Branson - I will block Brexit !!

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Dail Mail article today Richard Branson is planning, along with a group of top business people to block the Brexit plan. He is putting in a pot of cash as a fighting fund and determined to win through. Apparently the great British public do not understand the implications attached to Brexit and with the fighting fund he and his followers will, presumebly, educate us to the disasters we face unless we change our minds.
Its the usual 'we know better than you' routine.

Man of the people?

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Yipper said:

dazwalsh said:

Yipper said:

Is this the same Branson who lives in a low-tax island on the other side of the world...

To be fair, though, with Theresa Mayhem going all-out for Daily Mail hard Brexit and thousands of jobs already starting to flee the City of London (Britain's last remaining great industry), beardy Branson is right to be concerned.

Who has fled? There has been threats and thats all they will amount to if the UK is still a good place to do business so lets not get too ahead of ourselves, the broad brexit plan has been laid out but no specifics yet.

Branson should shut his mouth.

The drumbeat of City job losses is getting louder and louder.

HSBC 1,000 going to Paris.
Goldman Sachs 3,000 going to Frankfurt and NY.
UBS 1,000 going to Frankfurt and Madrid.
Lloyds 100 going to Frankfurt.

And that is just in the past week...

The phrase "leaving the single market" has put the cat among the pigeons.

A trickle is on the verge of becoming a flood. When London goes down, the rest of UK will be dragged down with it.

These numbers are miniscule, I mean really miniscule. Barclays bank is on our side! imo the EU project has been a disaster for workong people of the UK. Cheap labour from abroad has been gfeat for business, undercutting wages and burgeoning profits, but look at the Social cost.

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Countdown said:

crankedup said:

Dail Mail article today Richard Branson is planning, along with a group of top business people to block the Brexit plan. He is putting in a pot of cash as a fighting fund and determined to win through. Apparently the great British public do not understand the implications attached to Brexit and with the fighting fund he and his followers will, presumebly, educate us to the disasters we face unless we change our minds.
Its the usual 'we know better than you' routine.

Man of the people?

It's their money. It's a democracy. They can do what they like.

Not sure why all the panic tbh.....

No panic at all, just a news story amongst hindreds of others. But for me it demonstrates big business are in a panic over Brexit. Pity he and bis tribe cannot respect democracy and have such disdain for the British public.

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Countdown said:

crankedup said:

No panic at all, just a news story amongst hindreds of others. But for me it demonstrates big business are in a panic over Brexit. Pity he and bis tribe cannot respect democracy and have such disdain for the British public.

There is nothing he is doing which isn't (a) democratic or (b) open to others to do.

Aarron Banks did much the same, as did many others during the referendum.

'during the referendum' are the key words.

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Would you please start your own thread regarding spelling and grammar.

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B'stard Child said:

crankedup said:

Would you please start your own thread regarding spelling and grammar.

Good idea - I don't want to start a new one if one is already in use so I'd better have a search

Thanks chap

Back to this Branson fella thinking because he is loaded with cash he can override the electorate.

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i don't know what Branson does nowadays nor what his numerous business interests are. But if there was a definitive list of them, id happily boycott anything the has an interest in. why?, because hes trying to derail the way the people have voted we should go. imho, any of these corporations or people who threaten uk with moving or leaving and no longer supporting a nation that in many cases have made them what they are can fk right off. If everyone just voted with their wallets when these people hold guns to the country's head, they'd have no business to worry about when we finally do Brexit!

You'd think theyd have learned that British MOPs tend to say "fk you" in recent times when the scaremongers get their message out in the press.

So fk you Branson, Blair, Sturgeon, Geldof and all these other s whove made a living on the back of UK public.
Why does he think he knows better than anyone else, he doesn't even know how to ride a bike.

Just my thinking, well done that fellow PHer!!

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Heard Branson a couple of years back on a radio broadcast. Can't recall the subject but no doubt a Branson business to promote. Branson waffled on and in his conclusion just stopped himself referring to the great British public as the masses, and used the term 'the public'. The term masses was on the tip of his tongue, and then he just drew back from that.

Did I purchase a 7" inch single from his sh back in the 1970's, nope. The man has done fantastically well of course, sadly he left his roots far behind. Money can breed contempt it seems.

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nikaiyo2 said:

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Did I purchase a 7" inch single from his sh back in the 1970's, nope. The man has done fantastically well of course, sadly he left his roots far behind. Money can breed contempt it seems.

His roots?

He went to Stowe School, his father was a Judge.


The father of one of my best mates at school went to school with Branson, and reckoned he was self centered tt of the highest order then.

But he did start on a market stall before going into his own shop. I can well believe that he would be self centered though, it's said that successful people are very often ruthless and insular regards work.