June 2025 blog
When your brain surgeon operates, or a Resident Junior Doctor performs your Caesarian, or a Nurse cares for you-they need to be happy, content, not overworked, or poor,worried about job security after seven/elevan years of hard graft study...
not worried about paying rent, no chance of mortgage,
not worried about food billls, gas, electric, water
Residents pay has been eroded by 22%
A failure to get Full Pay Restoration (a meagre 1% above inflation takes twenty years to get FPR
This is RESTORATION, not a PAY AWARD!!!
Understaffed, replaced by useless PAs, blocked training by PAs, ignored, debased by government
A strike is looming!!!
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Vital importance
Government's only workforce plan involves thousands of unqualified Physician Associates, (PAs), and Anaesthetic Associates (AAs) to replace real qualified Doctors.
The General Medical Council has been gerrymandered to Register, BUT NOT REGULATE, PAs, AAs.
There is a High Court Case ongoing, where the Anaethetists demand a ceiling scope of practice for PAs, AAs
Ultimately, government want PAs, AAs to have unlimited powers: THIS IS DANGEROUS!!!
Ultimately, Government would like to rewrite the Medical Act to group non-qualified PAs, AAs with Real Qualified Doctors.
Anaethetists United have crowdfunded this case, WHILE GOVERNMENT USE TAXPAYERS MONEY TO DEFEAT THE ANAETHETISTS UNITED.
Some GP practices employ lots of PAs, forcing patients to see a PA BEFORE BEING ALLOWED TO SEE A REAL GP!!!
Governments and Treasury of all parties want to reduce the absolute numbers of GPs-
but the aim should be to have a prudent surplus...
Enough GPs, properly paid, would enable longer opening hours, more faceto face, longer consult times, less burnout, depression and moral failure.
Doctors are blocked from GP training posts, (in favour of unqualified Physician Associates) qualified GPs are jobless, practices unable to hire them.
A PR blunder?
The Junior Doctors, (Residents, pre-Consultants) seem to have dropped a brick with their description of the Supreme Court definition of (original) female 2 xx chromosomes, male one x chromosome, as "scientific illiteracy"
This may be modified by surgery, medicine or self identity...
but "scientific illiteracy (may be so in hypothetical science studies), but discredits the BMA!
Delayed Pay Review Body, fails to rectify twenty years of pay boa constriction...
https://x.com/EuropeanPowell/status/1771658822857191586
SEZs, Freeports @europeanpowell
@europeanPowell on Freeports, SEZs
People asking me for my notes from the Inverness Public Meeting today,
I probably said a few extra things, but in any case, here they are
Inverness notes on SEZs and Freeports March 2024
Zone fever has arrived in the UK What are Freeports and SEZs (Special Economic
Zones)? Regular ports deal mostly in freight transshipment. Freight comes into
a port area, is stored then processed, before being re-exported. UK Freeports
are privately owned tax havens whereas EU ports are publicly owned. A Special
Economic Zone is a designated region that can house a Freeport, airport, towns,
entire cities, and rural areas under a ‘privately governed authority’.
So, think of an SEZ as a room within a room, a state within a state, or even
a party within a party. The UK post-Brexit is now like a Russian doll. That’s
what Special Economic Zones are. The government claims that UK Freeports and
SEZs are zones of prosperity, creating 1000s and 1000s of jobs, are green and
environmentally friendly, but that is just to make them sound palatable to the
public. They are in fact none of those things. Take for example the claim that
Freeports are facilitating offshore energy schemes. Those schemes were never
dependent on Freeport status, they already existed anyway. Similar energy schemes
are going on in ports in the EU that don’t require Freeport status. Private
vs Public. Scottish Ports were privatised in the 1990s by Thatcher but had to
comply with EU laws and regulations. Fast forward to today, where Brexit Britain
has turbocharged deregulation. UK Freeports are run by a stand-alone corporations
with a future scope and incentive to expand into the surrounding SEZ territory.
What is the ideology behind Freeports and SEZs? The current ideology embraced
by Sunak, Truss, Mogg, Badenoch hails from the US and fuses libertarianism with
anarcho-capitalism, their goal is to abolish the centralised state and replace
it with countless small states all totally privatised. This has its roots in
empire-building and British colonialism. The East India Company in 1600, Hong
Kong and Singapore in the mid-1800s, the Brits installed dozens of Freeports
in those regions, bringing their own laws, and courts with them, this was known
as ‘China’s century of humiliation’. In the 80s Thatcher’s
aim was to turn the UK into 1 big tax haven and SEZ, but she came up against
the EU. The current Tories have taken that baton of ‘exit’ from
Thatcher and several prominent economists and progressive right-wing radicals
like Ayn(‘Ine’) Rand, Murray Rothbard, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman,
James Buchanan, and Antony Fisher. Freeports, SEZs and charter cities have long
been the ideal templates to isolate away or ‘exit’ from Big Govt
by establishing areas of a country as zones of exception to the host country.
Rishi Sunak studied at Stanford University, his mentor was Prof. Paul Romer
who lectured on a return to colonialism via SEZs and charter cities. What differentiates
UK Freeports and SEZs from those in the EU? UK Freeports and SEZs are being
optimized for the deregulated private sector whereas Freeports and SEZs in the
EU are publicly owned and strictly regulated to prevent corporations making
astronomical profits, extracting resources, and not contributing anything back
to local communities. In Jan 2024 a UK Govt report on REUL(Retained EU Law)
was published it stated ‘EU ports are publicly owned and are therefore
unsuitable for the UK economy. The report stated that +600 pieces of EU/UK law
were revoked across 3 main areas, employment, food safety, and the environment,
thousands more are for the chop by 2026. The report went on to say that EU ports
were publicly owned and incompatible with the UK economy. Sunak’s Freeports
will be tax havens, Jeremy Hunt has declared Freeports and SEZs as tax-exempt
for 10 years. What do Freeports and SEZs have to do with Brexit? SEZs and Freeports
are all about ‘exit strategies’ . Britain + Exit = Brexit. Sunak’s
12 Freeports and 74 SEZs are currently carving out extraterritorial spaces the
length and breadth of the UK. This is to perforate holes in the fabric of the
nation, to lay waste to councils and public services, the more holes you cut
out the more the zones will overlap and eventually privatise the UK. Thatcher
tried out SEZs in the 1980s, the reason they failed is because the UK was in
the EU and had to abide by EU regulations on State Aid. By reducing Big Govt
you reconfigure its powers by reallocating them to privately run smaller states,
this is known as ‘accumulation through dispossession’. Libertarian
exit implements decision-making such as (zoning, exit, land grabbing, taxation,
and as Mogg said ‘restructuring sovereignty and the state). Mogg’s
father’s book The Sovereign Individual is all about thriving from the
engineered collapse of the Welfare State. The dangers that come with deregulated
Freeports are money laundering, private banking, stolen art, human trafficking,
drugs and arms trade, tax evasion, and onshoring wealth. Today the most lucrative
line of business is between corporations and Govt’s, many r/w think tanks
have successfully stripped our politicians of any semblance of public representation.
Why are there so many Freeports and SEZs being set up across England, Scotland,
and Wales? In Scotland, there are currently 2 Freeports and 18 SEZs. So we have
The Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport, and the Firth of Forth Green
Freeport, both are not yet operational. These are not just ports, they are SEZs,
that are both 45km in diameter, and cover vast areas of towns, cities, and land.
Creative Clyde - Glasgow – creative industries Prestwick - South Ayrshire
– aerospace West Lothian - Broxburn – food and drink manufacturing
West Lothian - Eliburn - Livingston – food and drink manufacturing Dundee
Port - Dundee Dundee Claverhouse - Dundee Leith Port - Edinburgh Nigg - Highland
Hatston - Orkney Scrabster - Highland Arnish - Western Isles Lyness - Orkney
Life Sciences Enterprise Area Irvine - North Ayrshire Forres Enterprise Park
- Highland BioQuarter - Edinburgh Inverness Campus - Highland BioCampus - Midlothian
BioCity - North Lanarkshire The Govt wants to do away with centralized powers
by handing them over to private small states run under corporate governance
to further super-concentrate wealth accumulation. Big Govt is being hollowed
out by both Cons and Labour to facilitate the transfer of powers to those running
the zones. Tax exemption is the cherry on top within these privately protected
jurisdictions. Brexit thrives on deregulating laws that used to protect people
from malign corporate interests compounded by stealth incursions into the public
sector. Once companies have got their tax breaks and extracted whatever resources
they can, they will pack up and move to the next available zone. Know that any
clean-up bills for pollution in the SEZs will be passed on to taxpayers, just
like the water companies have been doing since the UK left the EU. Do UK Freeports
and SEZs sabotage rejoining the EU? Brexit means the UK has defaulted to WTO
rules, which changes how State Aid public money in the EU is distributed. Under
WTO rules State Aid can now be given to companies of the Govt’s choosing,
this preferential treatment is expressly forbidden in the EU because it distorts
markets creating an unlevel playing field. Each Freeport gets £25m x 12
is £300m, Teesside Freeport has received +£500m so far. Each SEZ
gets £80m x 74 is £5.92bn. This is not enough money for long-term
sustainability, this is subsidizing corporations for boom-and-bust, it is corporate
welfare. Scores of councils are going bankrupt, this is by design, corporations
in league with the duopoly will absorb all public services and ultimately privatise
the UK. In 2023 Michael Gove included a section in his Levelling Up Bill on
Compulsory Purchase Orders that apply to: business owners and occupiers agricultural
owners and occupiers residential owners and occupiers Just wait for this to
kick in when Sunak's 12 Freeports and 74 SEZs are installed. The duopoly plans
to break up the nation into patchworks of corporate sovereignties, subdividing
the land for corporate rule. Scotland must become independent and undo the Westminster
stranglehold. A corporate coup hatched by a cross-party alliance all sit on
Freeports consortia in England, Scotland and Wales, they comprise MPs, councillors,
mayors, Baronesses, and Lords (eg Lord Smith of Kelvin whose company Otter Ports
is the parent company of Forth Ports and is registered in the Cayman Islands)
Scottish land, and Scottish sovereignty is being turned into a commodity for
venture capitalists to extract your resources without contributing anything
back to communities. Going to end with a quote from George Orwell’s 1984
“You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill
you with ourselves”
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