Martin Sketchley

Thank you all! I’ve now achieved 25,000 subscribers on @YouTube / @YouTubeCreators. It’s been a very long journey and now I’m keen to head towards 50,000 subscribers. I appreciate all the support. #youtube #contentcreator #video

Thank you for all the support.

There was an unexpected bit of snow yesterday here in Daejeon. Today, I wake up and the snow is thawing away and the slush has turned to water.

I treated myself to a new camera which I’ll be using for photography as well as videography. The initial subjects of jet photographing were my two cats. I’m loving the Sony ZV E10 ii. Perhaps I should do a my kit for videography.

@Keir_Starmer All talk and no action.

No social media platform should get a free pass when it comes to protecting our kids. That's why I'm taking action.

Restore Britain will ease fees and rules around spouse visas. If a British man or woman wants to raise a family in Britain with their foreign spouse, we will support that. We will make it easier, quicker, cheaper. Foreign wives and husbands will not be treated like fraudsters and criminals by the Home Office - we will save that for the genuine foreign miscreants. There will be a Red List of countries, through which this liberalisation will definitely NOT apply. Pakistan, Albania, Bangladesh, Somalia, Afghanistan and many, many more. This list will be decided on facts, it will be decided on evidence. We will crush fraud, it will not be tolerated. Cousin marriages will be outlawed, so don’t even try and bring your wifecousin in from Pakistan. Not happening. But if a British man wants to bring his American wife to Britain in order to build a life together, then we will encourage and enable that. Because the current system is expensive, slow, intrusive and disrespectful. It’s easier to jump on a sodding dingy than get a legitimate law-abiding French wife or Australian husband into Britain. Restore Britain will change that. We will restore fairness, decency and competence to the spouse visa system.

I want to end this historic week with one clear message to you all. What is necessary for Britain will be incredibly painful. It won’t be easy. There will be no confetti and pyrotechnics. It will be hard. It will hurt. It will challenge all of us. I won’t tell you comforting lies. I have never done that. We’ve had those for decades. It has not worked. Politicians promising miracle cures where there are none. The British people have far more intelligence than the existing political parties arrogantly believe. As a party, Restore Britain will treat you with the respect you deserve. You will finally have an option that accepts the brutal reality we find ourselves in. I will be honest with you all. There will be hard years. There will be difficult days. The fixes will not be immediate. This is going to be the fight of our lives. It is one I truly believe we can win.

Under a Restore Britain Government, every foreign national will lose access to welfare. Healthy Brits who refuse to work will be given work. If they resist, they will lose their benefits. Hardworking men and women will no longer fund the indolent. The piss-take will end.

@NoContextBrits Always thought it was spelt ‘Weatherspoons’. Now I should wither and die.

One has to go. Which?

I have written to the European Anti-Fraud Office asking them to investigate whether Peter Mandelson used his tenure as EU Trade Commissioner for personal financial gain.

Keir Starmer is propped up by a corrupted party, defending the indefensible. Time for him to resign.

Case 1. Boris Johnson attended a surprise party and ate some cake. Result: resignation Case 2. Keir Starmer appointed a man to be ambassador to the United States who had a track record of trouble and who he knew was continuing a friendship with a convicted paedophile. We now also know that man passed highly confidential government information to said paedophile. Result: ? Surely the Prime Minister's position is no longer tenable.

@KemiBadenoch Stellar work. 👏🏻

Conservatives just forced Starmer to stop marking his own homework and publish the Mandelson files. Starmer appointed Mandelson knowing he had links with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The Prime Minister then tried to cover it up. Someone needs to lose their job for this.

Where is all the students on Preply? I have had five years experience with this platform but things are starting to dry up, especially in the New Year. youtu.be/Le7ZGOyDNaY

Tomorrow I say goodbye to my students as they finish their two week winter camp here. It’s been a pleasure to have been part of their short course and hope to see them join us in the spring semester.

@RupertLowe10 May the U.K. seriously consider the enormous Chinese embassy being constructed in London? I’m concerned that it be used for nefarious purposes and activities against all citizens and organisations of the United Kingdom, as well as broader afield.

I just voted in Parliament to disrupt Labour’s Chagos Islands surrender. We lost. Those who govern us hate Britain.

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A wonderful weekend was had with my super wife in her hometown (여주시). We left yesterday evening with friends warning us there was snow but we didn’t believe them as there wasn’t any snow in Daejeon (대전시). Back to home sweet home to a nice cosy warm house.

The moment Spiderman tore down the Islamic Republic flag at Iran's embassy in London, and raised the lion and sun flag 💪

@TeamYouTube Thank you. It seems to correct itself after a while. 😀

@ELTExperiences We're aware of the issue. Please be assured this is a known data syncing issue, and our teams are actively working on a fix right now. More info here: goo.gle/45M65HY

Hello @YouTubeCreators. Are there any current issues regarding the calculation of earnings for 5 Jan? It’s showing zero earnings despite my having over 230 videos.