British born man lectured on what is British

A man born in Lancashire in 1952 has been told by several people born much later than him and from outside the UK that his views do not ‘represent Britain’. Jim Ratcliffe, the owner of a world-renowned Manchester cultural institution....

British born man lectured on what is British

A man born in Lancashire in 1952 has been told by several people born much later than him and from outside the UK that his views do not ‘represent Britain’.

Jim Ratcliffe, the owner of a world-renowned Manchester cultural institution, which he bought after decades of graft in a competitive global industry following his upbringing in a Manchester council-house, claimed on SkyNews that:

“The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn’t it? I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it’s 70 million. That’s 12 million people.”

The shocking outburst caused turbulence in global markets, a marked increase in hospital admissions and could have contributed to the Iran war.

Kanishka Narayan, who was born in 1989 in Bihar, before moving to the UK in 2001, 50 years after Ratcliffe was born, said without any irony whatsoever that he believed Ratcliffe’s comments were ‘completely un-British’. When asked about Ratcliffe’s view that Britain was being ‘colonised’, Mr Narayan, a man born in Bihar but now a British Member of Parliament and a British Government Minister, claimed it was ‘shocking’.

This picture on the London Underground also shows how ‘shocking’ Ratcliffe’s statement was:

Local Labour Councillor Idiotana Dogooder was particularly scathing about Ratcliffe’s apparent ‘racism’:

‘Matt Busby was from an Irish catholic family and became Manchester United’s greatest ever manager. This random fact somehow undermines Ratcliffe’s argument”

Several other busybodies publicly stated that because Manchester United have a history of managers and players from across the British Isles, then somehow it is impossible to object to immigration from outside the British Isles regardless of the origin or scale.

The head of DEI at Manchester City Council, Duwat Isay, also disowned Ratcliffe, telling the OMS:

“The Busby Babes was a famous Manchester institution brought to Manchester by an immigrant, as Matt Busby was Irish which somehow counts. But recent diversity has brought so much more. We now have the Indian Busby Balti, the Turkish Busby Barber on the high street and the Somalian Busby Bandits on the local estate. They all add to the diversity which enriches our city”.

The new football regulator, Offside, has acted decisively to avoid bringing the game into disrepute. Manchester United will suffer a points deduction, placing them below clubs whose owners respect Diversity, Equity and Inclusion such as Newcastle United.

Mr Ratcliffe has built a business employing tens of thousands of people across the UK and collectively paying billions in taxes over a multi-decade period.

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Perpetua Indignatia is Gender Lead at the Office for Moral Superiority. Following her degree at Wadham College, she completed a PhD at Culture War College, Hackney, completing her dissertation in "The contribution of mansplaining to the Holocaust".

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