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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 05:15 AM Feb 2019

Britain's richest man quits the UK: Billionaire Brexiteer Sir James Ratcliffe 'relocates to Monaco..

...in a bid to save £4bn in tax'

A prominent Brexiteer and Britain's richest man, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, is set to quit the United Kingdom in a bid to save billions in tax, it has been reported.

The 66-year-old, who was knighted less than a year ago for his services to business and investment, is reportedly planning to save up to £4bn with a move to Monaco.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6713413/Billionaire-Brexiteer-Sir-James-Ratcliffe-relocates-Monaco-bid-save-4bn-tax.html

I am sick of these wankers who lied to the people and now it is all going tits up fuck off out of the UK.... do as I say not as I do hypocrisy..... one day I will be an old lady telling tales of how we were once the oldest modern democracy on earth....
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Britain's richest man quits the UK: Billionaire Brexiteer Sir James Ratcliffe 'relocates to Monaco.. (Original Post) Soph0571 Feb 2019 OP
Got to love that Russian influence on stupid people. democratisphere Feb 2019 #1
Shows how much he loves Britain LeftishBrit Feb 2019 #2
Shameless crazytown Feb 2019 #3
The likes of him will get out, let it all collapse and then buy up the bones OnDoutside Feb 2019 #4
Jim Ratcliffe's interests are in fracking T_i_B Feb 2019 #7
Maybe he and the other ultra-rich arch-Brexiteers are bailing out now, Denzil_DC Feb 2019 #5
A note to Her Majesty the Queen... farmbo Feb 2019 #6

crazytown

(7,277 posts)
3. Shameless
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 06:15 AM
Feb 2019

UKIP - We are sick of these poor people taking our money. Ratcliffe - So am I. See you later. Have a nice WTO life.

OnDoutside

(20,672 posts)
4. The likes of him will get out, let it all collapse and then buy up the bones
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 06:48 AM
Feb 2019

of what's left.

My wife works in Pharma, here in Ireland, and they have just finished a proof of concept project for the testing of a drug that is currently made at a UK sister plant, for the uk and EU. If the no deal Brexit goes through, the manufacturing and testing will move to her plant for the EU market.

Actually, I'm thinking of taking a permanent job after two decades of contracting, and an opportunity has arisen with a US pharma company that had bought in the UK, but because of Brexit, bought a small manufacturing company in Ireland. They are currently in the process of hiring a couple of hundred to upscale in Ireland.

An Irish politician said last week that for the first time in a couple of hundred years or more, we may well see a net influx of British people coming to Ireland !

T_i_B

(14,806 posts)
7. Jim Ratcliffe's interests are in fracking
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 03:00 PM
Feb 2019

We've discussed his business interests on here before. Britain will be in a much weaker position to resist the fracking industry after we leave the EU. https://www.democraticunderground.com/108812491

Denzil_DC

(8,030 posts)
5. Maybe he and the other ultra-rich arch-Brexiteers are bailing out now,
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 08:55 AM
Feb 2019

not just as belt and braces, but in the hope of being lured back with even more generous tax breaks once the UK's liberated from Europe and free at last to plummet headlong into the race to the bottom in the regulation and corporate and personal tax stakes?

farmbo

(3,139 posts)
6. A note to Her Majesty the Queen...
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 09:09 AM
Feb 2019

Revoke this Wanker's Knightship straight away... and if he won't surrender it voluntarily, send up the RAF to "intercept" his Gulfstream before he leaves British airspace.

And, just by the way, since when did the country that tamed the Oceans and led the fight against Nazi Tyranny begin handing out Kinightships for "...services to business and investment?"

New twist on Churchill: "Never in the course of human conduct have so Many, paid so much, to so Few, for doing so Little".

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