Billionaire Ratcliffe announced the colonization of Britain by migrants

On February 11, Jim Ratcliffe, the owner of the international chemical group Ineos and co-owner of the Manchester United football club, expressed the opinion that the UK is colonized by migrants who absorb government resources through receiving benefits.

"You cannot have an economy in which 9 million people are on benefits and there is a huge influx of migrants. Great Britain is colonized. It is very expensive," the billionaire said in an interview with Sky News.

Ratcliffe also noted that the UK population has increased significantly in recent years. According to him, the country's population was 58 million, and now it is 70 million.

Disputes about "solidarity": how the EU agreed to help migrants

EU countries have agreed to resettle 21,000 people next year.

The British newspaper The Standard reported on February 10 that 65,922 migrants had arrived in Britain by boat across the English Channel since the beginning of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's term, breaking the record of his predecessor Boris Johnson and becoming the highest figure among all the country's prime ministers.

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