This is why we left the EU.
this post was submitted on 24 May 2026
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Explain, please. Do you mean to say that "we" left the EU because "The EU" might hamper the money launderers etc? People in cahoots with shady financiers promoted Brexit so they could keep getting their cut of shady money?
This exactly. Brexit was a direct response to the EU planning to introduce legislation that would have exposed all the dirty money that goes through London. Brexit was essentially orchestrated by a tiny group of financiers and billionaires who are all up to their eyeballs in the dirtiest money they can get their gammon fingers into.
The funny thing is that, if left to themselves, the EU would have watered down that legislation to the point of irrelevancy.
It was also the case that Putin wanted to weaken the EU and to damage the UK's economy. Johnson, Farage and Aron Banks all have long-standing connections to Russia and to expat Russian oligarchs. So does Steve Bannon. Cambridge Analytica had a big role in Brexit winning, and Bannon launched it (with money from the US fascist oligarchs, the Mercer family). Brexit was a beta test for MAGA.
I'm not much into conspiracies, but this sounds plausible
Me either.
You just need to follow the money. It's like a group of like 5/6 billionaires funding whole thing. Christopher Harborne, Arron Banks, Richard Tice and 2/3 more who's names escape me atm.
And this is legislation they wanted to avoid adhering too: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2015/849/body/data.htm
I mean, that’s what powers the whole City of London since the dawn of the modern world. It’s what built the UK. And now we’re acting surprised?
FFS UK, do you not have money laundrettes?
We just call them "banks."
Yeah but how much of that is a dirty loop? Money is fungible and a dollar doesn't stay dirty, just each transaction is dirty or clean