Freeports are dangerous
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- Опубликовано: 21 июн 2024
- Rishi Sunak’s very limited legacy will include the creation of freeports. They are, however, deeply dangerous places where the normal rule of law is suspended for the benefit of financial capital, usually at cost to the workers in the places and the communities that host them. As such, they undermine democracy. What could possibly go wrong?
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Hello from Teesside!
Teesside freeport is smugglers paradise. The head of security is a convicted drug smuggler and he's the son of one of the two millionaire owners of the freeport.
So what will change ?
We already have a major drug crisis while in the EU.
People back and forward to Amsterdam using free movement.
People arguing against this as if it's a drug problem are in favour of free movement as if that would cause no drug problems whatsoever.
No sense does it make. 😂
@@paulgibbons2320
Its a question of greed,nepotism and fourteen years of Conservative Party misrule. Teesside has some of the highest levels of deprivation in the UK. Drug use on Teesside is a way of dealing with the poverty of everyday life.Poverty caused by unnecessary welfare cuts by the then chancellor George Osborne. As for free movement it was a massive asset to small UK businesses. We are now headed for austerity 3.0 under Kier Starmer as the UK has imposed economic sanctions on itself via Brexit. Kier Starmer can do nothing about Brexit as we are not members of the EU club.
@@Nemo59646 suddenly they are all gonna be happy under Labour. Lol 😆 literally nothing will change.
@@Nemo59646 read it again. I never accused you of that.
Someone's English is lacking.
@@paulgibbons2320 Free movement of people, to live and work and travel, is not and never has been, a driver of drug related illegality.
Why or how could the UK government impose these freeports without first getting the permission of the public to do so? It seems to me that that makes them illegal and thus should now be disbanded and re-thought.
well, that´s not how the British political system works
This is why they are letting local councils go bankrupt. Cut the rate support grant so the councils, in order to fulfil their statutory obligations are forced to sell of huge areas of council property to these scallywags to try to balance the books. Hundreds of school playing fields have been sold off since Thatcher and now they, the tories, are selling off the streets and industrial parks cheap. And calling them 'enterprise zones' which are Freeports without a port. Selling England by the pound.
Illusion of democracy.
If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it.
The Tory govt. is unaccountable. They have run amok.
"Permission? ... from the.... public???!!" ( in a tone of the greatest disdain). "Democracy" is becoming like a Christmas decoration here, up for election time and crises, then packed safely away when we're all back at work or distracted.
Private Eye has its eye on Teesside Freeport.
BBC remoaner bias. You can set your watch by it.
One of the few homes left for genuinely investigative journalists
@@chris-terrell-liveactive left wing journalists 😆
Just like the square mile then.
Freeports were a feature of the post war period in Europe. I think all abandoned now as impractical.
Camoron close all the free ports in the UK because he needed the tax revenue to make up for the deficit caused by the banking crash.
The difference is that UK freeports allow state aid whereas it is banned in EU
These are not the old style free ports. It's whole areas controlled by a corporation...None UK owned.
Living in a freeport is dangerous too. Especially as Gove has given them the right of compulsory purchase orders. Say goodbye to your business, let alone your house....or your protections under ECHR
I must have missed the consultation on the Freeport’s
They sound like a dangerous place to work?
They are misleading,Plymouth ‘free port’ for instance extends over 40 miles,and includes Dartmouth,
and Dartmoor.
Dartmoor? Bizarre! I wonder why that would be...
Alexander Darwall was the land owner who tried to stop wild camping on his Dartmoor land,also head of a hedge fund,I doubt if the two things aren’t linked.
@@rememberyoureawomble1816 I'd like to know what the motivations were for that.
Hedge fund and Dartmoor probably wouldn’t normally appear in the same sentence.Darwall owns land that is obviously more valuable inside a Freeport,which has tax breaks and planning advantages.I can understand Plymouth benefitting from boosting the economy,but Dartmoor?You wouldn’t think Dartmoor land would be high value,but it’s worth more now.
The corporate can reverse the UK government allowing access to Dartmoor..It's the company that sets the law
Freeport being developed in S pembs too. Dreadful.
2:24 people need to understand this exact point. It's not really even "a form of" - that's exactly what it is. The characters at the front always have corporate backing and do the work of corporations with the state apparatus.
Once you get that straightforward point, the next question to ask is who is currently pulling the strings of governments.
It’s not public need but private greed.
They are not the same and must not be made so.
Unfortunately the US dominates.
Money doesn’t talk, it swears (BobDylan).
Peculiar grasp on sovereignty of the nation, have the proponents of free ports, as the benefit is for the corporations not wider society. Corporations originating and having wealth offshore.
We’re being led to Mussolini’s perfect corporate state.
Face it, we’re already there and have been for a long time.
This is bad. Worse than bad.
We have to remember which two industries were most commonly practiced from freeports throughout history; piracy and smuggling(with a major side line in transporting involuntary labour)and while state sanctioned piracy even from the Westminster government and England is remember the nation that regards a state sponsored and funded pirate Drake as one of their greatest heroes is unlikely though possible these freeports are ideal for smuggling goods and slave labour into the UK
The price of street drugs will crash.
Drake was a privateer.
Licensed to interdict Spanish trade.
He was a hero for his excellent seamanship in defence of our islands against a much larger and aggressive Empire.
@@stephfoxwell4620 Had Drake been shipwrecked and washed up on any non English or Ottoman shore between Iceland and North Africa he and his surviving crew would have been hung as pirates
@@davidmcintyre8145 I don't think the French or Portuguese would have executed him nor any of the Hanseatic League.
@@stephfoxwell4620 Drake had taken ships belonging to all three in his time
Absolutely spot on.
Sweat shops
Correct... overseas workers can work in these new free ports and register as not being in UK. Cheapest labour
thanks for this 🖤
And politics ist allowing that. Wonder if this is also true for other European countries.
Easy entry points for drugs as well, I guess, getting more and more important
Yes - but Richard should apply the same thinking to all people regardless of geography. Discrimination by the state should be unconstitutional in a democracy - politicians offering to benefit or persecute any 'prefered' demographic is also 'fascism'.
Such as special rules for EU nationals in the UK, who are 97% white. That's' fascist and racist.
Sounds a bit like working on a pirate ship!
Will Starmer ban them?
No. Labour support Freeports.
I think it just seems like making an internal tax haven in effect and what it will do is drive a lot of business from other poor areas to the one´s labled freeports. I.e Tescos will probably choose to open stores in an official freeport area, rather than somewhere that isn´t.
Sadly it includes public services so people living in a freeport suddenly find that they have a corporation that is supposed to providing services and most likely won't do if the corporation thinks it can save a pence.
@@WVislandia absolutely, the freeport scheme is a great con.
Displacement /migration of existing businesses from other areas (often reliant on them) into the Freeport zone is one observed problem mentioned in the government's own pre-assessment, Office for Budget Responsibility I think.
Any candidate or party that supports free ports, does not get my vote. Free ports are disgraceful.
You were told many times during 2019 that corporate fascism was a clear and present danger, yet you flounced off because Corbyn hadn't spoken to you. Glad you're with the programme at last though.
Can an incoming government end these Freeport schemes?
Labour support them.
Labour are the opposition. Never had power to end them... let's see what happens in government
Real allodial land for everyone would correct everything!
Taking back control?
Hi Richard
Do you really know what fascism is? The word comes from the Italian trade unions. The young Mussolini was actually active in the Unions, and to he's death he said he was a socialist and repeated it seconds before he's death.
He was a corporatist.
Google it.
@@julianshepherd2038 Do you know what socialism is? As a corporatist, he would also be a socialist.
Bollocks, when Mussillini (one of the most famous Marxists in the world) talked about the corpus he wasn't taking just about companies he was talking about the 'body of society'. i.e. running society with all stake holders involved i.e. unions, the church, workers and companies etc...
The most successful freeport of the UK was Hong Kong, if only we had put a stop to it!
You misspelt his name and he was a Nationalist.
Marxists are internationalist, by definition, they are not nationalists.
Hong Kong is not in the UK😂
Google Corporatism
One of the original homes of sweatshops I believe, some involvement in the opium trade as well I recall...
Freeports are just a mechanism to encourage investment in a country through geographical tax incentives. They can encourage manufacturing investments and thus workforce improvements by removing friction from imports and exports. By all means they are abused heavily, but that isn't an intrinsic problem with a Freeport that's just human corruption.
It's basically "a way to rejuvenate an area through giving business a discount in investing there" if you want a take away sentence.
Geography means the Cromarty Firth has already got more investment than it has workers.
We need houses.
@@julianshepherd2038 Not sure of relevance. We need lots of things.
I was just describing the primary reason you would consider a Freeport. Basically the whole point of them.
That's the declared intent but there's no evidence been presented to show a return on investment for taxpayers on the input of seed funds, tax discounts/exemptions, regulatory easement/facilitated planning/compulsory purchase process (= reduced costs) .. a hefty total. Uncertain numbers of jobs and some extra local business don't add up to that. The biggest slices of the pie seem to be going out of the area and country.. I've yet to get a clear answer from any political representative on this and they consistently avoid public meetings on the matter.. a pernicious scheme indeed.
All they do is take investment from one place and put it in another.
@@chris-terrell-liveactive don't disagree. One of the biggest issues I see is the inability to measure and learn. In business we do this at the inception of a project. For some reason with government and public money they don't care at all about whether it works. What I am trying to say is it's not trh Freeport concept that is in question for me, it's the competency of those who deployed it. We shouldn't write things off if idiots try to do it and fail.
Make the whole of the UK a freeport.
We need a Fairport Convention.
And a Crosby Stills and Nash!
Yeah! Let's make UK a haven for drug smugglers, money launderers and all the other crooks represented by Tufton Street.
Your wish is being granted! Look at a map of freeport zones and Special Economic/ enterprise/investment zones, then check the small print..
Singapore was made a Free Port many decades ago and has become one of the most successful places on earth. If you want growth and success for the UK this is the only way to get it. You will never Tax your way to prosperity.
Define successful
The richest 10% in Singapore earn over 20 times the poorest 10%. What’s not to like?
@@keithparker1346 In economic terms within a nation I'd suggest it is having money to spend on the public good. After all governments main function is to collect money and redistribute it. In Britain's case there is no money
@@xtc2v - 'After all governments main function is to collect money and redistribute it' - Not in a democracy.
@@keithparker1346 Zero state debt.
Migrants paying more tax than they cost.
Criminal migrants deported.
Workers own the wealth, not the state debts.
....