Whoooosh
Iâll whoosh you up and down our stairs nowinaminute.
Ok
So your evident dislike for the guy appears to be based on him having loads of money and living on a Caribbean Island.
Sound.
FFS I canât be arsed to argue with you.
No, you lost an argument. Move on.
Do you treat the views of the saintly Mike Ashley with the same deserved esteem? Just because he generates money for HMRC.
No, and itâs a facetious argument to make, so donât.
At least youâre not trying to dress it up.
They will pay a lot in employment taxes, but not much corporation tax - they always use a complicated tax structure with overseas holding companies and the ultimate holding company is in - of course - the British Virgin Islands!
You were defending Branson for reasons that could similarly apply to Mike Ashley. It wouldâve been more effective to try defending his position on funding disaster relief. Your justification was somewhat irrelevant to the criticism of what Branson had been saying.
Youâd think he could afford to build a more substantial house down the, what with it being in a hurricane area nâall.
If you want to equate Mike Ashley with Richard Branson, thatâs up to you.
Iâve had the opportunity to meet both of them. I know which one Iâd rather spend half an hour with!
I think youâll find Bransonâs companies pay very little corporation tax as the profits are kept outside the UK. There was an âexposeâ in the Times some time ago detailing his companies and structures and how he hides his money with most of the UK trading companies losing money.
Are they his companies, thought he gave up running them years ago and now just licences the name out?
It certainly isnât an established fact that Bransonâs activities have been of net benefit to Britain or the British economy. Certainly Tom Bower, who has written I think, 2 biographies of him, would argue that the opposite was true. But feel free to continue buying into his very effective PR whatever the truth actually is. I imagine Mike Ashley would argue he actually makes more of a contribution (despite being a cnut) given that he still seems to live & run his businesses here.
Seems like you have an agenda.