I'm an old geezer and I make video that reflects my life, my interests, and my opinions.
The Old Geezer's Diary was founded by Chris Gosling, who spent around 6 years making minority interest programmes for Sky niche channels, about caravanning and boating, and then went on to create commercial online-only video channels, which he has since sold to new operators after building them up for around 8 or 10 years.
"As I get older, I still enjoy making video content, but like to focus more on topics which really interest me now, and less on commercially attractive subjects".
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There is a big difference between age & ability, some 90 year olds still go out for a jog & are 100% there mentally while others get dementia in their 70s. Trump is in far better health than Joe Biden & is fit to run for president. Joe falls down stairs & needs help standing up, Trump gets hit by bullets & gets up to give a fist pump, please stop watching the BBC.
Quite true - BUT in this segment of our lives, you can't what tell is going to happen, or when it will happen. So Mr Trump may get elected on 5 November, and collapse with a heart attack on the 6th, or whatever. He's starting to display a dictator complex as it is (you'll never have to vote again), so keep watching that space!
Just look at the labour-run welsh NHS run by them since my wife was trained there in the 1980s a total disaster with the new super hospital failed from day 1 and sending the wrong bodies to families multiple times.
The reason that politicans lie is because if they told the truth then no one would vote for them: No politican is going to admit that the UK has been in a progressive decline since at least the early 90s - well, since the WW2 if we're being completely honest - with both Labour and the Tories being at fault and that there are just no real fixes to this situation, or immediate fixes anyway. To provide a very, very loose example if you raise taxes then that leads to decreased growth which in turn leads to less funding, however if, conversely, you lower taxes then you simply get inflation that in turn lowers the value of capital that in turn leads to less funding. Almost all governmental policy follows this damned if you do, damned if you don't vicous circle. The idea that one lot is going to get in and fix everything that the other lot buggered up is just the lie that politicans push because reality just doesn't work that way, especially when, in the case of Labour, they're actually the ones responsible for buggering things up to begin with, or at least as much as the Tories are. In an ideal world we could just end this pointless Punch and Judy show and replace it with something better, but we're just stuck with what we've got, short of a revolution, and well the last time they tried to have a revolution in Britian it rained and everyone went home - I wish I was making this up. In the same way as the Devil is just going to give you what you want; a politican is just going to tell you everything you want to hear. With one lot being no better than the other lot. It's like a fat person going to a doctor that tells them they look beautiful over going to one that tells them that if they don't lose the weight then they might not see much of the wrong side of forty. Sure you could blame the doctor for pandering to their patients just to get a little extra business but at some point you're going to have to attribute some blame to the patient for disregarding the flipping obvious. Look, we're a cynical and skeptical people, maybe if we returned to that and stopped treating these idiots like Gods that are going to solve our problems then that would be a start.
lowering tax leads to inflation - only because taxes exist only to reduce inflation while government printing of money and spending stays the same. If taxes decrease and public spending decreases, people gain more from the work that they do, they work harder, they produce more goods, the goods cost less per unit, inflation reduces. Governments are damned if you do, damned if you don't because people want their cake and eat it. They want a nice cushy, easy life but also be prosperous. It doesn't work like that. You can have an easy life and be poor or you can work hard and be prosperous. It works on an individual and societal level. People will say, oh but we work hard and we want what's owed to us, blame big business and capitalism for hoarding all the wealth and then spend every penny at Amazon, Disney and Ebay.
Honest politician is a contradiction of terms. Beside which Kier Starmer has been shown to be a liar. He was called out on it several times during the campaign. Plenty of compliation videos out there showing him saying one thing at interview A, and saying another at interview B. Not only that but it was also shown he would say anything to win votes. Whilst the latter isn't necessarily a Starmer only problem it's hardly a glowing recommendation for someone who is supposedly different to the normal crop of political leaders. We'll also not mention the fact he stabbed his "friend" Jeremy Corbyn in the back, again not a good look. I've also noticed he's very quiet when it comes to the Post Office scandal. He prosecuted hundreds of innocent people - people the Post Office knew were innocent, and he did so remorselessly. He is just as responsible as the Post Office for those people who decided death was a better alternative to shame wrongfully forced upon them. If Starmer is the man everyone wants in charge, then god help the UK. The man has no principles and will change his viewpoint at the drop of a hat (like has done several times already) if it gets him political points. We've simply kicked out one bunch of liars for another. Sorry but I would rather have a politician that stands his ground, and fights his corner regardless of how he looks or how it affects his popularity.
I always knew I was going to get old and therefore made provision for my future pensionable years and while I was young enough to earn and save I did just that. The one thing I always tell younger people is to start saving and investing now and secure a brighter future for yourself.
@@chrisbeard1750 Well, we don't really know enough about the current Labour party to judge. We do know for sure that the Tories have liars, like Johnson, loonies like truss, and self server like the ten or twenty who made millions out of COVID PPE . . .
WELL I THINK IT WAS JOLLY RUDE OF STARMER NOT EVEN BOTHERING TO THANK ALL THOSE WHO WORKED SO HARD TIRELESSLY MURDERING THOUSANDS OF ELDERLY VOTERS IN LOCKDOWN TO HELP HIM WIN, TYPICAL LABOUR EH.
Who are you getting at here? Care home workers? The Labour Party? How about the Tory government led by Johnson, who told the hospitals to send old people with Covid out of hospitals into care homes? He also told colleagues that he thought older people should "die gracefully" and make way for others!
@@OldGeezersDiary I would blame the types that encouraged/enabled/carried out Ian McEwans evil elderly exterminating wishes as in 2017 he said "if 1.5m old people die within 2 years we can reverse Brexit" not forgetting the fact his son is a virologist of course so he was able to make pretty educated guesses as we all know what happened at the end of 2019.
@@OldGeezersDiary That's weird, i posted a reply and it's disappeared. Ok i'll try again, Well i would primarily blame the particularly evil Ian McEwan who said in 2017 "If 1.5m old people die within 2 years we can reverse Brexit" clearly vying for his Iron Cross medal with that kind of mass elderly exterminating tabletalk eh then of course the just as bad obviously pro EU types who then started carrying out his warped wishes. It's interesting how McEwan has a virologist son who was able to assist him in making pretty educated guesses as in late 2019 a disease targeting the elderly indeed appeared though the press avoided focusing on the elderly targeting aspect shortly afterwards.
My pension is only £152.19 and that includes graduated pension that i paid extra for and 25 PENCE a week for being 80 years old! I do not understand why I had to have 14 years NI more than others just because I was born in 1943. 44 years they tell me I needed when I only had 39 so lost a lot of my pension but others slightly younger only needed 30 years. Why? And as for pension credit, first I couldnt apply because my wife was below pension age so I am also treated as below pension age and now she does receive her pension I am still not eligable. The answer, I am told, is to divorce my wife and I will then be eligable. Started to work at 15 but can't afford to live at 80. What a crazy world we now live in.
If labour did decide to raise income tax, it still wouldn't come to £2000 per person, higher earners would pay more but average and lower earners would pay less. I'm all in favour of higher earners paying much more 😅
thanks for sharing this, I don’t watch tv, that was the most pressing a sky journalist has been for years. Every mp, bar a handful, since 1997 could be described as a traitor, in both the 2 party gov’t. Traitors.
@@Noel-ji8nm And had an excellent one, along with national leaders who he will soon join - while Rishi nipped back to the UK to pre-record an interview.
Haha, good for you, Chris - nothing like a bit of a road trip!! Even with my 4cyl Honda, petrol is very expensive $2.00 litre here, so I tend to do mostly local excursions. I grew up in England but we emigrated when I was 12! Cheers!! :)
G'day from Australia, Chris! I like the cut of your jib, young fella, SUBSCRIBED!! We have finally kicked out the loathsome & incompetent LNP (Tory) Govt here, Labor (that's how we spell it here - we're all upside down, please make allowances!) is back in power after 10 long years of austerity, misery & hopelessness - finally a Govt I'm not terrified of & one that is at least trying to make the lives of pensioners more comfortable! I'm 69, still surfing & riding an electric skateboard (currently in a knee brace after crashing!) & thrash my 16 yo Honda around in a most disreputable manner! The Grim Reaper will get me eventually but he's going to have to catch me first! :)
@@OldGeezersDiary Lot of fun - accelerator & brakes range 30km & 50kmh top speed - with helmet, pads & wrist guards pretty safe (my knee injury from push skateboard!) Never say never! :)
@@nottherealmccoy4955 It can be a risky business - but I am a disciple of the late Susan Jeffers, who wrote "Feel the Fear and do it Anyway" - I quit my last proper job back in 2020, and took a year off to go sailing singlehanded . . . I was only a boy of 54 back then, though!
@@OldGeezersDiary Haha, Chris - you're just a lad at that age! Fantastic!! Ocean sailing is a real challenge - especially solo! Good for you mate - none of us are getting out of this alive, might as well have as much fun as we can!! :)
@@OldGeezersDiary tell you why ? Really ? Do you not know that every Tom Dick and Mohammed is coming over to the UK in order to use our NHS under the guise of asylum seekers and 40 year genius foreign students? ( and their families )
Hey! Old Geezer. There is good political news to be had today. Nigel Farage has taken the helm of Reform UK. so now we, the British people have a person who's going to be championing Britain for once and not doing what the other main parties are doing which is following the WEF and globalist agenda for an open borders policy. *They've already gotten my vote for the General Election.*
The National Health Service isn't. It's Regional, and Trust based. The "service" accruing to the general public can vary markedly from region to region, and even NHS Trusts within a region. Good management is the key. I can''t speak highly enough of the Freeman & RVI Hospitals and staff in Newcastle. Hexham and Sunderland are reportedly good too.
Pensioners should vote for The Peoples Party. We stand for ordinary folk - including all those living below the bread-line. Many of our party members are pensioners, and know exactly how difficult it is to get from one week to the next week. Pensioners need a political voice, and The Peoples Party is that political voice.
