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Gary The Voyager

@garytravel.bsky.social

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Armchair history enthusiast, ex-soldier, hiker and European long distance rail traveller. Love trains, mountains and ancient sites. Work in plant based chemicals, career in O&G and renewables. Pau and Bath.

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Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 1d

He’s hired James Orr in the UK - a religious zealot posing as an intellectual who is very anti abortion in all circumstances and will tick the box to get funding from extreme religious groups in the US. Both he and Orr are deeply misogynistic and will start removing women’s rights once in power.

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Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 11d

Grumpy privileged old white man who went to Eton🙄🤡. The Torygraph used to employ real journalists. The outfit he’s moaning about looks like a kilt to me - would he get in a froth if ScotRail staff wore kilts? I use Eurostar regularly; staff and service are great and the informs look good.

Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 11d

He’s being advised by James Orr, a deeply misogynistic religious zealot who is helping him sanitise the messages so they can get funding from US religious groups and super PACs. Banning abortion rights, fertility treatments and opposing vaccines are on the Reform agenda.

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Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 11d

My favourite town and home for many years. Enjoy!

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 12d

Calling Reform racist isn’t slander.

It’s maths.

20 incidents. 18 months. 1 Farage in a permanent huff.

DEEP DIVE: How Does Reform Show Its Racism? Let Me Count the Ways

From “target practice” on refugees to burqa bans in Parliament, the tally tells the story better than Farage ever could.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

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Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 14d

This is good news. Let’s hope they can add more capacity. I use the service 3-4 times a year but have to trek from Somerset to London to use it. Birmingham would be much simpler.

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Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 15d

So annoying - I use the Vienna service regularly🙄. You’d think such a popular route would be viewed as important.

Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 16d

Did the same last month, just couldn’t bear being bombarded with the ugliest bile-filled and ignorant propaganda imaginable.

Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 18d

Many years ago I was a mud engineer on drilling rigs.

Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 18d

The irony of a once well written newspaper turned propaganda rag advising on great writing; I doubt they use sub-editors for most of their copy these days.

Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 19d

Outstanding photo !!!!

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Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 21d

Fontaine d'Eure near Uzès, the supply of water via the Pont du Gard to Nîmes. Slots for water level control and 2-3cm of opus signinum still visible in the rock cut channels that carried 40Km3 of water a day across 50 kms with a drop of 17m of Built 40-60AD. Astonishing #Roman #Provence. My photos.

Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 21d

Why do you assume he’s bragging ? He’s simply making a comparative point. London is safer than the US.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 21d

Sadiq Khan's team on Trump's comments about London crime

The homicide rate in the US is seven times that of London

US: homicide rate per million - 68 people
London - homicide rate per million - 9.8

Pics of Trump and Khan

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Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 21d

The only people he quotes or refers to are rich, old and, with one exception, male. Each one of them moaning they can’t use the abusive, racist and uncivilised language of the 1970s. As for Connolly, she broke the law by inciting violence, nothing to do with free speech; illegal since the 1980s.

Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 23d

Farage is soon to get an EU pension of circa £75,000 a year for doing nothing, he rarely turned up for work in Brussels. The irony of this is the UK taxpayer is funding it under the Brexit deal. Hard working Brits paying a man who made them poorer.

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Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · 25d

Nothing protects women better than getting drunk in a pub and then assaulting police officers. A good few of Farage’s chums have convictions for rape, assaulting women and girls and trafficking minors for prostitution. Oh, and a few fraudsters to help fund the party.

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 28d

Party of the people.

REFORM UK
VOTED AGAINST LABOUR'S
EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS BILL
"THEY SAID...
NO TO SCRAPPING EXPLOITATIVE
ZERO HOURS CONTRACTS
NO TO SICK LEAVE AND MATERNITY PAY
NO TO BANNING FIRE-AND-REHIRE
REFORM UK ARE NOT FOR BRITISH WORKERS

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Christian @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · Sep 15

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

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Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · Sep 14

Priceless 😂👍👍.

Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · Sep 7

Rollright Stones on the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border. The Neolithic/Bronze age site was used 4th to 2nd millennium BC and built in phases. A view of the King’s Men stone circle, one of three monuments at the site. What rituals took place here ? #StandingStonesSunday #Neolithic #BronzeAge

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Sep 4

Oh no

Antronics Ltd @antronicsltd.bsky.social · Sep 4

Screenshot of a tweet by Nigel Farage, timestamped 14:05 05/02/2022:

"I had the misfortune of watching and listening to Nadine Dorries this morning. If she it the PM's defence then he really is a goner."

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Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · Sep 4

Good stuff raising this. Perhaps you could regularly publish a list of corporate attendees and donors so we know who to boycott ?

Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · Sep 3

He had no problem taking Putin’s money even after their invasion of Ukraine and in the full knowledge that it was betraying his country, democracy, free speech and the freedoms millions died to protect. He’s a traitor who loves taking and spending taxpayer’s money.

Gary The Voyager @garytravel.bsky.social · Sep 3

Most of the old fields are being sweated by small companies you’ve never heard of. The majors have been leaving the UKCS for twenty years. Costs are too high compared with other places and there are no big fields left to drill anyway. She’s talking nonsense. It wouldn’t affect prices in any event.