UK minister hits out at 'tax exile' Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Jim Ratcliffe, tax-dodging Brexiter billionaire living in Monaco, says the poorest and most vulnerable should have their rights & benefits removed to bolster our economy. Don’t bother telling us this rancid man’s opinions unless you say how much he’s avoided in tax and what Brexit is costing us all.
Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪41Jim Ratcliffe is still peddling the myth of "trickle down economics". Trouble is, he's a liar who never let a penny of his own super-wealth trickle down because he fucked off to a tax oasis. The poor don't get more if the super-rich pay less. The poor to have less so that the super-rich have more!
Paul Russell34I’m still struggling to understand why the BBC thinks we are interested in what he has to say. Does having lots of money make your poltical opinions more worthwhile than everyone else’s?
Dreamliner Ontario32Ratcliffe was a vocal Brexit supporter AND promised that his Ineos Grenadier LandRover rip-off would be built in the UK, to provide British jobs. So, of course, he took the production to the EU. The British jobs never materialised. Cakeism, on his terms. C*** of the highest order.
Stephen Kinsella24I was on R5Live last night discussing him and how his money clearly hasn’t brought him happiness, or insight.
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉19As he’s in UK Radcliffe should be made to pay back taxes he’s avoided over past 5 years to help the most vulnerable people Then deported & told same will happen every time he comes over to stir shit before swanning off to his Monaco palace Instead of contributing zero and just criticizing the UK
passionpants.bsky.social15I wonder how many of his employees are paid so little that UK tax payers have to make up their pay to a living wage via the benefits system Ratcliffe hates so much.
Huw Jelly13I take the opposite view to this rancid, tax avoiding, off-shore expat. Feed and house everyone. Tax the rich, and whilst we're at it, let's take their bloody microphones too.
SDDPHOTO3Rancid fits Trump is rancid Most of USA CONGRESS IS RANCID The Supreme Court is supremely rancid six of them actually
Mark Thompson2You can never do enough to meet the exacting standards of tax evaders.
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Torsten Bell214There are lots of real economic headwinds, not least from the Iran war (which is part of why we opposed it). But there are also lots of brilliant business owners who live in Britain and are investing in it (even if the BBC don’t cover their comments, or investments, as news)
Glostermeteor 🔶54And also complains about immigration while becoming an immigrant himself. Its all hypocrisy with Billionaires.
Nick44No push back or challenge from the BBC journalist. Just spoonfeeding in the usual tired taking points about tax and immigration. Like two old whingers down the pub agreeing with each other.
Stuart Hemingway33The only way the BBC have made a story of his words is by omitting that for years he hasn’t paid UK taxes and he makes money out of oil.
Mark Haigh30I'm just utterly fed up of rich people thinking that just because they're rich, they have some divine knowledge about running a country, ESPECIALLY when they don't live here or contribute anything. And you can guarantee that what they do say is always about making themselves even richer.
Jon Loveridge28If you read the quotes here, he says nothing original or interesting. It’s just platitudes about North Sea O&G, American vs. British attitudes, Immigration and Tax - all the sort of “analysis” you can read from cretins on LinkedIn. Why are we meant to think this man’s words or views carry weight?
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧182The guy that owns Manchester United is complaining about immigration real fuck you to the majority of his players isn’t it
Peter Smith80Wish more Labour politicians could be positive and express themselves as clearly about the prospects for the UK. The "woe is me, we're all doomed" narrative needs challenging. Well done, Torsten.
Phil McDuff27Presenting this as an issue of "patriotism" is a good way to obscure that this is how the rich act, how they've always acted, and that it's really a failure of society to guard itself against the rich.
Ed Wilson19A minister writes... Perhaps he should ask his boss why he allowed Rishi Sunak to get in first with his Sunday Times op-ed reminding us that Racism Is Bad You Know. www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...
Dave Andress19Keep it snappy. He’s a ****.
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ17he'll probably be selected to stand as a labour party candidate in the next general. he has the same values.
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ15'this person has a massive patriotism problem' says an mp from the political party that has turned the uk in to a corrupt, rancid, bigoted shithole of an oligarchy. this is what the right call 'virtue-signalling':
Lav15You're an MP for the party in government. What are you actually doing to stop billionaires from leaving the country to avoid paying taxes? A little tip: grandstanding about patriotism doesn't count as doing something.
BrokenBanker9of course, if we had a decent DCMS minister, some reasonable questions could be asked why the BBC keep platforming these people, who are most definitely not patriots. but we don't, we have Lisa Nandy 🤷♂️
Miles King9so of course the BBC gives him a platform.
How the BBC’s latest platforming of the bigoted views of the anti-migrant billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is the sign of a national broadcaster that is increasingly losing its way www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...
Sarah Calvert 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺69Why is he called a "tax exile" and not a tax avoiding migrant?
Colin Martin35This shows the problem we have with the media. Ratcliffe’s opinion is only valid to them because he’s very rich. Yet despite him saying Britain is broken it seems to provide him nicely with wealth and a good life in Monaco.
jmmills.bsky.social19*has already lost its way - it did years ago. Brexit was enough for me.
Brian Moore18I have complained. Funny how the two-sidesism only really works one way. If the BBC had featured a pro-immigration proponent with no counter-argument, all hell would be let loose.
The Bishop 🇬🇧🇪🇺18Same impression here. The BBC has morphed into a platform for xenophobic bigots and assorted crooks. Surprisingly, nobody seems particularly interested in investigating what’s behind the change. The Labour gov, meanwhile, appears perfectly comfortable with it as it pursues its Reform Lite agenda.
Wokerati International Brigades #FreePalestine #Antifa4ever16The BBC needs a thorough purge of all the far-right entryists that have infiltrated its news division.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)77There are subjects on which Mr Ratcliffe has some knowledge or expertise. Immigration in society is clearly not such a topic: the BBC had to clarify that his comments 6 months ago were based on a massive mistake + misunderstanding of his key claim. His new comments were entirely contentless.
Politics UK23People argue the BBC is in the hands of the left. A laughable position. Platforming the irrelevant views of billionaires who don’t live here to talk the country down is full right wing media territory. The Tories appointments’ at BBC have completely undermined and trashed its credibility.
Ren Zelen20Impossible to understand why the #BBC thinks we need to care about the thoughts of a Brexit hypocrite who fled to Monaco to avoid paying tax, a non-dom who still has the gall to comment on U.K. immigration policy. He has contributed NOTHING to this country, just used it to enrich himself.
Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼♂️😉16Here here❗️When I saw this BBC headline my first thought is why are they treating what a tax dodging UK exile says as headline news All he does is talk down the UK, moan about migrants, having become one himself in Monaco.. so what he says is isn’t news, it’s racist, elitist BS❗️
Stéphanie Taberner 🔶 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇫🇷10The BBC has been a far right propaganda channel for 20 years or more. I renamed it a decade ago the Brexit Broadcasting Corporation.
Warycat8Burnham will know of Ratcliffe, whose remorseless pursuit of UK taxpayers money included many millions for his Manchester United stadium project. Ratcliffe pays no tax here but runs down the UK, disinvests cutting jobs and is always keen to get government loot to fund his schemes. Scrounger indeed!
Knitting Cat4BetFred coverage just as bad. Platforming the greedy, exploitative millionaires.
Shyamali Rodrigues 🔶️2They might as well ask Putin what he thinks about life in Britain. Unbelievable.
His Royal Huwness 🏴🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺2@andyburnham.bsky.social Do you ever watch the BBC? THey are so biased that your failure to address it means you don't or you are too craven to tackle the nettle or worse you're complict @johnswinney.bsky.social @lsrplaid.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monaco
The Haunted Balloon Lady45When did billionaires and multimillionaires become such miserable whiny cunts when they have everything? At one time, they‘d just move themselves and/or their money and shut the fuck up.
Andy Fraser33Every time he is in England he should get pelted with rotten fruit and eggs. Absolutely shameless. And of course - OF COURSE!!!! - this PoS backed Brexit. “Brexit will be wonderful” he said as he ran away to Monaco. Why the actual F the BBC platforms this monstrous wart I have no clue.
highpoh.bsky.social22Why the hell is the Beeb (which he does not fund) publishing unedited ouff pieces about tax exile, Britain hating billionaires? Who, once again, contribute nothing but whinging and do not even live here?
DOSGy17And Ineous relocated to Switzerland to avoid paying tax, also got a cob on because the U.K. government made him pay £350 million in VAT that units collected He’s the dirt of person that should be ridiculed not listened to
Sky Bloo 🏴17Immigrant says what about immigration?
Brian Moore16I've made a complaint, not least as they ran an almost identical 'news' item a few months ago (and even then it wasn't 'news'. Shameful pandering to the far right.
WillieMillersMoustache9Criticise the UK/UK Government: -What a wanker, tax exile, thieving prick, shut up. Criticise/Shaft Scotland/Scottish Government: -Captain of industry, knows his onions, fawning interview and double page profile.
Kev8It should be mandated by OfCom to indicate in news stories if the person commenting on the UK actually contributes taxes, after all it’s easy to talk shit about something you demonstrably don’t actually care about
TheCodeBlackDirective6French, EU citizen putting down the UK. He doesn't live here and hasn't for decades. 4,000 UK INEOS employees on UC because he pays them poorly. Deliberately quotes highly inaccurate figures on immigration to "help his argument". Horrible, selfish, grizzled ol' man.
stabilo5Worth pointing out that Ineos has been struggling with colossal debts for many years now.
Sammi4Jim putting the rat in Ratcliffe since, by the looks of him, the 1800s. Making out immigration and the welfare system are draining the country rather than people like him. Horrible little man.
Mork4🎵 cause i am looking for a way out…….. ⚽️ 😂
PinkTweets2He's also lost confidence in his barber.
David2Who cares what this pillock has to say? Your opinion doesn’t become newsworthy just because you’re a billionaire, if anything experience shows us the opposite should be true.
Mikey Papadopoulos2Ratcliffe continues to demonstrate he’s one of the great cunts of our age
Dave Johnson2"Tax exile." The UK could just tax the income of Brits living in other countries. That would stop the extortion threat, "if you tax them they'll leave." The US does that.
Laura Kuenssberg asks if it bothers Labour's Bridget Phillipson that people who create jobs and pay a lot of tax, citing, Jim Ratcliffe, move abroad - except, that's not the full story. My View: Did you know companies owned by Jim Ratcliffe have received public support worth around £630 million?
Stephen Kinsella70Also there's no evidence they are leaving in any numbers. According to Sunday Times Rich List there were 156 billionaires in the UK in 2025, 157 in 2026. Most of this debate is based on false narratives pushed by the usual suspects and swallowed by the usual journalists. @patmillsuk.bsky.social
Gàidheal Gèidh57🧵 Laura Kuenssberg’s hand-wringing over billionaire Jim Ratcliffe leaving the UK missed the real story. Ratcliffe heavily championed Brexit, promising Britain would thrive. But the moment it actually happened in 2020, he fled to Monaco—saving himself an estimated £4bn in tax. 📉
John Bentley55The BBC doing GB News job for them, again. When Ratcliffe lives in the UK and pays tax here, I might listen to what he has to say. ( probably not). Until then the tax dodging, racist Wanker can fuck right off.
James Bottomley17A lot of these so called jobs creators are more like channels for public money, creaming off a tidy profit on the way. Branson is another one who has grown very rich by farming public subsidy.
Ian R. Pearsall17If politicians are going to be facing this rubbish then they need to be a lot sharper and ultimately quash the narrative that people like Kuenssberg are sowing. You'd think they know it's coming.
An IT Nerd16"UNELECTED FOREIGNER, Jim Ratcliffe runs Great Britain down again! The constant stream of negativity from this fighting age immigrant....." - none of the press
Esheru19Billionaires, no longer create jobs. That narrative needs to change. We live in a world where we’re not manufacturing over here anymore, there are no job creations. The biggest employers are supermarkets, who pay such poor wages, employees rely on government assistance.
Ren Zelen4Why do the BBC insist that we should care about what a non-dom, tax dodging, unpatriotic, Brexit hypocrite thinks or says?
The BBC has been showcasing the views of oil tycoon Jim Ratcliffe in every news show for the last 24 hours, noting that he's "one of Britain's richest men". Shouldn't this be "one of Monaco's richest men"? How about similar airtime for (say) one of Britain's poorest women?
Ren Zelen15People who live in the U.K. and pay their taxes have lost confidence in the #BBC. It’s definitely been ‘on the slide’ for some time…
Steve Jackson13The media too often see the richest person as being the smartest. Never the greediest, the most ruthless or the least empathetic.
MCKelpish5Our collective reverence for wealth will be our undoing.
Michael Holt5"This is Betty. She don't have shit. Betty thinks....."
Mor'e4The BBC should take a look at it's self.
Walking Pete1They should be showcasing him as a traitor who hates working people in the UK 🇬🇧
Jim Ratcliffe, the UK's richest man who bankrolled Brexit, then became an immigrant in Monaco to avoid British taxes thinks migrants not tax avoiding billionaires are to blame for all the UK's ills "Coming from the man who moved to Monaco to dodge a £4 billion tax bill" via Zarah Sultana
Jack London5Not " the UK's richest man" A rich man from Monaco who possesses a UK passport Likely there are richer folk with accents that indicate they were brought up elsewhere who bought such a passport also
nochangetherethen.bsky.social3Sir Jim Ratcliffe, an ardent Brexit supporter, announced post brexir that plans to build a new car manufacturing factory in Wales have been scrapped in favour of a site in France.
Steve Batty 🟢3Well if he's lost confidence, the government should stop any tax paying funding and then ask him to repay what he has already had.
Somefella2Today's Man Utd team without the spoiling immigrants. Maguire Mainoo Rashford I'm hoping their owner sticks to his principles...
Muddled mind2Still at least it gives his family an idea when it comes to a Xmas present, a mirror.
cb24resident.bsky.social1Rat fuck traitor cünt. Jim can FOAD
Currently undertaking a fingertip search looking for the tiniest admirable quality in Jim Ratcliffe. Nothing so far sadly.
Cougie 5Oh but what about his ski lodge for under privileged children? www.theguardian.com/news/2023/ja...
bertiebirdman4“Not Glazer” wasn't the saving quality we needed.
victoria1921.bsky.social3While you're at it perhaps do a search for any tangible contributions he's made to Britain from his tax dodging haven in Monaco. Non dom billionaires who choose to leave the UK to live overseas are not patriotic. They are immigrants and appalling hypocrites.
Robert Foxon2Make sure you wash your hands afterwards.
Chris Gallen2His best qualities are greed and selfishness coupled with racism. Your search is doomed
crypttext.bsky.social1Doesn’t look to subsidise but he likes subsidies very, very much…
Knitting Cat3He has….. Nope, not one.
Absolutely right. Mr Burnham must run Britain just like Sir Jim Ratcliffe has run Manchester United. Like Britain, ManU was once a proud global giant. But like the UK, the club had entered a lengthy period of stagnation. Since Ratcliffe took over at Man Utd this once proud club has oh wait
Robert Saunders30It's hard enough being a United fan at the moment without Ratcliffe suggesting we run the whole country like this.
Karen D Shipp6And as everybody knows, the most important aspiration of a football club is to be profitable...
John Morgan6Fortunately, his Man Utd team doesn’t rely on immigrant labour…
Kevin McKenna MP5Hmmmm. Obvs I’m more used to FPTV as a scoring system. Is this bad for Man U then? 🤔 Glad Ratcliffe is focussed on outcomes rather than process metrics. Or not.
Anthony Painter3Good to see he has a wicked sense of humour.
stercus-uk.bsky.social3It seems to me that people who have left the country specifically to avoid contributing to the country probably ought to keep their opinions on the state of the country up their arse where they got them from.
a Monaco tax exile can, quite frankly, shut the fuck up www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tax exile Jim Ratcliffe lectures Andy Burnham, telling him to "look at what we did with Manchester United". Well, they won one trophy soon after he bought his stake, haven't won anything in the two seasons since, and are currently 13th in the league after being knocked out of the league cup.
ApolloLXII5And their stadium is literally falling apart!
jw46678474.bsky.social5See also his "success" in cycling by taking over the most successful team ever and reducing it to a team that wins nothing
Good judgment is not a permanent thing. It needs work including to listening to good advice.
ÓLiatháin ☘️💚3And this from June 2026….the rancid fucking idiot.
Kim Marshall 🏴 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇪🇺2Look what Ratcliffe did to Grangemouth.
Brendan Mac1Oh and the fans hate him
Jim Ratcliffe. A man so ‘patriotic’ he pushed for Brexit, then jumped ship to Monaco as a tax exile. Loves the prestige & benefits of his British knighthood, of owning a British club, and of UK tax payer money being pumped into his companies. Just not paying into the country that provides these.
Iain49Here's the thing, there are no consequences for leaving, you'll still get free tax payer money even if you don't contribute a single penny in UK tax, this could easily be changed by the government, change the tax laws to 90% if you chose to leave, remove all gongs & stop the free tax payers funding.
Snigdha19Well done to whoever put this up. bsky.app/profile/eddi...
Neil Tansley1Amazing how these 'brilliant billionaire businessmen' still need government handouts. Perhaps we give more support to ordinary folk who may turn out to be better businessmen and women than these frauds.
Jim Ratcliffe is still peddling the myth of "trickle down economics". Trouble is, he's a liar who never let a penny of his own super-wealth trickle down because he fucked off to a tax oasis! 😡 The poor don't get more when the super-rich pay less. The poor get less so that the super-rich have more!
orwelldell.bsky.social1Mr Brexit the guy who is now tax resident in Monaco - nice for some while the rest of us pay pay in the uk 🤷🏼♂️
Kunikos1How much government aid has he received on his way to extreme richness?
andyhancock.bsky.social1Why on earth don't the interviewers just say to him 'ok - you've lost confidence in the UK, so talk us through your thought process in deciding Monaco was your best option ?'
Farage & UK politics & media seem to have no understanding of business. Jim Ratcliffe is not a model of successful business. He is an asset-stripper, cost-cutter & someone with no record in innovation. This was Rachman capitalism in the 60s; we should call it Ratcliffe capitalism now.
Jack London2For Farage, "business genius" == bitter old man turned hard Right in his dotage but with lots of money at his disposal.... Someone with the taste to own MU (and tempted to try for Chelski) might be persuadable to "invest" in Reform With about the same level of success...
BumpyChesterfield.1Frogage is one of those responsible for the current state of the UK .
Melissa Eco Zealot 🏴🏴🏴1Hypocrisy off the scale, supporting the man who moved operations to EU and is a tax exile!
Nezaroo. I'm not an ism or an ist.1Fartrage's idea of a business genius being the pedo president who is so great at business that almost every single enterprise he has been involved with has ended up in bankruptcy and massive losses for everyone but Trump.
Andrew Dolan 6He's that much of a business genius, he managed to get the Labour gov to guarantee a £400million loan for building a facility in Belgium (with no benefit to uk taxpayers). ???, some sceptics would say it's his reward for closing Grangemouth. What say you Lord Anus?
Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan5Britain needs more people like someone who pissed off to avoid tax by becoming a Monaco immigrant, then bitches about benefit claimants and immigrants in the UK. On the side of the greedy tax avoiders, again.....