There's a conflict of interest for any politician,
who takes the money of a hedge fund in that,
they may be swayed the politician
by the financial interest.
Now this has arisen again over Boris Johnson
because as Byline Times detected:
The sponsors, the backers to
his leadership campaign,
were dominated by hedge funds and City traders.
In fact we calculated of those 40 donors
declared by the Electoral Commission,
30/40 were hedge fund owners
and city traders.
They provided 65% of the money which
Johnson got for his campaign.
To what extent is he swayed by their interest?
The day before Boris wins the leadership,
Crispin Odey was interviewed he says:
"They should suspend Parliament"
Like it was going to happen,
like he knew about it:
"You're not going to change this current Parliament
so you've got to dissolve it in some way"
It then emerged that he had invested in Boris
Johnson's campaign and at that time,
laid a big short for about £299 million
on British equities.
Worthy of Investigation, worthy of concern.
Up to £300 million pounds Odey
was betting at the time,
he seemed to know or seemed to have guessed,
that Boris Johnson might suspend Parliament.
He also said in that documentary:
Well Boris could do this other
clever thing he could,
call an election and then 
move it till after Brexit.
"Well he gets the support of 
Labour to have the election,
by promising them the
5th to 14th of October,
and then chooses the 5th of November.
Well I think at that point I 
really would be toasting,
I would be drinking heavily I think..."
I think this is why Boris' sister said:
"It could be Dominic Cummings advising the
prime minister to be extremely aggressive,
it also could be from people who have
invested billions in shorting the pound,
or shorting the country in the
expectation of a No Deal Brexit"
Former Chancellor Hammond
said the same thing.
Is there a more ruthless side of him?
Is it financially interested?
That's the danger that he could be
motivated by the potential rewards.
By being in this entourage
maybe he feels very poor,
compared to this entourage
of multi-millionaires.
This is a man who thinks £250,000
for a column a month is nothing.
He got £80,000 for one
speech to a hedge fund.
Always a problem when politics mixes
too much with very wealthy men.
Crispin Odey quite famously said
that he had made personally,
£200 million the night of the Brexit
referendum he said:
"The morning has gold in its mouth"
And looked very luxurious and very happy 
with himself, who wouldn't be.
He had contributed £800 - £870,000
to the leave campaigns.
And actually just before Brexit
it was through his firm,
that Somerset Capital Management 
Rees Mogg's firm was incubated,
by Crispin OD, Crispin OD actually donated to
Jacob Rees-Mogg parliamentary campaign.
Odey is Rupert Murdoch's ex-son-in-law.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is the son of
Rupert Murdoch's ex editor,
William Rees-Mogg who
used to edit The Times.
Who has written a book about 
disaster capitalism actually,
about how the only way to make
money is through disaster,
in the later phases of civilisation.
So you have a very tight nexus of
well-connected wealthy individuals,
I'm told there are other hedge funds
more closely embedded,
with Johnson and his entourage.
This is a matter of public concern,
no Minister should have a conflict of interest
or an appearance of conflict of interest.
and we've got at very least the appearance
of a conflict of interest.
In a turbulent world there is always 
money to be made in turbulence.
Since 2008 money has had
very little places to go,
but one of the things you can look at
and make money if you get it right,
are sudden shock events.
Brexit has been one of those,
Trump has been one of those.
In that situation hedge funds can,
if they get it right, make a lot of money.
What if those hedge funders
are participating,
on something they're speculating on.
Paul Marshall invested very 
heavily in Vote Leave,
and big supporter of Michael Gove.
It was Marshall who persuaded Gove,
in Febuary 2016 to back the leave campaign.
So here's a major hedge fund owner 
and he had the key voice with,
apart from Boris Johnson, the other major
leader of the Vote Leave campaign.
Those two figures have such
financial interests around them,
that appear to have swayed them.
Both in 2016 with Gove's decision,
to join the vote leave campaign
to Camerons shock,
and now 2019 with Johnson trying to suspend
Parliament and try all these tricks.
It does suggest doesn't it
to any rational person.
That money is speaking to
heavily in our democracy,
and some very rich people have
much more sway than you or I.
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