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Blackrock buys 3 UK Freeports, Felixstowe, Harwich, and London Thamesport, (sold by Hong Kong) to U.S. investment giant BlackRock as part of a $22.8 billion global deal pushed by the Trump administration.
You get that Blackrock will expand into SEZs right?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly | Daniela Gabor
Handing vital infrastructure to big finance will generate windfalls for investors and leave the rest of us worse off. We need a better plan, says Daniela Gabor, a professor of economics and macrofinan...
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Ok, did a little digging.
Isle of Wight ferries £8m for 8 ships.
CalMac £10m for 35 ships.
Plus IoW passenger/car fees are considerably higher. But hey, it’s private for profits come first.
January 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Deregulated SEZs are the neoliberal framework to extract all of Scotland’s resources, including privatizing public services, offshoring wealth and building on vast swathes of open land, economical annexing by Westminster. Why don’t people listen?
November 14, 2024 at 6:38 PM