Thread by @GeorgeMonbiot

This was always the real Brexit agenda: ripping down public protections.

https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1349824358978609156

Here's what I wrote in 2017 about what we would lose and what we would gain from Brexit. It's all playing to the script.
monbiot.com/2017/04/07/the…

It was crystal clear that the losses would outweigh the gains - for everyone except warlord capitalists like the Barclay brothers.

Brexit was sold to us with the promise of cutting "red tape".
Red tape is supposed to mean pointless rules. But the billionaire press uses it to mean all regulation.
Guess what? Good regulations are being ripped away by Brexit, while genuine red tape has greatly increased.

The real agenda was clear from the start. But a huge smokescreen was created to obscure it.

One of the most successful lies about Brexit was that it serves the interests of all enterprises to rip down public protections. It doesn't. It helps only the dirtiest, most antisocial businesses.
Brexit is the outcome of a civil war within capitalism. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

What else did we get from successive governments' "bonfire of red tape". Well, there's quite a list. But I'll leave you with just one example. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…