Mike Graham
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Bullet hole still in the wall.
Bullet hole still in the wall, you know.
But, yeah, it's unrecognizable.
And, you know, I get the fact that things change.
But as I say, I lived in America in the 80s under Ronald Reagan and
when it was a very, very interesting and wide-ranging and changing place.
But it always changed with one sort of central tenet, which was, this is America.
And you want to come to America, you become an American, you recite the, you sing the Star Spangled Banner, you pledge allegiance to the flag, and your kids will pledge allegiance to the flag every single day when they go to school.
That doesn't happen here.
And I think that's a problem.
Yeah.
And if they start making it sort of, you know, a kind of blanket situation, at the moment it's mostly cities, isn't it?
I mean, you know, if you go, even as I say to where my kids went to school in Sussex, you know, it's a very white area and it's a very English area and there's not that many
foreigners there but even that's now beginning to change and you're starting to see the old vape shops popping up you know organized crime um which is which is nothing to do with ethnicity as far as i'm aware um but it has everything to do with you know an awful lot of people coming from foreign countries and setting up drug businesses and setting up you know the albanians for example biggest drug dealers in in europe you know pretty much have a lock on every single part of the cocaine business
from here to Turkey.
And it's been allowed to happen.
And nobody really knows why.
And suddenly there's a bunch of barber shops, and there's a bunch of clearly money laundering businesses.
And nobody's stopping them.
It's accelerated massively in the last 10 years.