WoodyRVN

Professional animal squeezer. Ugly crier.

[WoodyRVN @Sarah6611]

@atrupar Oh no they're not! (Well it is panto season I suppose!)

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

URGENT WARNING: Forest City 1 and the Charter City Agenda
This is not a housing development. This is a pilot project for privatised governance.

Forest City 1 is the first of a planned network of privately controlled charter cities on British soil - 45,000 acres of Suffolk farmland to be transformed into a governance experiment by a consortium of right-wing libertarian ideologues. More developments are in the pipeline. The supporters behind this scheme are not confused property developers. They are the architects of Britain's post-Brexit zone archipelago and charter-city governance model.
Forest City co-founder Shiv Malik contacted me directly, offering to "answer my questions." I did what any responsible citizen should: I asked him for clarity about land ownership, democratic control, SEZ plans, governance, displacement, investor benefits, and transparency.
He answered.
And what he admitted — 'in his own words' — is more damning than any critic of charter cities could invent.
https://t.co/uNI0YWeGKn
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[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

⚠️WARNING⚠️
9 Data centers coming to Wales
Look at Musk’s Data center in Memphis is poisoning the environment and the residents entrapped with the AI Growth Zone.
The US who Stamer’s govt is in lockstep with want to ban all regulations on AI.
The UK and US both refused to sign up for the EU’s AI Safety Summit in Paris this year, with JD Vance’s referring to the EU’s proposals as “woke regulation”
AI is going to wipe out over half of the workforce, think about that, because Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Larry Fink don’t give a fuck about your family’s futures.

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https://t.co/yIWheZyMTr

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Our so-called democratic institutions aren’t structurally capable of constraining private power anymore.
Oxfam revealed that the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year. That money alone, the increment in the wealth of 10 people, is almost 10 times the annual amount required to end extreme poverty worldwide.
Bill Gates COP30 'essay' urges prioritising adaptation and poverty aid over emissions cuts because "funds are limited," but he conveniently airbrushes out how his own class (and the fossil fuel barons they cosy up to) created that scarcity.
Billionaire access to policymakers should be banned.
I believe the next stage of corporate capture of the commons is already at pace, based on the East India Company from 1600. Deregulated freeports, Special Economic Zones, and the digital versions, which are AI Growth Zones.
Advocates of the zone from Peter Thiel, Shanker Singham, Balaji Srinivasan, Curtis Yarvin, Tom Bell, Patrick Friedman, Paul Romer, Erik Brimen, Marc Andreessen, the IEA (London), Trump, Sunak, Truss, and now Starmer view big government as a problem that should be broken down into more 'manageable pieces', this is the logic of free zone ideology, you take a country and carve out extra-territorial domains with different laws and regulations to the host country.
A Sovereign Corporation is the endgame; instead of Presidents and Prime Ministers running the country for everyone, a CEO is 'appointed' to run it as a business. This dystopian approach does not include the small potatoes of welfare systems and public institutions, which ordinarily your taxes pay for.
The idea is to collapse the public sector via defunding, and just as it does, the private sector steps in to 'rescue' democracy and the social contract from its 'failures'.
The UK is being privatised.
https://t.co/gR5qwDXtm3

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Data is the new oil
It is also the digital layer of deregulated free zones which include Freeports, SEZs, AI Growth Zones, University Enterprise Zones, Food Enterprise Zones, all of which Keir Starmer’s government have merged into Industrial Strategy Zones.

Guess what? You are paying corporations like Blackrock, Blackstone, Vanguard, PEEL Group to set up in these zones which have 10 year tax breaks, and 25 year licenses.
Have you heard of these free zones?
Did the Tories, Labour or Reform UK ever discuss these carve-outs at any point before and after Brexit?
Nope.
https://t.co/NpGLjA0kEv

[MoeJoe @MoeJLong]

@atrupar Sure - let's ENHANCE the FOR-PROFIT aspects of The System and make it even more difficult for people seeking care!

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

This whole millionaire/billionaire/trillionaire infiltration of the highest levels of government has to be the most singularly destructive threat to western democracy we have ever faced in our history.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

This petition will be mentioned in Parliament now that it has reached over 10,000 signatures.
Please keep signing and sharing it, the more people who sign, the more attention it will garner for possible debate.
https://t.co/olCOKCrDyw

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

🚨 URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response
The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with alarming lack of transparency.
My petition demands:
✅ Release of data on governance, funding & operations of ALL free zones
✅ Public review of impacts on job displacement & taxpayer value
✅ Scrutiny of 10-year corporate tax breaks split 90/10 in favour of the private sector!
✅ Assessment of deregulation risks, potential land grabs & greenwashing by fossil fuel companies
✅ Transparency on digital AI Growth Zones
We're at 9,257 signatures - just 743 away from 10,000
At 10,000: Government MUST respond
At 100,000: Parliament considers debate
⏰ DEADLINE: 20th December 2025
These zones affect YOUR community, YOUR taxes, YOUR future. We deserve to know:
Where the money's going
Who profits
What safeguards exist
The real economic impact
SIGN NOW: https://t.co/aH1mgtUni6
@TheGreenParty @thisisyourparty @ZackPolanski @zarahsultana @jeremycorbyn
Don't let multi-billion-pound decisions happen in the shadows.
#Freeports #Transparency #UKPolitics #Accountability #TaxpayerMoney

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.

Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people

...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"

It's £10ph FFS!

Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

Spread far & wide.

https://t.co/rKXf1RcMT9

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Over 9,000 signatures!
Please sign and share my petition as widely as possible if you want to continue living in a democracy without corporate free zones stealing your money, your land, your homes, and your human rights💚
Deadline 30th December 2025

https://t.co/olCOKCsbo4

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

The UK Is Being Carved Up And Nobody's Talking About It
While the mainstream media stays silent, Britain is being systematically divided into 86 deregulated corporate enclaves: 74 Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports, now merged under the banner of "Industrial Strategy Zones," with +200 AI Growth Zones on the way.

It sounds incomprehensible, but it's documented government policy, implemented through secondary legislation that bypasses Parliamentary scrutiny and public consultation.

What I've uncovered:

25-year licenses granting corporations sovereign powers over designated territories
Billions in state aid flowing to private companies while regular businesses face increased costs
Systematic dismantling of employment rights, environmental protections, and food safety standards
A two-tier economy where location determines which rules apply
Bipartisan complicity; both Tory and Labour officials serving on free zone consortia boards

For eight years, I've been researching this as an unpaid volunteer, connecting the dots between Brexit, free zones, and the corporate takeover of public services and infrastructure.

If you value independent research that challenges the silence:
Subscribe to my Substack at https://t.co/bHBYW9U9mT
Support my work at https://t.co/Yngf4lJ8Py

The zones are spreading. The clock is ticking. And the media won't tell you.
#ZoneFever #Freeports #SEZs #CorporateTakeover #Brexit

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

In September 2024, Chancellor Rachel Reeves flew to New York. Her mission? To meet Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm and now, remarkably, what they claim is “the largest provider of newly built affordable housing in the UK for the last three years.”
Let that sink in.
A Wall Street private equity firm whose business model is extracting maximum returns for wealthy investors is now the biggest builder of what Britain calls “affordable housing.”
The Labour Betrayal
This is what makes the betrayal so complete.
Labour was elected on promises to address the housing crisis, to build more genuinely affordable homes, to stand up for working people against vested interests.
This isn’t incompetence. This is a choice. A choice to serve capital over community.
Please read the full article and subscribe to my Substack💚
https://t.co/A9W2KHxrsK

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

This is how you privatise a country
The playbook is simple: keep the public fighting about borders and boats while corporations dismantle the state from within. Outsource governance to Silicon Valley surveillance firms. Hand infrastructure to Wall Street. Create zones where capital operates beyond democratic control.
By the time people notice, it’s already done.
https://t.co/0hb1wcOBRy

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

[politic@l spinner @Justabogan]

So well written.. Oliver you rock

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty & this tweet has been doing rounds today.

Now imagine my investigation into Russian interference hadn’t been crushed by lawfare, my news org had doubled down & carried on & govt had opened an inquiry as MPs demanded.

😢

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Wow

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

This video is the best explanation of how the MAGA cult came into being that I’ve ever seen. Watch every second of it.

[LBC @LBC]

“You’re very rude to me, aren’t you?”
“I am very rude to you because of what you’ve done to my country.”

James O’Brien is less than impressed with Brexit voter Richard.