Thomas Madden

my opinions are my own, and all of them suck

[Liam @LiamLemonsLovee]

Fact is, England need to make it to the World Cup final because who else is going to boo the entire half-time show??

[•R•S• @Ay_Blinkin]

Tolkien himself actually had a lot to say about this topic:

"Children are not a class or kind, they are a heterogeneous collection of immature persons, varying, as persons do, in their reach, and in their ability to extend it when stimulated. As soon as you limit your vocabulary to what you suppose to be within their reach, you in fact simply cut off the gifted ones from the chance of ex-tending it."

—J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 234 (1961)

"Children's tastes and talents differ as widely as those of adults, as soon as they are old enough to be differentiated clearly, and therefore to be the target of any thing that can bear the name of literature. It would be useless to offer to many children of 14 or even of 12 the trash that is good enough for many respectable adults of twice or three times the age, but less gifts natural."

—J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 215 (1959)

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

The £100k tax trap isn’t about the rich.

It’s about making sure those who grind past the median get to fund 30-hour free childcare for households already on benefits...

60%+ marginal rate. Record 2 million caught.

Define ‘fair share’ again.

https://t.co/OVPXrUP86o

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

Hard disagree, save and invest privately for your own pension.
The state shouldn’t look after you at the cost of young workers tax payments.

[Gerry @guinnessaddick]

I like how Colombia v Switzerland tonight has been dubbed Charlie vs the Chocolate Factory.

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

Reinstate personal allowance between £100k - £125k

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

No, it is getting harder and harder to indulge countries that demand reparations from the nation that stamped out the slave trade. We should treat such demands as an unfriendly act, and set our aid and visa policies accordingly.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

“While the English are standing on the side unsure which team they should play for” 😂

[London HENRY 💷 @londonHenryGB]

I earn about 4.5x the average full-time UK salary.

But I pay about 9x as much in income tax and NI.

That’s before council tax, VAT, fuel duty, insurance tax, student loan, stamp duty, etc.

The UK doesn’t have a productivity problem.

It has an incentive problem.

[Stephen Knight 🎙️ @GSpellchecker]

I've no interest in debating whether it's ethical to deport this 'man'. The truth is, he's fortunate we're not currently having a national debate about launching him into the Atlantic from a cannon.

But if you have a government, a country and a system so inept and impotent that it cannot even deport foreign nationals responsible for the mass rape of minors, then you have a very serious problem.

The public will be rightly outraged. They'll feel not only the injustice of it, but the added insult of watching the law bend over backwards to protect unspeakable criminals rather than protect society from them.

That is how faith in institutions is eroded. People look at a case like this and conclude that the system is no longer working in the interests of ordinary, law-abiding citizens, but in the interests of those who have inflicted the worst sort of evil.

This is how you get vigilantism. This is how you get a far-right government ushered into power. Which is very bad news.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

Who cares why they buy expensive cars. It’s their money and when they spend it many people benefit from it.

The wealthy are already paying their taxes - the highest ever in peace time. These people have options and we’re dangerously close to them just leaving the UK due to the punitive levels of tax.

The solution is to reign in Government spending. They are incompetent, they are not productive, they are foolish in the way they hand out money and they are reckless with debt. They need to be punished for their failures until they become competent.

No country collapsed under the weight of entrepreneurship. Many countries have collapsed under the weight of their fat governments.

[Ben Pile @clim8resistance]

@energygovuk You're fucking mad, all of you. Completely out of control.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

It is reported that Labour plan to import thousands of refugees into Britain through ‘safe and legal routes’.

I want to be really clear.

A Restore Britain Government will remove every single one.

Anyone who arrives under these new routes will be deported.

We will reverse the damage of this scheme. All of it.

And we will aim to prosecute those officials and politicians who knowingly place dangerous unvetted men in our communities.

It is treasonous behaviour, and will be treated as such.

And that will just be the start. Anyone who arrived illegally or lived illegally and then went on to claim asylum? Deported. Whatever current status they have will not protect them.

Restore Britain will end it all.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

@ukhomeoffice NO.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

The UK is crying out for capitalism.

So many hard working, talented people here. So much entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and big ideas.

But the government has their foot hard on the brakes.

There’s a cycle for prosperity. Let people run lose, experiment, refine and win big. Then when it’s all going great, tax some of those winnings and invest in the next platform for growth.

A bakery needs the chef to make a pie before you can slice it up and share it around. An economy needs higher growth before you can have higher taxes.

Taxes are the brakes on the economy. When taxes are too high you stifle innovation, entrepreneurship and drive.

Look at the frontier cities and industries. They start out as the wild-wild-west at first - no rules, low taxes anything goes. Think Hollywood early 1900s. Think about the internet in the early 2000s. Think about automotive in the 60s and 70s. Fast growing, profitable, fortunes to be made and lost.

Then come the regs and taxes and it all smooths out or goes away.

The UK hasn’t grown for 15 years. It’s crying out to get up and go. It just needs the governments foot to come off the brakes.

[Nimco Ali (OBE) @NimkoAli]

This is child abuse. No child is born in the wrong body and this is not what the NHS should be doing.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

You guys sold the slaves.

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

Perhaps the host nation could intervene and explain to FIFA their culture of free speech

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

Don’t take it from me.

Take it from one of the internet’s greatest pioneers @jimmy_wales

[Cal @SimpGanassi]

KEIR PONY CULL, I’M GONNA SIGN UP TO STOP THE
KEIR PONY CULL, I’M GONNA SAVE THE HORSIES DOWN ON WEST DARTY MOOR