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REMEMBER: FREE ZONES ARE FRAGILE The enterprise zone network looks formidable, billions in investment, cross-party support, 25-year contracts, physical infrastructure, legal protections. But it’s built on foundations that can be challenged. Zones depend on: Public money (which can be withdrawn): Every zone subsidy is a political choice. Governments can choose differently. Public legitimacy (which can be challenged): Once people understand what zones are, support evaporates. The model survives through obscurity. Political protection (which can be voted out): Politicians enable zones. Different politicians can disable them. Legal frameworks (which can be contested): The legal structures enabling zones are challengeable in courts. Community acquiescence (which can be transformed into resistance): Zones assume communities won’t organize. Prove them wrong. The fragility is real. A single successful legal challenge can undermine an entire zone model. A single high-profile exposure can shift public opinion. A single election fought on zone accountability can change the political calculus. A single community successfully resisting can inspire dozens more. The Stakes This isn’t about tweaking policy. It’s about whether Britain will be a democracy or a corporate archipelago, whether public money serves public purposes or private profit, whether communities control their own development or are developed by distant corporations, whether workers have rights or are simply inputs to be optimized. The enterprise zone network is systematic, comprehensive, and intentional. But it’s not inevitable. Expose them. Challenge them. Organize against them. The alternative is a Britain where everything exists primarily to generate corporate profit, where democracy is theatre, where regions compete to offer the lowest wages and weakest protections, where public institutions serve private interests, and where resistance is structurally impossible because corporate power is embedded in physical infrastructure with 25-year contracts. That’s not levelling up. That’s not growth. That’s not even capitalism as normally understood. The window for resistance is closing. But it hasn’t closed yet. Start with one action. Then another. Connect with others doing the same. Build from there. Because the only thing more powerful than billions in corporate subsidy is organized communities that refuse to be bought. The Corporate Carve-Up of Britain: 12 Actions to Fight Back Against Enterprise Zones @europeanpowell/p-177645014" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@europeanpowel…

It’s a cult. An authoritarian cult.

Europe doesn't even let the US use its airspace, we are letting them use our airfields. If there is an attack on the UK we will all know why.

The Tories gave 23 contracts to Palantir Labour gave the 24th contract to Palantir to implement its software in Coventry City Council. Coventry City Council signed a £500,000 contract with Palantir to use AI for transcribing and summarising notes in child services, the first known deal between a UK local authority and the company. The Coventry contract is small potatoes compared to what Labour has done at the national level. Palantir hired four ex-MoD officials in 2025 alone, and held official meetings with the Prime Minister, six cabinet ministers, and senior officials from the Cabinet Office, the Treasury, and the Home Office. Questions have been raised in Parliament about whether Peter Mandelson, who was a controlling shareholder in Global Counsel, which had Palantir as a client, played any role in the December 2025 £240 million MoD contract. The 10 new contracts are all extensions to the previous ones.

The Epstein class is literally trying to take everyone's job and leave people to suffer and die with absolutely nothing. Billionaires are a national security threat and need to be dealt with accordingly.

Trump is demanding $200 billion for the costs of his illegal attacks on Iran.

The first and second world wars spiraled out of control, Arch Duke Ferdinand’s assassination, invasion of Poland. Each step seemed containable until it wasn’t. The logic of escalation has its own gravity. I think the situation with Iran being illegally attacked by the US and Israel will expand as infrastructure continues to be targeted. China are sitting back watching the West make absolute fools of themselves at the behest of far right despots. The US may well greenlight Israel into nuking Iran.

For the most sanctioned state on the planet to shoot down the world's most expensive fighter jet, something has gone horribly wrong for the US. Things will never be the same again.

Iran: If you bomb our energy infrastructure we will do the same back Israel & US: *bombs Iranian energy grid* Iran: *reciprocates* Europe: We condemn Iran This current world order has to end. Now.

IMPEACH HIM NOW. HISTORY IS WATCHING. HE’S FLAUNTING THAT HE’S CONSIDERING NUKES. HE HAS TO BE ARRESTED.

No other president was stupid enough to listen to Netanyahu, then along comes Trump…

Trump demands ‘ungrateful European allies say thank you’ to him for his illegal war against Iran. What would you say to him?

Reports of unidentified drones flying into the Washington military base where Marc Rubio and Pete Hegseth are living….

@Lowkey0nline Trump is demanding $200 billion for the costs of his illegal attacks on Iran.

"It takes money to kill bad guys..." Former Murdoch employee Pete Hegseth thinks you are stupid.

🚨NO FKN WAY, CHINA HAS THE EPSTEIN FILES!!?? 🤯 🇨🇳 Chinese lawyer - Victor Gao claims that China might now have access to the entire unredacted Epstein files. “Now it's the perfect time to fully reveal the details of Jeffrey Epstein’s activities and everyone who was involved with him.”

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions. But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

@JohnHealey_MP You lying warmongering cunt

The safety of British people is my top priority. An update on what we’re doing to protect our citizens, support our Armed Forces and defend our interests in the Middle East 👇

The specific question about what US bombers flying from British soil are actually being used for is one that Parliament itself should be demanding an answer to, loudly and on the record.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ We all know what they’re doing, but Keir Starmer, professional dogs body to Trump and Netanyahu is shamelessly lying to the public.