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Richard Branson says cancels deal involving 3,000 jobs after Brexit vote
Financial Express ^ | 6/28/16

Posted on 06/28/2016 5:05:32 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

British entrepreneur Richard Branson today said his Virgin Group had pulled out of a deal involving 3,000 jobs after Britain voted to leave the EU.

In a television interview, the billionaire businessman added that Britain was heading for recession after the pound slumped to its lowest level against the dollar in more than three decades in the immediate aftermath of last Thursday’s referendum result.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: billionaire; elitist
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Richard Branson INSISTS that the British stay enslaved to Brussels.

Keep in mind, folks, Branson says one of his businesses lost 1/3 of its value due to the Brexit vote. And he still is a billionaire.

And people say TRUMP is an elitist punk? Bull crap.

1 posted on 06/28/2016 5:05:32 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Wow, I almost liked the guy, globalist stooge.


2 posted on 06/28/2016 5:07:07 PM PDT by proust (Trump/Sessions 2016!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

brits just need to drop their corporate tax rates down below the EU and they’ll be set for business!


3 posted on 06/28/2016 5:08:03 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Who gives a damned. The British people WANT SOVEREIGNTY!! NO MORE ONE WORLD!! Next get those moslem killing machines OUT of your country.


4 posted on 06/28/2016 5:08:32 PM PDT by WENDLE (Make America Great again. Arrest Hillary.)
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To: Samurai_Jack

Absolutely


5 posted on 06/28/2016 5:08:54 PM PDT by magua (baby)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Oh nooooes, what will England do without the AWESOME Eu?????? It was so great to lose all the borders!


6 posted on 06/28/2016 5:09:23 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2016)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Wussifer.


7 posted on 06/28/2016 5:09:33 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: proust

He’s an admitted socialist. IOW....’competition killer’.


8 posted on 06/28/2016 5:10:32 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Branson doesn’t even live in England. He lives on some tax haven island


9 posted on 06/28/2016 5:10:55 PM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: SoFloFreeper

Guys like Branson and Soros have probably been burning up the phone lines to each other on how they can do maximum damage to Britain’s economy in order to convince the British people to demand a “redo” and put on the open-borders, globalist shackles again.


10 posted on 06/28/2016 5:11:25 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Go to Neckers Island Richard and literally pound sand


11 posted on 06/28/2016 5:11:26 PM PDT by wardaddy (for Muslim wives "no" means anal)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Won’t the lower value of the pound increase demand for their goods?


12 posted on 06/28/2016 5:11:36 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: SoFloFreeper

Didn’t the Pound bounce back today?


13 posted on 06/28/2016 5:12:34 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: SoFloFreeper

What a jackass.

And a bad tipper - I have it from a source of the tippee.


14 posted on 06/28/2016 5:12:45 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I was stationed in England for 3 years in the 1970s plus I’ve visited a couple of other times since. IMHO the pound was always way over priced vs. the dollar.

I mean, take $100 and covert it to pounds, then go out on the street and buy things you need or want. By the time you’ve spent the money, you’d still have about $20-25 left over if you bought the same things in the States. Not just in London either, the same thing would be true in Cambridge or Norwich.


15 posted on 06/28/2016 5:17:02 PM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Branson will wait until the deal terms are more favorable to him and renegotiate, making tens of millions more profit in the process. Wealthy people don’t ever actually suffer during times of uncertainty, they only have to leave their yachts to show up to a few more meetings and maybe actually make a phone call or two.


16 posted on 06/28/2016 5:17:08 PM PDT by jz638
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To: SoFloFreeper

You will see a lot of this. The elites are going to punish Britain.

Also the race between EXIT supporters in many countries and the nascent Superstate is on.


17 posted on 06/28/2016 5:18:25 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns.)
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Ah... Just wait until we get the 15% Corp Tax Rate here ( Paul Ryan, and Mitch, either lead or get the h@!! out of the way ) Branson can bring the jobs here too America....
18 posted on 06/28/2016 5:19:20 PM PDT by taildragger (Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
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“brits just need to drop their corporate tax rates down below the EU and they’ll be set for business!”

Exactly! What is happening economically is the result of a hissy fit by the globalists not getting their way. To be honest, if there is any legal way to do it in the British Courts, I would seize enough of his assets to cover for the economic impact of him pulling out of a deal he entered while knowing fully that there was going to be a vote about staying in the EU. He gambled. House wins.

19 posted on 06/28/2016 5:20:42 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: SoFloFreeper

Better to pay the price with an extortionist once, rather than forever. He should give the work to some needy folks in Greece. After all, how much does a Grecian Urn?


20 posted on 06/28/2016 5:21:02 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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