Take the Barclay brothers – owners of the Daily Telegraph which today denounced the mutineers. David and Frederick Barclay may have been born in Hammersmith, but they live in Monaco and Sark. They give their address as Avenue de Grande Bretagne, Monte Carlo and when once asked why, said that: “(We) left the UK over 23 years ago for health reasons and not for tax reasons in any shape or form.” Methinks they doth protest too much.
Billionaire Rupert Murdoch, whose stable of papers (The Times and Sunday Times excepted) fought the dirty end of the Brexit media war isn’t British, doesn’t live in Britain and is on record as saying that he objects to the EU because it won’t do his bidding. The multi-millionaire owner of the Daily Mail, Jonathan Harmsworth, is a non dom. Nigel Lawson, Chair of Vote Leave, loves Britain so much that he resides full time in a big house in – France. Leave EU Official bigwig Arron Banks lives for much of the year in Belize. His right hand man, Andy Wigmore, not only lives in Belize but is a Belizean citizen and diplomat who represented Belize at the Olympic Games. Andy loves Britain so much that he is no longer actually British.
Key Brexit pusher and financier Lord Ashcroft – also lives in Belize. The official Vote Leave campaign was funded by Peter Cruddas who lives – in Monaco. And this is before we even get to the Brexit talking heads – Louise Mensch lives in America. Steve Hilton – lives in California. I could go on. And on.
How much of this hypocrisy are you willing to put up with Britain? When do you take a good look in the mirror and say “enough is enough.” These are plastic patriots. They aren’t interested in the prosperity and well-being of their homeland. They are too busy being concerned with their tax affairs, their media careers, their business interests and their tans. They have played you for a bunch of fools and whichever way Brexit goes they will most likely go untouched by the fall-out.
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Sounds like those patriotic British Brexiters are as British as those countless patriotic American Trumpists were Americans
ReplyDeleteSo, tangent question; what happens to British citizens in EU countries when Britain leaves?
ReplyDeleteChris Greene I wish I knew. I guess I'll find out at 11pm on March 29th, on whenever it was May was on about. Perhaps some large Czech goons will show up and quietly escort me to the border. Or maybe they'll insist I have to become a Czech citizen. Total mystery.
ReplyDeleteThey instantly get a pony and a magic money tree, Chris Greene. Fundamentally, this referendum was about freeing the UK from the need to conform to causation and other EU directives on conformity to a common reality.
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