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Rafał Gmerek

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Londoner, Polish national, citizen of Europe. All opinions are my own #IStandWithUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

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Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · Nov 14

My proposal for a Ukraine peace plan: Russia should give up their nuclear weapons in exchange for guarantees from 🇺🇸, 🇬🇧 and 🇺🇦. RU wanted security guarantees, they are gonna get them in a tried & tested Budapest format.

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 1d

Quick! Call Dustin Hoffman!

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 1d

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/...

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

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 7d

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?

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 8d

Perhaps she didn't have to.
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

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 8d

Nope, she took it to entirely new level, but the invention is older than her term as a minister.

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

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Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 9d

UK government will be quietly applauding and facilitating this.

It's Labour ministers who invented "hostile environment".

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Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 10d

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?

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Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 11d

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.

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 12d

The Tory media and their hysterics is one thing, but... what do *you* think he should have done in that case?

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Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 13d

I'm sure Ukraine will be happy to allow your plane to fly through.

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 14d

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...

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

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Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 19d

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.

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 21d

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...

Sturmabteilung - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 22d

Perhaps she's taking them literally?

Finally, an author that is not afraid to deny this round-Earth nonsense!

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 23d

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.

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 23d

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%

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 23d

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.

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 23d

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.

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Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 24d

Well, the land of the free and the brave voted him in, and allowed him to operate the American military including the nuclear button.

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 24d

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!

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 24d

No, I haven't. And I don't intend to watch Farage. 100% sure there's nothing in it that I would not know about him.

And what good did this interview bring? Let me guess: "an epic takedown"? Last time I checked the guy is going to be the next UK PM.

That's all what those interviews are good for.

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 25d

Don't forget you can also paint some symbol on their shops, a 'bloody foreigner star' or something.

You can also make them wear armbands! With a big F!

Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 25d

Kind of not resisting the urge, but....

Very curious why would you choose to interview him? Why give platform to a person who was wrong about almost anything that mattered and who brought their country to a brink?

It's like giving platform to Liz Truss. Or David Cameron.

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Rafał Gmerek @rgmere.bsky.social · 25d

Went to a comedy night.
The comedian introduced himself as Argentinian, and said they are very proud of their dynamically developing country.

He said, we are called Great Britain of South America....

You know what he really meant