Exactly my experience also
08.02.2026 20:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0@gerryb.bsky.social
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
Exactly my experience also
08.02.2026 20:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Cummings has achieved zero in life all hot air, destroyer but nothing positive achieved or delivered
08.02.2026 20:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The 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.
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 📌 0Thank 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 📌 0So hopefully in time he will find something suitable in Glasgow or commute to Edinburgh
08.02.2026 13:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I 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 📌 0Yes 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 📌 0Keep 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 📌 0Sorry to hear that Craig are you still in Bulgaria ?
08.02.2026 11:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Which 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 📌 0Lewis 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 📌 5Then 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 📌 0Ridiculous 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 📌 0Never any challenge to Tories or Reform from Laura
08.02.2026 10:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Your best buddy
07.02.2026 21:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Same as Andrea Jenkins claimed she was moving to Lincs but still living in Wakefield
07.02.2026 20:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Left: 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.
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 📌 9Exactly the only thing that should matter is support for the victims and justice for the victims
07.02.2026 13:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I 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 📌 29Douglas 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.
I cannot criticise as I am always shamelessly early for Air or Rail departures
07.02.2026 12:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING: 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 📌 23Trump refuses to apologize for video with racist imagery of Obamas posted on his social media
07.02.2026 07:03 — 👍 201 🔁 90 💬 60 📌 19Seems 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...
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
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06.02.2026 19:40 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I 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?
None of us are surprised at this outrageous racist behaviour
news.sky.com/story/donald...