BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[C R]

The thing is, historically it's true that the UK has been colonised by immigrants, and if he'd left it there it would have been hard to argue.

That's not what he means, though.

 

[briantrumpet]

That's not what he means, though.

Quite plainly so. The xenophobia (excepting foreign football players, obvs, cos they are different from other foreigners) is hardly subtle.

 

[Rusty Nails]

And today's Cunty Prize goes to...

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Says the part owner of Manchester United whose first team squad consists of almost 75% immigrants.

 

[briantrumpet]

Sky News fact-checks Ratcliffe. Maybe he should stick to counting up to just 11.

 

[AndyRM]

People are aware that Jim Ratcliffe is an absolute c*nt, right?

 

[Mr Celine]

And today's Cunty Prize goes to...

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UK has been colonised by immigrants says immigrant currently colonising Monaco.

 

[briantrumpet]

Just to get the nuanced view from the cycling world...

 

[First Aspect]

As a sort of Manchester United fan I sort of don't care if he manages to stop them being terrible and fixes the stadium. There are so many other questionables who own football clubs, the alternative is no better.

 

[Ian H]

Quite plainly so. The xenophobia (excepting foreign football players, obvs, cos they are different from other foreigners) is hardly subtle.

The Ineos Lego Landrover is hardly subtle.

 

[Pblakeney]

As a sort of Manchester United fan I sort of don't care if he manages to stop them being terrible and fixes the stadium. There are so many other questionables who own football clubs, the alternative is no better.

As is typical of Ratcliffe, he wants the public to pay for the new stadium.

 

[briantrumpet]

As a sort of Manchester United fan I sort of don't care if he manages to stop them being terrible and fixes the stadium. There are so many other questionables who own football clubs, the alternative is no better.

Are taxpayers, you know, including immigrant ones, paying part of the stadium improvement cost? I never understood why the taxpayer subsidised the new Wembley Stadium, when football is absolutely awash with money.

 

[First Aspect]

Are taxpayers, you know, including immigrant ones, paying part of the stadium improvement cost? I never understood why the taxpayer subsidised the new Wembley Stadium, when football is absolutely awash with money.

I think taken as a whole football loses money. Astonishingly.

The new stadium, should it ever happen, will not be tax payer funded. But what they are trying to do is make it part of a broader rail and regeneration project that will be taxpayer funded. United own a lot of the land (including the existing stadium) and would vicariously benefit from travel links and from selling it.

 

[briantrumpet]

I think taken as a whole football loses money. Astonishingly.

The new stadium, should it ever happen, will not be tax payer funded. But what they are trying to do is make it part of a broader rail and regeneration project that will be taxpayer funded. United own a lot of the land (including the existing stadium) and would vicariously benefit from travel links and from selling it.

Well, they should pay footballers less for a start then. Seems that a branch of popular entertainment that pays multimillion transfer fees and salaries for/to people who kick a ball around that then asks for tax handouts has got its sums wrong somewhere. Point stands for Wembley.

 

[Pross]

UK has been colonised by immigrants says immigrant currently colonising Monaco.

Same here to say the same. Do these morons really not think through their comments or assume everyone else is as stupid as them? Monaco is probably the country most over-crowded with immigrants in the whole world but hey, they're rich.

 

[Psamathe]

From 2019

INEOS threatens to close UK plant unless it can dodge EU pollution rules
An analysis of data from the Environment Agency (EA) also reveals the plant clocked up 176 permit violations between 2014 and 2017, 90 of which related to air and water emissions. An EA spokesperson said: “air emissions are well over legal limits and this poses a risk to the environment”.

The threat to close the site – made in a letter to business secretary Greg Clark in October last year – comes as the UK prepares to leave the EU, removing the power of EU institutions to enforce environmental standards.

(Also reported by The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...os-made-threat-over-dirty-air-rules-3qzgwxrcg but I don't have a subscription to access that report).

2 years ago

UK gives £600m backing to Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘carbon bomb’ petrochemical plant
ut despite admitting the plant’s adverse impact on climate, biodiversity, the environment and the risks to social and human health, the British government has provided financial guarantees of €700m to support the building of Project One in Antwerp.

The support from the UK government’s export finance department, an arm of the Department for Business and Trade, to Ratfliffe, now a high-profile part-owner of Manchester United Football Club, exceeds that promised by the same department for countries in Africa and the Middle East to adapt to climate breakdown.