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@mwmorris1997 Latest research shows that Welsh children support England. They all support English Prem League teams (as do you!) and the England team is full of their heroes. The adults don’t want England to win but Welsh kids do! They also much prefer football to rugby. Welsh culture changing

I'd rather see Manuel Ugarte make a successful pass than England winning the World Cup

@MollyPitcherNow @jake_theviking England won on every single measured metric, possession, passes, shots, shots on target etc etc with the one exception of corners! How can you possibly think Norway deserved to win?! Suspect you know nothing about football.

@jake_theviking No! Have you encountered the English in your comments?! Gah! They are absolutely vile! As far as I’m concerned, Norway won! They won the hearts of everyone from around the world.

Now that Norway is out of the World Cup, is anyone still watching? no? didnt think so..

@AughtonNeil @kateferguson4 100 percent this.

@kateferguson4 How about every adult the a council area paying the same amount towards the council services that thay all have access to

Could genuinely see a non payment of council tax protest happening in London if this happened. Or maybe I’ll move to Italy.

@robprogressive Why should the value of your house dictate what you pay for local services? Makes no logical sense. Every adult should pay the same amount.

Council Tax is one of the strangest taxes in Britain. Two neighbours can live in homes worth millions And pay almost the same as someone in a property worth a fraction of that How is that logical?

@SimonFoxWriter Motive?

In order to convict the Rotherham man, they will need forensic evidence. I wonder if they have any whatsoever. We'll find out.

@matthewjamesali Most Welsh kids support English Prem teams. The England team is full of their hero’s and they will be supporting England. The adults might be bitter and twisted but the new generation of Welsh love the England team . Especially as their rugby team is absolute pants these days.

Touchy bunch. The most insecure footballing nation in the world and so desperate to be liked

@UnionJacked__ Rent will rise significantly in London.

If Burnham does introduce this new property tax, this is a map of the winners and losers. I’m totally comfortable with this:

When it comes to tax in the UK, a lot of people are deluding themselves, thinking the government will just go after the wealthy to pay for the ballooning commitments they’ve made. The truth is, the real target is the middle class. And the reason is simple. The middle class is the only viable option for the kind of revenue the government wants. Start with who’s off the table. A third of British adults pay no income tax at all. The bottom half of earners take home about a quarter of the income in this country and pay roughly a tenth of the tax. There’s no pot of gold buried down there, and every party has spent years promising to protect “working people.” Squeezing them is politically radioactive and would raise next to nothing anyway. The rich are off the table too, whatever the Channel 4 documentaries say. The top 1% already pay 28% of all income tax. Their money is capital, dividends and gains, so they’re mobile, and they’ve already started leaving. One widely quoted forecast has Britain losing half a million millionaires by 2028. Push the rate on these people much higher and you collect less, not more. Threatening them polls brilliantly, but relying on them for a tax bonanza is pure fantasy. Which leaves the middle class, and the middle class can’t run. Most are on PAYE, taxed at source before the money touches their account. They can’t turn a salary into a capital gain. They can’t declare residency in Monaco, because the job, the kids’ school and the mortgage are all here. Their wealth is a house they can’t hide under the mattress and a pension they can’t reach. Numerous, visible and immobile. The perfect target, and in some ways the only one. And here’s how it’s already being done. They won’t raise your headline rate of income tax, because they promised not to. But the threshold freeze, the one that sounds like a non-event on Budget day, is quietly hammering you, and it’s now been extended to 2031. Took out a student loan since 2012? You’ve been paying the graduate tax in all but name. Hold investments outside an ISA? You’ve watched CGT climb to 24%, and it’s likely to be equalised with income tax next. Sent your kids to private school? That’s the VAT charge. Saving into a cash ISA? That shelter just shrank from £20,000 to £12,000. And from 2027, your pension gets pulled into inheritance tax, so the pot you spent a career building can be taxed again on the way out. There’s more coming. Mansion taxes, higher CGT, property levies, dividends. Most of the taxes we’re told will hit the ultra wealthy will actually land on the middle class. And in most cases they’re not sat on fortunes, they’re sat on assets they spent a working life building. What’s worse, the burden grows with every Budget, because of the compounding commitments this government keeps making, and that nearly every other party has pledged too. So who pays for the past, present and future spending of the UK government? The middle class. And there’s not a thing they can do about it. Debt-trapped, stuck in place, with nowhere to turn, and the government knows it. If any of this resonated, you’re likely in the taxation crosshairs. I wish you luck.

@aljamarkir England won by every measured metric, possession, shots, passes, fouls etc with the one exception of corners. This complaining by the Norwegians is embarrassing. Go and look at the game again.

@LitjFoxn Not one serious football official alive who doesn’t think a two handed shove in the chest is a foul! It’s mental this is even being discussed.

Look! It IS possible to stay on your feet with a little push! (and this push was even heavier than the one against Anderson)

@Terfs_R @FIFAWorldCup This is getting embarrassing for Norway. Lose better.

What about this, @FIFAWorldCup? No red card for pushing an elbow in the Norwegian player’s neck? Oh no, it was an Englishman who pushed. They are exempt from any penalties, apparently. 🤡🤡🤡

@Addiynwa How did England cheat?

If you deep it, it’s crazy that England had to cheat against Norway to go through There is 2x more people that live in London than the entire Norway😅

A college economics professor stated that he had once failed an entire class. That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, that everyone is equal... The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group. All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10." After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8. The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed. As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less. The average of the second test was 6. When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed. The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation The story may be a fable not a fact but the moral is real Get it?

@DowningDraft @PaulEmbery This is just not a workable idea. Finance and asset management doesn’t work the way you think it does.

@PaulEmbery Inevitable but potentially solvable. Other countries use exit taxes. If gains were built up while you lived here, leaving shouldn’t make them vanish from the tax system.

Holding the country to ransom.

@tiddlyoggy @PaulEmbery In my profession nearly all ‘workers’ have moved abroad and commute to the UK. They pay only NI and no tax. They earn on an average £300k, plus and this is a crazy amount of tax that is being lost to the UK but they can’t afford to live here anymore.

@PaulEmbery It's not just the wealthy; I'm in the trades, and around 60% of the guys I talk to are considering leaving... People are voting with their feet, as is their right

@Teamgrassroots_ As a coach, allow chaos. I thought a good session was one that went how I envisioned it when creating the masterpiece! It took me a while to accept that chaos is good and how children learn. They sort out the chaos. Learn the difference between skill and technique.

🗣️ What's the best piece of advice you've ever received as a grassroots coach, parent or player?

A new one for the terraces, @England? 🎶 Total Eclipse of @DjedSpence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✨ 📞 08085 909 693 📲 85058 🐦 #BBC606

Loving this… onwards.

@ASvanevik You are an idiot! The Norwegian player was given a yellow card for dissent, nothing to do with the collision with Pickford. Honestly this is getting embarrassing for Norway now.

Congrats to England, the cable, and the ref. My favourite moment was when two English players collided - and a Norwegian was given a yellow 😂 Jokes aside - Bellingham was fantastic. Norway had a great tournament and should travel home proud. I think we’ll win Euro 2028 🇳🇴

@angiebeeb You can’t honestly say that Haaland’s 2 hand shove in the chest is not a foul! Seriously?!?

Norway were robbed! England have no right to be in the final but it’s what FIFA wanted. Norway you did your country proud and you did it without cheating Leve Norge 🇳🇴