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[Mr Jinx]

We don’t always get what we want. You could ask the Jinx though, he’s about.

The clue is in the word 'Hedge'. It's just what they do (and always have done). Nothing to read there.

 

[Jason H]

We don’t always get what we want. You could ask the Jinx though, he’s about.

BTW it was briefly mentioned on R5Live this morning, by Nicky Campbell, and they moved on swiftly.

Brexit Disaster Capitalism: £8 Billion Bet on No Deal Crash-Out by Boris Johnson's Leave Backers – Byline Times

While the Prime Minister defies the law and insists Britain will leave the European Union on 31 October, his backers stand to make billions out of the disaster.

bylinetimes.com

Hmmm, the article in question produces all these lovely bar charts without any citation so as to avoid fact-checking scrutiny and puts in links that don't link to anything they are quoting in terms of the figures they've put in to make their (somewhat spurious in any case) point.

I'll pass, thanks.

 

[Jason H]

The conspiracy theory around this has been thoroughly debunked in any case. For example, one of the people involved in the article, Paul Marshall, has £1.3bn in short positions, but has a total of around £30bn tied up in assets meaning it's not in his interest for the economy to tank. Something conveniently missed out by the article.

 

[IndoMike]

We don’t always get what we want. You could ask the Jinx though, he’s about.

BTW it was briefly mentioned on R5Live this morning, by Nicky Campbell, and they moved on swiftly.

Brexit Disaster Capitalism: £8 Billion Bet on No Deal Crash-Out by Boris Johnson's Leave Backers – Byline Times

While the Prime Minister defies the law and insists Britain will leave the European Union on 31 October, his backers stand to make billions out of the disaster.

bylinetimes.com

This should be front page news.

 

[IndoMike]

The conspiracy theory around this has been thoroughly debunked in any case. For example, one of the people involved in the article, Paul Marshall, has £1.3bn in short positions, but has a total of around £30bn tied up in assets meaning it's not in his interest for the economy to tank. Something conveniently missed out by the article.

So you're saying that the economy would tank with NO DEAL

 

[Jason H]

So you're saying that the economy would tank with NO DEAL

I'm not, no.

 

[arthur]

Why is the government boasting about spending so much time and money preparing for something that is illegal?

 

[Jason H]

Why is the government boasting about spending so much time and money preparing for something that is illegal?

Because, er, it's not?

 

[arthur]

Not at all. I just wanted to know if your opinions were formed from first hand experience or reading the Guardian. Thanks for the clarification.

No, I read it in the Daily Mail. Presumably if a similar story appeared in the Guardian it would simply be a left wing opinion rather than an honest account of how life is lived by some people in the UK

 

[IndoMike]

The conspiracy theory around this has been thoroughly debunked in any case. For example, one of the people involved in the article, Paul Marshall, has £1.3bn in short positions, but has a total of around £30bn tied up in assets meaning it's not in his interest for the economy to tank. Something conveniently missed out by the article.

You're saying that there's no conspiracy between Johnson and (e.g) Paul Marshall -= Marshall doesn't want NO DEAL because he has 30bn invested and doesn't want the economy to tank = NO DEAL could cause the economy to tank.