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How Brexit started (i.imgur.com)
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[-] TawdryPorker@lemmy.world 35 points 6 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 6 months ago

The apple didn't fall from the tree

[-] TawdryPorker@lemmy.world 19 points 6 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 6 months ago

A revolution would be glorious.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 6 months ago
[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 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.

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