York Central, Digital and Creative Industries 2023 – 40 x 50cm, acrylic on canvas
SEZs in Thatcher’s term were not ambitious enough, lacking the deregulatory framework that leaving the EU creates via Brexit. ‘Carve-outs’ insert extraterritorial spaces in designated geographic regions of the host country, Freeports/SEZS are privately run.
Labour and Cons have conflated their ideologies to drastically intensify capital growth, this entails sabotaging councils and public services at deep infrastructural levels, the transfer of public wealth to private hands to install corporate governance and privatise Britain.
