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Why the super rich are FLEEING Knightsbridge: Elite West London residents reveal their mansions have dropped £1million in value in just 7 years due to Labour tax raids and rampant crime
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 13, 2025 | Isaac Crowson

Posted on 07/13/2025 4:27:24 AM PDT by C19fan

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I guess these rich people had enough of the cultural enrichment.
1 posted on 07/13/2025 4:27:24 AM PDT by C19fan
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60% of the residents are foreign born.


2 posted on 07/13/2025 4:29:18 AM PDT by C19fan
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They can afford to vote with their feet.

The rest of the UK cannot.

Their Deep State has seen to that.

And I’ll bet their Deep State is excreting bricks thinking about what Pres. Trump will do when he visits in September.


3 posted on 07/13/2025 4:29:43 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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Deliberately done. Hindustan own most of London now.


4 posted on 07/13/2025 4:34:42 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He was so fat that it took a year for his memory foam mattress to forget him. )
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Who did ya vote for? STFU then.


5 posted on 07/13/2025 4:42:54 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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I got two nice Rolexes in St Thomas one time. I’m afraid to wear them, what with all the bad boys about these days.


6 posted on 07/13/2025 4:47:27 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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I don’t have anything near that nice but having anything remotely attention getting and able to enjoy is tough with an ever increasing number of people out there who have zero problems with stealing anything from anyone.


7 posted on 07/13/2025 4:56:21 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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Your old man took her diamonds and tiaras by the score
Now she gets her kicks in Stepney
Not in Knightsbridge anymore
So don’t play with me, ‘cause you’re playing with fire


8 posted on 07/13/2025 4:57:10 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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NYC in 5 years.


9 posted on 07/13/2025 5:01:43 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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They’re muslims, Jim!


10 posted on 07/13/2025 5:06:32 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Nitzy, now with 88% plausibly anti-Semitic posts!)
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And unless the grace of God Almighty prevents it, the rest of the country as well.


11 posted on 07/13/2025 5:08:21 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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NYC in 5 years

NYC in 5 3 years if Mamdani gets elected And if he's elected New Yorkers will get what they richly deserve and what they've been asking for (voting for) as long as I can remember, and I was born during WWII. My only concern is that even more of them will flee taking their voting habits with them to places like Texas and Florida ruining those states as well.

12 posted on 07/13/2025 5:18:24 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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Joseph McCarthy had it right.


13 posted on 07/13/2025 5:20:39 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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It seems the Brits never learn. When I was in England doing my Ph.D. research back in the late 60’s, I got to know a “chemist” (pharmacist to us Colonials) quite well and we became close friends during my stay. Our wives and us would take day trips to parts of the Midlands and he showed us two chemist shops he was thinking about buying. Later he told us he wasn’t going to buy it and when I asked why, he said it would put him in the “Super Tax” rate. He said those purchases would put his income over £15,000 (about $32,000 US at the time), and the marginal tax rate rose to 98%!

This tax rate not only stopped him dead in his tracks, it ushered in a migration known as the Brain Drain from England. Early on, most (e.g., the Beatles, Richard Burton) fled to the Jersey Islands, as its residents weren’t subject to the tax. Seeing this, Parliament decided to tax the islands, too. Result: the brightest, most talented people in England left for other places in the world.

Stupid economic policies have stupid consequences, but that point seems to be over the head of most politicians...and its not unique to England.


14 posted on 07/13/2025 5:21:13 AM PDT by econjack
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Perfect reference.


15 posted on 07/13/2025 5:25:07 AM PDT by motor_racer ("We're gonna reward our friends and we're gonna punish our enemies" - Barack Hussein Obama)
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Those ignorant of history deserve the results of their niave idiocy. Oh, well.


16 posted on 07/13/2025 5:55:07 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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“ Stupid economic policies have stupid consequences, but that point seems to be over the head of most politicians...and it’s not unique to England.”

So true. Politicians are vastly in the game for power above all, and would rather rule by any means necessary, are happy to rule over dystopian hell-holes (like N Korea, or the UK) than lose their grip on the reins.

The well-being of the country they govern is always secondary, except in rare cases with leaders like President Trump who has the well-being of the United States as his primary goal.


17 posted on 07/13/2025 6:05:18 AM PDT by ladyrustic
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London is dead.


18 posted on 07/13/2025 6:06:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Bet they did very little over the decades to keep this from happening.


19 posted on 07/13/2025 7:03:04 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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One of our neighbors just moved from England. He said that Europe and the UK is lost and the Democrats are as bad as the Labor and he said the Reform UK needs to win.

He did ask me how we can drive big cars, because his large car is a Honda Civic. I told him that we love big. His wife loves our Ford Expedition.

20 posted on 07/13/2025 7:22:32 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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