Young people definitely have a far too trivial view of what an abortion is. It's an extremely rough procedure and the reality is, far too many young women are forced into them because they're reluctant to take contraceptives instead.
Abortion has become far too common. It should be a rarity because it's a difficult, dangerous procedure that needs to be used as a last resort. The numbers suggest that simply isn't the case.
Yes right to say that there's 'nothing we can do to change it'.
Climate change is something affected by every nation and countries like China and India make our contribution to a cleaner climate utterly irrelevant. We are a small country with a small population, what we do makes no difference in the slightest.
People being told that they can make a difference are being lied to. China can open factories tomorrow that render 100% of our effort to be pointless.
It's just pathetic performative nonsense. People who are so dishonest about who they are can't be trusted with any sort of power. It's literally just an act for them, they're not serious people nor should they be treated seriously when they treat the public like absolute twats.
The gullible people who fall for the stunts are so naive, it's unbelievable.
MPs should not be assuming a person is guilty prior to their trial.
I presume you do support people being sentenced to prison without a trial, seeing as you think he doesn't deserve one? Do other people arrested on suspicion of a crime also deserve no trial?
The most wicked, inhumane and brutally psychopathic members of our society should all have been considered innocent until proven guilty. Every vile murderer or rapist deserved a fair trial, it's what our entire judicial system is based on.
People should not be presumed to be guilty, the justice system is rightly built upon a presumption of innocence. How can anyone argue that a person can get a fair trial, when it's considered a fact that they're guilty by the media?
I'm curious, but if Partey is found out to be innocent, then what? Will you condemn those who have found him guilty of a heinous crime, without a fraction of the full evidence?
For what it's worth, I don't know anything about this case but that's not the point. Western democracies rely upon the premise of innocent until proven guilty. We shouldn't abandon that. If he did it, he'll be found guilty and then he will be imprisoned and won't play international football again.
Pretending that British people, or governments, can do anything about climate change is far bigger if a lie than anything the supposed climate change deniers have ever said.
Our c02 emissions are less than 1% globally. We have no influence, whatsoever, on the global issue. If China decide to open 20 plants tomorrow, they'll undo anything we could possibly do.
It's simply foolish. We're a tiny island with a small population. Acting like it's anyone in Britain's fault is just a lie.
@LibbyTard17 It's incredible how weak some people are. It's hot, yes, but it's not 50Β°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.
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 Β£300 in benefits and they're a heroin addict, that Β£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.
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.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We're borrowing Β£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.
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.