Let’s be honest, the nation needs a lot more Jim Ratcliffes and rather less Keir Starmers. Look at the two men. Sir Jim was raised in a council house not far from Oldham, yet went on to make billions through the chemical business, investing a decent chunk of it in Manchester United.
By buying into Man U, he wanted to support his boyhood club. I recall once chatting with Sir John Majedski, the man who founded Auto Trader and later went on to rescue Reading Football Club.
I asked him why he had put all that money in. He replied: ‘’I wanted to put something back. I didn’t realise I was going to put it all back.’’
Good gag.
Starmer too went to a grammar school, made his money as a human rights lawyer, but spent most of his political career banging on about being working class. Ratcliffe never did that.
With his alleged ‘’forensic mind’’ I find it odd that Starmer believed Mandelson and Doyle when they denied their links to a paedophile.
Perhaps he’s just plain thick. Looking at their CVs, it’s clear that if you should listen to one of the men, it must be Ratcliffe.
He has angered Starmer by saying what many accept: Britain has been ‘’colonised’’ by immigrants who are ‘’costing too much money’’.
Further, he said the country needed a leader ‘’prepared to be unpopular for a period of time to get the big issues sorted out’’.
Starmer is unpopular (actually the most unpopular PM in history), but it’s clear he can’t sort anything out. In fact, he’s made our country a lot worse. In response to Ratcliffe, he said that the UK is a ‘’proud, tolerant and diverse country’’.
Rather than being proud, we should be ashamed that we have changed the diversity of our country without ever putting the question to the people.
Our lost nation needs a lot more Jim Ratcliffes and rather fewer Keir Starmers — Kelvin MacKenzie
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The reason that Blair and Brown, the instigators of the policy, never asked is that they wouldn’t like the answer.
I note that a number of Labour MPs have pointed out that through his shareholding of Manchester United, Ratcliffe actually runs the club with a number of his playing squad immigrants.
Surely, they are the kind of migrants the nation needs. They are highly skilled, are given a time-limited contract, earn good money, pay good taxes and at the end of their time head back to their homelands. The other swipe they take at Ratcliffe is that he lives in the tax haven of Monaco.
I should point out that he and his company will have paid more taxes to the Exchequer in his time than all his critics put together.
Certainly, a damn site more taxes than Starmer has ever paid. And to be honest, if I had been as successful as Ratcliffe, I wouldn’t hang around the UK for two minutes to see how Starmer and his chums from PaedosRUS are planning to spend my money.
Unfortunately, Ratcliffe, 73, is too clever to be a politician, which is a shame as my bet is that he would skate home (with a triple axel) as Prime Minister.
His thoughts are aligned with the majority of the country. He would beat a Starmer figure in an election hands down. I trust he doesn’t stop him from saying what he believes simply because an unpopular Labour leader comes out against him. Surprised we haven’t heard from Gary Neville yet.
If Ratcliffe were to go quiet, we would only ever hear Starmer’s thoughts. And I think we can all agree he’s a dud. More’s the pity.