The government is proposing that there should be at least ten new freeports in the UK.
These were so useless the last time that they were tried in the UK that the programme was abandoned, by David Cameron.
But this time Rishi Sunak is pushing them harder. This time they will create ten new internal borders in the UK, which are the last thing that we need, and will undermine the security of employees who work there whilst being notoriously open to criminal abuse because of the light-touch regulation that they involve.
In this short video I explain why they really are not a good idea.
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Didn’t you say before that the SNP might/will try a version of freeports as well. What is their reasoning? Will it have the same problems?
There is a plan to do this
It will be opposed
They seem to be a happening thing though, not just here but in Nevada too https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-governments-nevada-economy-2fa79128a7bf41073c1e9102e8a0e5f0
The bad thing is Charter Cities – the aim is a world full of Singapores or maybe Hong Kongs where democracy is explicitly given up for growth