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Who Are The Biggest Beneficiaries of Brexit?
The answer isn’t who you think it is.
That Brexit has led to the greatest wealth transfer in modern British history is beyond dispute.
Whether it was hedge fund managers who betted against the pound sterling in the run up to the referendum or the British finance minister who foolishly thought that announcing a raft of tax cutting measures would boost an economy which was already reeling from leaving the EU, Britain’s plutocrats did very well from our exit.
But they aren’t the biggest beneficiaries of Brexit.
Could it be the Albanians, Poles, Romanians or the Bulgarians?
No.
No sooner had the ink dried on the Brexit agreement than the hundreds of thousands of Polish, Romanians, Kosovans and Bulgarians fled the United Kingdom, leaving a void that we have been unable to fill until this very day.
So if it wasn’t the East Europeans and the uber wealthy, then it must be the white working class, surely?
In voting to leave the EU, the white working class made their voices heard like never before. But unbeknownst to them at the time, they participated in the greatest self-immolation in British history when they chose to believe the sweet lies of Johnson, Rees-Mogg and Farage about the repatriation of…