Patchworks 2024 – 70 x 50cm, photograph
David Friedman (son of libertarian economist Milton Friedman) argued in 1973 that govts would compete for citizens, to do this a link between the political jurisdiction and geographical jurisdiction would be broken, enabling competition between SEZs, the state could no longer interfere in the ‘exit’ community.
Sunak’s 86 SEZs backed by Labour will birth ‘competitive governance’ and patchworks of corporate sovereignties all over the UK, these zones are tax-exempt for 10 years, and licensed for a quarter of a century. Public services and councils inside deregulated SEZs will be absorbed by the corporations running the zones. This is the same system as Hong Kong and Singapore, both a result of British colonialism.