Can the City survive Brexit?

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4. Given the Brexiteers' framing of Brexit as striking back aganst "the elite",

it's telling that "the elite" haven't so far been able to scupper their (lack of) plans.

But there's money to be made from failure, not so much in backing a now-failing brand - UK™ - but in scavenging the leftovers from an increasingly outwardly desperate (but in certain cases inwardly calculating, if not gleeful) government while basking safely and comfortably in the sunny climes of Ireland or Holland or elsewhere in Continental Europe or the overseas tax havens that will survive attempts at improved regulation.

Thatcher reportedly said "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

The problem with unbridled vulture capitalism is that eventually you run out of family silver to flog off.