Originally Posted by tweetiepooh

As with too many other times where there is a down turn there are leaches who sell short and hope for things to get worse. I've worked in companies that hit a hard patch and these low life come out boasting about how well they will do when the company collapses and they have to buy their short sold stock for a pittance. No thought of people losing their jobs and livelihoods.

Seems same is applying here. There are those "betting" on a sterling collapse and almost ensuring it's self fulfilling. And the brokers win whatever happens.

And this country we have doughnuts.