Lewis hamilton

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When Michael Schumacher moved to Switzerland the town didn't change much. But at least now you can drive 200kmh through it

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Don't you mean Redhead?

Isn't that an anagram of Resta Tosser? After all, even DB claimed he was a bit of atosser.

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Do they actually have homes or just mailboxes

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There's a town called Switzerland.... fancy that

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Who is Lewis Hamilton?

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Very wealthy young British tax dodger with a great talent for driving around in circles very, very fast.

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Where am I, what day is it?

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He's a chap who does a job a bit like a bus driver , but with 'people skills' graded lower on the list of necessary attributes.

He has to wear a special hat and gloves to work. In that respect, he is very similar to a traffic policeman .

He likes to drive very very fast, and sometimes drives so fast that attractive young ladies give him a bottle of champagne, which he seems to be unable to open properly , losing most of it all over the floor.

For this he earns a lot of money , upon which he should be liable for tax . He doesn't like to pay a lot of tax , though, and prefers to live in Switzerland . This has the added benefit of allowing him to keep cheese orchards and a chocolate farm .

Apart from that, I know nothing about the fellow.

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Some tax exile, who drives a car quite quickly, who is paid a nut crunching amount of money.... to turn up his nose at the fans who support him because some one said something mildly unpleasant.... for what he get paid my entire family tree can be haranged. But I fear we've moved on from Mr Ungrateful... to the real issue.....

Some say.... he bathes in milk draw from rabbits

Some say.... he passed his 11+... whilst still in the womb

All we know is..... he's called Dougals Breakfast

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Now I'm intrigued by the origins and reasoning behind DB's name. Is it because he resembles a low-slung, floor lengthed dog that advertises Dulux or his penchant for mind altering substances? Or has it more today with the dog's dinner style of clothing he adopts?

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For pete's sake, give the guy a break. He has his reasons for moving to Switzerland, as have all of us.

For those who say he "drives around in circles", I think that is a somewhat simplistic view of motorsport (except Nascar, possibly). Did anyone see the Top Gear episode of the Hamster trying out the Renault F1 car? It's not as easy as it looks.

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Oh, I'm sure he's reading this with tears in his eyes.

Then his accountant will give him a Kleenex and he'll be alright again.

Sorry. I didn't catch that. I must have fallen asleep as I was trying to read it.

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I would suggest that the majority of expats work here, and pay there taxes here. Unlike Mr H, who chose a job in the limelight, is highly paid doing exactly what he did before, and simply paying less tax here. I would probably do the same truth be told, but I'd have a little more sympathy with him if he said that, rather than feeble excuses about the prese etc. when he's paid to be photographed and exhibited.

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Now if you were to modify that and say Vesenaz, canton Geneva, I might nod my head approvingly.

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I'm so glad you said that BobbyBuchi - I was about to ask the same although have worked out now from reading all posts he's a racing driver.

Obviously I don't watch car racing.....

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Yeah, tax evasion, unlike the rest of us.

(I will of course eat my words if you happen to unearth some interview where he proclaims that since the age of 12 he had a magnetic pull towards this alpine paradise, and that he's humbled to have been finally able to realize his dream).

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The 13th Duke of Wymbourne:

"Oh, I'm sure he's reading this with tears in his eyes.

Then his accountant will give him a Kleenex and he'll be alright again."

Are you suggesting he should've stayed back home so Mr Brown can use his tax millions to nationalise more toxic bank assets?

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Don't know about you, but last time I checked, I'm paying less tax here than I was in the UK. I assume Lewis is eyeing similar benefits.

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Do you do the same job here you did in the UK, for the same money? Also Hamilton doesn't actually work in this country... so for him it's all about saving tax.... and 8ollocks excuses.

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In fairness, there is a lot more to racing than driving around in circles. Unless you're talking about Nascar, which is just a bunch of halfwits on a roundabout.

I agree with most of the rest though. He's way overpaid, way over publicised, and definitely doesn't deserve all the lovely young ladies.

He should be paying tax in England. But at least he's not as bad as Bono, the sanctimonious git. Giving out to everyone about the state of the world and then frakking off to the Cayman's to hoard all his cash...