{"id":6620,"date":"2022-08-13T11:42:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=6620"},"modified":"2022-08-15T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T14:21:56","slug":"freeports-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/freeports-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeports 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of noise on the left about Freeport\/Charter Cities. What are they and how dangerous to democracy and workers&#8217; rights are they? Here are my notes.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Maybe the best, but certainly the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/bylinetimes.com\/2022\/08\/15\/beware-the-charter-cities-conspiracy-theory\/\">Beware the Charter Cities Conspiracy Theory<\/a> by Chris Grey.<\/li>\n<li>A twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1557248258904391680.html\">thread<\/a> by Patricia Mason<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/freeports-consultation\">Government Consultation page on Freeports<\/a>, this page includes <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/924644\/FINAL_-_200923_-_OFF_SEN_-_Freeports_Con_Res_-_FINAL.pdf\">the government response<\/a>., dated Oct 2020<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/freeports\">Freeports Guidance<\/a> at Gov UK<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms-lawnow.com\/ealerts\/2020\/06\/freeports-an-overview-of-the-key-issues\">Freeports: an Overview of the Key Issues<\/a> by CMS Law Now<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk\/explainers\/trade-freeports-free-zones\">Trade: freeports and free zones<\/a> by the IoG.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/britain\/2019\/08\/08\/what-free-ports-can-and-cant-achieve\">What-free-ports-can-and-can&#8217;t-achieve<\/a>, from the Economist, surprisingly agnostic!<\/li>\n<li>These people aren&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/chartercitiesinstitute.org\/\">https:\/\/chartercitiesinstitute.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The National, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/politics\/20267661.rishi-sunaks-beloved-charter-cities-pose-huge-threat-democracy\/\">reports<\/a> on a Sunak speech.<\/li>\n<li>Cormack Lawson <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@cormack.lawson\/charter-cities-the-real-reason-for-brexit-and-the-bigger-picture-4de80dbb69fb\">on medium<\/a> &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I am looking for the legislative power to do this, it&#8217;s not proving easy, maybe the 2021 Budget, the IoG concurs and states that the powers and freeports existed &#8217;till 2012 when the legislation lapsed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is this another concession that Brexit has failed?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bakerstherald\">Baker St. Herald<\/a> is also on the case, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bakerstherald\/status\/1557618035376427010?s=20&amp;t=IVPfjNydHoErgE6Q43Yn5g\">documenting<\/a> the ideological genesis of the idea of Charter Cities and the powerful network pushing them and their [un]desirable end goals. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of noise on the left about Freeport\/Charter Cities. 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Here are my notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[137],"tags":[1006,1822,138,1821,1563],"class_list":["post-6620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","tag-brexit","tag-charter-cities","tag-economics-2","tag-freeports","tag-postbrexitdeal"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/felixstowe-inks-w1024-cropped.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6621,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions\/6621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}