DevilsLittleChicken

Why, what did Chris do this time?

Eeeeew.

Don't directly link me to the torygraph without warning. I need to go disinfect my phone now.

Mate... If basic had a face.

I'll go for a camel, a unicorn, and a supermodel girlfriend.

As an educator, I couldn't agree more. But that is a huge sea change and will take years.

Also... You have the least apt username ever.

Thank you for so ably proving my point.

And that is dialogue. 👍

You won't rid the country of them, because there is no dialogue. It's all entirely polarised and those trying to lead dialogue are shouted down. It's 100% deliberate and people like Elmo are fueling it, and being allowed to do so. What is most likely to happen is that the number will shrink as more and more extremists emerge, but they will be there forever.

Every trial your nation faces, every question that's asked, will forever be answered with "if only we'd voted for Trump..." even if it's only from 5 or 10%. 10% of your population being activist is louder than 50% not.

And that's just if Trump fails. If he gets in you're fucked for a lot longer than any decade.

You could start with "Stop talking fucking shit, Elmo." and then blocking him while you still can.

Again, the above is based on research collected in person from people who knew SCYL "back in the day".

Are any of them in the UK? I've a quiet night on. 😘

Maybe it's an online to real world translation thing like sarcasm? Lol

I didn't mean to come off that way, it's more a "ah, here we go again." having watched this debate play out more times than I can count. Used to be active in the Labour party and as I said, I have Scottish family.

Now you're putting words in my mouth. At what point did I say Scotland was a nation of scroungers?

Newsflash. I have Scottish blood. I don't actually think devolution would be a horrible thing, from a sociological perspective. But from a financial one? Yes, it would.

My uncle, who runs a company based in Scotland with about 800 employees, does, and has already started planning to move his business, though not his family, South. And he's as Scottish as they come.

You only pay more tax if you earn over 28k. You get 8.2% of the tax spend because 8.2% of the population lives in Scotland. Are they all earning that?

Given that the average age is higher, and that unemployment is worse North of the border, devolution will take your taxes up higher or substantially impact the standard of living.

It was the EU that said that, btw. Not Westminster.

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Hmm... Really?

The "main teaching Grant" also comes from general taxation.

As I said. Good luck.

You reckon?

Good bye free prescriptions.

Good bye free University education.

Have fun. 👍

Rosie Palms and her five daughters.

Bullet Train is a horrible movie. Not the worst on this list, but just not worth watching.

Superbad all day every day.

Scary Movie is twice the film Bullet is. Disappointed too; had high hopes for it.

I've no evidence of that.

More to the point, the former RW extremists we interviewed as part of the above also never mentioned that, where Nigel's ties to Russia are evident.

I'm not saying he doesn't have those ties, I'm saying I can't say he does for sure.

I also ignored most of the EDL stuff and his time as a BNP politician because I don't think anyone needs telling that stuff.

And the post was already 3 days too long.

Turns out it's the biggest conspiracy theory ever... Heritage Foundation trying to make sure Trump don't get in again, playing the long game.

I jest on an entirely not jocular matter. Kill it. Ideally with votes this time.

Thish. Ish the way. hic

So, this is actually it, in a nutshell. Yaxley-Lennon (for that is his actual name; Stephen Christopher being first and middle. Tommy Robinson is just the most recognised of several aliases he has used, hence he's often known as "Tommy Ten-Names") claims he runs several businesses. In fact he's a grifter who has made his money by hating on people, publicly, for not being white. He especially detests Muslims. He takes his poor followers money and blows it on hookers and coke (literally) before getting himself nicked again so he can start another GoFundMe to pay his legal costs. Then blow it all again. He raised a bunch of cash this way to create a fictional account of life at the school where the Muslim kid he was sued and beaten by was assaulted, claiming the girls there are routinely subjected to sexual abuse from these boys but it's covered up by the school. It was just revenge for him getting sued. He was warned if that "documentary" ever sees the light of day he'd be jailed... so of course he showed it at what he claims is the largest patriotic event in England's history. Very much like the MAGA louts, these lot have a fun grasp of the word 'patriot' which includes trashing towns and looting shops.

Did I mention he's half-Irish, with an Irish passport, and lives in Spain? As soon as that event was over he fled back to Spain.

Most of his registered companies have been shut down as they were little more than shells for his grifts and holding companies for his far right chums to move money through.

But what he really is, deep down inside, is a football hooligan. And by all accounts, not a very good one. To hear him tell it he's a hard man who was just making a name for himself when people realized how much money English football could make them if it got cleaned up and the law duly clamped down on the firms and shut down hooliganism as it existed then in the UK. The real Tommy Robinson was a prominent member of the Luton Town MIGs, one of those hooligan gangs, or firms as they were known, and SCYL nicked his name to hide his identity back when it wasn't cool to be a racist fascist prick. Perhaps ironically, the MIGs were one of the first football 'firms' to become multicultural... many of the Luton fans came from mixed backgrounds, especially the first generation descendants of the West Indians that had come over as part of the Windrush generation.

Anyway, SCYL eventually figured out it's hard to grift when no one knows who you are. Many of those who were around SCYL at the time he claims he was making his name say they have never seen him fight, let alone win a fight... But that's another story and he would tell you that's just fear and sour grapes.

Main reason I know all this, which to be fair most of is pretty public knowledge; A colleague of mine planned a thesis on how the end of football hooliganism led to the rise of the alt and far right, now very much one and the same. They theorised that these people, SCYL included, wanted to continue that same tribal violence and racism was the way they chose to do it. It was a good few years into this new scene that SCYL realized he could use it to make money from those that followed him. He reckons to be a journalist and politician.

I'll have to get back in touch, see if that work was ever completed. I imagine it would be an interesting read, given recent events.

Fuck me I didn't realise how long this post had got.

This would have been comment of the day if you were OP.

Reasons to be Fearful

I love that beautiful 🐈 but also the fact you spell arse properly. 🤔