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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Enterprise Zones are not created by Acts of Parliament subject to full parliamentary debate. They are designated by statutory instrument, secondary legislation, under Schedule 32 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Critical Update! The Guardian’s Failure: Questions Not Asked Just days before my Canary investigation is published, The Guardian ran a feature (Helena Horton, Sun 23rd Nov 2025) on Forest City that asked none of the questions that matter. Please read www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality
Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Excerpt from my next article on Forest City, a charter city proposal for Suffolk that is wholly dependent on deregulated SEZ status. >
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Former Labour minister Patricia Hewitt backs Forest City, representing the technocratic wing of the party that embraces: PFI Public-private partnerships Marketisation of public assets Zone-based economic governance This is bipartisan collusion.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Starmer’s Grovel to an Epstein-Linked Shipping Giant: Labour’s £1bn Betrayal of Sacked Workers and Trafficking Survivors. Keir Starmer’s govt is handing the same firm (DP World) billions in UK freeport cash. Please subscribe to my Substack! Thread europeanpowell.substack.com/p/starmers-g...
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Starmer’s Grovel to an Epstein-Linked Shipping Giant: Labour’s £1bn Betrayal of Sacked Workers and Trafficking Survivors
Exclusive: As fresh Epstein emails expose a Dubai ports mogul’s chilling offer of GPS “smart shoes” for tracking children, Keir Starmer’s government is handing the same firm billions in UK freeport ca...
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Beyond concerning, The European Commission is reportedly considering delaying parts of its landmark AI Act following heavy lobbying from U.S. tech giants and pressure from Washington. Thread Please read! substack.com/@europeanpow...
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Labour’s AI Growth Zones: The Corporate Land Grab Disguised as Innovation
How Starmer’s government is carving up Britain into deregulated fiefdoms for Big Tech, without asking a single community
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Nearly there! We need around 50 signatures to push my petition calling for transparency and a review of deregulated free zones to 10,000. Please sign and share across your social media platforms. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The EU is winding down freeports due to money laundering and tax evasion. Britain is expanding them. Please read and share my latest article on Substack 'The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain's Corporate Welfare Bonanza. It is absolutely explosive. open.substack.com/pub/european...
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The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain’s Corporate Welfare Bonanza
Rachel Reeves’ budget rhetoric hides the biggest corporate giveaway in modern British history
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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 an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts
To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The Guardian is not reporting the truth on the corporate capture of British universities, the post-Brexit funding gap, and the silent killers of Arts and Humanities courses by University Enterprise Zones (UEZs). Shameful. open.substack.com/pub/european...
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Brexit’s silent wrecking ball: how leaving the EU helped gut UK university research
The Guardian yet again fails to address Brexit's University Enterprise Zones (UEZs) as a key contributor to funding gaps.
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Ben Twomey @bentwomeyuk.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Will the Renters’ Rights Bill end the temporary accommodation crisis? With the cost of renting still soaring across the UK, read my article for @redbrickblog.bsky.social 🏘️ redbrickblog.co.uk/2025/07/rent...
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Will the Renters’ Rights Bill end the temporary accommodation crisis? - Red Brick
Ben Twomey, Chief Executive of Generation Rent, argues that a lack of measures on affordability in the Renters' Rights Bill will hamper attempts to reduce the cost of renting.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The Email That Exposes Everything When Rachel received an unexpected screen on her HMRC Corporation Tax return, she unknowingly stumbled upon evidence of the largest peacetime transfer of British sovereignty to foreign corporations in modern history. open.substack.com/pub/european...
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ZONE FEVER: The Silent Corporate Coup Carving Up Britain
How Labour's "Industrial Strategy Zones" Complete the Corporate Colonisation Started by the Tories
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 14/07/2025
This film explains more about where the money goes w/o paying taxes. This is why everything is broken and it ain't going to get any better! youtu.be/np_ylvc8Zj8?...
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The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance
YouTube video by Independent POV
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dr. pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
ok fine i googled it, 1989 apparently - one more thing to 'thank' thatcher for www.standard.co.uk/homesandprop...
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Comment: 'the Metropolitan Police shouldn't get a say in designing London's streets'
The Metropolitan Police has been rocked by scandals and their planning advice is toxic to community building. So why do they still get a say in designing our streets?
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dr. pseudonymity enjoyer @ulycia.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
i'm actually really curious about the origin of the 'safe by design' stuff in the uk - not just hostile anti-homeless architecture, but police telling building developers they're not allowed to have overhangs to keep people out of the rain, or shrubbery, because this causes 'antisocial behaviour'
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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 10/07/2025
...homelessness via s.21 is the utter freedom of the landlord to end the tenancy for whatever economic or personal (and indeed irrational) reasons drive them at the point.
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Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk · 10/07/2025
Or 'They've complained too much', or 'they've got pregnant' - seriously seen that a few times - or 'I want to sell for the increased equity'. The point is that an assured shorthold tenancy doesn't end at the end of the fixed term (Never has. Common misunderstanding.) So, the driver of...
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Jess McCabe @jessmccabe.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The thing that gets me is the pipeline from section 21 evictions to homelessness. It’s probably the one cause of homelessness that the government can most directly intervene to reduce:
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 07/07/2025
A US spy-tech giant that is fuelling the worst excesses of Trump’s regime, is poised to capitalise on Wes Streeting's 10 year health plan 🕵️ We say Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS. goodlawproject.org/palantir-poi...
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Palantir poised to cash in on Wes Streeting’s NHS plan | Good Law Project
The health secretary has put central records of our health data at the heart of his project to revolutionise the NHS – and a US spy-tech giant is in pole position to clean up.
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Our Co-chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social told The Morning Star: “This plan isn’t about recovery — it’s about managed decline. A 10-year roadmap for a more commercialised, underfunded and undemocratic NHS.” www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/star...
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Starmer's new NHS plan 'sidesteps' staffing and infrastructure issues, unions and campaigners say | Morning Star
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Just a few of our amazing campaigners out at the weekend celebrating 77 years of the NHS!! 👏👏🙏💙
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Renters' Reform Coalition @rentersreformco.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Concerning that @ukhouseoflords.bsky.social has voted to exclude even more student tenancies from protections in the Bill - this could also create loopholes leaving non-students with less protection too. All renters - whether they are students or not - should benefit from secure tenancies.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Unpacking the nonsense being said about interest rates and Reeves www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...
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Unpacking the nonsense being said about interest rates and Reeves
A massive amount of nonsense is currently being said and written about the 'market' reaction to Rachel Reeves crying in the Commons on Wednesday following the government's defeat on its welfare propos...
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Generation Rent @generationrent.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
In England, private renters can be hit with unlimited rent increases. It’s pushing us further into debt and homelessness. Join us in calling for stronger protections, sign the petition today 👇 www.change.org/p/introduce-...
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Sign the Petition
Introduce caps on how much landlords can raise rent: Protect struggling families like mine
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
5m UK adults in financial, health, housing insecurity. 15 yrs of real wage cuts, austerity, unchecked profiteering, declining public services, poor housing take toll. 37% of universal credit claimants are in work. 1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined. Need people-centred politics.
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‘Stress crisis’ in UK as 5m struggle with financial, health and housing insecurity
Exclusive: Levels of ‘multi-stress’ at highest since 2008 crash, study says, with people feeling profoundly powerless
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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Support @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social's calls for a public inquiry into British involvement in the Gaza genocide 🇵🇸 ✍Write to your MP and ask them to support accountability for the crimes against humanity inflicted on the Palestinian people: thecorbynproject.com/gazainquiry
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BassReborn @bassreborn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Residential developers are doing vast discounted deals with multiple commercial buy to rent operators, discounting headline prices for money up front, driving out social landlords in favour of the private sector
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Christina Lattimer @christinalattimer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The answer is to make home ownership and rents affordable. They don’t have to act like vultures. A home is a basic human right. It’s so hard for people of your age to have that right and it’s all about government policy.
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Christina Lattimer @christinalattimer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Exactly - home ownership should not be to make profits for corporations and yet Labour gov have opened announced they’re partnering with Blackrock.
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Alan Rodgers @bi99le5.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
We need laws that prevent parasite businesses that deliver nothing but make life more expensive for others. Only councils should be allowed to run private rentals. Corporations should be restricted to commercial rental.
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Christina Lattimer @christinalattimer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
They are squeezing small private landlords out of the market and preventing local authorities to build social housing. Where is the media on this?
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Christina Lattimer @christinalattimer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
In my area, Lloyds Group of which Blackrock is a shareholder is buying up hundreds of new homes for the private rental market. This is tying up precious housing stock for corporate profit. The UK gov are allowing this to happen and indeed are partnering with them. youtu.be/ZsMwrlQ7Wa8?...
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Blackrock: The Company Buying Up Britain
YouTube video by Build Your Future - Tom Hoskin
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Mop Bucket @mopbucket.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Landlords in the US and UK have convinced everyone that public housing is not a viable means of housing the public Absolutely astonishing achievement
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
You can't just put a £ sign and a value, on every aspect of Society and expect to make a few quid from it. Housing, Comms, Water, Power. As Margaret Thatcher showed, decades later, it comes back to haunt you. Like what we're seeing in the UK, now.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Today's GB News TV advertisers include *Sky *Boxt *HME Logistics *Brook Taverner *Vintage Cash Cow *Freshpet *Bullards Gin *Lawn Master *Dormeo *Staysure *AliveCor *Housing Units *All Clear Travel *Mane UK *Desira *MyClaim Group *Solar Centre *Polish Tourism Organisation *TrailFinders
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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🇬🇱🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Rents are soaring, but housing benefits are being frozen once again – forcing people into poverty and towards homelessness. The UK Government must restore housing benefits to cover the true cost of rent. Join me and @crisis_uk and email your MP now. campaigns.crisis.org.uk/page/167520/...
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Alex Sobel MP @alexsobel.co.uk · 28/05/2025
Are you a renter in Leeds? 🏠 I campaigned hard to strengthen the Renters' Rights Bill and it is now going through the final stages of parliament and will come into law later this year. This means it is a 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 time to make sure renters’ voices are heard.
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Alex Sobel MP @alexsobel.co.uk · 28/05/2025
@acornunion.bsky.social‬ have launched their yearly Renters Survey.🏡 The survey asks about your experiences, the quality of your homes, landlord behaviour, affordability, security and more. Please fill it out so that they can continue to lobby MPs like me for increased renters' rights!
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Alex Sobel MP @alexsobel.co.uk · 28/05/2025
🌟Whether you’re a renter in a private, social or co-operative home, or live in temporary accommodation, you can complete the survey here: form.123formbuilder.com/6827704/rent...
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Renters Survey 2025
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
No sign of the Renters Rights Bill in the business of the Lords. It still needs to go through Report and Third Reading before it goes back to the Commons. If the Government wants it passed by the 1st anniversary of the election as rumoured, they're cutting it fine. www.lordswhips.org.uk/fb
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Government Whips' Office - Forthcoming Business
Government Whips' Office; House of Lords
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
NHS spending 'maxed out' This is a con. Money syphoned off to private profit. Rich get richer. Poor get poorer and health inequalities widen. This was bad from the Tories. It's heartbreaking from Labour. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
For 100 days I've been saying "why are we even trying, we should focus on Europe", and loads of people have told me I'm foolish. I'm definitely foolish about lots of things. But I'm right on this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Trump ‘makes trade deal with UK second-order priority’ in blow to ministers
US officials have split negotiations with countries into three phases, sources say, with South Korea taking priority
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🔴 Whitehall departments responded in full to just 29% of Freedom of Information requests in 2024 - an all time low A Labour MP calls on government ‘to put an end to the culture of obfuscation’ open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Government transparency hits new record low – again
Labour MP calls on government to “put an end to the culture of obfuscation” as FOI response rates drop to lowest ever
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