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What Are Free ZonesâAnd Why Hasnât Anyone Told You About Them?
Ask your family and friends if theyâve heard of Freeports, Special Economic Zones, or AI Growth Zones. Most will look at you like you have two heads.
That should worry you.
Hereâs What Iâve Discovered
The UK is being quietly carved into deregulated economic zones, areas where normal tax rules, labour protections, and regulatory oversight donât fully apply. The government promotes them as engines of innovation, job creation, and net-zero progress.
Iâve been documenting what they really are since the advent of Brexit.
Through FOI requests, policy analysis, and tracking the money, Iâm exposing the connections between UK free zones and a global network of tech billionaires, anarcho-capitalists, and neoliberal policymakers who share a vision: replacing democratic government with corporate governance.
The Players
This isnât conspiracy theory, there are documented relationships between:
Tech oligarchs (Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, Balaji Srinivasan)
Political figures across the spectrum (JD Vance, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer)
Libertarian theorists (Curtis Yarvin, Patri Friedman, Tom Bell)
Their shared ideology? The âDark Enlightenmentâ, a movement that views democracy as obsolete and advocates for corporate-run territories governed like businesses, not nations.
Why This Matters Now
Three major UK parties, Conservative, Labour, and Reform UK, all back this policy. It passed with:
âNo parliamentary debate (secondary legislation)
âNo public consultation
âNo press notification
We have less than 5 years before transparency mechanisms, public regulators, and audit bodies lose access to these zones entirely. After that, legal accountability becomes nearly impossible.
How public money (state aid) is being funnelled into private profit in these zones
The Brexit connection and why timing matters
Which corporations are positioning themselves inside these enclaves
The legal architecture is being built to shield these zones from oversight
What this means for British sovereignty and democratic accountability
This is volunteer research. Iâm not funded by think tanks or political parties. Iâm documenting what mainstream media wonât touch.
Alternatively, you can support my research through my online Ko-Fi tip jar if you can; it helps me dedicate more time to FOI requests, document analysis, raising awareness, and connecting the dots, something the MSM is singularly failing to do.
ko-fi.com/europeanpowell
Ask your family and friends if theyâve heard of Freeports, Special Economic Zones, or AI Growth Zones. Most will look at you like you have two heads.
That should worry you.
Hereâs What Iâve Discovered
The UK is being quietly carved into deregulated economic zones, areas where normal tax rules, labour protections, and regulatory oversight donât fully apply. The government promotes them as engines of innovation, job creation, and net-zero progress.
Iâve been documenting what they really are since the advent of Brexit.
Through FOI requests, policy analysis, and tracking the money, Iâm exposing the connections between UK free zones and a global network of tech billionaires, anarcho-capitalists, and neoliberal policymakers who share a vision: replacing democratic government with corporate governance.
The Players
This isnât conspiracy theory, there are documented relationships between:
Tech oligarchs (Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, Balaji Srinivasan)
Political figures across the spectrum (JD Vance, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer)
Libertarian theorists (Curtis Yarvin, Patri Friedman, Tom Bell)
Their shared ideology? The âDark Enlightenmentâ, a movement that views democracy as obsolete and advocates for corporate-run territories governed like businesses, not nations.
Why This Matters Now
Three major UK parties, Conservative, Labour, and Reform UK, all back this policy. It passed with:
âNo parliamentary debate (secondary legislation)
âNo public consultation
âNo press notification
We have less than 5 years before transparency mechanisms, public regulators, and audit bodies lose access to these zones entirely. After that, legal accountability becomes nearly impossible.
How public money (state aid) is being funnelled into private profit in these zones
The Brexit connection and why timing matters
Which corporations are positioning themselves inside these enclaves
The legal architecture is being built to shield these zones from oversight
What this means for British sovereignty and democratic accountability
This is volunteer research. Iâm not funded by think tanks or political parties. Iâm documenting what mainstream media wonât touch.
Alternatively, you can support my research through my online Ko-Fi tip jar if you can; it helps me dedicate more time to FOI requests, document analysis, raising awareness, and connecting the dots, something the MSM is singularly failing to do.
ko-fi.com/europeanpowell
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EuropeanPowell retweeted
Every MAGAt in this picture has been accused, indicted, convicted of, or found civilly liable for sex crimes. Three are currently in jail.
Andrew Tate @Cobratate - Indicted/Charged with multiple counts or rape and human trafficking
Russell Brand @rustyrockets - Convicted of Rape
mp - Civilly Liable / A federal Judge stated he raped E. Jean Caroll
Mike Tyson @MikeTyson - Convicted of Rape
Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA - Civilly liable for Sexual Assault
Lawrence Taylor @LT_56 - Registered Sex Offender. Arrest for sex with a minor.
Tristan Tate @TateTheTalisman - Indicted/Charged with multiple counts or rape and human trafficking
Andrew Tate @Cobratate - Indicted/Charged with multiple counts or rape and human trafficking
Russell Brand @rustyrockets - Convicted of Rape
mp - Civilly Liable / A federal Judge stated he raped E. Jean Caroll
Mike Tyson @MikeTyson - Convicted of Rape
Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA - Civilly liable for Sexual Assault
Lawrence Taylor @LT_56 - Registered Sex Offender. Arrest for sex with a minor.
Tristan Tate @TateTheTalisman - Indicted/Charged with multiple counts or rape and human trafficking
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NEW: Andy Burnham has appointed a controversial firm involved in Donald Trump's 'Gaza riviera' proposal to draft up his 10-year plan
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I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldnât hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldnât find a single dry place to put their children. They couldnât even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldnât find a single dry place to put their children. They couldnât even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
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When I posted yesterday about Andy Burnhamâs political machine secretly intercepting public emails to protect his Abu Dhabi property deals, my inbox was flooded by people thanking me for finally calling out what goes on in Manchester.
Well, I woke up this morning and looked at sclosures coming out of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the rabbit hole just got so much darker.
Burnham's authority has been caught funnelling nearly ÂŁ1,000,000 of taxpayer money to completely anonymous beneficiaries in a series of secret payments.
They paid out ÂŁ83,000 in rent to a hidden landlord. They handed out thousands in anonymous "consultancy fees." Worst of all, they gave a ÂŁ210,000 capital grant to a property developer and completely redacted the name from the public ledger.
When journalists finally confronted them, the authority claimed hiding the ÂŁ210,000 developer payout was just a "human error" and blamed the rest of the secrecy on data protection laws.
Look at the terrifying double standard at play here.
If a working citizen misfiles a tax return by fifty pounds or makes a mistake on a local form, the state will investigate their entire life, apply ruthless penalty fines, and threaten them with court.
But when Burnham's regional authority hands a fifth of a million pounds of public cash to an anonymous property developer, they simply shrug and call it a clerical typo.
This is exactly how the modern British political cartel operates. They use the language of bureaucracy and data protection as a legal shield to funnel public wealth to private, hidden corporate interests.
I am sorry, but they are not governing a city. They are running a shadow ledger with your money, and they are terrified of the public finding out who is actually cashing the checks.
Well, I woke up this morning and looked at sclosures coming out of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the rabbit hole just got so much darker.
Burnham's authority has been caught funnelling nearly ÂŁ1,000,000 of taxpayer money to completely anonymous beneficiaries in a series of secret payments.
They paid out ÂŁ83,000 in rent to a hidden landlord. They handed out thousands in anonymous "consultancy fees." Worst of all, they gave a ÂŁ210,000 capital grant to a property developer and completely redacted the name from the public ledger.
When journalists finally confronted them, the authority claimed hiding the ÂŁ210,000 developer payout was just a "human error" and blamed the rest of the secrecy on data protection laws.
Look at the terrifying double standard at play here.
If a working citizen misfiles a tax return by fifty pounds or makes a mistake on a local form, the state will investigate their entire life, apply ruthless penalty fines, and threaten them with court.
But when Burnham's regional authority hands a fifth of a million pounds of public cash to an anonymous property developer, they simply shrug and call it a clerical typo.
This is exactly how the modern British political cartel operates. They use the language of bureaucracy and data protection as a legal shield to funnel public wealth to private, hidden corporate interests.
I am sorry, but they are not governing a city. They are running a shadow ledger with your money, and they are terrified of the public finding out who is actually cashing the checks.
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EuropeanPowell retweeted
If you care about Palestinians, demand the entry of mobile homes into Gaza.
The world must force the jewish occupation to allow shelters in. Before the most vulnerable, the babies and the elderly, start dying from the cold. For the third year in a row.
Caravans into Gaza. NOW.
The world must force the jewish occupation to allow shelters in. Before the most vulnerable, the babies and the elderly, start dying from the cold. For the third year in a row.
Caravans into Gaza. NOW.
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EuropeanPowell retweeted
âIf he wants to pass Trumpcare-for-All, I'm ok with it.. Donald, if you're watching, we'll put your name on it. You get to be the American president who finally guaranteed health care for every single American."
@AbdulElSayed to me today, lol.
Full intv: zeteo.com/p/abdul-el-sayâŠ
@AbdulElSayed to me today, lol.
Full intv: zeteo.com/p/abdul-el-sayâŠ
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EuropeanPowell retweeted
This is just so, so, so bleak.
The development of big chunks of Burnham's much vaunted Ten Year Plan have been outsourced to the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's three biggest management consultancies.
Most recently, BCG was revealed to be a contractor in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - the wretched private organisation that was created to deliver aid to Gaza after the destruction of UNWRA. You may remember the scenes of starving Gazans flooding into gated pens to get food, with civilians repeatedly sniped by the IDF. BCG were paid $1m/ month for their consulting work.
BCG also received $4m for Project Aurora - a plan for a reconstruction plan for Gaza. The plan included costing giving Gazans $9000 to leave the territory.
How is the government even considering contracting BCG considering this?
But BCG also partners with the world's biggest private equity firms. It is a massive, massive AI booster. It closely advises MBS in Saudi Arabia on its economic plans.
It is, in other words, precisely the sort of late-capitalist horror show that should have no role in helping a nominally socialist Party develop a 10-year development plan.
There is already so much worrying briefing on this plan, about how half-baked and thin it threatens to be. Now we know big parts are being outsourced to BCG, the more pressing concern is that it'll be some Tony Blair Institute-style neo-liberal spiel about the potential of tech and the need to liberate the market.
The development of big chunks of Burnham's much vaunted Ten Year Plan have been outsourced to the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's three biggest management consultancies.
Most recently, BCG was revealed to be a contractor in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - the wretched private organisation that was created to deliver aid to Gaza after the destruction of UNWRA. You may remember the scenes of starving Gazans flooding into gated pens to get food, with civilians repeatedly sniped by the IDF. BCG were paid $1m/ month for their consulting work.
BCG also received $4m for Project Aurora - a plan for a reconstruction plan for Gaza. The plan included costing giving Gazans $9000 to leave the territory.
How is the government even considering contracting BCG considering this?
But BCG also partners with the world's biggest private equity firms. It is a massive, massive AI booster. It closely advises MBS in Saudi Arabia on its economic plans.
It is, in other words, precisely the sort of late-capitalist horror show that should have no role in helping a nominally socialist Party develop a 10-year development plan.
There is already so much worrying briefing on this plan, about how half-baked and thin it threatens to be. Now we know big parts are being outsourced to BCG, the more pressing concern is that it'll be some Tony Blair Institute-style neo-liberal spiel about the potential of tech and the need to liberate the market.
Interesting that parts of the 10 year plan are being outsourced to Boston Consulting Group, where James Purnell used to work.
Story by @KatieTarrant_
thetimes.com/article/8a202aâŠ
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RT @EuropeanPowell: If, like me, you're appalled by our government's relentless pro-Zionist propaganda and its wholesale capitulation to IsâŠ
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RT @EuropeanPowell: Watch Dr.Gabor MatĂ© calmly answer a question from an audience member who asks, âHow do I find compassion for the animalâŠ
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Watch Dr.Gabor MatĂ© calmly answer a question from an audience member who asks, âHow do I find compassion for the animals that did that?â (Hamas Oct 7th).
The womanâs response is typical of the psychotic denialism of far right Zionists.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=D-5cuqâŠ
The womanâs response is typical of the psychotic denialism of far right Zionists.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=D-5cuqâŠ
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We want the UK Government to launch an inquiry into any British involvement in Israeli operations in Gaza.
This petition is so close to the 100,000 needed to be considered for a debate in Parliament.
Please sign & share - let's get it over the line!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7832âŠ
This petition is so close to the 100,000 needed to be considered for a debate in Parliament.
Please sign & share - let's get it over the line!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7832âŠ
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EuropeanPowell retweeted
The likes of Susan Hall make me feel physically sick to my stomach. Tired of watching how these people so fervently embody extremist Israel ideology against those who oppose it, such as @ZackPolanski even when facts are brought to the table.
It's simple: what is happening in the Gaza concentratiore evil.
The US midterms mark a sizable step towards a reckoning that is absolutely in full motion, and these pro-Nazi ghouls will eventually be forced to face the consequences of their support of Zionism.
It's simple: what is happening in the Gaza concentratiore evil.
The US midterms mark a sizable step towards a reckoning that is absolutely in full motion, and these pro-Nazi ghouls will eventually be forced to face the consequences of their support of Zionism.
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If, like me, you're appalled by our government's relentless pro-Zionist propaganda and its wholesale capitulation to Israel over Gaza, listen to three Jewish voices on the genocide: Benjamin Moser, Norman Finkelstein and Dr. Gabor Maté.
They make the case for what Israel's state ommitting atrocities, and how this history connects to the surge of far right politics in the 2020âs.
They make the case for what Israel's state ommitting atrocities, and how this history connects to the surge of far right politics in the 2020âs.
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The most obscenely dystopian government crackdown on human empathy and the freedom to express solidarity with victims of Israelâs perverse ideology is now being imposed within Englandâs education system.
So here it is: a hierarchy of government-sanctioned racism will now browbeat and oppress any child in England who dares to speak out about the genocide in Gaza.
Stories like the one below will mount up very quickly, then what?
x.com/EuropeanPowellâŠ
So here it is: a hierarchy of government-sanctioned racism will now browbeat and oppress any child in England who dares to speak out about the genocide in Gaza.
Stories like the one below will mount up very quickly, then what?
x.com/EuropeanPowellâŠ
An example of just how far the British Labour Party will go to shut down criticism of the Palestinian Genocide...
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Zionist Politician Susan Hall gets dogwalked by Zack Polanski leader of the Green Party on Antisemitism & Zionism
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âThereâs no business like Shoah businessâ - Dr. Gabor MatĂ©.
Gabor refers to the official internationalist Governmental backing of Israelâs genocide in Gaza as an âinfrastructure of impunityâ.
Where government officials revel in collusion, complicity, compliance, collaboration, justification, and denial, averting their eyes from reality.
Israel is a state of 7 million people thatâs fomenting wars all over the place.
Letâs remember who is the âbig daddyâ of IsraelâŠ.The British Empire.
Watch the video
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxW_WâŠ
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxW_WâŠ
Gabor refers to the official internationalist Governmental backing of Israelâs genocide in Gaza as an âinfrastructure of impunityâ.
Where government officials revel in collusion, complicity, compliance, collaboration, justification, and denial, averting their eyes from reality.
Israel is a state of 7 million people thatâs fomenting wars all over the place.
Letâs remember who is the âbig daddyâ of IsraelâŠ.The British Empire.
Watch the video
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxW_WâŠ
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxW_WâŠ
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The most obscenely dystopian government crackdown on human empathy and the freedom to express solidarity with victims of Israelâs perverse ideology is now being imposed within Englandâs education system.
So here it is: a hierarchy of government-sanctioned racism will now browbeat and oppress any child in England who dares to speak out about the genocide in Gaza.
Stories like the one below will mount up very quickly, then what?
x.com/EuropeanPowellâŠ
So here it is: a hierarchy of government-sanctioned racism will now browbeat and oppress any child in England who dares to speak out about the genocide in Gaza.
Stories like the one below will mount up very quickly, then what?
x.com/EuropeanPowellâŠ
An example of just how far the British Labour Party will go to shut down criticism of the Palestinian Genocide...
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âThereâs no business like Shoah businessâ -Dr. Gabor MatĂ©.
Gabor refers to the official Government backing of Israelâs genocide in Gaza as an âinfrastructure of impunityâ.
Where government officials revel in collusion, complicity, compliance, collaboration, justification, and denial, averting their eyes from reality.
Israel is a state of 7 million people thatâs fomenting wars all over the place.
Letâs remember who is the âbig daddyâ of IsraelâŠ.The British Empire.
Watch the video
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxW_WâŠ
Gabor refers to the official Government backing of Israelâs genocide in Gaza as an âinfrastructure of impunityâ.
Where government officials revel in collusion, complicity, compliance, collaboration, justification, and denial, averting their eyes from reality.
Israel is a state of 7 million people thatâs fomenting wars all over the place.
Letâs remember who is the âbig daddyâ of IsraelâŠ.The British Empire.
Watch the video
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxW_WâŠ
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RT @EuropeanPowell: âThereâs no business like Shoah businessâ - Dr. Gabor MatĂ©
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxW_WâŠ
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxW_WâŠ
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EuropeanPowell retweeted
Since Lisa Nandy is doing the media round this morning heres one from the archive.
In Oct 2023 Nandy was asked 3 times whether Israel breached international law when it cut off power & water to Gaza & she refused to answer.
In Oct 2023 Nandy was asked 3 times whether Israel breached international law when it cut off power & water to Gaza & she refused to answer.
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