It's a mad thing when you step back and look at it. A playbook that is being played out in almost every country across the western world.

1. Billionaires want to deregulate financial services and syphon yet more money away from working class people and to themselves.

2. In order to attain power, they set up and control a political party which will be able to do their work in parliament.

3. To get this party into power they create populist, divisive narratives based on over-inflated half-truths that the under-educated masses (sorry, don't care, its true) lap up on social media.

4. Eventually, party gets into power, deregulates financial system and syphons even more money away from the working class people who have blindly walked into the trap.

5. Right wing newspapers understand exactly whats going on yet do their bit to raise the required tensions and division.

For as long as there are swathes of working class people with zero critical thinking skills, I honestly don't see a way out of this loop without Farage walking into number 10. After that, he's got five years to do as his masters please.

Nauseating really.