A sobering piece in 'The Scotsman'. A paper known for being centre, moderate and down to earth.

Wealthy men are playing with the lives of 60 million people as if Brexit were a game of chess

Plenty to think about but the following passage is particularly disturbing to me.

It is clearly true that many of them are now trying to unseat their own party leader for not delivering on a fantasy of painless, glorious Brexit that they themselves have failed to turn into political reality, since the task is impossible. And as for concealing their true aims – well, who can say what strange brew of midlife psychosis and outright political dishonesty has motivated the bizarre wave of retro-imperial fantasy and anti-European rhetoric that has swept through parts of the Tory Party at Westminster in recent years; although investigations into the funding and management of the Leave campaign suggest that there are, at the very least, very serious questions to be asked about the sources of its funds, and its shadowy political connections.

It was obvious to some of from the start. It should now be blatantly obvious to all that the whole sorry affair was dreamed up by a tiny but powerful minority with vested interests in keeping the British people under their heel.