I can’t say I have a raft of Premiership footballers or showbiz personalities as clients, but do have one or two of long-standing. My advice to them has been the same as it would be to anyone else. Avoid anything potentially dodgy or get-rich-quick-ish. I’ve had many such promoted to me over the years, spread betting, offshore salary trusts, traded endowments, bitcoin (of course) and film productions. I’ve said not-with-a-bargepole, but have been on occasion ignored, alas, with broken marriages and house sales the result in a couple of cases. HMRC show little mercy. Even the supposedly less-dodgy have generally not ended well. So in old age I’m what J. Clarkson would doubtless call Mr Sensible/Boring. But still in business.
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Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?
