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Warpy

(111,359 posts)
2. Well, your business might be on the skids
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 02:28 PM
Jul 2021

and the stores might be empty and your holidays partially spent coping with customs, but your vote saved The City from any scrutiny, foreign or domestic, so they will continue to get rich as they launder money for every tinpot dictator on the planet.

OnDoutside

(19,974 posts)
3. It's hit the City too ! That was a massive act of folly as it was such a big revenue earner for the
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 03:15 PM
Jul 2021

UK. My cousin is a top Employment lawyer in London and of his top 5 Financial clients in 2016, they set up new companies in Paris. The French and the Germans are intent on ripping the EU business that resided in The City, over to them, and there's nothing the British can do about it. The City was essentially the Clearing House for the EU, and obviously that will move over the Channel.

https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-quizzes-industry-relocating-euro-clearing-london-2021-06-07/

tanyev

(42,623 posts)
5. Funny how he separates his vote to leave as voting as a businessman
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 06:01 PM
Jul 2021

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and if he could do it all over again he would vote remain 'as a person' when the whole piece is about how much his business is suffering because of this.

amcgrath

(397 posts)
6. Everybody who voted for Brexit knew
Thu Jul 22, 2021, 11:22 PM
Jul 2021

That it would have a terrible impact on people. They were just dumb enough to think it wouldn’t be them.

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