Super-rich prepare to leave UK 'within minutes' if Labour wins election

[Idaho]

Just expropriate anything we can get our hands on of theirs and ban them from entering the country ever again.

Fuck 'em.

Now that would be counter productive as probably less than 5% of their wealth will be in any local and confiscateable format.

Better to work steadily to get personal ownership transparency for all the invested and landowning money in the UK , and then go about systematically getting a fairer share from those who benefit the most handsomely from our society.

 

[chilango]

Now that would be counter productive as probably less than 5% of their wealth will be in any local and confiscateable format.

Better to work steadily to get personal ownership transparency for all the invested and landowning money in the UK , and then go about systematically getting a fairer share from those who benefit the most handsomely from our society.

Nah.

No deal. Just get £Brexit done.

 

[weltweit]

If people voted in accordance with their position in the economic food chain there would always be a labour government, labour's "for the many" strapline should indeed mean that the many voting in their economic interest would elect labour. It is why the many do not vote that way that interests me.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I don’t understand how people dangling by their necks from lampposts can leave the UK?

 

[Raheem]

I don’t understand how people dangling by their necks from lampposts can leave the UK?

A long row of lampposts right on the edge of the white cliffs, facing out, plus crows specially trained to gnaw at ropes.

 

[brogdale]

I don’t understand how people dangling by their necks from lampposts can leave the UK?

In a very real manner they will actually be leaving the land mass of the UK.

 

[Des Kinvig]

Another good reason to vote for labour, I think.

 

[Gramsci]

Nasty Corbyn is going to make life harder for the super rich by banning their jets.


Labour plans to ban polluting private jets to stop 'billionaires trashing the climate'

Yet another example of the politics of envy showing how Labour aren't fit to govern this country.

 

[mx wcfc]

Nasty Corbyn is going to make life harder for the super rich by banning their jets.


Labour plans to ban polluting private jets to stop 'billionaires trashing the climate'

Yet another example of the politics of envy showing how Labour aren't fit to govern this country.

As long as we take their passports off them as they go, they can fly out any way they like. We'll seize their houses, cars and bank balances at the same time.

 

[Idaho]

As long as we take their passports off them as they go, they can fly out any way they like. We'll seize their houses, cars and bank balances at the same time.

As on message this is with the urban class war crew, it reveals a poor understanding of how modern capital works. The idea that the super rich have a current account in their name with NatWest with all their money stacked up...

 

[mx wcfc]

As on message this is with the urban class war crew, it reveals a poor understanding of how modern capital works. The idea that the super rich have a current account in their name with NatWest with all their money stacked up...

Taking their passports off them would hurt. But it is sadly unlikley.

The last time we had this "we will leave the country" shit from the private equity people, they all went home and told their wives they were moving to Switzerland, and their wives turned round and laughed and they are still here.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

And we'll still have to put up with their actual faces. And voices.

Possibly not their "actual" faces...

 

[Serge Forward]

The super rich have never needed passports.

 

[Pickman's model]

I don’t understand how people dangling by their necks from lampposts can leave the UK?

They'll be here in body but gone in spirit

 

[Pickman's model]

The super rich have never needed passports.

They won't be taken aback then when they're confiscated at tilbury

 

[Proper Tidy]

The super rich have never needed passports.

They won't when we have the keys either tbf

 

[krtek a houby]

A long row of lampposts right on the edge of the white cliffs, facing out, plus crows specially trained to gnaw at ropes.

Should be seagulls, mind

 

[Chilli.s]

Quickly hiding all the untaxed wealth overseas does leave a paper trail, and a fucking great target for any scrupulous taxman to aim at.

 

[Plumdaff]

They spend a lot of money in places which employ a lot of people ( shops, hotels, restaurants which all pay VAT ) and directly employ a lot of people - who all pay tax, so the statement above is false.

Taxing corporation tax and dividends closer to income tax is fairer though.

Alex

Think of all the money that could be being spent stimulating the economy that currently goes on housing costs benefiting a tiny minority. Think about how if ordinary people had the money in their pockets they would spend it across the country rather than in small pockets of obscene wealth.

 

[Chilli.s]

Yeah, all that money sits there doing nothing, just locked up. Doesn't stimulate any building or commerce, it's the opposite of that trickle down ballshit. That's how great wealth stymies capitalism.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Few of these fortunes are made from any kind of endeavour apart from corruption and theft. These lot dont even have a fallback position of being good honest productive capitalists.

 

[chilango]

I think there's two parts to this.

First is making it clear that they're not welcome, that they're viewed as parasitical and that we're eager to boot 'em out.

Second is maximising what we can get back off them in terms of assets and capital.

 

[chilango]

Not the hardest hitting piece, but simple.

Why on Earth Shouldn’t People Be Able to Be Billionaires? | Novara Media

 

[Chilli.s]

As an all inclusive type of person I'm not totally against being rich, just think they need far stricter and higher taxing.

 

[Idaho]

Yeah, all that money sits there doing nothing, just locked up. Doesn't stimulate any building or commerce, it's the opposite of that trickle down ballshit. That's how great wealth stymies capitalism.

I would have thought most offshore money doesn't just sit there. It's likely the money then goes onshore somewhere and is invested in markets - but without any identifying details.

 

[Poi E]

Can't see the windsors fucking off TBH.

 

[friedaweed]

Let them leave lemming-like from beachy head

Wouldn't Sandbanks be a be better place for them to leave from. Closer to home and quite dangerous to shipping.

 

[Pickman's model]

Wouldn't Sandbanks be a be better place for them to leave from. Closer so home and quite dangerous to shipping.

beachy head has already been booked for the occasion with a fun fair and everything so we can't withdraw now without forfeiting various deposits

morrissey has been booked to sing and i expect the look on his face will be priceless when he sees what's actually in store for him

 

[Dogsauce]

When Corbyn grounds all their private aircraft I’ll make a special secret tunnel for them in my yard. Ten grand entrance fee, leads to a secret monorail under the channel and onwards to Monaco, honest. Definitely won’t funnel them into a log chipper down the hill.