James Dyson tops UK Rich List

[jackrussell101]

Rich List: Inventor Sir James Dyson is UK's richest person

The entrepreneur replaces the Hinduja brothers after increasing his wealth by £3.6bn.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[jackrussell101]

Must be from all the money he's making from his farming enterprise

 

[Wooly]

Good for him.................especially as he started from nothing.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

especially as he started from nothing.

.......and he’s still got most of it left

 

[Bald Rick]

It's an odd thing this Rich List.

Does anyone actually care? If they do, why?

 

[jondear]

He owns a lot of land now .Perhaps that's helped .Some have lost a lot in owning shares in the wrong companies since covid

 

[livestock 1]

I always have the thought that it’s amazing how selling fancy things to pick crumbs up and dry your hair can enable you to buy a massive farming outfit to feed people

 

[SilliamWhale]

It's the hand dryers that will have helped. They're everywhere now

 

[fgc325j]

I always have the thought that it’s amazing how selling fancy things to pick crumbs up and dry your hair can enable you to buy a massive farming outfit to feed people

I reckon that Dyson is a clever sod for 2 reasons - a: being an engineering genius for designing a compact, powerful electric motor to put
in his vacumn cleaners, and b: turning a machine for vacumning dust off the floor into a "must have fashion accessory".
Back in the 70's - 90's, when militant feminism was on the rise, asking a woman to "push the hoover around the house" was asking for
a quick trip to A+E to have parts from said hoover, removed your anatomy. These days, ask a woman to "drive a Dyson" and all is
sweetness and light !!

 

[Al R]

I reckon that Dyson is a clever sod for 2 reasons - a: being an engineering genius for designing a compact, powerful electric motor to put
in his vacumn cleaners, and b: turning a machine for vacumning dust off the floor into a "must have fashion accessory".
Back in the 70's - 90's, when militant feminism was on the rise, asking a woman to "push the hoover around the house" was asking for
a quick trip to A+E to have parts from said hoover, removed your anatomy. These days, ask a woman to "drive a Dyson" and all is
sweetness and light !!

Totally off topic BUT
I just couldn’t miss an opportunity like this....

 

[melted welly]

It's an odd thing this Rich List.

Does anyone actually care? If they do, why?

Journalists do, it gives them a juicy headline. Like the one about Starmer owing millions of pounds worth of land. Which turns out to be a 7ac grass field in a green belt.
Ah, but it “could” be worth millions if he sold it covered in houses.
using that logic, a lot of folk on here would be billionaires, just need to plant some financial districts.
journalists are tits.

 

[Fraserb]

Journalists do, it gives them a juicy headline. Like the one about Starmer owing millions of pounds worth of land. Which turns out to be a 7ac grass field in a green belt.
Ah, but it “could” be worth millions if he sold it covered in houses.
using that logic, a lot of folk on here would be billionaires, just need to plant some financial districts.
journalists are tits.

Your last sentence will be the best one on here today.

 

[DKnD]

Probably doesn't top the happiness list though. And I heard he has halitosis. Actually just looked him up, didn't realise how old he was. No pockets in a shroud and all that.

 

[jondear]

Your last sentence will be the best one on here today.

They are tits! Actually that's an insult to tits they have a purpose!

 

[TheTallGuy]

I reckon that Dyson is a clever sod for 2 reasons - a: being an engineering genius for designing a compact, powerful electric motor to put
in his vacumn cleaners, and b: turning a machine for vacumning dust off the floor into a "must have fashion accessory".
Back in the 70's - 90's, when militant feminism was on the rise, asking a woman to "push the hoover around the house" was asking for
a quick trip to A+E to have parts from said hoover, removed your anatomy. These days, ask a woman to "drive a Dyson" and all is
sweetness and light !!

Minor point, but many of "his" inventions are actually the work of others. Where he has excelled is in the application & implementation of those inventions & ideas, along with clever marketing - although it hasn't always worked!

As to him being top of the rich list? I'm too busy enjoying my own life to be bothered with envy, which is what such things are about. Whatever his faults, JD started out reliant his wife's income, he dared to take on the big names - his success and philanthropy speaks for itself.

 

[DRC]

I always have the thought that it’s amazing how selling fancy things to pick crumbs up and dry your hair can enable you to buy a massive farming outfit to feed people

That’s where farmers go wrong . Believing we have to feed people .

 

[livestock 1]

Main points here are he’s not good for farming unfortunately

 

[Danllan]

Totally off topic BUT
I just couldn’t miss an opportunity like this....

I did once do that, to the nauseatingly named 'Southall Black Sisters' group after some of them wrongly accused a friend of mine - an Asian female Barrister for an irony - of helping to 'oppress' her 'sisters of colour'...

The response was everything you might hope for.

 

[turbo]

Main points here are he’s not good for farming unfortunately

Why?most of the land he has bought is of investers but if you own some land in his patch and you want to sell he will pay over the odds to get it

 

[Still Farming]

Did his firm be pulled from making ventilators after?