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Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian
schwit1 writes: The first rule of "Project Bookend" is that you don't talk about "Project Bookend." In retrospect, maybe the first rule should have been "you don't accidentally e-mail 'Project Bookend' to a news agency," because as the Guardian reports, one of its editors opened his inbox and was surprised to find a message from the BOE's Head of Press Jeremy Harrison outlining the UK financial market equivalent of the Manhattan project. Project Bookend is a secret (or 'was' a secret) initiative undertaken by the BOE to study what the fallout might be from a potential 'Brexit', but if anyone asked what Sir Jon Cunliffe and a few senior staffers were up to, they were instructed to say that they were busy investigating "a broad range of European economic issues." And if you haven't heard the term before, "Brexit" refers to the possibility of Britain leaving the EU -- one of the possible outcomes of an upcoming referendum.
The EU referendum is a proxy for a vote on immigration.
True, it's about time we kicked all these foreign buggers out...
Personally, I favour starting with the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and their descendants,
a Pictish friend wants those pesky Celts thrown out,
another mutters darkly about the need to round up those damn Beaker People and their descendants and send them back to where they came from...
(Don't even get the Neanderthal* family living 10 minutes walk from me started about those bloody Cro-Magnons who've moved into these sceptered isles...)
*I'm not kidding...the father and both sons look more like the current depiction of Neanderthal man than anything else (albeit dressed in t-shirts and denim).