Thread by @EuropeanPowell

What do you think happens when a small group of the ultra wealthy buy and shape UK Govt policy? Retainers put down by financiers expect to see massive returns. Brexit's lie will usher in total state deregulation. This is the cornerstone of disaster capitalism. #BrexitLies

The pro-European business elite fled the Tory party as the ERG gained power. Johnson on the promise of a hard brexit saw donations increase massively from hedge funders and private equity. Tory party is officially unrepresentative of the public's interests and values.

A small group of ultra wealthy individuals exert control over Govt policy, it is a model copied from the US. Cash for access now the norm in British politics. Leave campaign money came mostly from hedge funders, Crispin Odey made £220m on 2016 referendum result.

Dark money is made from many things and is basically a huge black market for unscrupulous investors out to make a killing when a stable economy of a country is forced to collapse. Inducing crisis by speculative hedge fund managers buying Govt policy, aka the 'revolving door'>

Transfer of public money goes into private hands, public workers forced into private sector, it is tailor made for conflicts of interest, it dismantles policy for public good and lays a red carpet out for politicians after leaving Govt roles, part of 'restructuring Sovereignty'

Cut to Rees-Mogg shifting his business to Dublin(EU) to safeguard his assets against 'considerable uncertainty' (recall his 50 years time benefits for the left-behinds). Many Brexit business owners have no ties to the UK economy, the rich buying EU passports, off dom press.

Core production of UK economy is mostly foreign owned, yet donors buy and shape Govt policy, 'taking back control' was the biggest lie of Leave's many other failed promises followed by 'empty performative wins'
'Business? Fuck business' - Boris Johnson

Johnson pledged to turn 12 UK sites into Freeports goaded on by IEA and r/w think tanks, these will be a hotbed of money laundering, weapons trading, drug smuggling, human trafficking, art theft, etc. This extends into towns and cities that will be transformed into charter cities

Democracy Unchained, Truss's Global Network of Liberty should be sending chills down the spines of every citizen not content with being turned into a drudgeon and a customer for a corporatist niche of self serving interests. 🧵Explainer on charter cities

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