LONDON

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT has been advised that if it is going to tax the rich more, it has to do it quickly, before they all leave the country.

“The rich have been leaving this country faster than England batsmen leaving their wickets after a demolition by Australian bowlers,” says Max Lucre, of Take The Money And Run – Anywhere But Here, a website established to advise millionaires and billionaires how to get out of the UK and where to go. “The Labour administration might want to take money from the rich to finance its programs – there’s no other source really, the Government is absolutely skint – but we live in a world where people and their money can move at the push of a button. If you want to establish a confiscatory economy, you need to set up the infrastructure before you announce that you’re going to just steal people’s hard earned from them. Otherwise they are gone.”