davegearing
@davegearing.bsky.social
Boring, opinionated old guy, those just my good points!😊extremely worried for future with 2 extreme far right parties & far right Lab Govt, any/more than 1 of which, will prob be in Govt post GE. Pro EU membership, NHS, equality, Social liberal. 🏏 bore.
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davegearing
@davegearing.bsky.social
· Nov 6
Ultimately it’s the people of the U.S. that voted for Trump, not the Democrats, who have to take responsibility for what happens in next four years. They know exactly what they have voted for.
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Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.
January 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.
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I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.
January 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.
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In which Mumsnet women persuade each other that voting Reform will give the establishment “a kick in the arse”
Oh well done, you lot. Brexit again. Falling for the con and risking it all, cos that’ll teach them.
It won’t. It’ll just ruin life for everyone. Your children most of all.
(Sunday Times)
Oh well done, you lot. Brexit again. Falling for the con and risking it all, cos that’ll teach them.
It won’t. It’ll just ruin life for everyone. Your children most of all.
(Sunday Times)
January 4, 2026 at 9:28 AM
In which Mumsnet women persuade each other that voting Reform will give the establishment “a kick in the arse”
Oh well done, you lot. Brexit again. Falling for the con and risking it all, cos that’ll teach them.
It won’t. It’ll just ruin life for everyone. Your children most of all.
(Sunday Times)
Oh well done, you lot. Brexit again. Falling for the con and risking it all, cos that’ll teach them.
It won’t. It’ll just ruin life for everyone. Your children most of all.
(Sunday Times)
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The great isolationist ‘America First’ GOP President Donald Trump has in less than a year in office declared himself the ‘owner’ of Gaza and the ‘ruler’ of Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 10:46 PM
The great isolationist ‘America First’ GOP President Donald Trump has in less than a year in office declared himself the ‘owner’ of Gaza and the ‘ruler’ of Venezuela.
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Trump's attack on Venezuela will create global instability.
Will prolong the Ukraine war. How could the US condemn and sanction Russia?
Encourage Putin to kidnap Zelensky.
Encourage China to takeover Taiwan.
What is the point of the UN if rogue powers can do whatever they want?
Will prolong the Ukraine war. How could the US condemn and sanction Russia?
Encourage Putin to kidnap Zelensky.
Encourage China to takeover Taiwan.
What is the point of the UN if rogue powers can do whatever they want?
January 4, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Trump's attack on Venezuela will create global instability.
Will prolong the Ukraine war. How could the US condemn and sanction Russia?
Encourage Putin to kidnap Zelensky.
Encourage China to takeover Taiwan.
What is the point of the UN if rogue powers can do whatever they want?
Will prolong the Ukraine war. How could the US condemn and sanction Russia?
Encourage Putin to kidnap Zelensky.
Encourage China to takeover Taiwan.
What is the point of the UN if rogue powers can do whatever they want?
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It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
January 4, 2026 at 5:04 AM
It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
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What just happened ...
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
January 4, 2026 at 8:33 AM
What just happened ...
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
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With this regime anything is possible…
January 4, 2026 at 5:40 AM
With this regime anything is possible…
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If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?
January 3, 2026 at 1:13 PM
If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?
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BREAKING: Ed Davey’s response to Keir Starmer’s statement
January 3, 2026 at 9:22 PM
BREAKING: Ed Davey’s response to Keir Starmer’s statement
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Trump says US will 'run' Venezuela until 'safe transition can take place'.
He will install a puppet regime. US Oil companies moving in to boost profits.
Free/fair elections are not possible under the US jackboots. People can have any govt as long as it serves Trump.
Shameful chapter in US history
He will install a puppet regime. US Oil companies moving in to boost profits.
Free/fair elections are not possible under the US jackboots. People can have any govt as long as it serves Trump.
Shameful chapter in US history
January 3, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Trump says US will 'run' Venezuela until 'safe transition can take place'.
He will install a puppet regime. US Oil companies moving in to boost profits.
Free/fair elections are not possible under the US jackboots. People can have any govt as long as it serves Trump.
Shameful chapter in US history
He will install a puppet regime. US Oil companies moving in to boost profits.
Free/fair elections are not possible under the US jackboots. People can have any govt as long as it serves Trump.
Shameful chapter in US history
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There aren't many things that unite the politics of Starmer's predecessors as either Labour lesder or PM - but one that does is a sense the job was to deliver *something* for their people, even if they defined that group very differently. You do actually need a base that likes and supports you!
December 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
There aren't many things that unite the politics of Starmer's predecessors as either Labour lesder or PM - but one that does is a sense the job was to deliver *something* for their people, even if they defined that group very differently. You do actually need a base that likes and supports you!
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Fascinating thread but I don't feel it's that complicated? This is what happens when you go out of your way to performatively kick your own coalition in the hope of impressing voters who never liked you to start with.
Glad the FT is asking the question. Even if I’m not convinced they found a compelling answer.
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
I get that Starmer & Reeves are unpopular, I really don’t understand the extent of the dislike.
www.ft.com/content/1995... ‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
‘There’s a real dislike, even loathing’: why voters hate Starmer and Reeves
Allies concede the prime minister and chancellor have made mistakes yet the level of disdain towards them is still striking
www.ft.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Fascinating thread but I don't feel it's that complicated? This is what happens when you go out of your way to performatively kick your own coalition in the hope of impressing voters who never liked you to start with.
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Politics in the UK has become so polarized that any progressive government is automatically disliked, despised even, by conservative voters and vice versa. Yet Labour's cunning plan is to try and woo conservative voters treating progressive voters as idiots who will vote for them anyway.
3/3
3/3
December 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Politics in the UK has become so polarized that any progressive government is automatically disliked, despised even, by conservative voters and vice versa. Yet Labour's cunning plan is to try and woo conservative voters treating progressive voters as idiots who will vote for them anyway.
3/3
3/3
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Look at what the Labour voter base thinks of Brexit, Brexit Red Lines, anti protest laws, the crack down on everything Palestine Action, the language on immigration & immigrants, the talk about a bonfire of regulations holding us back etc etc?
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December 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Look at what the Labour voter base thinks of Brexit, Brexit Red Lines, anti protest laws, the crack down on everything Palestine Action, the language on immigration & immigrants, the talk about a bonfire of regulations holding us back etc etc?
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Unlike Clarkson, or Sugar, Andrew Neil actually fronted BBC politics programmes, at the same time was the publisher of a right-wing Conservative magazine and freely expressed his very right wing opinions on Twitter.
Not once did he come under pressure to step down
Not once did he come under pressure to step down
December 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Unlike Clarkson, or Sugar, Andrew Neil actually fronted BBC politics programmes, at the same time was the publisher of a right-wing Conservative magazine and freely expressed his very right wing opinions on Twitter.
Not once did he come under pressure to step down
Not once did he come under pressure to step down
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I firmly believe Starmer should now just admit: “Years of evidence show Brexit has been a disaster. I am fully aware many voted with good intentions, but the outcome is abundantly clear: Britain is worse off outside the EU. We are therefore going to apply to rejoin.”
It's the correct thing to do...
It's the correct thing to do...
December 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I firmly believe Starmer should now just admit: “Years of evidence show Brexit has been a disaster. I am fully aware many voted with good intentions, but the outcome is abundantly clear: Britain is worse off outside the EU. We are therefore going to apply to rejoin.”
It's the correct thing to do...
It's the correct thing to do...
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All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
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Labour concocts more ugly measures to punish asylum seekers and the right immediately demands worse… howling to leave the ECHR.
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Labour concocts more ugly measures to punish asylum seekers and the right immediately demands worse… howling to leave the ECHR.
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
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There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
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The stuff she said about lower grade immigrant workers not being “net contributors” really annoyed me.
You don’t have to measure contribution financially. A nurse or cleaner contributes to society immeasurably.
You don’t have to measure contribution financially. A nurse or cleaner contributes to society immeasurably.
Yes, our Labour Home Secretary really did just post this on Twitter.
It's not an AI hoax. More's the pity.
It's not an AI hoax. More's the pity.
November 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The stuff she said about lower grade immigrant workers not being “net contributors” really annoyed me.
You don’t have to measure contribution financially. A nurse or cleaner contributes to society immeasurably.
You don’t have to measure contribution financially. A nurse or cleaner contributes to society immeasurably.
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Excellent 🧵 on Labour's seeming desire to lower their popularity further.
While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/
Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Excellent 🧵 on Labour's seeming desire to lower their popularity further.
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So… the Epstein File Transparency Act has this exception. What can go wrong….
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
So… the Epstein File Transparency Act has this exception. What can go wrong….