Alan Arnott

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[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

This is why Brexit was done. It was a coup. Unconstitutional and illegal. 👇👇👇

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Keir Starmer’s government partnership with Blackrock will, as I have said many times over, privatise the UK.
Everything is up for grabs
Blackrock’s ’Infrastructure Imperative’ is targeting green spaces as a new financial asset in their portfolio.
This is where deregulated free zones come in, they carve out patchworks of corporate sovereignties with separate laws and regulations from the host country.
In the +8 years I have been researching free zones, not one MSM or ‘alternative news’ outlet has investigated the post Brexit resurrection of Thatcher’s free zones by both the Tories, and Labour.
Why?
It is down to secondary legislation.
The UK wide rollout of free zones was rubber stamped by the Tories, and secretly backed by Labour MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses who sat on the Freeports/SEZs boards in England, Scotland, and Wales.
Zero debate in Parliament, zero consultation with the public, and zero notification of the press.
This why next to no one has heard of free zones.
UK Freeports, SEZs, Industrial Strategy Zones, Food Enterprise Zones, University Enterprise Zones, and the digital layer of AI Growth Zones are leeching billions in State aid for profit motives, which is illegal in the EU.
This is the real reason behind Brexit.
This is why Starmer says no rejoining the EU Single Market or Customs Union in his lifetime.
Deregulated free zones would disrupt and distort the EU’s Single Market.
The contracts on UK free zones were set for 25 years.
Do you get it now?
https://t.co/qwBqdOqKFH

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

"How can you tell if Trump is lying?"
"His lips are moving."

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Trump Says Europe Is Weak. The Data Says He's Wrong.

By purchasing power, the EU alone matches the United States: roughly $28 trillion versus $29 trillion. Add the UK, and Europe pulls ahead. Include Norway and Switzerland, and you're looking at $34 trillion in combined economic weight. Europe is meaningfully larger than the US by the measure that actually matters.

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

#ScottishIndependence 👇👇👇

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

Truth to power.

#WASPI

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

Political lies ignore the increasing poverty and ill-health.
Headline aimed at the wealthy and wannabe wealthy. 👇👇👇

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

Yesterday the ONS said that homicides are at the lowest level for 50 years

In November NHS data revealed 2nd largest fall in waiting list numbers in 15 years

Now the Telegraph (yes, the Telegraph) are predicting highest growth rates for a generation

Britain isn’t “broken”

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

Another pointed critique of current failure of Westminster re healthcare. 👇👇👇

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Illth, wealth and GDP https://t.co/9Jd0bhAolA

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Britain: we have to understand wtf we’ve done. We’ve allowed one of Trump’s closest allies have access to our entire NHS data systems. This is the CEO of Palantir telling shareholders that ‘when it’s necessary to scare enemies & on occasion kill them’

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

Enough reason here to display the absolute need for #ScottishIndependence 👇👇👇

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

If this is truly “ideological”, and Labour would always have proposed abolishing juries *irrespective* of the court backlog because it’s a fabulous, modern way of doing justice, then I have just one question…

Why wasn’t it in your manifesto?

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

"Scottish" Labour seem to have taken this to heart. Again. 👇👇👇

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

Yup. Always for the worse. Thanks Westminster. 👇👇👇

[UK Government Scotland @UKGovScotland]

2026 will be a year when the UK Government delivers real change to communities across Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Wishing you all a very happy & prosperous New Year.

Secretary of State for Scotland @D_G_Alexander

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

All economic activity is based on rules created by mankind. Our present troubles are rooted in the abrogation of political responsibility to manage by law and regulation. 👇👇👇

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Markets are not natural, spontaneous or free. They are legal, institutional and political creations of the state. Without law, money, regulation, wages, accounting standards and trust, markets collapse into monopoly, coercion and extraction.

In this New Year’s Day video, I explain why the neoliberal myth of “free markets” is not just wrong, but actively destructive — and why rebuilding the state, rethinking capital and restoring democratic accountability must define our economic direction for 2026.

Markets are tools. It's up to society to set their purpose.

https://t.co/phyjhzWCuq

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

If this was a democracy, the constitutional changes being wrought on the back of the flawed Brexit ref would face a series of referendums to ratify them. You have been warned.
#ScottishIndependence

[☕️Carol Hedges 💙💛(also at @caroljhedges) @riotgrandma72]

👊🏻😡👊🏻😡👊🏻😡👊🏻😡
If we allow Trump to impose US rubbish crap chicken on us, farmers wont be able to export meat etc to the EU.

Nor will the UK be admitted to the single market.
Just what Farage wants …. Making us a vassal of the US

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

OK, enough is enough. From now on, you will find me on Bluesky. I hope to find the good ones there.

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

Makes you think 👇👇👇 Let's not do that.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The United States is the perfect example of Capitalism

The richest country in the world with the largest most expensive army.

The most people in prison, the lowest life expectancy, the highest medical costs, the highest murder rate and 60% of people living in poverty

[Susie Taylor 🍃💚🍃 @SusieTa32510601]

Are you listening @Keir_Starmer ? We want you to use the 1.55m empty and derelict properties before you concrete green fields and productive farmland..stop listening to developers and Yimbys and do what you were voted in for, protect #nature and us.

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

Yes. Be French!

[Clare Hepworth OBE @Hepworthclare]

Ha!
It seems British farmers are outraged at the influx of Australian beef.
Well here's a thing !
Fire up your tractors & form a queue outside Tory Party HQ.
Or maybe picket Sunak's North Yorks mansion ?

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

Read this and weep. 👇👇👇

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Ever wonder how some billionaires can get away with paying such low tax rates compared to working class Americans? Here’s their secret playbook and what we can do about it.

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

Most people did, I'm sure.
Sticking to our food standards should be an absolute red line.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Who saw that coming?

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%

Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%

Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.

As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

@DEEP_RED_BELLS You're an idiot. Bye

[Alan Arnott @alanarnott]

@Martina My heavens - he is just soooo gay!