John Smith

Middle-Aged Straight White Man.

[John Smith @FirstandLast999]

@RanTeeThree If 6’3 and 18st is scarily big I must terrify people every where I go.

[John Smith @FirstandLast999]

@WarRoomArchives I cannot understand why both sides are not issuing their units with shotguns. Even a cheap O/U and a birdshot cartridge would be able to take out one of these drones, you 've only got to clip one of the props.
Unless I'm missing something? I presume I must be??

[Max Klinger @MaxE2review]

I’m a jewish Londoner. I am worried that, if I send my kids to a jewish school or to a synagogue playgroup, they might get killed by a jihadists or attacked by Muslim antisemites. When I lived in a heavily Islamic area of East London I saw swastikas with messages about ‘zios’ drawn on walls on more than one occasion, preachers at local mosques raged against ‘infidels’, and girls from the school down the road (along with hundreds of other ‘Brits’) fled the UK to join ISIS - yes, ISIS - as it was massacring tens of thousands of Yazidis, beheading journalists and bombing infidels.

Down the road from my parents house, Muslim men drove around in a pick up truck flying the Palestine flag and screaming ‘fuck the Jews, rape their daughters’ over loudspeaker.

I always liked growing up in a diverse city, and of course by no means are all Muslims responsible for this stuff. But these are sectarian Islamic problems, of the sort that are in evidence across vast swathes of the Muslim world. They are not ‘enriching’, nor are they something to ‘celebrate.’ In fact they are massively amping up divisions.

You and your colleagues’ efforts to stifle discussion of these, or any related, issues are morally bankrupt, driven either by cowardice or something more sinister.

[John Smith @FirstandLast999]

@Evanalex07 @bealolufc @TLRailUK Either way it shouldn’t become the customers problem.

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

On our way to make history ✈️

[Ben Bankas @BenBankas]

How I feel about late term abortion

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

Have an hour to spare? Join us on a Jew Hunt!
It's fun for all the family! We'll knock on doors and if we spot a Jew, note the address for future reference. And if we find a Jew sympathiser, it counts too! Jew or just Jew-friendly - they both count! Come join our Jew Hunt!

[MrMenno 🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈🎶 @MrMennoTweets]

Yesterday evening a gay man nearly turned violent when I said I didn’t think @RosieDuffield1 had said anything ‘transphobic’. He began shouting, compared me to a Nazi and yelled he’d call the police if I didn’t leave. He started pushing and shoving me as I tried to put my jacket on and grab my things. “Get out of my house!!! Get out!!!” He was about to seriously lose it and I started to think I was in for a beating or a kicking

He’s someone local I’ve know for about 20 years, but we hadn’t been in touch since lockdown. He messaged me out of the blue yesterday so we decided to catch up. It all started friendly enough, just had a bit of chit chat. It soon turned to politics (he has a framed poster saying “Strong and stable my arse” in the living room, so we joked about Theresa May and all the prime ministers we’ve had since).

He began talking about the Labour Party and Keir Starmer. “I’m a socialist and I’ve been a member of the Labour Party for decades, but when he became Prime Minister I cancelled my membership. He’s a liar with no principles.” He then said he’s just joined the Green Party.

He works in the arts (drama school) and I began to suspect our convo might turn sour very quickly if the ‘trans’ thing came up. He said we were going to get a far right government next. “What about the far left?” I asked. “There is no far left in this country,” he said. “People keep going on about the far left, but there is no far left.” He said he thought Starmer was right off-centre and that under Corbyn Labour had been a proper left-wing socialist party and that all the antisemitism stuff was just lies to get him out.

“I do think we’ll probably get a new prime minister this year,” I said, “Had a chat with Rosie Duffield about it last December.”

Suddenly there was a pause. He looked at me a little stunned.

“Rosie Duffield?”
“Yeah, you left Labour as a member, she left Labour as an MP. Now she’s an independent. The way they treated her was appalling”
“She’s someone I’d love to slap in the face”
“Really? Why?”
“Er… because she’s a massive transphobe? Don’t you know that?”

OK, I thought, here we go… but wondered if we could still navigate it carefully

“I’ve heard people say that, but what has she actually said or done that’s ‘transphobic’?”

He looked at me in disbelief. “Erm.,, everything she says and does?”

“Isn't she simply standing up for women and girls?”

He just sat on the sofa staring at me. The energy had completely changed.

"What a shame," he said in an oddly calm way, "You've drunk the Kool-Aid."

I thought that was such an ironic thing to say.

“So you're not a fan of last year’s Supreme Court ruling then?” I asked.

“Oh my god - that was terrible! Just terrible!”

“What do you think was terrible about it?”

“You think there was something good about it?”

“Yes, I do. I think it was a very important ruling, particularly for us homosexuals.” I pronounced ‘homosexuals’ in a camp sort of way to lighten the mood a bit, but it didn’t work.

“What are you on about???” he asked, annoyed

“Well, I was in the Supreme Court when the ruling was handed down, and when they said that the protected characteristic of sexual orientation was based on sex, I thought that affirmed our rights as gays and lesbians. Thats a good thing, right?”

"What that's got to do with trans people? What have they ever done?"

"They're pushing for 'gender identity' to take precedence over sex, so that someone born male can 'identify' as a lesbian. And if you look at paragraphs 204 and 206 of the ruling..."

"Oh spare me the paragraphs, please!"

"But you asked me what I thought was good about the ruling?"

"What's that got to do with trans people???"

"Well, one thing the Supreme Court had to grapple with was if someone born male gets a GRC that says 'female', should they be considered female under the Equality Act, and how does that impact on other protected characteristics like sexual orientation, so that's where gays and lesbians come in. And the question of what even is a lesbian. And one thing that swayed the judges was a submission by a group called The Lesbian Interveners, and they..."

"What have trans people ever done to lesbians?!"

"You haven't read the ruling, have you?"

"WHAT HAVE TRANS PEOPLE EVER DONE TO LESBIANS???"

We're now both up on our feet. It all began to feel very 'spiky'. I'm taller, but he seemed to be getting quite angry and I started thinking I should leave. I made my way to the hall. He followed me.

"In Australia lesbians have lost the right the public assembly. If they want to have a lesbian-only, single-sex public event, it's against the law. There was a tribunal last year, and that was the ruling. It's official. So that's what's happening to lesbians, an by extension to gay men, and it's not because of the the right-wing, it's because of 'trans'."

"Oh my God it's like talking to a Nazi!"

"Really? Are you gonna tell me you think lesbians can have penises? That gay men can have vaginas? I mean, I know you work in the arts and it's completely captured, but come on"

I grab my wellies but face him as I put them on. He just stood there, his face red. "I'm so angry right now. I'm SO ANGRY you're in MY HOUSE!"

"Don't worry, I'm leaving."

"Yes, leave! Leave now!"

"I am, just let me..."

"Get out! Get out or I call the police!"

As I put my jacket on he opens the door and starts pushing and shoving me, and I nearly lose my balance. I want to check my pockets to see if I've got everything, but he looks like he's about to escalate so I quickly get out. He slams the door behind me.

Earlier he'd offered to get me an Uber, but I guess that was off the cards 😬

So I checked my pockets and yes - I had everything. Had my umbrella, too. It was a wet but mild evening (reminded me of the song from Guys & Dolls 🎶"When the smell of the rainwashed pavement..."🎶), the 30-minute walk was the perfect way to decompress.

How quickly the mood changed. How quickly this man got aggressive, almost violent. How he didn't actually want to know anything or discuss anything. How quickly he played the Nazi card.

This is not some young guy who could be forgiven for being maybe a little naive and easily carried away with his emotions - this is a grown man well into his 50s.

And what made this gay man so angry? Someone simply acknowledging one of the most basic facts of life? And that homosexuality is based on sex? That lesbians don't have penises? Like... what??? Two gay men can't even talk about that without someone losing it?

This 'trans' stuff doesn't just pull the wool over people's eyes, it brings out the worst in them

Utter madness

Anyways, got home and had a lovely g̶l̶a̶s̶s̶ o̶f̶ K̶o̶o̶l̶-A̶i̶d̶ cup of rose tea

We've got a long way to go

[John Smith @FirstandLast999]

@Brick_Cop @ukhomeoffice I hope karma comes hard for these 12 pieces of shit, they're as evil as the scum they've freed.

[John Smith @FirstandLast999]

@logansrunner113 @Brick_Cop @ukhomeoffice Presumably at the very least they saw this video?

[John Smith @FirstandLast999]

@TNLUK @frankexchange1 It's not issues, it's a horrifically designed app.

[John Smith @FirstandLast999]

@TNLUK This 'upgrade' is awful.

[John Smith @FirstandLast999]

@FightVideosFV Should have hit him harder after he said that.

[John Smith @FirstandLast999]

@Phil_Taylor_4 @TheRealJamieKay @BROKENBRITAIN0 @Tesco It’s Evergreen, as opposed to Spruce etc.

[John Smith @FirstandLast999]

@BasilTheGreat That’s just the type of tree. There’s enough to criticise the left for without having to make shit up.

[Bex @sewingwithsteel]

@Hobbycraft apparently bars GC people from its shops. I was in the #Dundee store with my partner today.

Staff member wore a badge reading ‘no terfs no tories’ as part of her uniform.

We confronted the badge.

We got chucked out for doing so.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Aw diddums, the nasty little Jew hater isn't happy about being called out for being a nasty little Jew hater.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: MAJOR VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH! HAMIT COSKUN WINS HIS APPEAL AGAINST ISLAMIC BLASPHEMY LAW

The Free Speech Union is delighted that Hamit Coskun’s appeal has been successful.

Hamit was convicted under the Public Order Act for burning a copy of the Koran during a lawful protest against the rise of political Islam and authorities in Turkey under President Erdoğan’s regime.

The court conflated his political protest against Islam with hatred of Muslims, effectively reviving blasphemy law by the back door. It ruled his action as “disorderly” — not because of what Hamit did, but because it provoked violence against him, namely a man called Moussa Kadri slashed a knife at him and shouted “I’m going to kill you”. Kadri was spared jail time, and actions were used to prove Hamit’s guilt. Meanwhile, Hamit is forced to live in hiding due to multiple threats to his life.

Hamit’s conviction has now been overturned. Had the verdict been allowed to stand, it would have sent a message to religious fundamentalists up and down the country that all they need to do to enforce their blasphemy codes is to violently attack the blasphemer, thereby making him or her guilty of having caused public disorder.

Instead, the Crown Court has sent the opposite message - that anti-religious protests, however offensive to true believers, must be tolerated.

[John Smith @FirstandLast999]

@HazelAppleyard_ No head tilt. 🤷‍♂️

[Tracy Edwards @TracyEdwardsMBE]

I don't know how you have the brass neck to post this considering how you throw sportswomen under the bus. You should be bloody ashamed!! I am embarrassed for you. A traitor to women and girls and a spineless coward. Take a long hard look in the mirror @lisanandy