Poet, reviewer, musician, teacher.
Joined May 2015
- Tweets717
- Following292
- Followers181
- Likes403
jon miller retweeted
Oh thank you, thank you dear Lynn, Jon and Karen, the amazing Waterstones team, Alpha and Vint for the tunes, and everyone who came to make such a ceilidh of the moment ❤️
jon miller retweeted
My heart pulses with thanks for my luminous guests poets @dizzylynn @jmjon6 @KarenCairngorms musicians Alpha & Vint & the team at @WatInverness stellar companions at yesterday's launch of my #poetry collection 'The Bone Folder', published by the outstanding @drunkmusepoetry❤️
Fab afternoon seeing @kittyjmac launch her collection, The Bone Folder @drunkmusepoetry at @WatInverness - delighted to join poet pals @jmjon6 & KarenHP as a support act. Cait was amazing and her book is fabulous, go buy!
jon miller retweeted
After last year’s sell-out, we’re delighted to announce that the wordHaus cabaret is back for Book Week Scotland 2024. This year @jmjon6 and I will be joined by special guest Clare O'Brien. Ceilidh Place Venue, Ullapool, 21/11/24. @BookWeekScot
jon miller retweeted
Fab afternoon seeing @kittyjmac launch her collection, The Bone Folder @drunkmusepoetry at @WatInverness - delighted to join poet pals @jmjon6 & KarenHP as a support act. Cait was amazing and her book is fabulous, go buy!
jon miller retweeted
Jon, it's astounding how often in this couthy world I find companions between the pages who also become friends in the walking world. I've just re-read your poems, and am honoured to have a couple of my own peedie groatie buckies stowed away in the same publication!
jon miller retweeted
Friday 13th but the omens are good - I'm going to be in conversation with outstanding poet Jon Miller at Ullapool Bookshop, 3-4pm. We'll be talking about my latest book, Bitter Fruit, and exploring the links between writing and art. @OutcastPress @jmjon6 @UllapoolB
jon miller retweeted
Jon Miller's (@jmjon6) poem '35mm' oozes nostalgia.
Read the full poem at the link below or through the link in our bio. inksweatandtears.co.uk/37703…
#submissions #poetryonline #inksweatandtears
jon miller retweeted
Many thanks to award winning poet @jmjon6 for his in-depth review of Bitter Fruit, published in today's Ullapool News. The final paragraph is below.
Bitter Fruit, a narrative memoir published by @OutcastPress bit.ly/BitterFruitLGT
jon miller retweeted
The change Labour will bring is the endgame for Scottish sovereignty and your beautiful country. Do not allow these Imperialist hyenas to pick apart your regions, and your public services for corporate gains, you will regret voting Labour for generations.
18 Special Economic Zones and 2 Freeports have been allocated for Scotland, these are experiments in corporate governance and jurisdictional arbitrage, private equity is primed to occupy, extract and destroy Scottish communities.
For the love of God, please read my research into deregulated SEZs and Freeports, these free zones are feudalism on steroids.👇🏻👀
xitter.cf/EuropeanPowell/status/…
⚠️WARNING⚠️ Dear Scottish people, if you vote Labour into Scotland, you will lose everything to English Imperialists and predatory capitalists who are already commodifying your collective sovereignty, that's your 'people power' gone...forever.
The Firth of Forth Freeport is inside a Special Economic Zone that is 45km in diameter and covers 70% of the City of Edinburgh.
There are 18 SEZs being set up in Scotland, were you consulted about these free zones?
Did you know that UK SEZs are tax-exempt for 10 years and licensed for a quarter of a century?
Each SEZ receives £160 million in State Aid (public money) given to companies of the Govt's choosing, this is illegal under EU rules, why? Because it distorts the markets creating an unlevel playing field. Scotland overwhelmingly voted to remain in the EU, understand that 86 UK SEZs sabotage any chances of rejoining because they are being installed as private fiefdoms that play under more 'flexible' WTO rules, this is a race to the bottom.
europarl.europa.eu/RegData/e…
What do you think happens to public services when companies don't pay their taxes? SEZs are the whole reason for Brexit. 'Exit' strategies from democracy have been a staple of neoliberal ideology since the 1960's.
xitter.cf/EuropeanPowell/status/…
SEZs are extraterritorial spaces within a host country, that set their own laws, tax rates, security, they're privately owned/governed. SEZs are strictly regulated in the EU, again Westminster has other plans for Scotland's future, please do not these neoliberal bastards steal your country.
xitter.cf/EuropeanPowell/status/…
jon miller retweeted
The fact that Labour fully back Sunak's 86 Special Economic Zones which deliberately contravene EU rules on State Aid, thus sabotaging rejoining the EU, totally destroys that narrative.
xitter.cf/EuropeanPowell/status/…
jon miller retweeted
France and Germany offering ‘associate membership’ of the EU to the UK.
Guess how Tories and Labour responded?
‘Labour and No 10 ruled out any form of associate membership of the EU’
Brexit is being forced to work by the duopoly👇🏻👀🤬
independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
jon miller retweeted
Bidding on contracts for the zones were finalized in 2021/2022, they are licensed for a quarter of a century and tax-exempt for 10 years. The State Aid (public money) subsidies for each SEZ was £80 million, it has since been doubled to £160 million, that's nearly £12 billion.
jon miller retweeted
A recent Govt REUL report stated that EU ports are publicly owned and are unsuitable for the UK economy. +600 pieces of UK/EU law were revoked on 31st Dec 2023, the 3 main areas were employment, food safety and environmental laws.
xitter.cf/EuropeanPowell/status/…
The State is not the enemy, limited Govt is.
Corporate governance is anti-governance.
Sunak's 12 Freeports and 74 SEZs are setting up small privately run states within the host country, beyond Big Govt's reach.
Cons and Labour are forcing Brexit to work.
miro.com/app/board/uXjVN1lME…
jon miller retweeted
Freeports are privately owned, ports like the ones in the EU are publicly owned. All the articles circulating on Labour about them supporting ports DO NOT refer to them as Freeports, there's a massive difference, all lies.
xitter.cf/EuropeanPowell/status/…
jon miller retweeted
Just Google Labour and 'ports'. BBC, Independent, Guardian, local news media all lying to the public.
WTO rules on State Aid (that's public money) allow Govt's to give cash to companies they favour, distorting markets, illegal in the EU. Brexit + Zone fever = Game Over UK.
jon miller retweeted
Job displacement will leave already declining communities fall into further ruin, watch the MSM and the duopoly ignore this fact.
The UK govt's website states job displacement was a major factor in the failure of Freeports and SEZs under Thatcher. The EU prevented govt's from giving preferential treatment to corporations through State Aid (public money), distorting markets and creating an unlevel playing field.
When will it dawn on people that Brexit is an experiment in corporate governance, small state building, the removal of workers rights, and setting up 86 tax havens across the length and breadth of the UK?
Govt State Aid has doubled from £80 million to £160 million per SEZ, multilpy by 74 is £11,84 billion.
UK SEZs are licensed for a quarter of a century, Labour signed off on this agreement which is why they are fully backing Brexit.
xitter.cf/EuropeanPowell/status/…
jon miller retweeted
Freeports and SEZs will be maintained at astronomical costs to the public purse, your taxes will go up to provide WTO State Aid to subsidise corporations who will be tax-exempt for 10 years. Distortion of markets for profiteering as whole regions collapse.
xitter.cf/EuropeanPowell/status/…
jon miller retweeted
UK's WTO rules allow the Govt to give preferential State Aid to companies the Govt favours, creating massive distortions in an unlevel playing field, this is illegal in the EU, this is why Starmer says no rejoin, no SM/CU/FOM. Below EU rules on State Aid👇🏻
europarl.europa.eu/RegData/e…