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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧

@garycarter.bsky.social
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Interested in U.K. politics (centrist dad), #Brexit was the most stupid thing our country has ever done. Semi retired after sales/marketing/management. Teach people about wine 🍷 now. Also like classic rock 🎸and old diesel trains.

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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 6h
Political suicide said the entire media. I’m beginning to think the media don’t know what they’re talking about.
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Update on the ongoing “terrorists that have been tracked by US intelligence for months” Who knew they had the resources for this kind of thing?
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Brexit has done more harm than good” It’s amazing that’s it’s taken this long for a senior policitian to acknowledge that. Not sure what the positive points are though.
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Electoral reform. Royal commission but it’s a start.
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sounds like an open and shut case 👇
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/09/2026
Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
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Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been affected by attempts by activists to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel A lifeboat station on the south coast of England near the spot where far-right activists tried to stop asylum seekers landing has been forced to temporarily close, it has emerged. The station in Portsmouth shut after it and other sites run by the RNLI were targeted by people objecting to the lifeboat charity going to the aid of people trying to get to the UK on small boats. Continue reading...
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Apparently among other things the EU and Canada might be negotiating something that seems familiar, I can’t quite remember, oh yes, it’s FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT.
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is what a public health system delivers. Plus various other lifestyle pluses.
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Excellent. Lock him up.
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
BREAKING: Today, Eurail (established 1959) & Interrail (established 1972) merge into a single European railpass range for EVERYONE regardless of nationality or country of residence, called INTERRAIL. Read why I think this is excellent news here: www.seat61.com/news.htm
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Open letter of support for the heroes of the #RNLI. Please sign and share. Show the fascist scum the level of support our very best have. You may want to mention this on air @mrjamesob.bsky.social act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It’s only one poll, so usual caveats, but this would demolish the received wisdom of left and right blocks with no movement between them. Right lose 4 Left gain 6 Presumably the difference is minor parties?
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 08/09/2026
Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 26% (+3) RFM: 25% (-1) CON: 20% (-3) LDM: 11% (+2) GRN: 11% (+1) SNP: 2% (-1) Via Freshwater Strategy, 4-6 Sep. Changes w/ 7-10 Aug.
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A classic piece of TV
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.
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Leg Spinner🏏 @judeet44.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Imagine if #RNLI were to become equivalent to ambulance services or police for example. What if a far right gov gained power? What then? They'd be told NOT to rescue brown people in peril on seas, lakes and rivers of the UK. THAT is why #RNLI remain independent. Some are totally unable to see that.
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not that important, but the UN just voted to have maps updated to show Africa as its correct size (I never knew this was an issue) Anyway, 164 votes in favour, 1 against. Guess which country voted against? What different world maps get right - and what they get wrong www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What different world maps get right - and what they get wrong
As the UN adopts a new world map to reflect Africa's true size, let's take a closer look at what different maps get right and wrong.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oops, I seem to have been caught red handed taking illegal foreign donations and being a corrupt sack of shit.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Our undercover reporter @scatatkins.bsky.social posed as a far right journalist at the Reform Conference, and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal.
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The prosecuting barrister now has another video to show the jury. How on earth did this idiot ever become a Cabinet minister?
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I see the “it was pub talk” defence line is being spun. I don’t think that will stand up in court.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 04/09/2026
🚨 | Following the Channel 4 News Investigation, the British Polling Council has confirmed that JL Partners were in clear breach of Rule 2.1 and that the matter has been referred to the Market Research Standards Board.
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage is going to jail.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh dearie me. This sting is BAD for Reform UK. As in criminal-prosecutions bad.
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sounds like 10.00 LBC and we’re in for an absolute classic @mrjamesob.bsky.social show.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A new YouGov poll on how Brits see Reform is telling: Have clear sense of purpose: +7 net Strong: -6 In touch: -18 Cares about ordinary people: -32 Competent: -35 Trying to do right thing: -38 Moderate: -38 Trustworthy: -46 Tolerant: -46
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is the main item on BBC news right?
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So much for the “out of control” welfare budget. It’s been significantly higher than that in the past.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
YouGov: Latest UK party leader net favourability ratings. Burnham’s is the highest recorded for a PM since the surge in Boris Johnson's popularity in the initial weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic. Andy Burnham: +13 Ed Davey: -8 Kemi Badenoch: -16 Zack Polanski: -29 Nigel Farage: -44
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
That’s one hell of an inspired guess! Wordle 1,886 2/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Well I for one am astonished that a party run by multimillionaires and funded by billionaires wants to slash welfare to the bone and force people on benefits to work for nothing ... so that they can cut taxes for the rich www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Jenrick says Reform would make long-term benefits claimants clean up high streets – UK politics live
Party’s ‘welfare to work’ policy would force long-term claimants to do community work or face losing benefits
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reform policy explained
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/08/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.
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Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships
Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social apparently Farage joins Bobby Sands as an elected MP not attending their own winner’s announcement. Sands was in prison at the time of course. What’s Farage’s excuse?
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As far as I can see the right of U.K. politics now lines up: Tories “we hate foreigners and we’ll make life difficult for them” Reform: “we hate foreigners, we’ll make life difficult for them and deport some of them” Restore: “we hate everyone and will deport everyone we don’t like the look of”
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I used to read the Telegraph. It’s decent from a very respectable paper to a fascist rag is quite something.
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It occurred to me on my morning jog (when random thoughts pop up) that if the US elections in November produce the results that the polls suggest the US will be in total chaos as Trump denies the results, impeachments fly around etc. The US will be totally inward focused /1
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Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
What could possibly go wrong?
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Reform UKs plan to use the Royal Navy to intercept migrant boats in the Channel brilliantly taken apart by ... er ... Nigel Farage
The new Royal Navy presence in the Channel off to
a terrible start...


The gunwhales on the vessels are too high to pick
up migrants, so the RNLI & Border Force are doing
the job instead!


The Navy are then going around picking up the
empty dinghies,


Waste of time and resources!
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 04/08/2026
Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 27% (+6) RFM: 25% (-2) CON: 20% (-1) LDM: 12% (=) GRN: 10% (-1) Via JL Partners, 1-3 Aug. Changes w/ 16-19 Jun.
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AMERICAN RAIN @americanrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Debbie Harry and Suzi Quatro by Ebet Roberts 1977 💛
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Matt Frost @mattfrostie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The FIFA proposals are so bad that even Lisa Nandy has issued a statement!! 😳
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rmcl82.bsky.social @rmcl82.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Actual headline: “Yes, even we here at Daily Telegraph think Nigel Farage is a dick and a charlatan. I know, we were shocked too…”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The vote was 55-0.
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Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed
Uefa nations have agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments if the global governing body continues with its plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Not sure who did this but they should be arrested immediately.
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Latest leader approvals 🌹Burnham bumps up to +19, 8 higher than Keir’s high of 11. 🌳Badenoch down slightly to break even 🔶Davey drops back to -11 💚Polanski is at -24 ➡️Farage drops to another low, by far his lowest since the election at -32
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Burnham: "Social care in England is as unfair as American healthcare." It's a very good line.
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