Brexit plotters put prosperity at risk
FOR many, there was an epiphany over Brexit when it emerged that Goldman Sachs, the predatory American investment bank known as the ‘giant vampire squid’ of global finance, had thrown its influence and vast resources behind the Remain campaign.
It crystallised the manifold faults of the European Union.
Yes, the Common Market (as it used to be called) was founded from the noblest of motives – to spread brotherhood, peace and prosperity among nations so recently at war.
But over the decades, it had degenerated into an anti-democratic, unaccountable, unwieldy, protectionist bureaucracy, run by and for the benefit of international political and financial elites, as epitomised by Goldman Sachs.
Now emerges a secret dinner to plot the overthrow of Brexit. It was hosted by Hungarian-American gambler George Soros – ‘the man who broke the Bank of England’ after he amassed more than £1billion by betting against sterling on Black Wednesday, 1992.
With him was Martin Sorrell, head of the advertising agency WPP, who has to get by on £47million a year, after having to accept a pay cut from the £70million he earned in 2017.
Another guest was private equity financier Stephen Peel, former executive director of, yes, Goldman Sachs.
A third guest was Lord Malloch-Brown, globe-trotting former Labour minister, with fingers in pies from the World Bank to the United Nations.
The aim was a campaign to pressurise MPs into bringing down Theresa May, forcing an election or a second EU referendum.
Lord Malloch-Brown later sought to trivialise the significance of the referendum result. ‘It’s like being told let’s go to Cornwall for a beach holiday, it’s going to be sunny – and it rains every day. You are allowed to change your mind… People are allowed to reflect on whether they had anticipated these storms.’
Yet the truth that patronising Europhiles such as him refuse to confront is that the public, who have considerably more sense than Mr Soros and Co credit them with, voted decisively to leave an institution with grave systemic problems.
President Macron of France and Angela Merkel’s new coalition partners in Germany are pushing for ever-closer union, while the peoples of Europe crave greater national independence.
It is greatly to the credit of the six Tory donors asked to last week’s dinner that they apparently wanted nothing to do with the campaign.
They, at least, could see that striving to destabilise the Government and bring down Mrs May raises a spectre far more economically damaging than Brexit could ever be, with the nightmare prospect of a hard-Left prime minister and a Marxist chancellor in Downing Street.