UK local councils dismantled to pave way for mega-councils

Mega-councils incoming, run by CEO hybrid Metro Mayors, installing the right-wing US corporate political model. Mandelson/McSweeney elbowed out local councillors for ones with 'corporate expertise' during 2024 GE. The dismantling of local councils will repeat across the country.

Wait til Sunak and Starmer's 86 deregulated free zones are operational, corporate tax breaks for 10 years, licenses for 25 years, bidding process took place between 2021 and 2022, Labour signed off on these free zones with Sunak.

Andy Burnham signed off on the Manchester SEZ, Steve Rotheram signed off on the Liverpool SEZ and Freeport, and former FM Mark Drakeford signed off on 8 SEZs and 2 freeports in Wales (Shanker Singham also present at signing, Singham is considered the brains behind Brexit, he developed the deregulatory framework for SEZs at US Babson Global.

ISDS-type clauses embedded in UK free zones contracts, DP World, PEEL Group, Blackrock, Chevron, etc will privatise all public services, and asset-strip bankrupted councils.

The neoliberal duopoly has sold British sovereignty to foreign capital, which can bypass the UK's domestic courts should arbitration cases come up, meaning foreign corporations can sue the UK Govt for billions, see Honduras/Pronomos scandal of an SEZ funded by Peter Thiel, who also has his hands on the NHS with his spytech company Palantir.

US-style ‘free cities’ will come next to Britain, deregulated SEZs and Freeports are the stepping stones, the goal of oligarchs and anarcho-capitalists alike is 'countrypreneurship', the privatisation of nations.

All of the UK's 74 SEZs receive WTO State aid of £160 million per SEZ = £11 billion 840 million; this is public money going to corporations.

48 SEZs and 8 Freeports in England.

18 SEZs and 2 freeports in Scotland.

8 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Wales.

SEZs are tax havens, corporate playgrounds, rife with criminality such as fraud, bungs to mates, plus unbalanced distribution of profits going to the private sector, see Teesside SEZ/Freeport.

Lastky UK SEZs contravene EU laws and regulations on the distribution of State aid which prohibits Govts of member states from using public money solely for profits at the expense of local infrastructure.