located within existing states' which would be maintained by a 'foreign guarantor nation or nations' claimed to not remember #Sunak
But what these two share is a belief in the needs of #capitalism over workers' rights.
Have #Freeports gone away? ask #Teesside -
@inotpigeon this is a tragic political betrayal of #Scotland’s interests by #SNP. But where were the @ScottishGreens Ministers in #ScotGov, who should have been standing this up as a #redLine 🛑 for their continued support for this supine @Thesnp #gov?
#Freeports #greenWashed with a #Green badge are still a race to the bottom in terms of facilitating #corporate #capture and #deregulation of #environment and #workersRights -
@andrewmarkbaker @thanetric @KeirStarmer
fair point - I guess after 4 lost elections I tend to err on the side of not frightening the horses - I suspect I am not alone
It would help if #starmer & co clearly communicated their focus (if not, prior to a #manifesto, actual policies) & how it takes us forward where the #kipperTories cannot. I think #regionalDevolution needs to be expanded on & contrasted with #sunaks #robberBaron #freeports