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[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

@LibbyTard17 It's incredible how weak some people are. It's hot, yes, but it's not 50°c. It's what people choose to fly to every summer on their holidays, it's what billions of people deal with every year.

It's just a bit hot. Have a Solero and stop being an authoritarian killjoy.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

We have a society that looks at these issues through such a simplistic lens. We see a problem, suggest that a kind response is needed and then the answer is money, money, more money.

You highlight a very obvious point but if a person receives £300 in benefits and they're a heroin addict, that £300 will end up in a drug dealers pocket. It is as simple as that. If people don't want to change the system, what do they think works about this? Do they want to see drug dealers be funded by the state? As it currently stands, millions of pounds go straight from the taxpayers, to the government, to addicts and then to drug dealers. It's completely inexcusable.

Even when it's not so egregious, there needs to be more questions asked. Some people with very mild autism are getting benefits...why? What is it actually for? Is it just a sympathy payment? Because in a lot of cases, these people - especially kids - don't have any additional requirements that require more money, so why is it given? And does anyone ever question whether the things bought for kids, like tablets, help with their condition or is it actually making them worse?

It's a complete mess. We waste billions on this because nobody ever does the most basic questioning. Sadly, it is a massive taboo to say to people "you do not need any more money" or "more money is a waste".

The country is in desperate need for an alternative. A modern workhouse that can treat addicts, help the disabled and anyone else caught between the cracks.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

When people say "the system failed these girls", that's absolutely true and part of that is because certain people will tolerate the most abhorrent crimes in fear of being accused of racism.

However, that's not the whole story.

The other side of it is that a big part of the establishment are involved or will excuse it because they're from a similar culture to those responsible. There is a culture of silence on the street, and there's a culture of silence from councillors, police officers, social workers, judges etc., who are from the same background as the perpetrators.

The fifth column is the establishment now.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

This is happening in every single town and city in the UK. Women are being preyed upon when they are extremely drunk and vulnerable by men who aren't on 'a night out', their sole purpose is to linger around for a few hours and by 2/3am, take advantage of the drunkest.

It's a disgusting practice but, again, it's happening in every single town and city. People literally just watch women get preyed upon when they're vulnerable and say nothing.

Funnily enough the crowd who pushed ideas onto men like 'if you're both drunk, the man is a rapist' are deathly silent on this.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

And this is the problem with listening to a crowd of wrestling fans. Those AEW/indy fans who buy tickets want to see a certain type of wrestling, with no selling, no psychology, just spot after spot, which might pop that crowd but the fans at home are watching two bland, charisma vacuums just spamming moves like it's a video game. That doesn't draw money in the long run.

This is why AEW ticket sales have never improved, their TV ratings are down and their social media numbers are abysmal. They pander to the fans who buy tickets and attend shows, but they're a small minority of the overall wrestling fandom. In order to grow, AEW needed to target the 90% not pander to the 10%.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

The EU very likely won't exist for this to become true. It's financially on its last legs and the shift is very obviously yo the right, which tends to support independence.

Funnily enough, if it does exist at that point, then it'll be a strong right wing bloc with leadership coming from eastern Europe in Poland, Hungary etc., but it'll be very different to the left wing dream it is now.

Which is a good thing, because the left wing run EU has been a disaster for most member states. Expensive, socially destructive and without any real upside. A right wing EU could be viable, it'd certainly be far more successful than the left wing farce has been.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

Burnham won't become more popular than he is now, his best move would be an immediate general election. He is a stronger opponent than Starmer, of course, but he'll be stained with all the negative things that come from the party such as net zero, immigration, grooming gangs and so on.

His best bet is, by far, a general election immediately. He has a chance there, especially of creating a coalition with the LibDems. Give it 6 months in charge and people will be clamouring for change again.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

The EU cannot sustain itself. France has massive financial problems, it's debt is 120% of GDP and growth is nonexistent. Italy is in an even worse situation, Germany is not going to be able to keep funding other countries growth like it has for the past 15 years.

The EU is not a long term proposition. It won't exist in 20 years time.

At that point, when it all collapses, Brexit will look like the right decision.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

Britain isn't ungovernable, the parties themselves are.

The big issue that British governments have had in the post-Brown years is that they're deeply divided. The Tories had people like @RoryStewartUK and @SuellaBraverman in the party at the same time. They are not allies and should never have been part of the sane party, but because Rory Stewart is a grifter, he latched onto the Conservatives because it was a means to get in power and, he thought, could lead to a Prime Minister role for himself. But is Stewart actually conservative, with a small 'c'? No, of course he's not. At best, he's a Liberal Democrat but he's not a conservative and should never have been a Conservative MP.

Stewart should be criticised as the money grabbing, power hungry grifter he is, but he isn't the only one. Far too many people are desperate for power and are willing to latch onto political parties that are inevitably going to win, just to get a cushy job. The Tories had it, Labour have it, you can see Reform falling into the same trap and the Greens are the ultimate example, promoting LGBT+ rights whilst pandering to deeply homophobic voters.

Labour are split on Brexit, split on defence, split on benefits, split on Gaza, they're split on everything entirely meaningful to the electorate. Stsrmer had the impossible job of pandering to both extremes in his party, but it's not that the country itself is ungovernable, it's that Labour itself has lost its identity and is impossible to govern.

On a final note, Restore are the most legitimate, honest party and they benefit from that, like them or loathe them. They are what they are, it's very clear.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

Eastern Europe is full of talented, hard working people and they're blessed on two fronts: firstly, they have a homogeneous society and haven't suffered the blight of mass immigration, which is socially destructive and incredibly expensive to maintain. Secondly, the horrors of communism are close enough that their population are aware of how bad life can be, and the prosperity coming to them isn't something to be taken for granted.

Sadly, western nations have become very complacent and far too obsessed with moral grandstanding, as opposed to delivering policies that people want and will better their lives.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

The conventional way that we view left/right politics has to change. The idea that the Tories have been a right wing party since Thatcher is clearly false, proven so by the endless left wing policies they've enacted and the end goals they've pursued.

They are not a right wing party today and didn't rule as one either.

The left wing grip on Britain, and other countries in the west, needs to be called out for what it is and the damage it's done. High taxation, government interference, internationalist goals and high immigration are all left wing policies that have made western nations financially poorer, less safe and less cohesive.

Left wing dominance has been the status quo for ~60 years and it's failed massively and miserably. The entire system needs to be changed, not political parties alone, but the root of the problem. Unions, education, taxation, government interference, soft policing and so on.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

He's right about Moxley just wanting to be Terry Funk. Wrestling is a vanity project to these people, they have no consistency. One week, they want to be a silent badass who can destroy anyone, and the next, they want to be goofy and silly. It's all for their own ego, that lack of consistency really hurts the business, but then that's not their priority. Their priority is feeding their own egos and entertaining themselves.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

We're borrowing £30b a month to keep a bloated, unworkable benefit system going. The idea that this is a right wing policy is laughable, it's because the entire establishment from the 60s onwards has been dominated by left wing ideology.

Education especially. That has a knock on effect on the entire population, who, bizarrely, have been convinced that more state intervention is a good thing.

If you believe that a government with an out and out left winger like @RoryStewartUK in the cabinet was right wing, then I have a bridge to sell you.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

People like @mehdirhasan rush to these stories with the same old line about hypocrisy, but here's the fundamental difference:

Paedophiles, rapists, murderers and all other scum will always live among us. There'll always be a depraved amount of people in any society, who want to do awful things to innocent people.

However, we can't do anything about them. What we CAN do something about is importing people, by pure political choice, who go on to rape or murder others.

The bombing at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, for example, was a pure political choice. We paid the murderer and his family hundreds of thousands to kill many innocent victims and ruin countless lives. That didn't have to happen, it happened because of political choice and could have been prevented. It WOULD have been prevented if people that @mehdirhasan demonises had their way, and the Abedi family was never even considered to step foot in Britain.

We have to live with some evil people. We choose to import others. That's not some "gotcha racists!" genius argument you think it is, it's an entirely different issue.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

A drop in crime should be celebrated but we should also reflect on whether we want a society with even lower crime, or whether we want to continue spending billions of pounds to make the country more dangerous.

If we want more tax evasion, more rapes, more grooming gangs, more terrorism, more drug dealing, then we should keep on spending billions on a broken system that allows criminals to come through numerous safe countries, just to get their hands on our benefits and soft, easily exploited system.

Personally, I'd rather have fewer asylum seekers and use those billions to help fund our education, healthcare and defence. That must make me racist, according to some?

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

We do not have starvation in Britain. In fact, we have the opposite, there is an obesity issue with the poorest people because of poor education and the addiction to sugary, fatty, MSG filled foods.

Poverty is all relative. If every citizen on an island is a billionaire and one more joins who has a mere £5m, that person is then, relatively, in poverty.

It's a farce. Every person in Britain has enough money to eat. If a child ever goes hungry, it's because of bad parenting, not a lack of money.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

The grooming gang report didn't "falsely" claim 250k have been raped. That's not an unrealistic number when you consider the time period that this disgusting atrocity had been going on for.

The fact you dismiss these numbers is victim shaming and a part of the problem. People like you are the reason girls don't come forward, because they're scared of being ignored or dismissed by authorities.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

Saying "@RupertLowe10 has got people reacting how he wanted them to" is a disgusting accusation. Rupert Lowe, whether people like him or not, has never called for violence.

It'd be like him accusing you of inciting violence, after your racist rant about the overrepresentation of white people in Scotland.

People are being radicalised by what they see happening around them. Not X, Musk, Farage, Lowe or whoever, but real actions from real people, with real consequences.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

The UK spends £5.4b per year on asylum seekers and yet, almost every single day, we hear dreadful stories about the people who entered and failed us. The people who gave them a huge opportunity.

Other countries in the west spend the same, and like you, it just leaves me questioning..."why"?

What us the end goal here, how does this work? Do people thinking that eventually, these people will integrate agd become beneficial members of society? Do they feel like the £5.4b is worth it out if principal?

I can't think of a single pro-immigration argument that's frequently used. It's just endless accusations of racism towards those who are against it, but you just don't see arguments explaining why this is good, why this will be good or why it's worth it to continue thus experiment.

[Smokin' 🇬🇧 @SmokinFrazier]

I don't fundamentally disagree with the verdict but it opens a massive can of worms that probably isn't worth opening.

Assuming Man City are found guilty of a substantial number of the allegations, does that mean Arsenal and Liverpool will be able to pursue legal action on the basis of loss of revenue in the seasons they finished behind Man City?

What about clubs who have finished outside of European qualification? Other clubs who've been relegated? European clubs, like Inter, who lost out on silverware?

Retrospective action isn't necessarily unfair, but I do worry it'll lead to a hugely complicated series of lawsuits which are all accusing loss of income due to unfair practices.

In my opinion, I think the FA would be wise to shut this down before clubs start smelling blood. The money spent on lawyers would be far better going towards grassroots football, local developments and so on. Even if it is unfair.