SEZs are all about carving up country's into patchworks of corporate sovereignties.

There are 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports being installed across the UK

Rishi Sunak's mentor at Stanford University was Prof. Paul Romer, a right-wing libertarian who advocated for free cities, and special economic zones as 'neocolonial solutions' to dismantle and replace the concept of 'democratic governance' of nation-states with 'corporate governance'.

Below is an excerpt from a talk Romer had with the right-wing think tank Taxpayers Alliance Ltd (The group has been accused of hypocrisy and possible illegality after it was revealed that it had been claiming tax relief on donations received from wealthy backers, which were intended for the purposes of political research).

The charitable arm of the TaxPayers' Alliance, the Politics and Economics Research Trust, is under investigation by regulators following allegations that the group may have used the trust to gain tax relief for donations intended to fund political research TPA are part of the ATLAS network, who are a think tank that creates think tanks. ATLAS was set up in 1981 by Antony Fisher who previously founded the IEA in 1955 on the advice of right-wing economist Friedrich Hayek, IEA is a charity.

Starmer's changed Labour Party has implemented Sunak and Truss's SEZs/Freeports experiment in corporate governance, they signed off on the 86 free zones as board members of the Tories' nationwide SEZs/Freeports consortia. This is under the guise of 'economic growth' coupled with being tough on public services and the benefits system.

Andy Burnham signed off on the Manchester SEZ.

Steve Rotheram signed off on the Liverpool SEZ and Freeport.

Former FM Mark Drakeford signed off on 8 SEZs and 2 Freeports for Wales.

The SNP are also involved, Kate Forbes signed off on 18 SEZs and 2 Freeports for Scotland.

It is absolutely clear to me from the anti-SEZs/Freeports meetings I've spoken at across the UK, that the public were not consulted on the malign impacts deregulated SEZs will unleash on local communities along with every aspect of the public sector, including scores of councils and public services that are undergoing engineered insolvency.

Private equity, fossil fuel companies, Palantir, and shadow banks like Blackrock are queuing up to take State aid subsidies from an £11 billion 840 million pot which will facilitate the privatisation of the UK. The British public are paying for the demise of their communities, local residents reduced to being spectators of their own fate, while councils are merged into mega-councils run by CEO style hybrid Mayors.

Do you think company towns are a thing of the past? They have been rebranded as SEZs and charter cities, resurrected due to Brexit. The Leave Campaign and libertarians alike took exception to the EU's regulatory orbit, rules on the distribution of State aid, and higher taxes on corporations forcing them to pay their way. Our main political parties fully backed the corporate coup which I call Zone Fever.