Owner apologises over colonised comment

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The Guardian

Football must reject Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s cynical, self-serving electioneering | Barney Ronay

Tax exile has already proven himself a terrible club owner; now his ill-informed diatribe about immigration has poured fuel on wider flames Well I, for one, am shocked. Shocked to learn that a tax-exiled English expat who made his billions squeezing chemical plants doesn’t have liberal, let alone accurate, views on immigration. Or at least, in public anyway. It seems highly likely Sir Jim Ratcliffe knew what he was doing in the course of his now semi-recanted Sky News interview. And it is above all vital that at least one part of his empire of influence - football, sport, Manchester United - rejects it, as the club have done to some extent in their statement . Continue reading. . .

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The Guardian

Guardian view on Sir Jim Ratcliffe: Britain does not need political lectures from a billionaire tax exile | Editorial

Comments on the ‘colonisation of the UK’ by the co-owner of Manchester United were erroneous, crass and a gift to divisive forces in British society In 2020, the year Sir Jim Ratcliffe moved his huge fortune to Monaco, migrants in the United Kingdom made tax contributions estimated to be worth around £20bn. Sir Jim, by jetting off to a tax haven on the French Riviera, saved himself an estimated £4bn. It took some brass neck for the expat owner of Ineos and co-owner of Manchester United football club to lecture the country, using inflammatory and offensive language, on the perils of immigration. Where to begin? The statistics used by Sir Jim to back his claim that Britain was being “colonised” by migrants, in an interview with Sky News, were flatly wrong. They were also astonishingly crass, coming from a man who presides over a sporting institution famous for and proud of its global fanbase and international connections. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading. . .

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Parody Nigel Farage

@parodypm.bsky.social

Jim Ratcliffe has my full support. Anyone who lies about population figures, claims £120m in public money for his own company after paying no UK tax at all, while immigrants pay at least £15bn is my kind of guy!

February 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM

The Guardian

Ratcliffe backlash: outrage over Manchester United boss comments | The Latest

The Monaco-based billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has said he is sorry that his ‘choice of language has offended some people’, after growing outrage over his comments that the UK was being ‘colonised by immigrants’. The Manchester United co-owner has faced a mounting backlash since making the remarks, which have been labelled hypocritical and reminiscent of ‘far-right narratives’. Lucy Hough speaks to the sports writer and columnist Jonathan Liew. Continue reading. . .

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Tages-Anzeiger

Sir Jim Ratcliffe: 'Great Britain has been colonized' — Manchester United owner triggers outrage

The co-owner of Manchester United, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, is facing heavy criticism after commenting on the country's migration policy. Has he violated the club's statutes with that?

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The Guardian

Ratcliffe says immigrants cost too much, while Ineos lobbies for state funding

Billionaire’s business has in recent years claimed UK and EU support for refineries and chemicals plants worth about €800m Jim Ratcliffe apologises for ‘choice of language’ after saying immigrants were ‘colonising’ UK The backlash against Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s comments about immigrants to the UK “costing too much” for the state comes at an awkward time for his loss-making Ineos business. The billionaire industrialist’s sprawling empire, which ranges from chemicals to car making, has sought government financial support worth hundreds of millions of pounds and is lobbying for further state aid from the UK and EU to stay afloat. Continue reading. . .

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Migration debate: Man United owner criticizes immigration

Britain has been colonized by immigrants, said Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest men, triggering criticism. He has since apologized, but he still wants to talk about migration.

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Ernesto Priego

@ernestopriego.com

Not to mention the obvious: the monumental nerve to say immigrants are "colonising" the UK (and fascist nutter pal Farage lamenting towns have changed) when Britain is Britain because of colonisation (including the total transformation of the countries Britain colonised).

February 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM

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Ernesto Priego

@ernestopriego.com

A man who lives in Monaco and continues to obscenely profit from a global brand behind an international squad (19 out of 26 of ManU players not born in the UK) www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Jim Ratcliffe apologises for ‘choice of language’ after saying immigrants were ‘colonising’ UK

Manchester United co-owner, who lives in Monaco, responds to backlash over comments labelled ‘offensive and wrong’ by Keir Starmer

www.theguardian.com

February 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM

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Matthew Snedker

@matthewsnedker.bsky.social

The only minority destroying this country are climate wrecking billionaires like Jim Ratcliffe.

Pass it on.
H/T @greenpeace uk

Manchester United football team with migrant players in silhouette.

February 12, 2026 at 1:34 PM

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Max Wilkinson MP

@maxwilkinson.bsky.social

My response to Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Sky News interview 👇

February 12, 2026 at 1:17 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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Patriotic Millionaires UK

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"The cheek" of it: Our member Julia Davies responds to Sir Jim Ratcliffe's comments that the "UK has been colonised by immigrants"

February 12, 2026 at 1:09 PM

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Charlie Beckett

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Why is the BBC amd other media goving such prominence to factually inaccurate remarks of a unelected Monaco resident? And it wasn't 'an 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 1:05 PM

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Geoff Pearson

@profgeoffpearson.bsky.social

Good to see MUST and the 1958 speaking out against this. If you want to own a football club whose fans are going to be ok with your casual racism, buying United wasn't a sensible choice.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...