worth posting Bromptonaut last post from the now closed thread...
Brexit - Bromptonaut
>> I must say if anyone doesn't deserve to be called an idiot its Rees-Mogg.
He's got a confidence and knowledge consistent with his background as son of editor of the Times schooled at Eton and Oxford. Because of that he looks and sounds clever just like Boris, David Cameron and the late Tam Dalyell.
On Brexit he's either ignorant or fundamentally dishonest. Pretty much any reputable economist says a crash out on WTO terms will be a disaster for ordinary people's jobs and living standards. He flies in face of accepted scientific fact on climate change so it's no real surprise when he does so in other areas.
My own take is that he wants a much more vigorous form of capitalism where workers' rights are reduced, there is at best only a minimalist safety net for health or social security and taxes, at least for the better off, are dramatically lowered. His own class benefits and the rest can lump their lot.
He and many of his ERG compatriots think hard Brexit will make their Utopia look like some sort of recovery.
In a darkly ironic sort of way there's an analogy with revolutionary Communism.......
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