Dubai resident Isabel Oakeshott has once again decided to complain about the state of the UK, despite the fact she doesn’t live here.
For the last few months, the journalist has been living in the United Arab Emirates to escape Labour’s VAT raid on private schools. This hasn’t stopped Oakeshott repeatedly putting Britain down, both through appearances on TalkTV and posts on social media.
Her latest attack on the UK came in a post on X, where Oakeshott asked how “our country can bear another 4 years of this?”
In a lengthy list, Oakeshott lamented everything from “the crashing incompetence” and the “fracturing communities” to the “tanking economy” and “filth piling up on our streets.”
People immediately asked the obvious question though: where did Oakeshott mean when she said “our country,” given that she lives in the United Arab Emirates.
Writer Otto English said: “Sounds terrible Isabel. Why not leave and come home to Blighty?”
And many others made the same point…
Earlier this year, Oakeshott said she had fled the UK to avoid Labour’s “pernicious tax on private schools” and found refuge in the UAE, where the economy is “booming”.
Her partner Richard Tice – the deputy leader of Reform UK – has also been splitting his time between Dubai and his constituency of Boston and Skegness.
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