Britain Has Been “Colonised by Immigrants”, Says Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been “colonised” by immigrants who are “costing too much money”, billionaire Ineos owner and Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has said. The Telegraph has more.
The billionaire co-owner of Manchester United, who also owns chemicals empire Ineos, called on the country’s politicians to “show some courage” by tackling immigration, welfare dependence and the weak economy.
“You can’t have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in,” he told Sky News.
“If you really want to deal with the major issues of immigration, with people opting to take benefits rather than working for a living… then you’re going to have to do some things which are unpopular, and show some courage.”
Sir Jim wrongly claimed that the population of Britain had swelled by 12 million people in the past five years to reach 70 million, blaming the increase on migration.
He said: “The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn’t it?”
Sir Keir Starmer wrote in a post on X that the comments were “offensive and wrong”.
“Britain is a proud, tolerant and diverse country,” the Prime Minister said. “Jim Ratcliffe should apologise.”
Sir Jim, whose personal fortune of more than £17 billion makes him one of Britain’s richest men, said Sir Keir had to grip the challenges facing the economy.
“You have to do some difficult things with the UK to get it back on track, because at the moment I don’t think the economy is in a good state,” he said.
He said he was unsure whether the Prime Minister was being prevented by “the apparatus” from tackling the problems, or whether he was “maybe too nice”.
Sir Jim claimed that Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, was, like Sir Keir, “an intelligent man” with “good intentions”.
The UK needed “somebody who’s prepared to be unpopular for a period of time to get the big issues sorted out”, Sir Jim said.
His comments sparked an immediate backlash. Alex Sobel, the Labour MP for Leeds Central, said: “To seek to stigmatise immigrants and welfare claimants in this way is shameful.”
Sobel added: “These are outrageous and inflammatory remarks from an out-of-touch multimillionaire businessman who clearly has no empathy with hard-pressed families.”
A spokesman for charity Show Racism The Red Card added: “Language of this kind echoes narratives that have historically been used to stigmatise migrant communities, fuel division, and legitimise hostility toward minority groups.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Ratcliffe has apologised for offending “some people” following a backlash. He said:
I am sorry that my choice of language has offended some people in the UK and Europe. It is important to raise the issue of controlled and well-managed immigration that supports economic growth. My comments were made while answering questions about UK policy at the European Industry Summit in Antwerp, where I was discussing the importance of economic growth, jobs, skills and manufacturing in the UK. My intention was to stress that governments must manage migration alongside investment in skills, industry and jobs so that long-term prosperity is shared by everyone. It is critical that we maintain an open debate on the challenges facing the UK.
Meanwhile, the Football Association has said it is reviewing whether he has brought the game into disrepute.
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He’s right, of course. But he appears not to blame himself at all, despite the fact that he backed Labour at the last election – the party that has put illegal immigration on steroids. I wonder how he spells ‘hubris’ ?
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so what? Labour make it clear he isn’t welcome here. In fact strikes me Labour is all about driving British people out if the country
Make that white British people.
Especially those with money who might bring investment and jobs.
I think Russia had one good idea, if news reports are true: Everyone in Russia pays the SAME LOW RATE OF INCOME TAX, something like 5%, whether you’re in the struggling working class or a billionaire.
I think that’s fair, that’s true “equality”, and we should do the same everywhere in the West. It’s high time to STOP PUNISHING PEOPLE FOR BEING RICH!!!
Why should they pay huge chunks of their wealth to support scroungers who’ve never worked a day in their lives, and those with A BLOATED SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT, like most of the Third World Ethnics in the West?
I asked Grok what level the flat rate would have to be in the UK with the same current personal allowance – to generate the same income as the current multi-band system. It came up with 22-25% which would mean those on the current 20% band would pay more but those in the 40% tax bracket significantly less. Interesting… Lots of caveats!
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMi1jb3B5_fd071394-4b55-4570-b227-390d8483b2a5
Did you ask what the rate would be with no personal allowance? As I assume the flat rate in Russia that ‘Heretic’ is talking about doesn’t have any nil rate band.
Reduces to 19-20%
‘Stop punishing people for being rich’ – Haven’t a considerable number of these uber rich got wealthy to some degree on mass immigration? Isn’t it the case that billionaires wanted mass immigration for a constant stream of cheap labour.
They all make political decisions that backfire, but he must surely realise now never to vote for any Net Zero, Phoney Planet Saving, Mass Immigration Parasites ever again.
White people are finally beginning to realise the rampant discrimination that has been perpetrated against them for decades now. Even the those among the “elite” who thought they controlled and benefited from the situation are starting to get worried.
But I woukd say that at best this is only the beginning of the battle to avoid the self-genocide of white people.
Well at least he has realised the truth so I commend him for speaking out.
Yes, fair comment. BUT he singularly fails to acknowledge or accept that he was mistaken in backing the Starmer/Milibrain clown-show back in 2024, when it was blindingly obvious to those of us with a modicum of analytical thought ability that the Labour manifesto, when implemented, would destroy the chemical industry (along with all other high energy dependent industries). A little bit of mea culpa would increase my respect for him.
Did he. I thought it was years ago he did that.
besides, a sinner who repents …..
What difference do you think it would have made if he had voted for team blue?
HAS BEEN COLONISED BY IMMIGRANTS AND IS BEING COLONISED BY IMMIGRANTS. ——-It is perfectly clear to all but the deniers of reality on the left.
We then have the Prime Minister saying “this is offensive”. But everything that does not align with his party’s world view is always name called as “offensive”, but it is about time that somebody offended this Political Class that align themselves with the global government agenda that does not care where all the people live because they want to govern us all anyway, and infact destroying National Identity and Culture helps them achieve that goal. —–Their feeble “diversity” and “inclusive society” BS is long past its sell by date and we are now being governed by politicians who are taking a hammering in the polls because they care not a jot what we think, and infact they see us as a bloody nuisance.
‘nuisance’. And to that end, they’ve got rid of 700,000 UK taxpayers, to other countries, in the last 12 months alone,. Which is why another million immigrants is ‘only’ 300,000 ‘net’ immigration.
I find the Starmerbot offensive. Not likely he’ll ever apologise though.
When White folk do it = colonisation (baaaad); when Black/Brown folk do it = immigration (gooood).
I see the left are getting twisted because of the word colonise. But Sir Jim is 100% correct, the lefties are concentrating their efforts in the context of colonisation as a political and deliberate act by a conquering power. As usual they are gaslighting. Colonies can be formed in a natural way by a group or groups moving into areas formally occupied by others. Just as some tribes in Africa moved into and displaced other indigenous settlers such as the Bushmen in South Africa. The glaring example is politicians being elected to parliament by an electorate who wish to have their rules established in a particular area. The people colonised the areas and are now taking political control, it does not have to be the other way around. But of course the so called “Socialists” have deliberately created various colonies throughout the country as well as looser fledgling groups elsewhere which they rely on for votes. So in so doing they have fragmented society and we are now Societies. In short they have destroyed societal cohesion which once existed in the entire country. So they have no right to call themselves socialists because the have destroyed what was once a… Read more »
He’s dead right, and it’s an ongoing process. As long as you’ve got certain cities and towns in the UK where the white population is diminishing over the decades, as can be seen in the census data, then there’s your evidence of colonisation. People see it in their neighbourhoods, there’s ‘no-go zones’ for whites. Ask West Midland police. Donkey’s years ago I’ve walked about in parts of London and been the only white person on the street. There’s entire schools where you won’t find a white kid any more. It’s slow but it’s happening continually. Duncan Bannatyne agrees; ”Former Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne has backed Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s migration warning after it sparked a major political firestorm. He replied “Here, here” to The Sun’s former editor Kelvin MacKenzie, who said Sir Jim “is to be listened to”. “Certainly in some parts of the country the density of migrants makes you wonder if you are still in Britain,” MacKenzie said. “He and his company have paid more tax to our Exchequer over the years than all his critics put together.” https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/duncan-bannatyne-bbc-dragons-den-jim-ratcliffe-illegal-migration-colonisation This chart reflects the drain immigrants that aren’t working are placing on the economy; ”Unprecedented mass migration to Britain… Read more »
He’s right about population – in the last quarter century the UK population hovered around 55m – schools were actually closed due to lack of pupils, even in London. The rapid growth (20%+) in recent years, almost entirely from immigration, puts pressure on the social and economic infrastructure, and government cant keep up, regardless of whether the new entrants are productive or not. This is a purely economic argument
I think he made a slip of the tongue, clearly it was 2000 not 2020.
The true UK population was estimated to be over 80 MILLION several years ago by supermarkets and water companies, in flat contradiction of all the official UK Census figures.
It is now well over 100 MILLION due to Mass Invasion by the Third World, and Britain is the most densely populated country in Europe.
Would explain a lot…
But it’s not just the increase in numbers who were born elsewhere and move to the UK (what I would understand as being increased numbers due to immigration). The numbers are also increased by the children and grandchildren of those who moved to the UK in the 1970s and later. So the numbers are growing and self sustaining, even without any more people moving to the UK. That same process will play out in decades to come with people who arrive in the UK today.
Good point, especially considering that every Muslim man is entitled by Islamic law to have FOUR WIVES, as long as he can support them and their children, and unlimited numbers of “War Captives” as sex slaves (= Infidel women & children). Even though polygamy is illegal in the West, Muslims easily get round it by sending their wives to claim 4 council houses for themselves and their children, by pretending to be “single mothers”, so he pays nothing, and has plenty of time to lounge around in coffee houses plotting jihad with his fellow Muslim scroungers, bestirring themselves only to collect their welfare benefit money.
Years ago, Canadian demographic researchers found that for every Muslim man allowed to settle in Canada, at least 25 other Muslims were later admitted as his “family”, as wives, children, elderly parents, relatives and friends falsely claiming to be relatives. Or even allowing his sister to marry him, as the Evil Somalian Fraudster Ilhan Omar’s Evil Somalian Fraudster brother did in Minnesota. She’s the one now calling for the US President to be assassinated for trying to deport her, and for investigating why she became a millionaire in only a few years.
Ratcliffe is absolutely correct, he is speaking the sentiment of the British working person, who is funding the piety
and virtue signalling ideology of the lanyard, and public paid elite like Starmer.
Go to Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle any major city and town, or just head to Heathrow airport, look at who is running the country, look who the lanyard classes are making it for?
Its a truth that they take a few more thousands in tax off the working people pay packets but then dispense it to the millions of non workers ad migrants who will give them their votes.
Why work, why not get on an orange boat and invade when you will inherit everything on the backs of those who work.
Labour are degenerate traitors to the British people
Ratcliffe has got it right.
The thing I notice most about the reaction to his comments, is that all the condemnation and criticism of his comments is coming from people who helped cause the very situation he describes.
Good on you, Jim Ratcliffe. You carry on speaking up and speaking out.
Annoying he felt the need to apologise – why not challenge his accusers to describe the situation themselves?
Never apologise unless you mean it
If he means it then I am afraid I think he doesn’t really get it
Offence is taken, not given
What parts of what he said does he now not stand by?
I took his ‘apology’ to mean that he’s sorry if the language he used caused offence to some snowflakes, but he held fast on the context of his utterances. So not really an apology at all.
Excellent!
He started with “I’m sorry” and that’s what the headline will be. We need to stop apologising.
100% – get on the front foot and stay there
Absolutely! And that’s a very good way to put it:
“Get on the front foot and stay there!”
Katie Hopkins – who often gets pillared for speaking her mind as well – said the same. Don’t apologise.
Just look at his honest, strong, craggy, beautiful old White Man’s face— no lip injections or cosmetic surgery or hair dye to make him look younger— just his own rugged old face with his look of steely determination that inspires trust, like Rupert Lowe’s face does (and Nigel’s once did).
So why the blinkin’ ‘eck did he back down and apologize when Stalin Starmer commanded him to? That is what has made the public angry with him: for apologizing, and not standing firm for Freedom of Speech.
Stop apologizing for telling the truth, people.
Let’s see.
The Raj: population grew from 200 million to 400 million during British rule, and the number of British (White) “colonists” at the peak, was between 150 000 and 170 000.
So ~ 150 000 in a native 400 million over a period of a 100 years = colonisation; 12 million in a native population of 56 million over a period of 20 years is not.
Got it.
Immigration since the war has been so successful we now have a national debt of only £2.9 trillion, and immigration has been so important to the NHS (bang those pans) that waiting list is only 7 million.
Imagine how much worse it would have been without all those engineers, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs and cultural enrichers.
And didn’t these people want independence from British rule- so what are they all doing here then?
Never apologise – it is a sign of weakness. And most certainly NEVER apologise to the Far Left scum like Starmer et al. Talking of Far Left scum, the BBC went trawling for all the on message Man United Supporters groups and found the Muslim one – all 1500 of them. Meanwhile around the globe there are over 350 fan groups with membership running into 100s of thousands.
I wish Sir Jim would make a sensible new rule for Manchester United:
Only Indigenous English players, and that means Ethnic Europeans = White Men, are eligible to play for that English team.
Cue pearl clutching from the usual suspects… Radcliffe for pm.
By apologising Ratcliff indicates he was not familiar with “The Culture Transplant” by Garret Jones. For example on page 143 Jones summarises with these remarks:
”Ethnic diversity combined with cultural value diversity: A higher risk of destructive social conflict”
and
”It seems that when groups have to share a place and work together, diversity is good, as long as there is a degree of agreement in terms of cultural attitudes that facilitate exchange, production, and the ability to agree in the public sphere”.
That all seems sensible to me which is why the promotion of multi-culturalisn by the elites from the 1990s onwards was and is still so damaging.
This is true. I think there is a place for controlled immigration in a modern society. But it only works where there is a degree of social integration. If someone flouts a country’s laws and procedures to enter illegally, can they really be expected to go on to become an upstanding, net contributing member of society? No. Instead they will shy away from the mainstream and seek out others whose arrival followed a similar trajectory to their own, and in whose company they feel safe, creating separate communities.
Well he showed a lot of courage by backing down didn’t he.
lets face it, Britain is no place to be white.
It is the only country in the world that welcome’s terrorism, child abusing and freeloading men in droves and then punishes the natives as harshly as possible for objecting .
we need a new phrase to check your white privilege.
in this country it should be check your minority privilege and stop calling for exceptionalism.
I can’t believe he apologised. What a disappointment. He’s a billionaire, for crying out loud. Where’s the pressure to apologise for your own honest opinions coming from and what’s the worst that will happen if you don’t? Crazy. Saying you’re sorry and backing down makes you come across as a people-pleaser who is too invested in what people think of you ( your public image ) and is a sign of weakness, in my opinion, and surely nobody got to be that successful and minted by being weak, so it’s perplexing, but I’ve lost some respect for the man now. He should take some lessons on integrity and having the courage of one’s own convictions from Tommy Robinson.
Totally agree
Please…
Powerful photo statement!
Ratcliffe may have gotten his inspiration from the London tube trains….
https://poemsontheunderground.org/colonization-in-reverse
It’s worse than colonisation. It’s ethnocide, a word not enough people understand.
Hello someone with a brain at last. Mind you why these people support socialism which drives them out of their own country beggars belief. Perhaps half a brain then?!
Starmer is absolutely right, ‘we are an island of strangers’, quoting Powell. Thus he does in fact agree with Sir Jim. A trip on public transport in our big towns and cities clearly shows a growing immigrant presence. Some towns, eg Luton, Tower Hamlets, Gorton in Manchester, Bradford aka Helmand, are controlled by newcomers who do not want to integrate but to gain power. And there is a massive financial backing from Gulf States to support this mass movement with funding for buildings, cemeteries, centres, clergy see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alms_for_Jihad . and recent examples include
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15352193/Billionaire-brothers-Britains-biggest-Muslim-cemetery.html
People don’t realize that those Muslim brothers are trying to make a territorial claim forever for the Global Caliphate. Islam teaches that anywhere Muslims are allowed to read aloud from the Koran, as they most assuredly will in their huge new “cemetery”, is thereby claimed as part of the Global Caliphate forever. Meanwhile they deliberately take their huge killer dogs to Christian church cemeteries to defecate on Christian graves, as one British woman witnessed some years ago as she was laying flowers on the grave of her parents, and had a sharp exchange of words with the Muslim dog owners.
I was watching a video about his comments that suggests the interview ‘may’ have been edited a La Trump to say something different from what he actually said, or at least give a different emphasis on what was said.