The muscles and sinews of trade 2024 – 25,5 x 118,5cm, photographs
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 corporate sovereignties all over the UK, these zones are tax-exempt for 10 years, and licensed for a quarter of a century.
What do you think happens to public services and councils inside deregulated SEZs? They get absorbed by the corporation running the zone. There will come a point where the consumer-citizen who opts into the SEZ/charter city lives under contract with no voting rights, only the choice to opt in or out. The same system as Hong Kong and Singapore, this was a result of British colonialism. Now ask yourselves why Starmer says no to rejoining the EU in his lifetime. UK SEZs contravene EU laws on State aid which is public money; govts of member states are prohibited from allocating State aid to companies solely for the purposes of profit. Brexit sabotages rejoining the EU for the next 25 years, this is the duration of the licenses in UK free zones.