Owner apologises over colonised comment

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Sky News

@news.sky.com

'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.

news.sky.com

February 11, 2026 at 5:01 PM

by Matthew Goodwin

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Reposted by Matthew Goodwin, Thom Brooks

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by Will Jennings

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Will Jennings📉🗳️

@drjennings.bsky.social

Sir Jim Ratcliffe lives in Monaco, which has been colonised by immigrant tax dodgers.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 1d

'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.

news.sky.com

February 11, 2026 at 5:24 PM

Reposted by Alex Callinicos

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by Alan Lester

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Alan Lester

@alanlester.bsky.social

Ratcliffe has blown a pernicious group’s cover. Tax exile millionaires including media moguls, who exploit everyone and everything for themselves disguised as patriots acting for the ‘left behind’ white working class. Scapegoating immigrants is their ruse.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Starmer tells Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants

PM calls comments by Man United co-owner, who also hit out at people on benefits, ‘offensive and wrong’

www.theguardian.com

February 12, 2026 at 7:49 AM

Reposted by Phil Clark

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by Jonathan Portes Reposted by Stuart White

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Jonathan Portes

@jdportes.bsky.social

Just a pathetic non-apology. If your intention is to talk about "controlled, well-managed immigration" you don't spout racist bullshit about "colonisation."

February 12, 2026 at 12:10 PM

by Alan Lester

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Alan Lester

@alanlester.bsky.social

It makes you wonder whether the whole ‘war on woke’ over the last few years was waged just so that men like Ratcliffe could be disgustingly racist again without any accountability.

PM tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PM tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants'

Sir Keir Starmer said comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner were

www.bbc.co.uk

February 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM

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Steven Fielding

@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social

Anybody who was followed the fate of Manchester United under his influence will realise that the club has been colonised by a complete idiot. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Starmer tells Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants

PM calls comments by Man United co-owner, who also hit out at people on benefits, ‘offensive and wrong’

www.theguardian.com

February 12, 2026 at 7:30 AM

by Cas Mudde

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Cas Mudde

@casmudde.bsky.social

Wow! ManU might have found a worse owner than the Glazers!

UK being ‘colonised by immigrants’, says Man United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Britain’s seventh-richest man, who vocally backed Brexit then moved to Monaco, also hits out at people on benefits

www.theguardian.com

February 11, 2026 at 7:59 PM

by Jonathan Portes Reposted by Alison Phipps

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Jonathan Portes

@jdportes.bsky.social

Would be good if the Prime Minister and/or Home Secretary would for once come out and describe this as the unadulterated racism and xenophobia it so clearly is.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 1d

'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.

news.sky.com

February 11, 2026 at 5:42 PM

by Steve Peers Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Peter Holmes, Simon Wren‐Lewis

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Steve Peers

@stevepeers.bsky.social

Chris Mason failing to point out that Ratcliffe's immigration numbers were untruthful

February 11, 2026 at 10:20 PM

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Jo Wolff

@jowolff.bsky.social

When you get the cheapest AI module on the market to write your apology:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Ratcliffe says sorry his language 'offended some people' after criticism of immigration comments - live updates

The Man Utd co-owner says it's important to talk about

www.bbc.co.uk

February 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM

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by Will Jennings

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Will Jennings📉🗳️

@drjennings.bsky.social

Jim Ratcliffe should pay his taxes like the rest of us or shut up.

February 12, 2026 at 12:18 PM

by Jonathan Wolff Reposted by Mark Robinson

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Jo Wolff

@jowolff.bsky.social

Or is it that our economy and tax-base has been hollowed out by ex-pats?

Sky News @news.sky.com · 1d

'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.

news.sky.com

February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM

Reposted by Patrick Dunleavy

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Reposted by Will Jennings

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)

@sundersays.bsky.social

Jim Ratcliffe has issued a bland and generic statement about economic policy which does not engage at all with what he got wrong, or why saying the UK has been colonised has been legitimately criticised. Nor does he seem to retract his language of colonisation in gesturing towards a semi-apology

February 12, 2026 at 12:17 PM

by Tim Bale

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Tim Bale

@timbale.bsky.social

So (for those who know the constituency well) Gorton and Denton: more Man City than United fans, or vice versa?

Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning, Jim Ratcliffe. Two things: one, pay your taxes; two, kiss my ass: www.politico.eu/article/manc... #jimratcliffe #manchesterunited

Manchester United owner praises Farage during anti-migration diatribe

Prime Minister Keir Starmer criticized businessman Jim Ratcliffe’s claims that Britain has been “colonized by immigrants.”

www.politico.eu

February 12, 2026 at 7:12 AM

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