Someone please make sense of this for us. Via Contact:
Singer/songwriter JAMES BLUNT has been honoured in the Swiss ski resort Verbier, after a new chairlift was named after him. The YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL hitmaker is reportedly planning to move to Verbier in a bid to dodge UK taxes on the GBP5 million ($9.8 million) he has so far earned from his debut album BACK TO BEDLAM. And PATRICK MESSEILLER, Verbier’s director of tourism, insists Blunt is joining esteemed company. He says, “He is the godfather of the new lift. It is an honour.
So, best summarized: “Unbearable pop star moves in order to evade taxes, honoured with a Swiss ski lift.” Huh? Switzerland, your “honour” system intrigues us.
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yeah, that’s bizarre.
I don’t know if they’ve been reformed, but UK taxes used to be insane: something like ?2 of every ?2.5 earned when you entered into a certain high income bracket. Crazy.
alec guinness was taxed for 95% of his star wars salary. crazy.
I was in Verbier skiing when he arrive. Not many people cared that he was there accpet the people who shelled out 200 swiss francs to see him perform. I thought that was totally uncalled for. People were just trying to enjoy a bit of apres-ski and then everyone gets kicked out unless they paid to see him. I think Blunt should take a page out of the Arcade Fire’s play book and play FREE secert shows. That guy is so greedy.
I was in Verbier skiing when he arrive. Not many people cared that he was there accpet the people who shelled out 200 swiss francs to see him perform. I thought that was totally uncalled for. People were just trying to enjoy a bit of apres-ski and then everyone gets kicked out unless they paid to see him. I think Blunt should take a page out of the Arcade Fire’s play book and play FREE secert shows. That guy is so greedy.
First Bono, now this unfortunate example of vaginal discharge. We ought to make a George Carlin-style prison for these people somewhere in Kentucky. We’ll relocate the Dodgers to Lexington and teach them cricket, just so the limeys don’t riot. Riot very, very politely, wailing in falsetto for social justice. Blahhhhhhhhhhh.
Can’t we just let people get their apres-ski on without getting all up in their biznatch Blunt-wise?
It’s still more than he deserves