11 Feb 2026 18:33:14
Just when I start to feel a bit of pride again in our club, 'ole Jim has to come out with his stupid comments. I hate that he ever came to us.
1.) 11 Feb 2026
11 Feb 2026 19:40:23
Hes a disgusting c-unit, who moved to Monaco to not pay tax, utter rat. Typical billionaire bull, look poor man, that foreigner is taking your cookie, whilst he hoards 1000's!
2.) 11 Feb 2026
11 Feb 2026 20:25:00
All those immigrants coming over scoring goals for us.
3.) 11 Feb 2026
11 Feb 2026 21:32:03
Many immigrants in Monaco?
4.) 11 Feb 2026
11 Feb 2026 22:09:58
The problems that billionaires have to cope with…hard times!
5.) 11 Feb 2026
11 Feb 2026 22:12:14
He’s good with figures! 58, million in 2020? Gone up 12 million in the last five years? Slightly off there Sir Jim!
I wonder what he paid off ETH and Rubin? No wonder we’re skint!
6.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 08:07:40
So, are you suggesting that immigration ISN'T out of control?
I've no desire to get involved in any political argument here, but I think he made a good point and that he wasn't talking about his own wealth but about the country's wealth. I believe he was pointing out that the current.
and increasing levels of benefits expenditure are unsustainable. In that, I consider he's very much correct.
That said, I have only seen a snippet of the interview and may have missed your point and be off the mark.
{Ed001's Note - have you thought that if he actually paid his taxes, expenditure wouldn't be out of control? Rich prick points the finger at immigrants to avoid admitting it his actually his fault is what happened there. Immigration isn't out of control, it has lowered in recent years, but that doesn't suit racist rhetoric.}
7.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 08:58:11
Racist?! Behave! I'm talking specifically about the illegal immigrants arriving by boat across the channel. I do NOT see the vast majority of those as 'asylum seekers'. I see them very much as a Trojan Horse invasion that is going to destroy this country. Absolutely nothing racist about my attitude, but it seems easy to lob the old racist card into a discussion!
{Ed001's Note - funny, I never said you were racist, but your reaction tells its own story.}
8.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 09:08:11
You can have a nuanced argument about how much immigration has taken place in the UK, most definitely. From 2020 it seems to have gone to unsustainable levels, all parties agree on that tbf.
Jims comments however come over as misinformed and hyperbolic when he uses phrases like “colonised”. Also once you factor in the tax point and him living, for sensible reasons in Monaco, he looks hypocritical.
Combined with the fact that Man United is supposed to be an institution in the country, would expect the supposed figurehead to speak more carefully.
9.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 09:17:35
Fizz,
Don’t want to get into a political debate, but please take a step back, do your own reading about why the expenditure and economy are failing. It’s such a lazy narrative to blame that on immigrants and what the rich people would love you to believe, it doesn’t take too much to step back and see it’s nonsense, but most are just willing to believe what the rich people tell them. If you do your own research and come up with the same answer then that’s fine, and you may have already done that, but as the Ed says, think why the rich people want you to believe it’s immigrants fault.
10.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 09:37:16
Just when you thought you couldn’t dislike our owners any more, Jim chimes in and says hold my beer!
11.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 10:12:26
I see the owner of betfred was the highest payer of personal tax in uk in2025 @330m and the 3rd biggest was the last that owns a large chunk of bet 365.
1. It shows how stupid people are to lose so much gambling
2.
How much tax the wealthy do pay if they are resorted for tax in the uk.
Taxation is one if the least fair responsibilities today.
12.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 10:14:42
Ed001. No, it doesn't tell its own 'story' at all. If you knew anything at all about me or what I'm about, you would understand that it is impossible to label me as racist. The fact that your post is directly below mine and appears to be responding to my post led me to believe you were indeed pasting that label on me. Dropping the race bomb is simply a cheap shot aimed below the belt.
GDS2. If you read my post, you will see that I'm not being led by the nose by rich folk.
I am referring specifically to the thousands of illegal immigrants crossing the channel and the ongoing expenditure of housing, feeding, health care, legal fees, etc. I also made it clear that I had not viewed the entire interview, nor did I suggest a liking or not for SJR. I have nothing to 'step back' from.
I should have trusted my first instinct and avoided this thread like the plague. I shall do that now.
{Ed001's Note - ok mate, of course.}
13.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 11:06:05
Imagine living in Great Britain, the biggest colonizer of history and then having the audacity to complain about immigration. Humanity is bigger than football. Now having said that, illegal immigration, the one where people have no plans to work but scrounge is wrong and needs to be stopped.
Without immigrants, our NHS would stop in a heart beat and our taxi system would grind to a halt (to name a few) .
Ratboy lives in Monaco and has the audacity to complain about immigrants lol.
14.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 11:08:53
???? ???
Bloody foreigners!
15.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 11:18:38
Since Brexit, and us leaving the Dublin convention, the number of “ boat people” coming across the channel has quadrupled, because they couldn’t then be sent back. Hope you didn’t vote for that Fizz!
By the way, I’m an immigrant and I came across on a boat! And, I’ve been paying taxes for 60 years!
16.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 12:27:41
Net migration is likely to be in a negative by the summer. I wonder what Nigel and his cronies will have to talk about then. Labour are sorting immigration, once they do the narrative around them ‘should’ change, but with our media run by the rich, it’s important to get your information from a wide range of sources.
Farage has come out and backed the Rat’s comments, if you’re not a billionaire and you’re thinking of voting for him this should tell you all you need to know.
17.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 13:31:37
Brexit - and in particular the extreme interpretation of it that has been adopted - is a far bigger drain on the UK economy than anything Jim spoke about. The worst case economic forecasts of its impacts are actually very close to what's happening. The UK clearly needs to re-establish relations with Europe. That can all be true and not imply that wanting to have more control of borders is racist. Control though is often launched on with language like "close the borders" or "invasion" or by automatically linking societal issues with immigrants.
That is racist (or more precisely it is xenophobic) unless there is evidence behind it. For instance data shows that immigrants are net contributors and proportionally commit fewer crimes. But wanting to ensure the rate of population growth is managed so that services can scale accordingly etc is all fair. I think Jim Ratcliffe has veered towards xenophobia here but as Fizz said that does not negate all his points.
18.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 13:42:43
The man who lives in a tax haven to avoid paying his fair dues, who has seen his individual wealth skyrocket over the past few decades, and has taken his companies out of the UK to avoid paying tax, is actually not the problem.
No, the real problem is immigrants because they are the ones responsible for lack of state revenue, the cost of living crisis, below inflation wages, and housing shortages.
This has nothing to do with the persistent concentration of wealth in a ever narrowing percentage of the global population, and everything to do with bloody immigrants.
19.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 14:12:31
Not a big shock this is how Brexit Jim thinks.
20.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 14:59:51
Hes a moron and every day i dislike him even more. He doesn't know his ancestors were romainians!
21.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 15:25:57
Patrick, by the way, my father is also an immigrant, and he too came across on a boat! He served this country and has been paying taxes for longer than 60 years.
22.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 17:44:36
We’re all immigrants Fizz! I think you should let your father retire!
23.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 17:58:42
Danny, immigrants are not responsible for lack of state revenue. They, in the long term, contribute more in taxation than they do in claiming benefits.
Housing shortage? Thatcher selling off council houses anything to do with it? Successive governments not fulfilling building targets?
24.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 19:15:02
Patrick, tax is paid on pension.
25.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 19:28:45
Get the Saudis in, least they've got nothing dodgy about them.
26.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 20:33:36
Wow!
What a thread to walk into first thing in the morning! Calm down people.
NHS would stop in a heartbeat - gold!
27.) 12 Feb 2026
12 Feb 2026 22:02:28
Keefy- can’t tell if that’s sarcasm or you agree with my comment re:NHS.
If you agree - fair.
If you disagree you’re entitled to. However unless you work on the frontline as I do and have knowledge about the ethnicity of staff then I’d be happily engage in convo.
28.) 13 Feb 2026
13 Feb 2026 05:14:13
Don't the Rat's companies also receive handouts from the government that are being paid for by taxpayers as well? So not only does he not pay taxes, he actively takes money out for his own benefit as well.
29.) 13 Feb 2026
13 Feb 2026 08:47:22
Fizz, may your father continue to pay taxes for many more years. Did he hail from the Emerald Isle?
30.) 13 Feb 2026
13 Feb 2026 09:00:31
I was loving the NHS and heartbeat link. Calm down!
31.) 13 Feb 2026
13 Feb 2026 09:12:31
But for what it’s worth I do agree.
32.) 13 Feb 2026
13 Feb 2026 10:55:13
Patrick, indeed, he does hail from The Emerald Isle. Born and raised in Curry, County Sligo.
33.) 13 Feb 2026
13 Feb 2026 12:09:18
I wonder what the players think about his comments, we're a squad full of immigrants or sons of immigrants. These joint owners are as bad as each other in different ways, I hope I live to see the day when we're bought out by a lesser evil. P. s the term 'race card' f**ks me off no end, it says more about the person saying it than who it's targeted at.
(Brown boy born and raised in England, living in Aus last 11 years)
34.) 13 Feb 2026
13 Feb 2026 19:07:27
He employs thousands of people in the UK who will most likely pay tax in this country. a lot of British reside in Monaco to avoid tax. Everyone would if your accountancy firm recommends it.
Dont remember Piers Morgan calling out Arsenal for paying their players through their Jersey office.
SJR has a point and is allowed an opinion. Maybe worded more carefully. The over-reaction is not a surprise and anyone who think Brexit (in name only) and governments want to solve the issue are deluded. They skew the numbers on everything including immigration. How can they even know who has arrived and how many? Only goes to boost the black market economy and or increase the public burden. The public sector has to be paid for by the private sector, private sector must be bigger than the public sector to pay for it. Its always been like that. The NHS is failing as there are very few jobs for skilled/trained and hardly any jobs.
Many people are leaving this country who were born here more recently but all is positive as it at least keep the net migration lower.