(opinion) Don't buy the bluff. Here's the truth about no-deal Brexit

[Denzil_DC]

16. He could be a beneficiary. But the EU was expected to implode with Brexit. It hasn't.

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One counter to that argument would be to ask how potentially closer ties between the UK and US would benefit him and his cabal in the longer term (assuming the US manages to extract itself from its current Russian influence in future). But then maybe Putin doesn't do longer term.

As for who in the UK is benefiting, I could draw up a list.

It would include our current prime minister, who wouldn't be in power if not for this clusterfuck, and a whole range of predatory disaster capitalists from Rees-Mogg via the various other millionaires at the top of our media and government (including Farage) who're already salivating at the prospect of collaborating with US interests to complete the privatization of the NHS etc. to hedge fund managers and the likes of nihilistic libertarians like Cummings and the ex-Revolutionary Communist Party members like Claire Fox grouped around Spiked and elected as MEPs in the aftermath of entryism into the Brexit Party. (I'm not clear how in thrall to Putin that last group are, but they're certainly as opportunist as he is.)