David Smith

Engineer, environmentalist, dog lover

[David Smith @DavidSm02514106]

@Gaynotqueer1 What precisely are they celebrating? Diabetes? Incontinence? I mean it’s quite confusing

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@ButtersKennedy Top man 😉

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

Peter Mandelson is obviously a very charming man. Funny, well connected, gossipy, you hear a lot of people talk about him with affection in Westminster.

My own stand out memory of him is a little different. The first time I met him was at my first ever Labour Party conference, I was a trainee reporter in my early twenties. 

In other words, I had no status or any connections really at all.

And I guess the best way to put it, is that Peter Mandelson was dismissive rather than charming.

The reason I'm saying this is because I think it goes to the heart of Westminster's problem, a problem that I believe is deeply connected to the Epstein scandal (in Epstein’s world status - connections - and money - was everything.)

Because people who look at Westminster - in the same way as they might look at Washington - and think, this is a closed group of elites, who all know each other, who go to the same parties, and share the same in jokes... well, to a large extent, they are right.

There are too many people in Westminster who look over the shoulder of the person they're talking to see if there's someone more important in the room.

Status is everything... what stories can they give me... how can they further my career? The personal and the professional become blurred. 

And Peter Mandelson is the embodiment of that. Charming, well connected, gossipy. In the inner circle. 

If we're honest with ourselves, that's the reason he's been allowed to fail and then be rehabilitated so many times. It's the reason he was given the best job in politics - US Ambassador - despite being friends with a paedophile. And it's the reason he's had a softer landing than many others would have in his position. 

A softer landing... until now. Because after the latest dump of Epstein emails, there really is no coming back. Not even for the most charming man in Westminster.

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@ButtersKennedy You’ve gotta try the stuffed puffin later 😂

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Thoughts from the abyss -~~ I care deeply about the environment and the world II live in. My entire career has been spent in improving it. Now I wonder why I bothered if it was worth it, who will carry on when I’m finished. What a waste.

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@LizaRosen0000 This really should be in the main stream media but of course it won’t be

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@ButtersKennedy What a guy 🫡

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@ButtersKennedy That is truly stunning

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@4golfonline You can’t have one without the other 🤷‍♂️

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Small boat carrying record 125 people crosses Channel - BBC News —— not a small boat a ferry and the authorities on both sides of the channel sat and watched it cross. It’s a joke https://t.co/Ksu3ZeW6BW

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@EYakoby @robertbrynin Blinkered I guess 🤔

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@4golfonline It’s Mcginlay, never says anything worth listening to anyway 😂😂

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@RFC_Michael_ @RangersFC Gave the gates a lick of paint🤔

[Adrian Hilton @Adrian_Hilton]

If recognition of a state called Palestine is “long overdue” and “a correction of historic injustice”, what of the 13 members of the Arab League and 9 members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation who still don't recognise Israel? They don't want a “two-state solution”, do they?

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@PuppiesIover Sausage

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@robertbrynin @LahavHarkov An otherwise seemingly sensible young man told me yesterday Hitler was right, the Jews destroyed the German economy and held the country to ransom, that’s why he sought to annihilate them. How can this be the narrative now in 2025 - the media are fundamentally antisemitic

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@WyeLea I remember it well, triumphalist etc, really blew it

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@JohnOberg Terribly sad

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@ButtersKennedy Very regal 😃