ITN News – May 21, 2021
UK billionaires have seen their fortunes soar by more than a fifth as they shook off the financial toll of the pandemic, according to the latest Sunday Times Rich List.
The list revealed that there are now a record 171 billionaires in the UK, with Ukranian-born Sir Leonard Blavatnik topping the pile as the richest person in the country.
The number of billionaires jumped by 24%, in stark contrast with the wider economic turmoil of the pandemic which saw millions enter furlough and the rate of unemployment lift to its highest in almost five years.
Wealth among billionaires increased by 21.7% over the year, rising by £106.5 billion to £597.2 billion.
Robert Watts, compiler of the rich list, said: “The global pandemic created lucrative opportunities for many online retailers, social networking apps and computer games tycoons.
“The fact many of the super-rich grew so much wealthier at a time when thousands of us have buried loved ones and millions of us worried for our livelihoods makes this a very unsettling boom.”
The annual index of the country’s wealthiest residents showed that oil and media investor Mr Blavatnik saw his fortune surge by £7.2 billion to around £23 billion during the pandemic-hit year.
His business interests include Warner Music, which he sold a £1.37 billion stake in when it listed in the US last year.
He took the title of UK’s richest man from Sir James Dyson, who slipped back to fourth in the table after his wealth only increased by £100 million to £16.3 billion.
The electricals entrepreneur was also beaten by property investors David and Simon Reuben, who reached the second spot after their wealth increased by £5.46 billion to £21.46 billion.
Meanwhile, Sri and Gopi Hinduja, who run the Mumbai-based conglomerate Hinduja Group, saw their fortune rise by £1 billion to clinch the third spot.
Other notable billionaires to feature in the top 10 included Alisher Usmanov, who saw his wealth rise by £1.7 billion after selling his 30% stake in Arsenal football club.
Chelsea owner and fellow Russian Roman Abramovich also saw his fortune climb, rising by £1.9 billion to £12.1 billion for the year.
These are the 10 richest people in the country according to the rich list:
Sir Leonard Blavatnik – £23 billion
David and Simon Reuben – £21.46 billion
Sri and Gopi Hinduja and family – £17 billion
Sir James Dyson and family – £16.3 billion
Lakshmi Mittal and family – £14.68 billion
Alisher Usmanov – £13.4 billion
Kirsten and Jorn Rausing – £13 billion
Roman Abramovich – £12.1 billion
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho – £12.01 billion
Guy, George, Alannah and Galen Weston and family – £11 billion
What a surprise! Force small firms out of business, steal their trade during the compulsory shutdown, and the companies that are allowed to remain open make record profits. Who’d a thunk it?
Quote “Those that make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable”.
The clock is ticking.
Most of the above are of course Jews…..there is even an outside chance that the Indians are actually Indian crypto Jews.
Britain is heaving with corruption and mass tax evasion by the elite.
Boris Johnstein has promised an overhaul of the BBC . as a result of the Diana affair.
Prince Harry appears to be going off the rails probably because of the enormous orchestrated pressure on him…..he is taking it too far of course….
You’ll notice that the BBC was NOT subjected to the same pressure after the Saville affair which was far worse than any damage done to the Windsors…..but then again they were (the victims) were only poor whites whom the government has abandoned to their fate…
The government might introduced a non race based employment policy for the BBC executive rather than focussing on employing Jews and the occasional token minority.
There are MANY crypto Jews at the top not just the likes of Yentob and Attenborough.
Dumb Harry has now introduced the race card into this business….he is making a wrong move there because people are fed up with this stuff.
No doubt Meghan Markle is partly responsible….you wonder if she wields the same sort of influence over him as that Simpson woman,the American divorcee did in earlier times.
It is possible dumb Harry knows the REAL TRUTH about Diana’s murder…. you could guess it came from within the royals….possibly Queenie….like the good old days of the British monarchy.
One thing is for sure the fool Harry wont shut up….he keeps making things worse by continually going on about it.
It would be better all round if the monarchy was sidelined BUT the ghastly British media wont leave it alone….maximum return for little expense…..just the gutter press hanging around venues.
@ TED
dont forget the uppergrade freemasonry. they are all behind
covid fraud + flooding europa with unscilled parasites !
It bothers me that a slightly better hoover put 16 billion pounds in someone’s pocket. How is his labour at half a million pounds an hour? He is a massive thief.
In the Great Depression what took place was one of the biggest wealth transfers and the concentration of wealth and power into the hands of mainly the same financial cabal and their minions which backed the US Fed, the US and the UK before WWI and ever since. They plan things 50 to 100 years in advance. What is happening now with the plandemic and all of the resets was planned ever since the 1970’s, and announced in bits and pieces all along the way. The history is an ever increasing concentration of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands. As their power and wealth increases they have become increasingly emboldened and blatant about their means and their intentions. With the blatant rigging of the US election, their intent is that we wake up and realize that democracy is archaic and all that matters is their top-down authority. Their message is that they own or control everything and everyone that matters. Over the past month a number of their highly coordinated instruments pumped about $300 billion into Bitcoin and then in a day and in unison they dumped it with virtually exactly the same amounts. The cabal wants no rival or independent currency out of their control and they are now most likely trying to take it over or sink the crypto lifeboats as their fiat currencies crash. If they were not in control of our governments and legislatures their perps would be prosecuted for their massive market manipulations. Also, if the people could ever get control of their governments from these monsters, there would be effective laws with sharp teeth against monopolies, cartels, and corporate trusts.