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£40K Takeaway.
Roman Abramovich ‘spent £40k’ to fly favourite takeaway 2500 miles from London
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/roman-abramovich-e2-80-98spent-c2-a340k-e2-80-99-to-fly-favourite-takeaway-2500-miles-from-london/ar-AAW5FEm
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/roman-abramovich-e2-80-98spent-c2-a340k-e2-80-99-to-fly-favourite-takeaway-2500-miles-from-london/ar-AAW5FEm
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He is worth about £6 billion. That means he is 6,000 times richer than a millionaire.
So he has wasted/chosen to spend the equivalent of a millionaire spending less than £7 on a takeaway.
Money can't buy you happiness. But it can buy you a huge yacht right next door to happiness...
It is a pity we didnt mind where he got his money from until Putin invaded Ukraine.
For the last 20 years it didnt matter.
Where he got his money from? Questionable. At best.
But he has been actively involved in seeking peace for Ukraine. And actually attended a high level meeting trying to achieve exactly that. At risk to his own life.
Which appears to be more than the UK has done so far.
The Russian leader privatised his utilities in the early 2000's. And made various of his mates rich. By ripping off his own people who voted him in.
So we must sanction these people. Says the Conservative Party. Who, er, privatised the utilities in the 1980s. And made various of their mates rich. By ripping off the people who voted them in.
And, during the pandemic, ignored all the rules in relation to Compulsory Competitive Tendering. And gave out contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds. To their mates. Most of which appeared to have neither the experience or contacts to actually deliver what was promised.
Meanwhile, huge tax hikes, in part due to all the money given to their mates.
Seen any sanctions in relation to that? Anyone who got paid squillions on empty promises been fined? Or sanctioned? Or asked to pay money back for breach of contract?
There's liberty and then there's taking the **** out of everyone else, and Earth's, liberty.
I am not sure what point you are trying to make.
We have allowed him to buy Chelsea, and live here for almost 20 years.
To my knowledge he has not faced any legal action.
This is despite the source of his riches.
Not even when Putin annexed Crimea in 2014.
All of a sudden we have taken action against him, and question the source of his funds, because of the situation in Ukraine.
We are doing this now, despite his efforts in seeking peace.
1. Someone who used to be Russian, made money out of questionable dealings in Russia
2. For a while, he was ordinarily resident in the UK. He was a non-dom, whereby we accepted his foreign earnings were none of our business
3. He is no longer resident in the UK. Like many rich people, his residence status is complex. It is 1 or more of Russia, Israel and Portugal
4. His money in no way relates to the Ukraine, or the War there. We want to sanction him, and others like him, not because of anything he has done wrong, but purely to place pressure on Putin. 2 Wrongs do not make a Right
5. We choose to do 4 above, despite the fact that he has been seeking peace, and that the source of his funds has nothing whatsoever to do with the UK
6. We have a Government that believes BOTH that an oligarch's money should not be used in the UK AND that the Conservative Party can keep the donations received from Russian oligarchs
It is just plain wrong. His riches are none of our business.
We should be looking at our own corruption. Not someone else's.
It seems weird that we would penalise now, when it seems he is trying to help.
Whilst we should look at our own corruption as Phil says, that should never promote blind eyes.