Anne Applebaum's piece is great. The headline says it all: The More we learn about Brexit, the more crooked it looks.
Aaron Banks has a question mark above his head in the article, in terms of his donations to UKIP, Leave.EU and where the money came from.
"And here’s the final irony: If Brexit was the creation, in part, of this new world of offshore money and political influence campaigns, Brexit may well ensure that it continues unrestricted. The E.U. is probably the only power in Europe — maybe even the only one in the world — with the regulatory strength to change the culture of tax avoidance. And since 2016, it
has been slowly enacting rules designed to do exactly that. Britain, once it leaves the E.U., may well be exempt.
"British industry might suffer after Brexit, and British power will be reduced. But the gray zone — where politics meets money, where foreign money can become domestic, where assets can be hidden and connections concealed — will survive. Perhaps that was the point all along."
Applebaum could be right.
Jack