The Internet has little sympathy for Dubai’s tax-dodging influencers

British journalist Isabel Oakeshott, who is famous for her hateful content against migrants and refugees, has been documenting her life in Dubai amid Iran’s retaliatory strikes on the UAE , and people have little sympathy.

Oakeshott shared a bilingual emergency alert from Dubai during the strikes. It was in Arabic first, then English, telling residents to take shelter. The internet immediately laughed at her for enjoying the kind of accommodation she’d never offer migrants.

Influencers were getting roasted for suddenly caring about British embassies after spending years clout-chasing in a country with zero tax and infinite irony.

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Even mainstream British media wasn’t holding back. Susanna Reid straight-up asked: if Brits move to Dubai to avoid paying tax, then need rescuing, shouldn’t they pay for it themselves?

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey rightly pointed this out in the Parliament on Monday. He called out “tax exiles and washed-up old footballers” in Dubai who “mock ordinary Brits” but now expect the UK military to rescue them. He said:

..we rightly expect our brave armed forces to protect British citizens around the world in crises like this, but that includes tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed-up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes here. As we protect them, does the Prime Minister agree that it is only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us do?

Oakeshott’s fiancé and “patriotic” Reform MP Richard Tice is definitely not keen on this frankly patriotic measure. He criticised Davey for being “obsessed” with Oakeshott for this suggestion.

Imagine fleeing the UK to avoid taxes, then asking your MP fiancé to cover for your tax-dodging behaviour, Embarrassing, really.

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