Did Johnson force Brexit on us just to maintain London’s status as the world’s financial crime centre?
Beastrabban found this in conspiracist magazine Lobster, so take it as you like.
The claim is that Boris Johnson set his mind to return to the House of Commons after his term as London Mayor ended, purely to stop the European Union clamping down on the City and its role in money laundering and financial crime across the globe.
By taking the UK out of the EU, the theory states, he was preserving the City of London as the financial crime centre of the world’s economy.
The Beast points out that such a desire to protect the Tories’ city backers (as well, no doubt, as any financial criminals that might happen to be hanging around) “is going to wreck our manufacturing industry and agriculture, raise food prices, and create shortages of food, medicines and other goods”.
When you consider the kind of people with whom Johnson has been spending his free time recently, one has to wonder whether there might be a smidgen of fact to this…
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