Andrew Smith🔸

Liberal Democrat. Former District Council leader, parliamentary candidate, County Councillor & Sussex Police Authority member.
Career in IT
Now Exam Invigilator

[Andrew Smith🔸 @Andrew_RH_Smith]

"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment" - Edmund Burke

[Andrew Smith🔸 @Andrew_RH_Smith]

@DanNeidle As if our tax system needs another complication.

[Andrew Smith🔸 @Andrew_RH_Smith]

@LuisaPorritt We need to join the SM & CU asap. Neither contradict the 2016 referendum result not that we should be bound by a decade old advisory poll three GEs ago.

[Andrew Smith🔸 @Andrew_RH_Smith]

@MartinChelt Government bought CCN's projection of unitary authorities (based on counties!) saving £2.9bn. Proposed boundaries across the country invariably a sub division of counties will neither make the hoped for savings nor have any sense of identity.

[Andrew Smith🔸 @Andrew_RH_Smith]

@ThatTimWalker Starmer's approach to dealing with Trump assumes Trump's primary fault is his vanity. His greed, vengence, corruption, ignorance, criminality are far more important factors guiding his behaviour.

[Andrew Smith🔸 @Andrew_RH_Smith]

@williamnhutton If Steinmeier is saying this out loud why can't Starmer? If Trump's only vice was his vanity Starmer's approach might work but Republicans in Congress need to hear some plain speaking.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Let's make 2026 the year that we have a full investigation into:

Nigel Farage and his £885,000 Clacton house

Nigel Farage and the Russian Spy Nathan Gill

Nigel Farage and his anti-semitism and racism

RT if you agree!

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Fun fact: @Nigel_Farage said he would buy a house in Clacton a year ago.

He then angrily stated “I’ve just exchanged contracts on a house in Clacton, what more can I do?”.

He then stated his girlfriend Laure Ferrari had bought it.

He then said he had had an expensive weekend taking ‘tax advice’.

He the said Ferrari’s parents had given her the cash to buy it.

It was then shown they didn’t have the means to.

Seems Nigel Farage is a man of 1000 stories, and not a single truth.

[Andrew Smith🔸 @Andrew_RH_Smith]

@nickreeves9876 Trump is a crime gang boss. Always has been. To interpret his actions in any other way is wrong. Trump and his supporters (in the US and elsewhere) are traitors to western, liberal, democratic values. Nauseating that Starmer gave him a second state visit.

[Andrew Smith🔸 @Andrew_RH_Smith]

@andrewrawnsley Trump hasn't merely abandoned the Truman Declaration but actively sides with autocrats over democracies. That this latest policy statement isn't dominating the news agenda is itself alarming.

[Dr Rosena @DrRosena]

Farage says the BBC has been biased for decades.

Let's look at MEP appearances on Question Time and see how balanced it was.

[Adam Bienkov @AdamBienkov]

Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense".

Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal.

He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing.

No one believes you, Nigel.

Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

[Paul Vick @PaulVick138203]

Do you think the BBC gives Reform UK to much airtime compared to all the other political parties?🤔
Repost after voting please.

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Trump's visit is a humiliating demonstration that Brexit Britain is Trump's vassal state. Were the UK still in the EU, we, and to a lesser degree, the EU would be in a stronger position to stand up to Trump's bullying.

Brexit has led to national humiliation.

[Andrew Smith🔸 @Andrew_RH_Smith]

@DPJHodges Jim Hacker had more sense, gravitas and ability than Starmer.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Europe’s summer charm offensive has failed.

Let’s review European diplomatic achievements so far this year. 2025 started with JD Vance making his famous “stepping up” speech in Munich, and alarm bells started ringing.

Unfortunately — Europe didn’t even wake up, let alone step up.

Europe instead based its summer security strategy on three pillars:

1. Appeasing President Trump.
This pillar can be summarised as paying and praying — paying with tariffs and promises of equipment purchases and worshipping Trump with pilgrimages to DC, video calls and public declarations of devotion.

2. Hoping that Putin will be satisfied with what he currently has.
This has been expressed in announcements by European leaders suggesting that brutal realities might force Ukraine to cede territories to Putin, using Baltic or Finnish historical examples. Nothing points to Putin being satisfied with that, but ok, hope springs eternal.

3. Praying that Ukrainians will not get tired
An essential component of the European inaction plan is that Ukrainians will continue fighting for both Ukraine and Europe, while Europe finishes its Aperol spritz and figures things out.

Now what?

When the United States announced the cancellation of the Baltic Security Initiative, many were shocked. I was more shocked at how much time we wasted praying that things would magically improve, rather than heeding the warnings and making preparations for this inevitable scenario.

So now what? Now we have to prepare for a reduction of US troops in Europe, likely in very significant numbers. And yes, it is possible that troops will be withdrawn from the Baltic region. What else should we be prepared for? Simply what has already been said: Ukraine will most likely be left without US assistance. Russia will no longer be sanctioned because of changes in US strategic calculations. Europe will have to face the Russian threat on its own. And frontline countries will have to figure out a plan B, to resist and win in a post-American Europe.

This should not come as a surprise, because we were warned long ago. If we wasted time, that’s on us. As the saying goes: The best times to stop wasting time are ten years ago, and today.

And if there is a question about how this should look in practice — look no further than Ukraine. President Zelenskyy might be saying many thank yous, wearing a suit and solemnly praising the American administration, but… at the same time, Ukraine has launched its biggest air raids on Russian oil refineries, reducing oil output by about 20 percent.

Europe is simply increasing the volume of its rhetoric as two of the three pillars of its 2025 strategy crumble. Meanwhile, Ukraine is introducing new weapons that will strengthen its position even further. Ukraine is talking softly AND developing a range of new sticks. Of course, Ukrainians would rather fight alongside Americans and Europeans, but even if Europeans and Americans are unwilling — Ukrainians are showing what they can achieve on their own.

Time to be brave like Ukraine

Europe, which has lost its belief in its own ability to fight any war, should be inspired by Ukraine and follow her shining example. If a country of fewer than 40 million people can keep stepping up further, even after three years of war, surely similar progress could be made by pooling the wealth of the EU’s 450 million inhabitants?

Read the full article and my conclusion at the link below…

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

RT if you agree @SkyNews should have included the clip where Farage gets lambasted!

[Andrew Smith🔸 @Andrew_RH_Smith]

@LizWebsterSBF The daily announcement on MSM on the number of people crossing the Channel (absent when there're none) is helping to whip up hysteria and paranoia.

[Andrew Smith🔸 @Andrew_RH_Smith]

In less than nine months #Trump has taken America from leader of the free world to barely a member of it.

[Andrew Smith🔸 @Andrew_RH_Smith]

@PeterStefanovi2 A few weeks ago there was a week when no crossings were made (because if the weather) apparently. Can't recall this being reported each day. MSM contributing to a frenzy of fear and hate.