Long thread based on a tweet I sent to Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart in response to a recent video conversation on SEZs.
Link below SEZs begins at 6 minutes in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=H_O6YD6wWus
Link below SEZs begins at 6 minutes in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=H_O6YD6wWus
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I want to add a few key points that must become common knowledge to the public.'
18 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Scotland
8 SEZs and 2 Freeports in Wales.
Each SEZ receives £160m in State aid which is public money multiplied by 74 SEZs = £11 billion 840 million
Each Freeport receives £25m seed capital multiplied by 12 Freeports = £300m
UK SEZs contravene EU laws and regulations on State aid, I believe this will sabotage the UK's future chances of rejoining the EU, why?
A nationwide cross-party SEZs/Freeports consortia saw Labour MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords and Baronesses, also the SNPs Kate Forbes signed off on these free zones with Sunak, and in Wales also with Shanker Singham present.
In the EU a port is publicly owned while UK Freeports are privately owned.
Of Scotland’. The amount of incursion into our land means there is very little left that is not part of this SEZ charade. Did the Scottish government forget that the people of Scotland are sovereign and did not agree to this. Hmmmm.. coercion from Westminster again.