Rafał Gmerek
@rgmere.bsky.social
Londoner, Polish national, citizen of Europe.
All opinions are my own
#IStandWithUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
All opinions are my own
#IStandWithUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState
Yeah, European. 6 western countries only, not representative of the continent.
You are stuck in your colonial / cold war outdated & offensive mentality from half a century ago.
You are stuck in your colonial / cold war outdated & offensive mentality from half a century ago.
November 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Yeah, European. 6 western countries only, not representative of the continent.
You are stuck in your colonial / cold war outdated & offensive mentality from half a century ago.
You are stuck in your colonial / cold war outdated & offensive mentality from half a century ago.
How much time would that judicial review take, reasonably?
November 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
How much time would that judicial review take, reasonably?
It has nothing to do with embarrassing.
She just knows this is how you build your career under the new regime.
What's really embarrassing is that, if by any chance rule of law returns to US, she will still be tolerated and considered employable by the spineless media bosses.
She just knows this is how you build your career under the new regime.
What's really embarrassing is that, if by any chance rule of law returns to US, she will still be tolerated and considered employable by the spineless media bosses.
November 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It has nothing to do with embarrassing.
She just knows this is how you build your career under the new regime.
What's really embarrassing is that, if by any chance rule of law returns to US, she will still be tolerated and considered employable by the spineless media bosses.
She just knows this is how you build your career under the new regime.
What's really embarrassing is that, if by any chance rule of law returns to US, she will still be tolerated and considered employable by the spineless media bosses.
Any difference between commanders of those US ships and German Uboot captains that attacked civilian ships from neutral countries?
November 1, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Any difference between commanders of those US ships and German Uboot captains that attacked civilian ships from neutral countries?
Quick! Call Dustin Hoffman!
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Quick! Call Dustin Hoffman!
Let's start with income that doesn't get declared on the personal tax return: capital gains, income in the LLPs, income through trusts and all investment vehicles, you name it.
Then let's see how the tax bill of the richest compares.
Then let's see how the tax bill of the richest compares.
October 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Let's start with income that doesn't get declared on the personal tax return: capital gains, income in the LLPs, income through trusts and all investment vehicles, you name it.
Then let's see how the tax bill of the richest compares.
Then let's see how the tax bill of the richest compares.
There's no such thing as consumer protection in the UK 😂
Businesses are protected. Because they donate to politicians coffers.
Or because they invite fat cats to lavish dinners. Dear consumer, do you think you can beat that?! You don't count.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Businesses are protected. Because they donate to politicians coffers.
Or because they invite fat cats to lavish dinners. Dear consumer, do you think you can beat that?! You don't count.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ofwat accused of cover-up over dinners with water companies
Calls for inquiry after regulator failed to declare hospitality with those it holds to account over sewage spills
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
There's no such thing as consumer protection in the UK 😂
Businesses are protected. Because they donate to politicians coffers.
Or because they invite fat cats to lavish dinners. Dear consumer, do you think you can beat that?! You don't count.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Businesses are protected. Because they donate to politicians coffers.
Or because they invite fat cats to lavish dinners. Dear consumer, do you think you can beat that?! You don't count.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I have no illusions what Brexit caused, but perhaps Britain could stop blaming it for ALL problems?
Brexit is a symptom.
The disease is privatisation of your democracy to benefit oligarchs, who bought your political system.
Funnelling 200bn of public money into their pockets? Does it ring a bell?
Brexit is a symptom.
The disease is privatisation of your democracy to benefit oligarchs, who bought your political system.
Funnelling 200bn of public money into their pockets? Does it ring a bell?
October 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I have no illusions what Brexit caused, but perhaps Britain could stop blaming it for ALL problems?
Brexit is a symptom.
The disease is privatisation of your democracy to benefit oligarchs, who bought your political system.
Funnelling 200bn of public money into their pockets? Does it ring a bell?
Brexit is a symptom.
The disease is privatisation of your democracy to benefit oligarchs, who bought your political system.
Funnelling 200bn of public money into their pockets? Does it ring a bell?
Perhaps she didn't have to.
It's not just her hand into creation of xenophobic policies.
fullfact.org/immigration/...
It's not just her hand into creation of xenophobic policies.
fullfact.org/immigration/...
Did Labour invent the ‘hostile environment’? – Full Fact
Michael Gove recently claimed that the concept was conceived under a Labour Home Secretary.
fullfact.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Perhaps she didn't have to.
It's not just her hand into creation of xenophobic policies.
fullfact.org/immigration/...
It's not just her hand into creation of xenophobic policies.
fullfact.org/immigration/...
Nope, she took it to entirely new level, but the invention is older than her term as a minister.
fullfact.org/immigration/...
fullfact.org/immigration/...
Did Labour invent the ‘hostile environment’? – Full Fact
Michael Gove recently claimed that the concept was conceived under a Labour Home Secretary.
fullfact.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Nope, she took it to entirely new level, but the invention is older than her term as a minister.
fullfact.org/immigration/...
fullfact.org/immigration/...
UK government will be quietly applauding and facilitating this.
It's Labour ministers who invented "hostile environment".
It's Labour ministers who invented "hostile environment".
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
UK government will be quietly applauding and facilitating this.
It's Labour ministers who invented "hostile environment".
It's Labour ministers who invented "hostile environment".
Well, then go ahead and put pressure on Russia, ffs!
Why do we still have their embassies?
Why are the Russians still allowed in EU?
Why does EU keep trading with that barbary?
Why do we still have their embassies?
Why are the Russians still allowed in EU?
Why does EU keep trading with that barbary?
October 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Well, then go ahead and put pressure on Russia, ffs!
Why do we still have their embassies?
Why are the Russians still allowed in EU?
Why does EU keep trading with that barbary?
Why do we still have their embassies?
Why are the Russians still allowed in EU?
Why does EU keep trading with that barbary?
It is not as much of a delusion as so often claimed.
Yes, there will be bubbles and short- or medium-term corrections.
But in the end it is a limited land supply vs growing population and growing wealth (even though not evenly distributed).
No chance this could be corrected with more building.
Yes, there will be bubbles and short- or medium-term corrections.
But in the end it is a limited land supply vs growing population and growing wealth (even though not evenly distributed).
No chance this could be corrected with more building.
October 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
It is not as much of a delusion as so often claimed.
Yes, there will be bubbles and short- or medium-term corrections.
But in the end it is a limited land supply vs growing population and growing wealth (even though not evenly distributed).
No chance this could be corrected with more building.
Yes, there will be bubbles and short- or medium-term corrections.
But in the end it is a limited land supply vs growing population and growing wealth (even though not evenly distributed).
No chance this could be corrected with more building.
The Tory media and their hysterics is one thing, but... what do *you* think he should have done in that case?
October 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The Tory media and their hysterics is one thing, but... what do *you* think he should have done in that case?
I'm sure Ukraine will be happy to allow your plane to fly through.
October 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I'm sure Ukraine will be happy to allow your plane to fly through.
To encourage investing? At the time when BoE *issues a warning* about a stock exchange bubble forming?!!
Sure, why not, let's push people into the minefield. And let's tell them: it's for your own good and at your own risk!
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Sure, why not, let's push people into the minefield. And let's tell them: it's for your own good and at your own risk!
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst
Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
To encourage investing? At the time when BoE *issues a warning* about a stock exchange bubble forming?!!
Sure, why not, let's push people into the minefield. And let's tell them: it's for your own good and at your own risk!
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Sure, why not, let's push people into the minefield. And let's tell them: it's for your own good and at your own risk!
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
And this whole situation could have been avoided if the Nobel Peace Prize committee hadn't been so sycophantic to Obama - who didn't do anything to deserve that prize.
October 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
And this whole situation could have been avoided if the Nobel Peace Prize committee hadn't been so sycophantic to Obama - who didn't do anything to deserve that prize.
Congrats, Americans!
You have elected a president who created his own, new SA (Sturmabteilung) - no more, no less.
Paramilitaries loyal to the leader, not to the state, constitution or law.
Time to catch up on history?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmab...
You have elected a president who created his own, new SA (Sturmabteilung) - no more, no less.
Paramilitaries loyal to the leader, not to the state, constitution or law.
Time to catch up on history?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmab...
Sturmabteilung - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Congrats, Americans!
You have elected a president who created his own, new SA (Sturmabteilung) - no more, no less.
Paramilitaries loyal to the leader, not to the state, constitution or law.
Time to catch up on history?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmab...
You have elected a president who created his own, new SA (Sturmabteilung) - no more, no less.
Paramilitaries loyal to the leader, not to the state, constitution or law.
Time to catch up on history?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmab...
Perhaps she's taking them literally?
Finally, an author that is not afraid to deny this round-Earth nonsense!
Finally, an author that is not afraid to deny this round-Earth nonsense!
October 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Perhaps she's taking them literally?
Finally, an author that is not afraid to deny this round-Earth nonsense!
Finally, an author that is not afraid to deny this round-Earth nonsense!
Firmly rejected? 2024 GE was the last convulsion of common sense. You are on course to elect your own Trump like regime.
Denying this is not gonna help.
Denying this is not gonna help.
October 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Firmly rejected? 2024 GE was the last convulsion of common sense. You are on course to elect your own Trump like regime.
Denying this is not gonna help.
Denying this is not gonna help.
One Michael Gove, an elected MP, and a Lord Chancellor, said in 2017: I think the people of this country have had enough of experts ....
And if you don't need to be lectured on polls perhaps you need to be lectured on actual election results: 2019 EU Parl election, won by Farage party at 30%
And if you don't need to be lectured on polls perhaps you need to be lectured on actual election results: 2019 EU Parl election, won by Farage party at 30%
October 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
One Michael Gove, an elected MP, and a Lord Chancellor, said in 2017: I think the people of this country have had enough of experts ....
And if you don't need to be lectured on polls perhaps you need to be lectured on actual election results: 2019 EU Parl election, won by Farage party at 30%
And if you don't need to be lectured on polls perhaps you need to be lectured on actual election results: 2019 EU Parl election, won by Farage party at 30%
The quote about country having had enough of experts was from a UK minister! If you want to keep deluding yourself.... then don't check the opinion polls.
October 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The quote about country having had enough of experts was from a UK minister! If you want to keep deluding yourself.... then don't check the opinion polls.
It will be a mistake. And yet it will be made.
Because British voters have a peculiar preference to elect politicians who hold an opinion that the country had had enough of experts.
Because British voters have a peculiar preference to elect politicians who hold an opinion that the country had had enough of experts.
October 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
It will be a mistake. And yet it will be made.
Because British voters have a peculiar preference to elect politicians who hold an opinion that the country had had enough of experts.
Because British voters have a peculiar preference to elect politicians who hold an opinion that the country had had enough of experts.
Well, the land of the free and the brave voted him in, and allowed him to operate the American military including the nuclear button.
October 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Well, the land of the free and the brave voted him in, and allowed him to operate the American military including the nuclear button.
Britain could also make them wear armbands! With a big F! (for a bloody foreigner).
Oh, and the next HM govt could introduce separate train / tube class for Brits vs foreigners. And toilets! Don't forget about British Only toilets!
Oh, and the next HM govt could introduce separate train / tube class for Brits vs foreigners. And toilets! Don't forget about British Only toilets!
October 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Britain could also make them wear armbands! With a big F! (for a bloody foreigner).
Oh, and the next HM govt could introduce separate train / tube class for Brits vs foreigners. And toilets! Don't forget about British Only toilets!
Oh, and the next HM govt could introduce separate train / tube class for Brits vs foreigners. And toilets! Don't forget about British Only toilets!