Thread by @MattCarr55

@johnredwood This win? forbes.com/sites/francesc…

@johnredwood Some classic advice here, for those who can make out the (Red) wood from the trees:

‘I sold out of the general share ETFs in the UK after their great performance for the year from early July 2016 when I saw the last Budget and heard the BoE’s credit warnings’

@johnredwood As the writer of this article rightly observes, it is ‘ an absolute disgrace for this man to give such advice. You see, the Rt. Hon. John Redwood MP – to give him his full title – is a lawmaker.’

And also

@johnredwood ‘the Rt. Hon. John Redwood MP advocated a course of action by the UK government that he knows would seriously damage the UK economy. This is not the only time he has advocated such a course of action: he is a prominent advocate of "hard Brexit" ‘

@johnredwood Yet ‘to protect his job as an investment manager, he warned his wealthy clients to get their money out before the disaster hits.’

Marvellous. Aren’t you a wonderful guy John? Whatever you are, you’re no friend of this country or the people in it. As Forbes puts it

@johnredwood Your behaviour back then ‘smacks of disaster capitalism. Engineer a crash while ensuring your own interests are protected, then clean up when it hits. This is despicable behaviour by a lawmaker. ‘

@johnredwood And ‘ The Rt. Hon. John Redwood MP is putting his own interests above those he represents. He is unfit to hold office. He should resign.’

Of course you didn’t, because you belong to that category of rulers Shelley once described,who ‘leech-like to their fainting country cling’

@johnredwood And here you are, two years after you advised investors to withdraw their money from an economy you knew was failing, jabbering about ‘wins’, VAT, and fish, when you really ought to be wondering round the country in sackcloth, ringing a bell and crying ‘shame!’