"In 2020, the year Sir Jim Ratcliffe moved his huge fortune to Monaco, migrants in the United Kingdom made tax contributions estimated to be worth around 20bn. Sir Jim, by jetting off to a tax haven on the French Riviera, saved himself an estimated 4bn. It took some brass neck for the expat owner of Ineos and co-owner of Manchester United football club to lecture the country, using inflammatory and offensive language, on the perils of immigration."
"The statistics used by Sir Jim to back his claim that Britain was being colonised by migrants, in an interview with Sky News, were flatly wrong. They were also astonishingly crass, coming from a man who presides over a sporting institution famous for and proud of its global fanbase and international connections. Current Manchester United stars such as Cameroon's Bryan Mbeumo and Cote d'Ivoire's Amad Diallo will doubtless have their views on Sir Jim's intervention."
"Representatives of the club's many Muslim followers have already given theirs, questioning whether they should feel welcome in United's Old Trafford stadium. The Ineos owner's football interests have given his comments a prominence they would not have otherwise had. But the willingness of a high-profile public figure to echo great replacement theory tropes is yet another disturbing sign of the times. Sir Keir Starmer was right to describe Sir Jim's as offensive and wrong on Thursday."
In 2020 Sir Jim Ratcliffe moved his huge fortune to Monaco and saved an estimated £4bn in taxes, while migrants in the United Kingdom contributed tax revenues estimated at around £20bn. The Ineos owner and Manchester United co-owner used inflammatory and offensive language to warn about immigration, citing flatly wrong statistics and claiming Britain was being colonised. The remarks were astonishingly crass given the club's global fanbase and international players, and prompted Muslim supporters to question whether they should feel welcome at Old Trafford. The intervention amplified great replacement theory tropes and heightened concerns about normalising xenophobic speech in British public life. Political leaders publicly condemned the comments.
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