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TehBamski@lemmy.world to Gifs@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

How Brexit started

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How Brexit started

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TehBamski@lemmy.world to Gifs@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    This is high art. This needs to be on display at the Tate.

  • porkchop@midwest.social
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    For the non-Brits, who is this guy?

    • fubarx@lemmy.ml
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      Jacob Rees-Mogg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Rees-Mogg

      Incidentally, the hedge fund he co-founded just announced it was shutting down: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67648262

      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Is there actual reason to think this guy had something like a short position on the British economy before contributing to Brexit or is it just a meme

        • TawdryPorker@lemmy.world
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          There’s the small matter of his Dad, a former editor of The Times, having written a book about how to profit from disaster capitalism.

          • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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            The apple didn’t fall from the tree

            • TawdryPorker@lemmy.world
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              This is what people not from the UK (and a fair few who are) always fail to recognise: the Upper Class are engaged in economic war against everyone else, their goal is to maintain a local hegemony and they have been doing this continuously since at least the 11th Century.

              • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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                A revolution would be glorious.

            • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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              Lol

          • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            That’s something, I guess. Maybe we wouldn’t know specifically how he took advantage of it because the trades aren’t public record.

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          There’s every reason to get believe the worst about this guy, he’s so evil he would be out of place as a comic book villain. Well, maybe unless it was one of those edgy political comics.

          That said the cash is just a side effect and the actual reason he put this together, as i understand it, is to get revenge for Britain banning fox hunting.

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        Jacobry Smog

      • winterayars
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        He’s the worst.

    • DessertStorms@kbin.social
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      The worst kind of conservative, notorious for things like sleeping in parliament, and being vocally and actively anti-choice while profiteering from the sale of abortion pills, but gets away with much much worse.
      Smarmy cunt.

    • Zellith@kbin.social
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      Walter the softy.

    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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      Nigel

  • aew360@lemm.ee
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    I’m pretty sure it’s just because they dislike immigrants

    • XIIIesq@lemmy.world
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      The elite love immigrants. Why pay a stuck up English cunt £35000pa when you can get a desperate migrant that’s willing to live in your slum and work for minimum wage?

      Immigration was just a useful tool to turn the plebs against the EU whilst the elite worked to protect the game that they’ve rigged against the average man.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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        Exactly. Don’t mistake conservative politicians for their knuckle dragging electorate.

      • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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        Is this how they love in UK?

        • XIIIesq@lemmy.world
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          It’s a type of love

    • metaStatic@kbin.social
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      two things can be true at the same time

    • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de
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      One does not exclude the other.

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    As a note, the guys who publish these mashups are called PoliticsJOE and they have a great YouTube channel for independent British news.

    They also for some reason publish these.

    Not that I dislike the videos, that’s how I found the channel.

    It’s just they make up maybe 5% of the posted content (the rest of which is actual journalism lol).

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      PoliticsJOE

      https://www.youtube.com/@PoliticsJOE

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