Reply To: More on Brexit
Come off it, Alan, you don’t really believe that, do you? It’s Monbiot at his worst turning himself into a vulgar conspiracy theorist. We know that there is a maverick section of the UK capitalist class that financed the Leave campaign in its own economic interest of escaping from EU regulation of its activities. And, yes, there will be, in far are, individual capitalists who are to banking on a no-deal to make a financial killing, but a group of “disaster capitalists” and “world plutocrats” plotting to turn the UK into
“a giant export-processing zone, exempt from the laws that govern other rich nations”?
I don’t think so. And even if there were they wouldn’t succeed against the will and political power against the dominant section of the UK capitalist class supported in all likelihood by the working class. It’s a fantasy.
A no-deal (if it happens, which is open to great doubt) would temporarily disrupt things but it wouldn’t bring about what Monbiot says these “world plutocrats” want. Eventually, things would settle down and capitalism as we know it in the UK continue.