| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. 13:32 - Nov 20 with 33369 views | OldFart71 |
Inflation up and rising. Costs to businesses up. Energy prices going up again in January. Not long ago I paid £68 per month for gas and electricity. In the winter I was able to have my heating on 1-1.1/2 hours in the morning, then again 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. I now pay £85 per month (Just increased by my supplier) and I have it on for two hours at night. Absolutely bonkers. Whilst I admit and I was just as p*ssed off as most people with the Tories, Labour have steam rollered in like a bull in a china shop and now costs are and will keep increasing by more than they needed to. Companies will cut costs by cutting hours or even laying people off. Will put prices up whilst giving lower wage increases. This in turn will lead to workers striking for higher pay. There's a saying "You can't burn the candle at both ends" Labour are trying to put all the ills made by the previous Government in one go. It is too much all at once and is already leading to many sections of our community taking to the streets or totally feed up with a Party that has only been in power a few months. |  | | |  |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 09:42 - Nov 28 with 1397 views | DanTheMan |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 09:33 - Nov 28 by BanksterDebtSlave |
I have no idea if they were planning on chucking heaps of money into private sector hands back then too. |
I'm unsure what that has to do with the article you linked. |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 09:44 - Nov 28 with 1381 views | Ryorry |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 07:29 - Nov 28 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Suffolk and Norfolk become one.....the joy.
Edit.....still can't see the thread detail BTW. [Post edited 28 Nov 2024 7:32]
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Thanks for the alert re thread invisibility. Copied & pasted as much of the important content as I can. I'm sure the author would be fine with that as he wants it shared as widely as poss. Only alteration I've made is to paragraph it a bit to make it easier to read. Further reading suggested by the author is listed at the bottom.
"EuropeanPowell
@EuropeanPowell
Labour partnering up with Blackrock means the UK will be privatised.
"BlackRock own, and extract income from, things – schools, bridges, wind farms, and homes – that are nothing less than foundational to our daily being’. This requires them to ‘relentlessly squeeze’ profits out of their holdings – whether that means hiking rents for vulnerable tenants, or charging for the use of common infrastructure" -
@graceblakeley
Read Grace Blakeley's book Vulture Capitalism, she describes how the erosion of the nation-state is engineered to a point where govts working hand in hand with corporations step in to 'rescue' democracy from its failures.
The framework for the corporate coup lies in 74 Special Economic Zones (SEZs)and 12 Freeports.
Free zones are designated areas with relaxed laws and by extension relaxed enforcement of laws separate from the host country.
Secondary legislation is embedded within the free zones contracts, meaning zero Parliamentary and public scrutiny.
All free zones give numerous tax breaks to corporations for 10 years, when the deadline for the tax breaks expires, companies are already lobbying the Govt to extend them. Free zone licenses are set at 25 years, Blackrock will asset strip councils and absorb all public services, corporate governance will replace social governance, collective sovereignty (people power) will be replaced with corporate sovereignty (asset classes power).
Now the figures.
Each SEZ receives £160 million in State aid which is public money, multiplied by 74 = £11 billion 840 million
Each Freeport receive £25 million multiplied by 12 = £300 million
Teesside Freeport and SEZ has already spent £560 million of taxpayers money, see @PrivateEyeNews
Teesside was Sunak's flagship Brexit Freeports, profit share is split 90/10 in favour of the private sector.
The UK public are paying billions in subsidies to some of the wealthiest and most corrupt corporations on the planet. Your money is being invested in your regions demise and your families transformation into serfs.
UK free zones contravene EU laws and regulations on State aid where govts of member states are prohibited from using State aid to make profits, this disrupts the integrity of the Single Market by creating an unlevel playing field.
UK SEZs sabotage the UK's chances of rejoining the EU not just because of bypassing rules on State aid but also because of massive deregulatory 'freedoms' that allow companies to pollute the environment, 'self regulate', shred employment rights, tax evasion, turbocharge job displacement, and so on. None of this is acceptable to the EU.
Keir Starmer "There will be no rejoining the EU in my lifetime". Now you know why he says this.
Read the EU Commission website on State aid and SEZs
https://europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2020/646164/EPRS_BRI(2020)646164_
Lord Smith of Kelvin is managing Director of Otter Ports Ltd which is the parent company of 8 of the UK's 12 Freeports, Otter Ports Ltd is registered in the Cayman Islands, Smith did not declare this in the register of interests, Smith was a pallbearer at the Queen's funeral.
Compulsory Purchase Orders apply to business, agricultural, and residential properties, it is no coincidence that 192 councils have worse debts than Birmingham which was issued with an S114 notice which is technically bankruptcy. 6,000 people could have their homes torn down as part of a £2.2bn project in which 1,266 council houses and 567 properties could be repossessed in a mass compulsory purchase order for the area. Birmingham is host to 6 SEZs. https://theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/22/economic-violence-ladywood-b
All 12 UK Freeports are housed inside a Special Economic Zone that ranges from 33 to 75km in diameter, why? SEZs are expansionist by nature, the growth Reeves obsesses with is about corporations, private equity making serious incursions into the public sector, that is privatisation not just of public services but of the entire country, SEZs perforate holes in the fabric of the nation, as zone fever takes hold, economies outside the zones will be forced to capitulate to the corporate political model.
6 days into office Rachel Reeves refused permission for the National Audit Office to investigate England's 48 SEZ's and 8 Freeports despite a damning report from the House of Commons Committee in April 2024, citing lack of transparency, questions over value for taxpayers money, and ignoring of the Nolan principles.
Join the dots.
This all happened because of Brexit, which was based on 'exit strategies' developed in the 1960's, what were once libertarian fringe fantasies have now become reality.
FURTHER READING suggested by @EuropeanPowell:-
"There's lots of analysis on SEZs and Freeports out there, you just won't find it in the UK MSM. Here's where to look:-
Freeports Gazette 10 articles on freeports written in 2023 via
@BylinesCymru who asked me to contribute, 'I'm not a journalist, my perspective is different', their reply 'That's what we're looking for'.
I wrote 'Mr.Drakeford, with all due respect Sunak's Freeports are a threat to democracy'
Silent Coup - How Corporations Overthrew Democracy by
@kennardmatt and @ClaireProvost
Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian
@zeithistoriker
Adventure Capitalism by Raymond Craib
https://bylines.cymru/freeports-gazette/
11:24 PM · Nov 23, 2024"
[Post edited 28 Nov 2024 9:58]
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 12:24 - Nov 28 with 1300 views | J2BLUE |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 07:39 - Nov 28 by GlasgowBlue |
So what we have learned so far in this thread is that after just one day in the job Dolly has caused Kingfisher to issue a profit warning which has rocked shares, sending them lower by 13%.
He has since moved on to farming and Amazon Prime is bringing out a new TV show called Dolly’s Farm, in which we will see Dolly putting the rubber gloves on to artificially inseminate his herd of cows, fall out of a tractor and fight with the council over planning permission for his farm shop. |
Strange. I am seeing the share price collapse based on the previous management and since Dolly was announced the share price has stabilised.
Perhaps the previous CEO let everyone down by taking the odd ten minute break. [Post edited 28 Nov 2024 13:40]
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 22:58 - Nov 28 with 1137 views | lonepill |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:35 - Nov 20 by baxterbasics |
It used to be that Labour would wreck the economy, then the tories would fix it. Now they just take turns giving us all a shoe-ing. |
Thatcher and the conservatives have been riding the wave of luckily being in power when state owned british gas found all that north sea oil, duping millions of voters into thinking they have any idea of what's good for the economy. |  | | |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 09:44 - Nov 29 with 985 views | Ryorry |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 22:41 - Nov 22 by RadioOrwell |
Rich people do everything on their own - no help no nothing - pure man machine - they don't need poor people to make things, do things, do admin, do databases, deliver stuff, find stuff in a warehouse, do callcentres, clean stuff, fix stuff.
They deserve everything quite simply because they are better than the rest of us. |
I’ve never understood why the crappiest or most boring jobs that few people want to do (eg carers looking after incontinent people) are paid the least; while those doing lovely things like playing football are paid the most.
If I were running the show, it’d be the other way round - those doing the work that no one else wants to would be paid the most; and those doing the enjoyable or relatively easier ones would get the least.
Peoples’ value based on practical skills that make them essential to communities would rate highly too, so mechanics, medics, plumbers etc would be right up there. | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:42 - Nov 29 with 882 views | Ryorry |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:20 - Nov 27 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Only jesting Ry, yes I could probably live on a farm for a week. My point is, your original challenge of "Go and live on a farm for a month" was pretty unrealistic. And anyway, I don't disagree that they do hard work, so I'm not sure how much I'd learn from it re whether they should pay inheritance tax or not (if they qualify). |
I see Wwoof is still going, perhaps the website can tempt you & your good lady!
Like the nickname Ry btw 👍
https://wwoof.net/ | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:44 - Nov 29 with 879 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:42 - Nov 29 by Ryorry |
I see Wwoof is still going, perhaps the website can tempt you & your good lady!
Like the nickname Ry btw 👍
https://wwoof.net/ |
That looks like a lovely idea! |  |
| Trust the process. Trust Phil. |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:27 - Nov 29 with 823 views | J2BLUE |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:44 - Nov 29 by The_Flashing_Smile |
That looks like a lovely idea! |
Remember you aren't allowed to take time off | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 17:36 - Nov 29 with 757 views | Ryorry |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 15:27 - Nov 29 by J2BLUE |
Remember you aren't allowed to take time off |
Farmers never do anyway :) | |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 19:47 - Nov 29 with 700 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 09:44 - Nov 28 by Ryorry |
Thanks for the alert re thread invisibility. Copied & pasted as much of the important content as I can. I'm sure the author would be fine with that as he wants it shared as widely as poss. Only alteration I've made is to paragraph it a bit to make it easier to read. Further reading suggested by the author is listed at the bottom.
"EuropeanPowell
@EuropeanPowell
Labour partnering up with Blackrock means the UK will be privatised.
"BlackRock own, and extract income from, things – schools, bridges, wind farms, and homes – that are nothing less than foundational to our daily being’. This requires them to ‘relentlessly squeeze’ profits out of their holdings – whether that means hiking rents for vulnerable tenants, or charging for the use of common infrastructure" -
@graceblakeley
Read Grace Blakeley's book Vulture Capitalism, she describes how the erosion of the nation-state is engineered to a point where govts working hand in hand with corporations step in to 'rescue' democracy from its failures.
The framework for the corporate coup lies in 74 Special Economic Zones (SEZs)and 12 Freeports.
Free zones are designated areas with relaxed laws and by extension relaxed enforcement of laws separate from the host country.
Secondary legislation is embedded within the free zones contracts, meaning zero Parliamentary and public scrutiny.
All free zones give numerous tax breaks to corporations for 10 years, when the deadline for the tax breaks expires, companies are already lobbying the Govt to extend them. Free zone licenses are set at 25 years, Blackrock will asset strip councils and absorb all public services, corporate governance will replace social governance, collective sovereignty (people power) will be replaced with corporate sovereignty (asset classes power).
Now the figures.
Each SEZ receives £160 million in State aid which is public money, multiplied by 74 = £11 billion 840 million
Each Freeport receive £25 million multiplied by 12 = £300 million
Teesside Freeport and SEZ has already spent £560 million of taxpayers money, see @PrivateEyeNews
Teesside was Sunak's flagship Brexit Freeports, profit share is split 90/10 in favour of the private sector.
The UK public are paying billions in subsidies to some of the wealthiest and most corrupt corporations on the planet. Your money is being invested in your regions demise and your families transformation into serfs.
UK free zones contravene EU laws and regulations on State aid where govts of member states are prohibited from using State aid to make profits, this disrupts the integrity of the Single Market by creating an unlevel playing field.
UK SEZs sabotage the UK's chances of rejoining the EU not just because of bypassing rules on State aid but also because of massive deregulatory 'freedoms' that allow companies to pollute the environment, 'self regulate', shred employment rights, tax evasion, turbocharge job displacement, and so on. None of this is acceptable to the EU.
Keir Starmer "There will be no rejoining the EU in my lifetime". Now you know why he says this.
Read the EU Commission website on State aid and SEZs
https://europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2020/646164/EPRS_BRI(2020)646164_
Lord Smith of Kelvin is managing Director of Otter Ports Ltd which is the parent company of 8 of the UK's 12 Freeports, Otter Ports Ltd is registered in the Cayman Islands, Smith did not declare this in the register of interests, Smith was a pallbearer at the Queen's funeral.
Compulsory Purchase Orders apply to business, agricultural, and residential properties, it is no coincidence that 192 councils have worse debts than Birmingham which was issued with an S114 notice which is technically bankruptcy. 6,000 people could have their homes torn down as part of a £2.2bn project in which 1,266 council houses and 567 properties could be repossessed in a mass compulsory purchase order for the area. Birmingham is host to 6 SEZs. https://theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/22/economic-violence-ladywood-b
All 12 UK Freeports are housed inside a Special Economic Zone that ranges from 33 to 75km in diameter, why? SEZs are expansionist by nature, the growth Reeves obsesses with is about corporations, private equity making serious incursions into the public sector, that is privatisation not just of public services but of the entire country, SEZs perforate holes in the fabric of the nation, as zone fever takes hold, economies outside the zones will be forced to capitulate to the corporate political model.
6 days into office Rachel Reeves refused permission for the National Audit Office to investigate England's 48 SEZ's and 8 Freeports despite a damning report from the House of Commons Committee in April 2024, citing lack of transparency, questions over value for taxpayers money, and ignoring of the Nolan principles.
Join the dots.
This all happened because of Brexit, which was based on 'exit strategies' developed in the 1960's, what were once libertarian fringe fantasies have now become reality.
FURTHER READING suggested by @EuropeanPowell:-
"There's lots of analysis on SEZs and Freeports out there, you just won't find it in the UK MSM. Here's where to look:-
Freeports Gazette 10 articles on freeports written in 2023 via
@BylinesCymru who asked me to contribute, 'I'm not a journalist, my perspective is different', their reply 'That's what we're looking for'.
I wrote 'Mr.Drakeford, with all due respect Sunak's Freeports are a threat to democracy'
Silent Coup - How Corporations Overthrew Democracy by
@kennardmatt and @ClaireProvost
Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian
@zeithistoriker
Adventure Capitalism by Raymond Craib
https://bylines.cymru/freeports-gazette/
11:24 PM · Nov 23, 2024"
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Cor, there’s some stuff to get our teeth stuck into for us non-Twitterers. Thanks 👍 |  |
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| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 14:42 - Nov 30 with 529 views | flykickingbybgunn |
| Good Old Labour increasing the price of everything. on 13:37 - Nov 20 by Blueschev |
The weather was lovely when Labour won back in July. Look at the state of it now, it's horrible. Coincidence? |
I blame Brexit. |  | | |
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