Legal Balling

Lawyer. Interested in Sports, Music, Media and Law (obvs). Eclectic opinionated views all my own.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Here we go again. A pair of socialists who think they can tax the UK into growth…

How do we get investment?… tax the gains more.
How do we get more entrepreneurs … tax them if they leave!!

How do we build an economy for the future? … Ignore the current technology that’s transforming the economy.

I’m so sick of career politicians who have never had to run a business in their lives. Their entire adult life is spending other people’s money without any understanding of what it takes to create surplus value.

Let me be clear. To the degree that any socialist policy survives it is underpinned by economic surplus. Capitalism ALWAYS underpins socialism…

Why did China lift up out of near national famine? It became more market driven and attached itself to the capitalist West.

Why did most Western economies pioneer health services and welfare systems in the 1900s? … Capitalism was producing the surpluses to afford it.

If we start taxing the productive economy into oblivion there will not be any surplus to do nice socialist things. If we fall behind the AI race, we will become a third world country relative to the countries that pioneer and develop AI industries.

We are in a fast changing time. There is no rule that says the UK has a god-given right to be a wealthy nation. It is only wealthy if there are successful businesses inside its borders.

Introduce wealth taxes, increase capital gains tax, ignore AI, introduce exit taxes and watch this little island decline into a failing economy.

[💎🇿🇦🇵🇹 @TJayyyy_1]

Declan Rice complaining about a team that sits with 11 guys behind the ball a lot?

[Stuart @StuartMaggs]

Here we go again.

Rumours of a wealth tax, capital gains tax to 45%, and an immediate exit tax to stop people escaping. You’d have thought Labour would have learned.

Our Government should try to attract global entrepreneurs, not threaten leavers with an exit tax.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Here’s a completely insane statistic about the United Kingdom:

According to the Office for National Statistics, 53 per cent of households in Britain receive more in welfare than they pay in tax.

Just think about that and what it means.

[Les Mileistes Français 🦁🇫🇷 @Mileistesfr]

Il fait chaud à cause du petit trait vert qui refuse de descendre à zéro.

[Aylmer @AylmerTH]

How the Boriswave happened, according to Alan Manning

[Alan Mendoza @alanmendoza]

When the dust settles, Sir Keir Starmer will be regarded as one of Britain's worst ever Prime Ministers. He achieved extraordinarily little despite having an incredible majority. And the country grew angrier and more divided during his period of office, largely as a consequence of his astonishing ability to channel a toxic mix of ineptitude, maladroitness and inanity as he led us deeper into the economic and social mire.

"Starmerism" simply never existed because it was difficult to conclude that there was even one animating ideal behind his government - let alone an identifiable philosophy - other than a simple desire to be in power.

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

None of these people have any experience of running a business or working in finance.

This is an insane way to manage an economy.

[Kevin Edger @KEdge23]

Boris called an election.

Theresa May called an election.

Labour demanded an election when Rishi Sunak became prime minister.

Funny how all those same Labour MPs don’t want an election now, even though Andy Burnham is about to become prime minister, with no mandate.

[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

The PM had just resigned and we're all sweltering in a heatwave, but BBC London's second top news story yesterday was..

A cross-dressing man who calls himself 'Freazy Warr', who they last featured a week ago in a different story, has found bed bugs in his flat

[Jake Sharpe @JakeSharpeBBC]

It’s all fun and games now but imagine seeing and hearing that on the Dorset coast in the 8th century

[Emma Woolf @EJWoolf]

3 things yesterday which prove UK is no longer a serious country:
- Scottish MP sworn in, smirking & openly mocking the oath in the chamber
- Steve Bray permitted to blast out music while the PM was making resignation statement
- Burnham & the MPs selfie
What. An. Embarrassment

[CRG @MacroCRG]

it's actually fucking crazy when you think about it

in the UK, the person who will be in charge of managing trillions of £.... has never managed money before

[2 Ystwyth 2 Hudson @Ystwyth1558]

This is such a 'lies, damn lies, and statistics' graph

inward migration in 2025 was the third highest ever recorded, and we're supposed to ignore that because lots of our best and brightest are leaving?

[CRG @MacroCRG]

UK government choices for Chancellor:

Ed Miliband: zero private sector economics or financial experience.

Wes Streeting: zero private sector economics or financial experience.

Shabana Mahmood: zero private sector economics or financial experience.

America's equivalent....

Scott Bessent: Founded his own macro hedge fund, was CIO at Soros Fund Management, 30 years managing global capital

Comedic contrast. The UK has a political competency crisis

[Ace @Thelfc_Ace]

Argentina without Messi is like Portugal with Ronaldo

[Kirk @kirkkinsey]

One of the reasons that so many people ignore the women’s game is because of this sort of tedious commentary that begs you to pay attention and pretends there is no difference between the men’s and women’s games.

[Dan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Kingbingo_]

Why not simply pick one of the Labour MPs with extensive business or finance experience, preferably both?

Oh wait...... there are no Labour MPs like that. Because no one who understands business or economics is a socialist.

[luke @louorns]

The fact this what said 14 years ago when Messi was 25 is nuts