Thread by @shaunjlawson

And now a short note for British business - much of which is beside itself with fury at Johnson's remarks.

It's pretty simple, folks. How did you vote in 2015? How did you vote in 2017? How did you vote in 2019?

More than that: how did you vote throughout the 80s, 90s and 00s?

Thatcherism, neoliberalism, massive inequality and disgraceful levels of poverty didn't just fall out of the sky. They were voted for.

Not by a majority, sure - but by the huge bulk of the business world? Oh yes.

Said business world responded to the economically illiterate disaster of austerity BY VOTING FOR MORE OF IT in 2015. Even when austerity took enormous amounts of money out of people's pockets and gutted the economy.

As long as fat cats got even richer, it couldn't give a damn.

The horrifically unbalanced, unfair, low wage economy played a quite enormous part in Brexit. Since when, the business world has never stopped moaning, never stopped carping.

Well. IF IT ISN'T THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR OWN ACTIONS.

We had someone who wanted to rebalance the economy, invest in it and grow it according to classical Keynesian methods.

You lot called him a communist, a 'danger to Britain', and said "HE'LL WRECK THE ECONOMY!"

How's that working out for you?

In a civilised country which actually cared about people, the business world wouldn't be so full of narcissists, shysters, crooks, greedheads and bullies.

But in Britain, it is. Now the boot's on the other foot - now people are finally saying 'enough!' And you can't handle it.

The United Kingdom has been laid waste by chronic short termism and an obsession with paying workers as little as possible while taking away all their basic rights and protections - while directors make off with disgusting bonuses - for 40 years.

Most of its executives couldn't have given a fuck. Just as long as they're rich and everyone else suffers.

I have no respect for most of the 'business world' in the UK. Anyone who voted for austerity again and again doesn't understand basic economics.

And anyone who voted for short term profit over long term growth and investment doesn't understand it either.

Greedy beyond belief, incompetent beyond imagination, smug, self-satisfied, incapable of looking itself in the mirror.

You've got the outcome you deserve. Deal with it.

And finally, here's a brief explainer. Which 6-year-olds would understand but you lot comprehensively ignored.