I’ve said before that rich people could afford to back Brexit in every sense, not least the fact that they’re alright, Jack, financially. Peter Hargreaves said it would make us ‘get our butts in gear…it will be like Dunkirk again’. Great. Maybe he hadn’t seen the film by then. Hedge fund manager Crispin Odey could now recoup what he paid to the Leave campaign if his bet, that we stay in and the £ soars, comes off. Best of both worlds. I’d say.
“A ‘no-deal’ Brexit will be devastating”
I quoted Overheard Bloke in the Gym Changing Room not long after the referendum: ‘We should say ‘You’ve had your last cheque, Merkel’, close the borders, job done!’ If we’d followed his sage advice rather than fannying around for four years, we’d have been through the...