SSPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE 2024 – 28 x 40cm, acrylic paint, paper, wire, glue, letraset
3rd country UK is being transformed into patchworks of competing jurisdictions, 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports. Britain is being privatised, councils deliberately collapsed via engineered insolvency, council assets sold off on the cheap, mass compulsory purchase orders as business, agricultural, and residential properties are hoovered up by private equity. As austerity policies bite the working/middle classes, the opposite surplus of profits entrenches corporate hegemony within the protections of the zones. Watch as corporate governance replaces social governance and corporate sovereignty replaces collective sovereignty (people power), big business steps in to ‘rescue’ entire regions from the ‘failures’ of democracy. This is Brexit.