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How Brexit started (i.imgur.com)
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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 10 months ago

Is there actual reason to think this guy had something like a short position on the British economy before contributing to Brexit or is it just a meme

[-] TawdryPorker@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

There's the small matter of his Dad, a former editor of The Times, having written a book about how to profit from disaster capitalism.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

The apple didn't fall from the tree

[-] TawdryPorker@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

This is what people not from the UK (and a fair few who are) always fail to recognise: the Upper Class are engaged in economic war against everyone else, their goal is to maintain a local hegemony and they have been doing this continuously since at least the 11th Century.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

A revolution would be glorious.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago
[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

That's something, I guess. Maybe we wouldn't know specifically how he took advantage of it because the trades aren't public record.

[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

There's every reason to get believe the worst about this guy, he's so evil he would be out of place as a comic book villain. Well, maybe unless it was one of those edgy political comics.

That said the cash is just a side effect and the actual reason he put this together, as i understand it, is to get revenge for Britain banning fox hunting.

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