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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
I missed The Victorian Ring Wraith on GB news the other day telling farmers how much better off they are free of EU regulations oddly the farmers seemed to disagree, so much so many seem to had the temerity to go bust, mind you we can't say we weren't warned that farming would have to be sacrificed by Patrick Minford himself and nothing reeks of sovereignty more than relying on other countries for your food
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Talking about the Rees-Moggs, the said Wraith's father wrote a few books, basically on how to make (a lot of) money from the poor. One book was titled "The Sovereign Individual" and it clearly inspired his son. It contains this very prescient line:
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The book also foresaw a backlash against the footloose, cosmopolitan elites that digital technology would help create. The economy’s “losers”, as Rees-Mogg and Davidson called them, who “do not excel in problem-solving or possess globally marketable skills”, would turn to nationalism and bitter nostalgia. They would “seek to thwart the movement of capital and people across borders”.
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My, oh my ...