Richard Branson facing backlash over plea for UK bailout of Virgin

[BrilloPad]

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Meanwhile, his “wish to avoid being taxed by the British government means he cannot spend more than ninety days a year in the UK.” Such is one of the many ironies of life as Britain’s most famous entrepreneur.

F*** him! The routes will still be there and other airlines will need the staff.

Not when Greta gets her way.

[Manic]

Richard Branson tax fraud: How a youthful indiscretion helped create a billionaire.

From link

Meanwhile, his “wish to avoid being taxed by the British government means he cannot spend more than ninety days a year in the UK.” Such is one of the many ironies of life as Britain’s most famous entrepreneur.

F*** him! The routes will still be there and other airlines will need the staff.

[scooterscot]

polarity changes soon as it crosses the border!

[Mordac]

Not been on a South of the border train in years it's true. Was on Scotrail recently... still burning diesel between Edinburgh & Glasgow!

Better Scottish diesel than Bastard English electricity...

[scooterscot]

You've been away too long. His trains were really crap, his airline isn't much better and his cable tv service is overpriced and has outages measure in geological time.

The peoples' billionaire?

Not been on a South of the border train in years it's true. Was on Scotrail recently... still burning diesel between Edinburgh & Glasgow!

[LondonManc]

You've been away too long. His trains were really crap, his airline isn't much better and his cable tv service is overpriced and has outages measure in geological time.

The peoples' billionaire?

Oi, be careful. Scooty did all his own research.

[Mordac]

Be careful.... the wailers on here will not hear a bad word spoken about the people's billionaire.

You've been away too long. His trains were really crap, his airline isn't much better and his cable tv service is overpriced and has outages measured in geological time.

The peoples' billionaire?

[AtW]

Virgin Cola —->

[AtW]

The guy is a poor copycat - a tax dodge too, pretty crazy that tax on dividends isn’t applied to all dividends paid regardless where recipient lives, any honest investor living in a comparable to UK country would just use double taxation treaty to offset UK taxes against local taxes.

And now he wants taxpayer support, sure - bail out if business is sound but his shares should go down right to 0 in such businesses if he is not putting in his cash.

[scooterscot]

Be careful.... the wailers on here will not hear a bad word spoken about the people's billionaire.

[Paddy]

“ From his private island in the Caribbean, Sir Richard Branson is trying to convince the UK government to give his Virgin Atlantic airline a £500m bailout to help it survive the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout of the lockdown.

The billionaire, who also wants £700m from the Australian government to bailout Virgin Australia, has the backing of bosses at Airbus, which makes Virgin’s planes, and Rolls-Royce, which makes its jet engines, who have warned ministers that if the airline collapsed it could drag them down too.”

Richard Branson facing backlash over plea for UK bailout of Virgin | Business | The Guardian

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Richard Branson tax fraud: How a youthful indiscretion helped create a billionaire.

[AtW]

“ From his private island in the Caribbean, Sir Richard Branson is trying to convince the UK government to give his Virgin Atlantic airline a £500m bailout to help it survive the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout of the lockdown.

The billionaire, who also wants £700m from the Australian government to bailout Virgin Australia, has the backing of bosses at Airbus, which makes Virgin’s planes, and Rolls-Royce, which makes its jet engines, who have warned ministers that if the airline collapsed it could drag them down too.”

Richard Branson facing backlash over plea for UK bailout of Virgin | Business | The Guardian

Never liked him