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The hedge fund manager who won £220 million by betting on the Brexit vote chaos

Nigel Farage targets hedge funds as key to Ukip’s financial future

I’m guessing it’s something you’ve read in some far right propaganda and are too embarrassed to post a link and admit where you get your education from.

They are traveling halfway across Europe. If they’re all right with that why should I have a problem? They were free to come here and do these jobs and free to leave again. In the case of fruit pickers it’s the same people coming and going back every season. Do you think that they feel that they...

Without their own home. Not homeless. There’s a distinct difference. Ironically some of the skilled and unskilled workers we are desperately short of are those in the house building market. Nobody wants to do traditional apprenticeships anymore in the skills required to build houses and nobody...

Record employment is while we’re members of the EU not because we’ve left because we haven’t. Record share prices is a consequence of the pound crashing since the referendum. The majority of companies in the FTSE 100 trade internationally and when they convert their international earnings into...

He didn’t say Italy he said G7, that’s us Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Canada and the USA. You’re only comparing us to Italy to make your point. Why is that? How do we compare on balance to all G7 nations rather than just the one you’ve cherry picked to try and make a point? You do realise...

The open door policy has allowed industries to grow and tax collections to grow with them. It’s governments that have failed. You know China no longer has a one child policy, why do you think that is? It’s because the economy is stagnating due to a lack of workforce. When an economy stagnates...

Again a failing of successive governments. Plus that’s a stupid and ignorant response.

No one is stealing them and bringing them here against their will. They come here of their own free will because it’s an opportunity to better themselves. Slaves didn’t profit from the work they did. Frankly it’s a crass, lazy and stupid comparison to make.

I’ll give you the same reply I give to anyone who comes out with that. Tell me what the positives are? The standard reply seems to be we just need to stop being negative. Fine. Give me a reason to stop being negative. At which point silence. I’m not going to be positive of the back of the...

That’s a consequence of successive failing governments not migrants. Fact is they’re coming to work, that means that there is jobs available, that means there is tax to collect and that means there are funds to distribute to the NHS, schools, housing etc. It’s failed governments that have let...

Just because the NHS is struggling to recruit doesn’t mean that cheap labour isn’t important to the economy. Fact is many sectors rely on cheap immigrant labour and can’t survive without them. You can keep ignoring that and keep spouting skilled labour all you like but if we stop letting in...

Do we? Are skilled workers going to pick fruit, work in hotels and restaurants, work zero hours contracts on minimum wage? We have record employment in this country and unless we close down sectors of industry we need unskilled workers to keep certain sectors going.

We need unskilled workers as well as skilled. If they come from India they’ll do exactly the same as skilled and unskilled Indian workers do in places like the U.A.E. Namely everything that you’re moaning about Eastern EU migrants apparently doing.

I work in an industry that is heavily reliant on batteries and battery technology. You seem to be fixated on an idea that the motor industry is the only industry that has a interest in batteries and future development. You couldn’t be further from the truth. Have you ever been to a building that...

Similar to driving a traditional car driving halfway through a tank of petrol. Which again is why battery efficiency and recharge time is important. If you can recharge your car in five minutes it improves product confidence. Graphene also has the ability to increase energy density. Graphene is...

Again. Not sure why it’s important but I’ve driven an I3 a mate owned. Done a track day in an I8 as a Xmas present (thank you wifey) not strictly electric but hybrid. And a couple of years ago I assisted a battery manufacturer that we distribute for do a solar trade show at the NEC. Tesla were...

Graphene batteries are in their infancy. Graphene itself is in its infancy for that matter. Never said that they are perfected and ready for market, pretty much said the opposite actually. How many electric cars have I driven? More than you as it turns out. Not sure why that’s important though.

Charge time is everything. The problem with a battery based on current technology is it isn’t 100% efficient on recharge so you have to put in not only the energy that you’ve taken out you have to put in more than you’ve taken out to overcome its inefficiencies. When a material as conductive as...