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If we ignore the 7%, and examine the 1%, we end up with many large landowners, not just the historical aristocracy, but recent arrivistes like Paul Dacre, (with his Scottish 'castle'), who profit handsomely from the EU Common Agricultural Policy.
(Post the brexit vote, one of the first 'We''ll guarantee matched EU funding/subsidies' that issued from the Tory party was to reassure landowners).
Do these people gain enough income from 'rents', filtered through offshore companies that ensure they accrue no taxes, that they are insulated from the real economy?
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I wondered about this. At the time, one of the main reasons I thought there was no chance that it would go through was because every business (all the banks, the services, basically everyone except for sodding Dyson) was advocating remain. I thought they were the Tory taskmanagers.
I guess somewhere there's a cabal of wealth, and it must be private, which has greater sway.