(Opinion) Freeing Up the Rich to Exploit the Poor — That’s What Trump and Brexit Are About
“To be fair to the Telegraph, which is running a campaign to deregulate the entire economy once Britain has left the EU, it is, unusually, almost explicit about who the beneficiaries are. It explains that ‘the ultimate goal of this whole process should be to … set the wealth creators free’. (Wealth creators: code for the very rich.) Among the potential prizes it lists are changes to the banana grading system, allowing strongly curved bananas to be categorized as Class 1, a return to incandescent light bulbs and the freedom to kill great crested newts.”