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Freeports are a neoliberal nightmare
The proposals to build deregulated free-trade zones – where workers’ rights and the taxman are kept out – are completely unacceptable, writes Plaid Cymru economy spokesperson LUKE FLETCHER MS
A view of the construction site of Teeside Freeport

IN the 1980s, it was Coal not Dole — today it’s Enough is Enough. The story of managed decline experienced by working-class communities in Wales hardly needs retelling.

Since Thatcherism wove this fabric of decline into our communities, the term regeneration has cast a very large shadow over Welsh life.

It has by now become part of everyday speech among policy-makers, local councillors, trade unions and social activists, filling pages in newspapers and mouths in conversations.

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