Paul Dunstan

You don't always get what you want...

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

The long, slow struggle that is life, always feels like you're falling but never hitting the bottom, keep looking up and you'll see that there's a way back up...

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

@GosportBFC Avoids clashes with Pompey but not so sure about how the players will be with only a day rest between games, also feels like there will be fewer people through the gates compared to Tuesday/Wednesday nights. Happy to be proven wrong #UTB

[Thomas @TomSoede]

This morning I asked myself, not for the first time, who is Nigel and I made some notes.

And it does add up.

Here is a man who sells himself as the ordinary bloke with a pint, the man of the people, the great outsider standing up against the establishment.

And yet somehow this ordinary bloke always seems to arrive with a camera crew, a donor network, a friendly broadcaster, and now a parliamentary investigation into a £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire.

Very normal.

Very grassroots.

Very “just one of the lads”.

The peoples revolt, apparently, now comes with lighting, branding, fundraising dinners, professional outrage, and a small question about whether millions should have been declared properly.

Everything is a betrayal when Labour does it.

Everything is “nothing to see here” when Nigel does it.

Housing? Blame Labour.
The NHS? Blame Labour.
The economy? Blame Labour.
Boats? Blame Labour.
A £5 million gift? Suddenly everybody must calm down and respect the process.

And then came Tuesday.

A young man died. A family was grieving. A country was trying to understand something horrific.

And Farage stepped forward.

Not with calm.
Not with care.
Not with responsibilty.

But with his announcement of “pure cold rage”.

That phrase matters.

Because anger is human.
Anger can be moral.
Anger can demand answers, justice, accountability and truth.

I understand anger.
A lot of people are angry.
They have every right to ask serious questions.

But rage is different.

Rage does not ask careful questions.
Rage does not wait for investigations.
Rage does not protect grieving families from becoming political props.

Rage looks for a target.

And that is where Farage always seems most comfertable.

Not solving the pain.
Not calming the country.
Not asking how institutions failed and how they can be fixed.

But standing beside the pain with a microphone, turning the temprature up, and calling it leadership.

Warm enough to repost.
Warm enough to donate.
Warm enough to vote.
But never calm enough to ask:

“Hang on, who benefits from keeping us this angry?”

That is the trick.

He does not need Britain to feel hopeful.
He does not even need Britain to feel informed.

He needs Britain permanently one headline away from rage.

Because rage is usefull.

It fills rallies.
It drives clicks.
It turns grief into theatre.
It makes slogans feel like solutions.

And while everyone is shouting, nobody asks the boring questions.

Where is the plan?
Where is the funding?
Where are the costings?
Where is the responsibilty?

Maybe that is who Nigel Farage is.

Not the man of the people.

But the man who knows exactly how to turn peoples pain into his own political stage.

The Reform & Tory Sitcom continues.

Same chaos. Different rosette.

Anger can demand answers.
Rage just sells tickets.

If this speaks to you, please add your comments, repost it, and maybe follow me — not for me, but because politics needs fewer slogans and more people asking proper questions.

#Farage #ReformUK

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

@AWenham1 @NavyLookout @WarshipCam @WarshipsIFR @seawaves_mag @UKDefJournal @UKForcesTracker Gosport

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

@NonLeaguePaper Did they get this from hiding in the bushes with a pair of binos? 😅

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

Here we go again, time to get tactical...
Oh, and Betty was keeping a lookout for wrong'uns 😁
#dogsatpollingstations
#TacticalVoting

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

@reece_dinsdale That would be nice

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

...and I thought it was personnel and stores

[Clint Matthews ⭐️ ⭐️ Only Here For The Chelsea @boredsailor19]

@OnthisdayRN @LtCarlSteedman @SercoGroup @HMNBDevonport @FOST I was today years old when I found out that PAS wasn’t just short for ‘passenger’. 😳

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

@PeterStefanovi2 To be fair they've probably done @AndyBurnhamGM a favour by blocking. Fair likelihood that the by-election would be lost regardless due to the current political climate and that would be hard to come back from, risking damage to his reputation by association.

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

@RedSheffield Thought it was a night match against Oxford in 83, but I'm not 100% Remember winning 2-1 and the atmosphere was amazing under the lights on the top. I was a late starter at 14 and it's been a turbulent relationship ever since.

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

Most people have a train of thought. This suggests it's on rails heading in a certain direction, maybe slowly, but will get there in the end.
Mine's more like a burst sack of rice in a 3-wheeled shopping trolley. Unpredictable, slowly losing it and f^ck knows where its going. 😬

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

It's a win for the sink @almurray
Been a while since there's been one of these #sinkvskettle

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

@FootyScran E7

[𝚂𝙷𝙾𝚁𝙴𝙷𝙰𝙼 𝚂𝚃. 𝙼𝙰𝙶𝙽𝙸𝙵𝙸𝚀𝚄𝙴 @shorehamst]

Retweet if you think @SheffieldUnited & @ErreaOfficial should release the one on the right - even if just for fans…

#sufc #twitterblades

[Gosport Borough FC @GosportBFC]

The 2025/26 Southern Premier League South league. These are all the teams we will face 🤝

#UpTheBoro #UTB

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

@GosportBFC 😅 "glanced" it was a bullet

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

@boredsailor19 If it's lunch, why are they called dinner ladies? 😉

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

@NonLeagueNews Truro 2-1, Worthing 1-0

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

@HMS_Collingwood Same class that completed the 2401 Sensors course today as well 😁

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

@FootyScran @officialgtfc It's alright but its still only a handful

[Paul Dunstan @blaydzman]

You know it makes sense, get down your local club this weekend and support the grass roots game #NonLeagueDay