Matthew Childs

[Matthew Childs @mattster90]

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[Andrew Neil @afneil]

I’m glad you’ve left this up (tho that’s probably because of your serial incompetence rather than intentional). It illustrates that you’ve taken the phrase ‘useful idiots’ to hitherto unexplored heights. Congrats.

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

The Green Party leadership in Hackney specifically telling the Mayor of an Israeli city that he has until *7 October* to respond to their intention to cancel their twinning agreement is some next level evil, even for those ghouls.

[LOTR Universe @Lordoftheringsu]

Movie games weren't even that good back then...

The movie game:

[Matthew Childs @mattster90]

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[Lee @makemefamous201]

@SeppBlatter We need you back Sepp. Your corruption was hidden much better.

[Nielsen @Nielsen_zen]

De sidste 5 års terror angreb i EU:
2021 - Islam 3 - Venstre 1 - Højre 0
2022 - Islam 2 - Venstre 13 - Højre 1
2023 - Islam 5 - Venstre 23 - Højre 0
2024 - Islam 6 - Venstre 17 - Højre 1
2025 - Islam 9 - Venstre 11 - Højre 1

Scorecard:
Islam - 25
Venstre - 65
Højre - 3

Men husk nu det er højrefløjs-terror vi skal fokusere på.

[Pat Conway @mrpatconway]

@LFC Keep politics out of sport. If you truly want inclusion, stop virtue signalling for any side and just stick to football. We can all just be Liverpool fans and celebrate that.

[DaveOCKOP @DaveOCKOP]

Jurgen Klopp: “I’m not doing this job for myself. I’m doing it for you. I’m taking this job even though I’ve seen how you’ve treated Julian Nagelsmann. I’m taking it even though I’ve seen how you’ve treated Thomas Tuchel.

If you go after my family, I’m gone. If you think I’m rubbish, tell me to my face and I’ll leave immediately, without asking for any compensation.” @Plettigoal

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

I’m calling BS on these 120 millionaires calling to be taxed more.

Look closely at who signed. A retired footballer whose been paid millions by taxpayers. A retired trader who’s net worth is well under $5M. Retired musicians, film directors and some heirs. People who finished building years ago - half of them aren’t worth the $10M threshold they think needs the wealth tax. Their wealth sits in liquid portfolios. The tax they propose either doesn’t apply to them or they have liquidity to pay it.

Now picture a founder with a £50m biotech firm. Her wealth isn't in a bank account. It's based on a speculative VC round. To pay 2% she has to rip £800k a year out of her business or sell it down piece by piece until someone else owns it.

Or imagine the restauranteur whose chain is finally having a profitable year after a decade of losses. A PE deal to expand gives him a paper worth of £60M and he now has to find £1M a year, every year personally if he wants to grow. 

Imagine the property developer couple who made a lifetime of delayed gratification and good decisions. Their portfolio makes £4M profit which is barely enough to cover the £2M in wealth taxes per year after they draw it from their company and pay the corporation tax - 100% essentially goes to tax.

The signatories aren't offering to pay a tax. They're volunteering someone else to. Someone who is still building, investing, growing, hiring.

HMRC already accepts voluntary payments. Any of these self-aggrandising millionaires could send extra money tomorrow. ALL of them benefited from lower tax rates and should pay the difference if they want to make a start. None of them will. They don't want to give more. They want a law that forces others to.

The wealth tax they propose won't work. It will backfire.

We don't need to guess. In 1990, twelve OECD countries had a wealth tax. Today it's three.

Sweden scrapped theirs. Germany suspended theirs. France tried it for decades, watched tens of thousands of wealthy families leave, collected a fraction of what was promised, and Macron repealed it because the country was losing more than it raised.

The £24bn projection assumes nobody changes their behaviour. Nobody has ever designed a tax where nobody changes their behaviour. Liquid wealth leaves. Illiquid wealth, the businesses and farms and employers, stays behind and gets squeezed.

The tax doesn't catch the guy with the yacht. It catches the guy with the factory.

It will end up hitting normal people.

Every tax "on the very richest" drifts downwards. Income tax started in 1799 as a temporary 3% levy on the richest 3% to fight Napoleon. Now workers are paying a 45% marginal rate. Inheritance tax was designed for stately homes and now catches three-bed semis in Surrey. VAT launched at 8%. It's now 20%.

When the wealth tax raises a fraction of what was promised, and it will, no Chancellor repeals it. They lower the threshold. £10m becomes £5m becomes £2m becomes your parents' house.

Here's what I'd say to the 120…

If you want your capital serving Britain, I'm with you. The best way is to back founders. Fund the startups and scale-ups on great terms like they do in the USA. Help build companies that scale here instead of selling early to America. Growing businesses already pour money into the Treasury through corporation tax, employer's NI and PAYE on every job they create. Back success and productivity. Stop rewarding fiscal deficits with good money after bad.

That's harder than signing a letter. You don’t get to look like a socialist super-hero. It's also the only version of "proud to pay" that's ever made a country richer.

Don't pretend to ask the government to tax you… or people twice as rich as you.

Invest in real growth and success.

[James Price @jamespriceglos]

I’m done with allowing people to insult my ancestors like this.

No other group of people on Earth would allow their forebears to be insulted like this.

🇬🇧 My ancestors were the first people in history to fight to end slavery.

🇬🇧 They spread the common law across the world.

🇬🇧 They stopped Indians from burning widows alive so that they wouldn’t have to pay to feed them after their husbands had died.

🇬🇧 They stood alone against the Nazis.

🇬🇧 They invented and built the modern world with technology and medicine that started to defeat death and disease.

🇬🇧 They invented economics and democracy as we know it.

My ancestors were great people. Without them, the world would be an immeasurably darker, more wicked place.

Never again let entitled actors who known nothing about anything browbeat you into feeling shame for your ancestors.

Britain, and Western civilisation, are the greatest expressions of human flourishing in the history of the world.

Be proud of the ancestors who fought and toiled and sacrificed for that.

Don’t ever be ashamed of the greatness of our inheritance.

Live up to it.

[Turning Point UK 🇬🇧 @TPointUK]

@KayBurley Do you think the Education Secretary should be competent at spelling?

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Rest in peace, Kevin Keegan ❤️

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

We are devastated to learn of the passing of Kevin Keegan, one of the most iconic, influential and deeply loved figures in our club’s history.

Kevin was more than a legendary footballer and manager. He was the beating heart of Newcastle United for generations of supporters.

[Boring Milner @BoringMilner]

I just messaged Jordan Henderson, Congratulations on beating France and finishing third.

He replied, Thanks James.

I replied, Just a shame Saka and Rashford weren’t bought on vs. Argentina.

He replied, Not now, James.

I replied, Because we could have exploited the space in behind like we did vs. France.

He replied, Not now, James.

[Jamie Ohara @Mrjamieohara1]

0 shots in a whole game, I repeat I will NEVER FORGIVE TUCHEL

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Disgusting behaviour by the Argentinians at the end, especially Paredes.
Just a bunch of nasty violent thugs, and a disgrace to football. Never been so happy to see a team lose.