How Brexit started

https://i.imgur.com/z3i3rvc.mp4

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 2y

This is high art. This needs to be on display at the Tate.

porkchop@midwest.social · 39 pts · 2y (14 replies)

For the non-Brits, who is this guy?

fubarx@lemmy.ml · 39 pts · 2y (10 replies)

Jacob Rees-Mogg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Rees-Mogg

Incidentally, the hedge fund he co-founded just announced it was shutting down: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67648262

chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 2y (7 replies)

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 pts · 2y (5 replies)

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 pts · 2y (3 replies)

The apple didn't fall from the tree

TawdryPorker@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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 pts · 2y

A revolution would be glorious.

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 2y

Lol

chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y

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.

wieson@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Jacobry Smog

winterayars@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

He's the worst.

DessertStorms@kbin.social · 26 pts · 2y

The worst kind of conservative, notorious for things like sleeping in parliament, and being vocally and actively anti-choice while profiteering from the sale of abortion pills, but gets away with much much worse.
Smarmy cunt.

Zellith@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

Walter the softy.

EdibleFriend@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y

Nigel

aew360@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y (6 replies)

I’m pretty sure it’s just because they dislike immigrants

13esq@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y (3 replies)

The elite love immigrants. Why pay a stuck up English cunt £35000pa when you can get a desperate migrant that's willing to live in your slum and work for minimum wage?

Immigration was just a useful tool to turn the plebs against the EU whilst the elite worked to protect the game that they've rigged against the average man.

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Exactly. Don't mistake conservative politicians for their knuckle dragging electorate.

selokichtli@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Is this how they love in UK?

13esq@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

It's a type of love

metaStatic@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y

two things can be true at the same time

RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y

One does not exclude the other.

sunbytes@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)

As a note, the guys who publish these mashups are called PoliticsJOE and they have a great YouTube channel for independent British news.

They also for some reason publish these.

Not that I dislike the videos, that's how I found the channel.

It's just they make up maybe 5% of the posted content (the rest of which is actual journalism lol).