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Writer, editor, former lecturer, occasional poet, Green Party person, #Xdissenter. Views here not all party positions. On Bluesky @ Tom--Scott.

Jun 15, 2020, 5 tweets

Thread. This is a maxim worth remembering with Brexit as well as with Trump. The people who brought this disaster on the UK are not just scandal-ridden buffoons.

Following the Brexit money leads to disaster capitalists who'll have rich pickings from the carcase of the UK economy & to the hedge funds that financed both Vote Leave & Boris Johnson.

The Russian kleptocracy chipped in too.

#notmovingontilldomhasgone

bylinetimes.com/2019/09/11/bre…

.@GreenPartyMolly & me were following the Brexit money back in 2017 with this site. There was quite a bit we didn't know back then, not least about Arron Banks' dealings with the Russian state & about Dominic Cummings...

#NotMovingOnTillDomIsGone

badboysofbrexit.com

...one thing we didn't know was that Dominic Cummings allegedly cultivated relationships with prominent backers of Vladimir Putin during the years he spent in Russia in his 20s...

#NotMovingOnTillDomIsGone
smh.com.au/world/europe/j…

... including the highly influential Putin propagandist & master of fake news Vladislav Surkov, whom Cummings has described admiringly as a "communications maestro".

#NotMovingOnTillDomIsGone
vice.com/en_uk/article/…

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