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Retired Northern Grandad living in exile in the Deep South. Interested in politics economics , business and crime / spy fiction If you think an opening response to one of my posts is to insult or pick a fight don’t bother I will ignore you and block you

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Exactly my experience also

08.02.2026 20:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Cummings has achieved zero in life all hot air, destroyer but nothing positive achieved or delivered

08.02.2026 20:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The media have never forgiven Keir Starmer for leading the Phone Hacking Scandal.

They’re the people who hacked Millie Dowler’s phone making her parents have hope she was still alive.

It’s the Media, stupid.

08.02.2026 16:59 — 👍 117    🔁 37    💬 6    📌 1

Craig is best to answer but in the last two years two couples we know / knew have lived both scenarios one couple like your friend & she had great anguish around no chance to say goodbye & all the things not said. Another couple the dementia combined with cancer. Both terrible in different ways.

08.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you for sharing as I know it must be painful for you recalling but you have just persuaded me to speak to my GP

08.02.2026 14:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So hopefully in time he will find something suitable in Glasgow or commute to Edinburgh

08.02.2026 13:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I really struggle remembering names now (I know who people are but when referring to them to a third party or when I meet them) and have severe sleep apnoea and I am a Trustee of two charities but find meetings exhausting and worry about it but my wife just says it’s getting old you are 68.

08.02.2026 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes close friends of ours the wife has over the last five years gone from struggling at pub quizzes to now not knowing us when we pop in from coffee and she has started to have other medical decline / symptoms and as you say her husband is living in a twilight zone.

08.02.2026 12:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Keep your spirits up I know it must be hard I would be devastated if I lost my wife having been together since we were 15 & 16

08.02.2026 12:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Sorry to hear that Craig are you still in Bulgaria ?

08.02.2026 11:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Which cities would he live as the jobs that would best match his CV are likely to be London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

08.02.2026 11:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Lewis Goodall has said he has looked through Hansard and not a single Conservative stood up and said appointing Mandleson was a bad idea let alone because of what everyone knew at the time with regard to Epstein.

08.02.2026 10:52 — 👍 264    🔁 106    💬 23    📌 5

Then for round 2 on this ridiculous policy what happens tax wise if a childless couple adopt, Lesbian couple who have a child via ivf, two gay men adopting, Men who claim to have fathered children are they going to have to provide DNA tests the list goes on.

08.02.2026 11:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ridiculous man it’s like something out of the hands maid tale. Not only offensive to all women about having choice (some women don’t want kids) but doubly offensive to women who want children but can’t for medical reasons. Imagine sorry to hear about your miscarriage we have changed your tax code.

08.02.2026 10:59 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Never any challenge to Tories or Reform from Laura

08.02.2026 10:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Your best buddy

07.02.2026 21:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same as Andrea Jenkins claimed she was moving to Lincs but still living in Wakefield

07.02.2026 20:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Left: Muhammad Yusuf claims Peter Mandelson belongs in prison and calls Keir Starmer a disgrace who must quit.
Right: Meanwhile Nathan Gill is in prison for Russian bribes - so applying the same Muhammad's standard, Farage is a disgrace and must resign.

06.02.2026 10:59 — 👍 267    🔁 102    💬 21    📌 4
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I've Seen a U.S. Intelligence Report that Epstein Reeled in Sex-Mad Andrew at the Request of Russian Spies My piece in today's Daily Mail about the Russia connection to the Andrew/Epstein Scandal.

I've Seen a U.S. Intelligence Report that Epstein Reeled in Sex-Mad Andrew at the Request of Russian Spies, says Andrew Lownie open.substack.com/pub/andrewlo...

07.02.2026 13:56 — 👍 151    🔁 86    💬 14    📌 9

Exactly the only thing that should matter is support for the victims and justice for the victims

07.02.2026 13:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'The Mandelson-Epstein Scandal Is an Opportunity for Starmer to Radically Reform Our Broken Politics' The Prime Minister should use this moment to shine a light on the dark forces corrupting our democracy, argues former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall

I wrote this yesterday - Starmer could still turn his premiership around, if he finally, FINALLY, finds the courage to address the grubby circs which allow people like Mandelson to rise so far. bylinetimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

07.02.2026 13:11 — 👍 494    🔁 129    💬 73    📌 29
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‘Am I at peak popularity? I hope not’: on the road with Zack Polanski, from protest to podcast to Heaven nightclub With polls and membership at an all-time high, the Green party are having a moment – and it’s largely down to their charismatic (if slightly cheesy) new leader. Can he really pull off a socialist revo...

Douglas Adams wrote: "... it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."
Like Starmer, Polanski put a lot of effort into gaining his party's leadership.
He's an actor, and he's acting a role he's invented; being Zack Polanski.

07.02.2026 13:12 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I cannot criticise as I am always shamelessly early for Air or Rail departures

07.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

BREAKING: Gordon Brown says Keir Starmer should stay as PM to "clear up the system and tackle corruption”

07.02.2026 09:27 — 👍 313    🔁 70    💬 95    📌 23
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Trump refuses to apologize for video with racist imagery of Obamas posted on his social media Only a smattering of Republicans spoke out about clip in which Obamas’ faces were superimposed on bodies of apes * US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump said on Friday evening, after a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes had been posted to his social media account and then deleted, that he had directed aides to post the offensive video but that he hadn’t seen that portion of the clip and he refused to apologize for it. The clip appeared during one of the 79-year-old US president’s increasingly frequent late-night posting sprees to his Truth Social account, and shows the laughing faces of the former president and first lady superimposed on the bodies of primates in a jungle setting, bobbing to the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Continue reading...

Trump refuses to apologize for video with racist imagery of Obamas posted on his social media

07.02.2026 07:03 — 👍 201    🔁 90    💬 60    📌 19
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Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters Material distributed in Gorton and Denton did not have legally required imprint stating it was funded by party

Seems Refirm cant win elections fairly. A bit like Trump in the US?

Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

07.02.2026 07:44 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Nigel Farage unveils Dan
Thomas as Reform UK's Welsh
leader at rally

Nigel Farage unveils Dan Thomas as Reform UK's Welsh leader at rally

Reform announced their new leader in Wales yesterday.

But made nothing of the fact that Dan Thomas was a Tory councillor in Barnet btwn 2006 - 2025

Tory council leader from 2019 to 2022 leader of the Tory opposition until he defected last year.

Twice a Tory prospective parliamentary candidate

06.02.2026 19:46 — 👍 238    🔁 84    💬 25    📌 1

Deleted but no apology

06.02.2026 19:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I want Keir Starmer to stay as PM & keep making good on manifesto pledges & improving infrastructure of this country, criminally neglected by the Tories- mostly now in Reform.

It is obvious foreign oligarchs, the supine/owned UK media & hostile countries don't want Starmer to succeed

Why, eh?

06.02.2026 18:26 — 👍 52    🔁 14    💬 9    📌 0
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Donald Trump accused of 'disgusting behaviour' after sharing image of Obamas as apes The White House defended the post, saying it was part of a longer meme depicting various politicians as different animals.

None of us are surprised at this outrageous racist behaviour

news.sky.com/story/donald...

06.02.2026 17:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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