This remarkable essay documents the direct personal responsibility of Steve Baker, Sajid Javid, and Rishi Sunak for the global financial crash of 2008. Of course, they all personally profited hugely from it.
Baker, of course, was later the architect of the hard Brexit deal.
If we had sent them all to prison, as any rational state would have done, #Brexit would probably never have happened.
The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain - Russell Jones
https://russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spreadsheet-that-broke-britain?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=yzyk
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot I thought the name sounded familiar - yup, this is the guy who wrote The Week In Tory on Twitter, back in the day - one of the few high-points there.
And what a write-up - much of it we already knew (Baker, Javid, Sunak, and their links to the crash, both globally, and here in the UK), but that bit about the Excel spreadsheet - ye gods and little fishes, how could that get past any sort of review or editing process?
Incompetence?
Greed?
A bit of both?