Sir Jim Ratcliffe in an interview with Sky News on the fringes of the European Industry Summit in Antwerp.
Britain’s wealthiest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe has said the country has been “colonized” by immigrants.
Ratcliffe is the founder of the INEOS chemicals group and co-owner of the soccer giant Manchester United. He has an estimated net worth of around $18 billion.
In an interview with Sky News, Ratcliffe pointed to the fact that Britain’s population has exploded in the past six years as successive governments open the borders to anyone who wishes to move there.
“You can’t have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in,” he said on the fringes of the European Industry Summit in Antwerp.
“I mean, the UK has been colonized,” he continued. “It’s costing too much money.”
“The UK has been colonized by immigrants, really, hasn’t it?”
”I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it’s 70 million. That’s 12 million people.”
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“The UK has been colonised by immigrants,” Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
“You can’t have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in,” he said. “I mean, the UK has been colonised. It’s costing too much money.
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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who is a fervent supporter of mass immigration, said that his comments were “offensive and wrong.”
“Britain is a proud, tolerant and diverse country,” he declared. “Jim Ratcliffe should apologise.”
Ratcliffe also weighed in on Starmer and the prospects of opposition leader Nigel Farage, who is currently leading the polls for the country’s next general election.
“I don’t know whether it’s just the apparatus that hasn’t allowed Keir to do it or, or he’s maybe too nice,” he said.
“I like him, but it’s a tough job and I think you have to do some difficult things with the UK to get it back on track, because at the moment I don’t think the economy is in a good state.”
“I think Nigel is an intelligent man, and, I think he’s got good intentions. But in a way, you could say exactly the same about Keir Starmer.”
”I think it needs somebody who’s prepared to be unpopular for a period of time to get the big issues sorted out.”
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