Michael Richardson

[Pete Sanford @PeteSanford]

BROKEN BRITAIN?

LET ME EXPLAIN WHO IS BREAKING US

People keep asking why the UK feels broken — why public services collapse, why councils go bankrupt, why families drown in rent, the NHS is on its knees.

Here’s the truth nobody in Westminster will say out loud: Britain isn’t Poor.

It’s Being Drained.

Drained by a tax system designed to protect wealth, punish workers, and let global investors treat our country like a vending machine.

The UK’s £3 trillion debt isn’t an accident — it’s a transfer of wealth.

Every year, over £100 billion goes straight to bondholders in interest payments, money that should be fixing GP appointments, repairing schools, supporting disabled people, building social housing, funding mental health care, keeping youth services alive, and stopping councils from collapsing. Instead, it’s siphoned upward to pension funds, banks, sovereign wealth funds, and global investors.

The poor pay tax, the government pays interest, the wealthy collect the money — that’s the pipeline.

And here’s the kicker: the poor can’t escape it.

They can’t move, can’t hide income, can’t shift profits to Luxembourg, can’t hire accountants to “optimise” tax, can’t buy property through offshore trusts.

They pay PAYE, NI, VAT, council tax — every unavoidable tax that hits the bottom hardest.

Meanwhile the wealthy live in a world where tax is optional, debt is profitable, and the system bends around them.

If everyone paid fair tax, the UK would transform every single year.

HMRC’s own numbers show £30–40 billion is lost annually through avoidance, evasion, loopholes, and “creative accounting”.

If that money actually arrived, NHS waiting lists would fall, councils would stop collapsing, social care would stabilise, schools wouldn’t be begging parents for glue sticks, homelessness programmes would get funded, public transport would improve, debt would stop spiralling, and interest payments would shrink.

Every year gets better -- Every family feels the difference.

Every public service breathes again.

But it doesn’t happen, because the people who benefit from the gaps are the ones with access to power.

The system is biased because capital is mobile and people are not.

If you tax workers, they stay.

If you tax wealth, it can leave.

So governments squeeze the immobile group — ordinary people — and tiptoe around the mobile group — global capital.

No threats, no conspiracies, just structural leverage.

And nowhere is this clearer than London property.

London isn’t a housing market anymore — it’s a global asset class.

Investment giants like BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield and Sovereign Wealth Funds buy entire blocks, entire developments, entire neighbourhoods, often through offshore companies, trusts, shell entities, and complex ownership chains.

And here’s the part that should make people furious: many of these structures legally minimise UK tax to almost nothing.

Global investors avoid UK tax in ways that are all legal and all outrageous: buying the company that owns the building instead of the building itself to avoid stamp duty; holding property through Jersey, Luxembourg or Cayman entities to shift profits offshore; loading UK subsidiaries with “internal debt” so profits vanish as interest payments; using REIT structures so rental income becomes tax‑free; exploiting double‑tax treaties so gains are taxed at ultra‑low rates abroad; using nominee directors to hide beneficial ownership.

The average person pays tax on their wages. These guys buy a skyscraper and pay less tax than a nurse.

And politicians won’t touch it — ever. Because the same investment firms fund political events, hire ex‑ministers, lobby aggressively, threaten “capital flight”, own media influence, promise “growth”, offer “partnerships”, and bankroll think tanks.

No MP wants to be the one who “scared off investment”. So the loopholes stay open, the tax system stays soft, and public services stay starved.

Meanwhile ordinary families pay the price: rising rents, collapsing councils, NHS delays, school shortages, social care crises, unaffordable housing, stagnant wages, higher taxes, shrinking services.

Not because Britain is poor, but because Britain is bled dry by a system designed to protect wealth at the expense of everyone else.

The injustice is simple: the people who benefit most from Britain contribute least to Britain, and the people who rely on Britain the most are punished the hardest.

This isn’t left or right. It’s structural. It’s systemic. It’s deliberate. The UK tax system was built for a world where capital moved slowly, companies stayed put, landlords were local, wealth was visible, and ownership was simple. None of that is true anymore, but the rules never changed.

If people understood this, they’d be furious — not at each other, not at the poor, not at the working class, but at the architecture that funnels wealth upward, protects global investors, and leaves public services to rot.

Britain isn’t broken. It’s being broken.

And until people see the system for what it is, nothing will change — because no politician will ever go against the donors, lobbyists, and financial interests who benefit from keeping things exactly as they are.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"In the first five months of 2026, there were 7,280 incidents of water firms in England and Wales dumping sewage, chemicals, and other pollutants on days of little or no rainfall."

Oh look, they lied, AGAIN. "We only do it during heavy rain to stop sewage flooding into people's houses."

https://t.co/zH2O5Le5KR

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

This month’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham @andyburnham has just announced he’s increasing foreign aid to 0.7% of GDP, which is £21 billion per year. Let me put that in context for you. The average amount of income tax paid per year by basic rate taxpayers in the UK is £2,700. So that means that nearly 8 million taxpayers in the UK are working all year ONLY to give their wages to foreign governments. There are 30 million basic rate taxpayers in the UK, so one in four people that you see working in restaurants or pubs, nurses, cleaners and many more are paying all of their tax to foreign countries. Countries like Pakistan that can afford nuclear weapons, to India that can afford a space programme, to China that can afford to buy the world, to Somalia that doesn’t have a government, only warlords. Etc etc etc etc etc. One in eight British basic rate taxpayers are paying all of their money not to schools in this country. Not for hospitals in this country, nor to fix the roads, nor anything whatsoever in Britain. Every penny goes abroad. Eight million people here giving their hard earned money to the British government who then give every penny away. Every single penny. So, if you’ve ever wondered why things aren’t improving in this country and wonder what happens to the money you’ve made from your toil and your sleepless nights of wondering how you’ll pay the next bill, that’s what happens to it. 8 million of you are working for foreign governments. Think about that.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨UK GOVERNMENT CAUGHT HIDING TWELVE NEW MIGRANT CENTRES

Speaker Lindsay Hoyle was FURIOUS with his own Labour Party

"IT IS TOTALLY UNNACEPTABLE ONCE AGAIN!"

"This Government don't seem to understand that MP's should hear the news first"

THEY CAN'T JUST DO THIS IN SECRET

[Berk @trapdoor456]

🚨Breaking News🚨
Number 10 Officials are urgently trying to find the source of leaked Whatsapp messages of @UKLabour Ministers...

[Tim Draper @TimDraper]

My life’s mission is to spread entrepreneurship and venture capital around the world. In the process I continue to back visionary founders early, before they have fully baked their visions.

At Draper, we backed Tesla when there had not been a successful car company started in the US for 50 years.

We backed SpaceX when space travel was reserved for governments and hobbyists.

We backed Coinbase, and still people seem to think the fiat banking system will not fail.

In short… We invest in the future, one we would like to see.

I favor entrepreneurs who have a passion for an optimistic and challenging outcome.

We have backed more than 60 unicorns, 10 rhinos (fat unicorns), and three trinocorns (Tesla, SpaceX, and Bitcoin) that have reached more than $1 Trillion in market value.

We’ve invested early in Bitcoin, Tesla, Robinhood, Twitch, Baidu, and SpaceX. At Draper University, I've unleashed 6000+ heroes (entrepreneurs) from 104 countries, sparking 2000+ companies. Six of these are unicorns, and 25 have reached greater than $100 million in market value.

My main focus for the next decade?

-Transforming medicine from chemo-therapies to BIO-CURES.

-Driving Space and Transportation fields to new heights, improving defense.

-Utilizing A.I. to improve everyone’s performance, even robots.

-Making the Bitcoin ecosystem more attractive than the fiat-banking one.

-Making what seems impossible, possible. Nothing is too weird, too wild, or too controversial for us.

If you have a mission that will rock an major industry, I'm listening.

Pitch me at [email protected]

[Michael Richardson @B16ADS]

Well worth a read 🙏

[Peter McCormack 🏴���☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

This is wild.

The pace of change with AI is beyond what most people are aware of.

[Michael Richardson @B16ADS]

@PeterMcCormack I literally just read this too, well worth sharing 👏

[Michael Richardson @B16ADS]

What Laura said 👎

[🍓Laura🍓 @ItsLau_xo]

This Saudi Arabia Darts Masters is absolutely terrible. Absolutely no atmosphere whatsoever. May as well play it behind closed doors! @OfficialPDC - probably one of the 1st things you've got wrong. The walk ons look like something out of gladiators too. Ridiculous

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

Why has the global Left swallowed glue about #IranProtests?
A young Iranian 🇮🇷 woman bluntly and brilliantly explains the Left’s brazen dishonesty.

[Fusilier @firstfusilier]

The man is a fucking genius.

[Michael Richardson @B16ADS]

@ThomasGrayX @tylerhmead I did it. My Dad bought me a suit, and took me to all the banks, building societies and insurance companies. I had to walk up to the counter and ask for a job. I got one too! General accident 1982

[Michael Richardson @B16ADS]

@ShabanaMahmood About time, they were never needed in the first place

[Michael Richardson @B16ADS]

@lukewoody180 Well played Woody, next time.

[Michael Richardson @B16ADS]

@Rainmaker1973 AC/DC. From the start, in order. I’d probably get to Highway to Hell

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

We Had a Chance to End the Conflict and We Chose to Burn It.

In 2005, something historic happened.
Israel withdrew completely from Gaza - not just its soldiers, but also all of its civilians, farms, and settlements. Thousands of Israeli families were uprooted from their homes by their own government. Synagogues were dismantled, greenhouses and infrastructure worth hundreds of millions of dollars were left behind - not destroyed, but handed over to give us a chance to start fresh.

For the first time in our history, we had full control over a piece of land - our own borders, our own cities, our own people, and access to the sea. The world was ready to help. Billions in aid and investment were promised.
It could have been the beginning of a Palestinian Singapore.

But instead of building schools, hospitals, and industries, we built tunnels, rockets, and militias.
Instead of creating hope, we chose hatred.
Instead of turning Gaza into proof that Palestinians can govern themselves, we turned it into proof that we cannot.

When Israel left, the world expected calm, peace, and progress.
What did we give them?

Civil war between Fatah and Hamas.

Executions in the streets.

A terror group seizing power and turning Gaza into a launching pad for endless wars.

And the world still asks: Why doesn’t Israel “just give up the West Bank” too?
Because they already saw what happened the last time they gave land for nothing in return.

The truth is painful, but it must be said:
We were given a chance to build a future and we used it to destroy our own.
We could have shown that we were ready for peace.
Instead, we showed that we were ruled by those who fear peace more than they fear death.

Every rocket fired from Gaza wasn’t just aimed at Israel - it was aimed at our own future.

And now, after all the destruction, poverty, and death, I keep asking myself:
What if, just once, we had chosen life instead of revenge?
We had the opportunity to end the conflict.
But our leaders and too many of us chose to keep it alive.

[Michael Richardson @B16ADS]

@NoContextBrits They never serve spaghetti at Royal Banquets. Not with all those expensive gowns and uniforms. They know what they’re doing 💂