Thread by @carolecadwalla

This is a stunning piece of journalism. We know @Nigel_Farage moved the markets on the night of the referendum with & made his hedge fund pals billions. But @Bloomberg has the inside account of how. Warning: long & fury-inducing.
bloomberg.com/news/features/…

In summary, @bloomberg describes the referendum as a financial heist. The biggest insider trading job in history when pollsters colluded with hedge funds to create a fake bubble that was burst by a fake concession ..delivered by friend of the people, @Nigel_Farage.

All the usual suspects are here, Brexit fundraiser Crispin Odey who made £300 million on the night. And, of course, that other well known pollster, the-keeper-of-the-Russian-secrets @LordAshcroft.

This is sober, serious Bloomberg, remember. And there’s potential crimes here. But like the multiple electoral offences in Leave campaign up to & including what looks like collusion, I would lay a hedge fund-style bet on this being too big, too sensitive for anyone to touch..

This is such an impressive piece - maybe because as Bloomberg says it helped spread the disinfo that misled markets. But there’s one piece missing. It describes a ‘bubble’ of ‘false sentiment’ that distorted markets. But markets are people. We too were ‘distorted’ aka manipulated