High Profile Socialist French Economist Quits as Adviser to UK's Labour Party

If Brexit accomplishes nothing else, this in itself should be considered a sufficient victory for the entire effort.

Thomas Piketty, author of the anti-capitalistic best seller,  Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is jumping off a sinking ship and has quit his role as an advisor to the Labour party — blaming its "very weak" EU referendum campaign.

Labour adviser Thomas Piketty quits position saying he is "deeply concerned" with UK vote to leave EU and with party's "very weak campaign"

— Sky News Newsdesk (@SkyNewsBreak) June 29, 2016