Imagine you’re a multi-millionaire or billionaire. You run the private companies doing what was once the work of public bodies. You own the media. You are the government.
Your wealth and background have isolated you from society. You believe it’s a dog-eat-dog world. Many would consider you a sociopath.
The vast, vast profits you turn are siphoned into offshore accounts, so that you pay little or no tax. You’ve known for years that in 2020 a new EU law will clamp down on the schemes and structures that allow your tax-dodging.
Crashing the UK out of the EU in 2019 will avoid scrutiny of your tax dodging. As a bonus you can turn the UK into the kind of tax haven you love (most of which are British Overseas Territories or Crown Dependencies) and sell off the remaining public institutions to yourselves.
Question: is there any depth you will not sink to in order to make this happen and maintain your privilege?
