Charlie Mullins

He was suspended from Twitter for saying somebody should kill Sadiq Khan, there are lots of other sources online, including on his Wikipedia page. Sorry the link didn’t work, I’m not sure why.

It’s no big deal. There are always economic migrants coming and going in search of a more money elsewhere. He’s just another one.

Similarly, there is a long tradition of older Brits moving to warmer climates for the sunshine. Again, nothing new.

There will always be enough people who see the UK as home, who value our culture and see being near family and friends as more important than money - some even take pride in paying taxes to the country that has allowed them to thrive and make a success of their lives.

Horses for courses.

If you're a squillionaire and want to take your money abroad, fine.

But you must relinquish your British Citizenship.

silverlining48

Don’t know who he is but heard of Pimlico plumbers. cheerio Charlie, off you go to sunny places where shady people roam.

The Guardian item mentioned he was considering Marbella or some sunny location along the notorious Costa Del Crime.

It also mentioned his constant claim to be always getting mistaken for Rod Stewart. Yeah, if you say so Charlie......

We have an extended family member who has closed their UK business, moved to Dubai with their child and started up a similar business there.

They decided as soon as Labour won they were leaving UK.

Casdon

Look at the evidence from other sources though Galaxy.
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/twitter-blocks-charlie-mullins-for-posting-someone-should-kill-sadiq-khan/ar-AA1g2Oaw?ocid=UP21DHP

There’s no story there.

M0nica

I suspect he was planning on going anyway. Anyone who intends to move to retire to Spain or Dubai, has usually planned it. Both are popular retirement locations.

Charlie Mullins has never been a man who avoided publicity and this going with a bang rather than a whimper is very much his style.

Yes it really is 😂
I think he’ll keep his Rod Stewart hair, ( must be a syrup!) and gleaming white choppers until he’s at least a hundred.Wonder if Dubai or Spain is really ready for him.

Wyllow3

Doodledog

Agreed, HPQ.

Increasingly if feels as though there is a competition being run somewhere to see who can post the most ridiculous scaremongering nonsense and have people believe it.

Yes. It's all, "I heard that" or "I read that" with no reference given.

No credibility.

Here is the link

www.euronews.com/business/2024/06/20/uk-set-to-lose-thousands-of-millionaires-as-rich-vote-with-their-feet-and-move-overseas

The way things are going many multi millionaires will leave the country due to high taxes.

No they won't, exactly leave the country. Many live over several countries; London, New York, Switzerland, they will just spend a week or two less in the UK each year, a few more weeks in Switzerland/US/Dubai and thereby transfer their domicile for tax purposes to that country, so they will still contribute to the British economy through theie expenditure, just not pay any taxes here.

Maybe he's just fed up with the rotten weather.
I can't say I blame him, though the sun is back for a last hurrah.

Doodledog

Agreed, HPQ.

Increasingly if feels as though there is a competition being run somewhere to see who can post the most ridiculous scaremongering nonsense and have people believe it.

Yes. It's all, "I heard that" or "I read that" with no reference given.

No credibility.

Phenomenon 😡

Even autocarrot is telling untruths just now!

SporeRB

People with non dom status still contributed 9 billion to the UK government coffers.
If they all leave UK due to Labour proposed tax changes, the black hole will get bigger.

Those in London will leave sooner rather than later if Keir Starmer allow Ukraine to use British long range missiles into Russia.

Is I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue running a new round of the show?

Here are the contenders for the most speculative and unlikely outcomes of the election, with extra points available for mention of the expansion of an infinitely small and infinitely dense space-related phenomena.

People with non dom status still contributed 9 billion to the UK government coffers.
If they all leave UK due to Labour proposed tax changes, the black hole will get bigger.

Those in London will leave sooner rather than later if Keir Starmer allow Ukraine to use British long range missiles into Russia.

Doodledog

Agreed, HPQ.

Increasingly if feels as though there is a competition being run somewhere to see who can post the most ridiculous scaremongering nonsense and have people believe it.

Yes, that’s exactly how it feels on Gransnet at the moment.

As for CM, I’d never heard of him, but now that I have I wonder how on earth he got away with tweeting that someone should kill any individual, let alone the Mayor of London?

Agreed, HPQ.

Increasingly if feels as though there is a competition being run somewhere to see who can post the most ridiculous scaremongering nonsense and have people believe it.

Haven't some Gransnetters moved overseas?
🤔

BigBopper

The way things are going many multi millionaires will leave the country due to high taxes.

I also read that if Labour keeps going on the way they are doing, there could be a vote of no confidence in Starmer and he could be called before the King who will ask him to stand down, the same as what happened to Truss. They say that the publics perception of him has never ever been as low as it is now because he has made it clear he hates pensioners.

Get him out, get him out.

Who is "they"? Silly comments about hating pensioners.

eazybee

Seven Labour MPs had the whip withdrawn, for six months, (child allowance cap in July 24.)and have to sit as independents because they voted against the way their masters told them to.

A bit more than dictatorial and an omen of things to come.

Boris Johnson threw out pretty much all the decent MP’s in his party in one go.

maddyone

Actually Charlie Mullins is a very interesting person. He started out from nothing and built an enormously successful plumbing business, employing thousands of people, and made himself extremely rich in the process.
Good for him.

He is an interesting character. Starting from nothing with no qualifications to becoming a multi millionaire takes some doing.

Think of all the plumbers he has trained up, then employed, all the tax he has paid, all the suppliers and small businesses he has supported and all the customers he has done a good job for.

I don’t blame him a bit for choosing to move abroad after 71 years.

Exactly. I don't know why his accent and background have to be dragged into it.

I didn’t know anything about CM before today. Some appear to like him whilst others dislike him. Par for the course on GN.
Richard Branson did exactly the same thing. So have many others. They pay their taxes whilst living and working in the UK and then they go abroad to live, somewhere where they will not be forced to pay the high taxes and IHT that is levied in Britain. It’s just as fair as British pensioners retiring to live in France or Spain and spending their income there instead of in the UK.

I seriously think some people have lost the plot, and Starmer isn’t one of them. He’s here to stay, and however much the right dislike him, they aren’t the majority of the electorate. He will push on regardless, with plenty of positive changes and a few which will affect us negatively. There won’t be anything as catastrophic fir the country as Brexit.

Mollygo

Again this hate-I don’t think Starmer hates pensioners.

Of course he doesn't.

Again this hate-I don’t think Starmer hates pensioners.