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Do you want to know why Starmer has partnered with Blackrock aside from the soundbites about 'growth'?

Do you want to know why Starmer has partnered with Blackrock aside from the soundbites about 'growth'?

Zone Fever, Freeports SEZs, and charter cities will destroy the public sector and big government. RIP UK.

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Blackrock (the world's largest shadow Bank)is entrenched in Labour policy-making! BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment company. It is the world's largest asset manager, with $10 trillion in assets under management as of December 31, 2023. BlackRock has sought to position itself as an industry leader in environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). It has been criticized for investing in companies that are involved in fossil fuels, the arms industry, the People's Liberation Army and human rights violations in China.

Where do you suppose Blackrock's interests lie now Britain is being rapidly privatised because of Brexit? Again Labour state unequivocally and absolutely no rejoin, no FOM, no SM, no CU. The European Ombudsman opened an inquiry in May 2020 to inspect the commission's file on the European Commission's decision to award a contract to BlackRock to carry out a study on integrating environmental, social and governance risks and objectives into EU banking rules ('the prudential framework'). European Parliament members questioned the impartiality of BlackRock given its investments in the Banking sector.

Zero mention in this Labour Together paper of Sunak's 12 Freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones, which Labour are sneakily referring to as 'ports' not 'Freeports', big difference as you know. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64f707cf512076037f612f60/t/6502d760c087cb1853b8f5c4/1694685033194/A+NEW+BUSINESS+MODEL+FOR+BRITAIN_0.pdf

BlackRock’s investment activity and governance practices drive business operations that directly harm Black and Indigenous communities and people of color around the world. The firm props up the fossil fuel industry to the tune of $260 billion in investments in corporations that are propelling our climate catastrophe. So when Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock endorses UKLabour and Keir Starmer you should be absolutely aware that this company who have now purchased Edinburgh Airport, will add many more regions of the UK to their portfolio, not least in the 12 Freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones spreading like a cancer throughout Britain.

But there’s more: SEZs and Freeports are by their very nature ‘expansionist’ endeavours, their ultimate goal is the private/charter city. SEZs and Freeports are stepping stones to ‘free cities. Deregulation is the key component that installs ‘localised freedoms’ for companies inside the boundaries of Freeports and SEZs where they are trusted to ‘self-regulate’ away from the prying eyes of State-operated regulatory bodies, National Audit Committees, and Big Government under what is known as Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’, now apply that to an entire city where different laws, different tax rates, different workers rights, corporate justice courts, corporate curriculums in schools and colleges, and private police and security forces can do whatever they want to whomever they want.

6 days into office Rachel Reeves 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.

Join the dots.
This all happened because of Brexit, which was based on 'exit strategies' developed in the 1960's, what were once libertarian fringe fantasies have now become reality.

Why do you think that protest has been shut down in the UK? Free zones and charter cities are notorious for stifling and punishing any form of dissent, there are no unions in free zones or charter cities. The TUC and RMT are against free zones.

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