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You don't read his posts do you....But I never here you trying to come across like a know it all, Deutsch.
#bantz
You don't read his posts do you....But I never here you trying to come across like a know it all, Deutsch.
You don't read his posts do you....
#bantz
The top donor was the stockbroker Peter Hargreaves, who gave £3.2m to Leave.eu. He explained his enthusiasm for leaving the EU thus: “It would be the biggest stimulus to get our butts in gear that we have ever had … We will get out there and we will be become incredibly successful because we will be insecure again. And insecurity is fantastic.”
No one voted for such people, yet they are granted power over our lives. It is partly because the political system is widely perceived to be on sale that people have become so alienated. Paradoxically, political alienation appears to have boosted the leave vote....
Sometimes the relationship appears to be immediate. Before the last general election, 27 of the 59 richest hedge fund managers in Britain sponsored the Conservatives. Perhaps these donations had nothing to do with the special exemption from stamp duty on stock market transactions the chancellor granted to hedge funds, depriving the public sector of about £145m a year....
Politicians insist that there’s no relationship between donations and appointments to the House of Lords, but a study at Oxford University found that the probability of this being true is “approximately equivalent to entering the national lottery and winning the jackpot five times in a row”.
He did. And of course he always tells the truth, doesn't he?
Looks like the referendum decision was bought by capitalists/big business etc.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/13/billionaires-bought-brexit-controlling-britains-political-system
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
I love the bizarre idea of Lemonjelly being the big internet bullshitter! It's up there with SLA leading the socialist elite (I still don't know who they are?)
I still have no idea what THM is banging on about. Perhaps he can show me some evidence of how on earth the 'working class' have been victorious?
We won the referendum.