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"The UKs 3.06 million millionaires". LOL. Every geriatric with a centrally located apartment is a "millionaire" nowdays. But I'm sure the "tax justice" network doesn't actually understand the difference.

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That figure came from Swiss bank UBS, one of the reports that made the news making the claim that millionaires would leave if taxes were raised.

https://www.ft.com/content/a578561c-05de-402b-8ba7-91f2d77c5...

The boomers with million pound houses are all leeching pensions too. The society is disintegrating. The young are milked like tax livestock while they import millions of people.

Indeed, as is obvious to anyone productive. Taxes come from the productive and entrepreneurial, of which of the 10k that did leave are a big portion, and that's before actually comparing the incomes as opposed to the net worth.

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