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Originally Posted by 10023
That’s because they are discrete. Germans generally don’t talk about money and loathe flashiness.
And it’s not usually British billionaires that you hear so much about, but foreign billionaires in London.
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Culturally, financially, economically and in so many ways London is a city-state. Akin to say Singapore.
As you say the majority of its billionaires are not British but then the majority of its population is no longer British either.
Non-Tory in a largely Tory England. Pro EU, Deeply and totally unconcerned with the rest of the UK and looking to the world instead.
With the UK possibly on the point of breaking up, it may be fascinating to see how the relationship of a new English polity will be with the no longer English city the nation's institutions reside in.