David Smith

Husband, father of four, family chauffeur, Conservative, disabled. Believer in evidence-based policy, not policy-based evidence.

[David Smith @GrumpyOldMan23]

Anybody who goes on a march organised by the violent criminal scum Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, should be deported with the illegal immigrants.

[David Smith @GrumpyOldMan23]

@montie A march organised by violent criminal scum Stephen Yaxley-Lennon?

You used to be a decent individual, Tim. It's sad what a pathetic loser you've become.

[David Smith @GrumpyOldMan23]

@BigC_Contrarian @LBC @NickFerrariLBC We'd all be well off if we could bank 100% of our earnings and pay no tax.

[David Smith @GrumpyOldMan23]

RT @FraserNelson: Fair point from Nick Ferrari. By 2028 UK projected to lose 500,000 millionaires - whereas on current trends small boat ar…

[Robert Jenrick @RobertJenrick]

Here’s a shocking example of two-tier justice under two-tier Keir:

Last year, an Islamic charity in Nottingham hosted a vile sermon in which a trustee said “the hour will not begin until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims will kill them until a Jew hides behind a rock or a tree”.

Harun Abdur Rashid, the speaker, also encouraged listeners to disengage from the democratic process.

The result? A slap on the wrist from the Charity Commission. Rashid was removed as a trustee, and Nottingham Islam Information Point was given a warning.

Let me repeat that. An explicit call to violence against Jews gets you a warning from the Charity Commission.

And yet for a hastily deleted tweet, Lucy Connolly was sentenced to 31 months in prison. Her post was absolutely wrong, but surely her sentence is disproportionate, particularly when you consider the soft touch approach to Rashid's anti-semitic rant?

Then there's Hamit Coskun, who was fined for burning a Quran outside of the Turkish Embassy. There's Ian Sleeper, who was detained for holding a provocative anti-Islam sign. And there's Karandeep Mamman, a Christian preacher who was hauled through the courts after criticising the Quran while preaching in Walsall.

What else can we call this but two-tier justice? On the one hand, legal proceedings for criticising Islam. On the other, a slap on the wrist for an explicit call to violence.

Britain now has a new blasphemy law by the backdoor, which protects only one religion: Islam. It flies in the face of our tradition of free speech. Parliament never voted for it. In fact it voted to abolish blasphemy (for Christianity) almost 20 years ago.

I won’t stop campaigning until we end this.

[David Smith @GrumpyOldMan23]

One of our biggest issues in this country is that too many people are overeducated. They lack any experience of the real world. They lack any ability to think. They just go through life implementing the things they were educated to think are correct.

[David Smith @GrumpyOldMan23]

Ten years, never forget.

#JeSuisToujoursCharlie

[Rafe Heydel-Mankoo @RafHM]

British extremists are preaching hate every day in UK mosques.

45% of UK mosques are run by the extremist Deobandis, the cult that gave birth to the Taliban.

A MAJORITY of Muslim prison chaplains are Deobandis.

Is it any surprise that Muslim youth are being radicalised?

Yet successive British governments do nothing. Petrified by political correctness, they prefer to put their heads in the sand.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Laffer curve is not about unfunded tax cuts, whatever they are. It’s about finding the sweet spot re tax rates that maximises revenues, below which you lose revenue, above which you lose revenue.

[David Smith @GrumpyOldMan23]

@Glinner

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

This may be true, but I think it's very dangerous that the truth is strewn around us like broken glass, dependant on algorithms and who one decides to follow/block. We need a robustly credible media or we will become distrustful and credulous. We will have no shared reality.

[Dr Rakib Ehsan @rakibehsan]

Much of western Europe has yet to truly grasp the degree to which their societies have imported competing violent ideologies from the Middle East.

It has created multi-dimensional security threats and contributed towards an increasingly complicated terror-threat landscape.

[History And Such @HistoryAndSuch]

1/2: In general, Western Europe has made a big mistakes and misjudgments with immigration, multicultural and asylum approaches that have created ongoing problems.

It's naive to assume migrants or asylum seekers will cease sectarian or cultural conflicts in a new country.

[spiked @spikedonline]

In 2024, our asylum system became a dangerous joke. Incredibly, a convicted sex criminal managed to avoid deportation because his perverted behaviour might put him at risk in Afghanistan. This makes a mockery of ‘human rights’, says Rakib Ehsan
https://t.co/NBPQkyHdoG

[REDUXX @reduxx]

Half of the trans-identified males recently transferred to Minnesota's only women's prison are sex offenders.

These men can demand female staff for their pat-downs, and are entitled to shower in the same facility as the women.

Cruel and unusual punishment? (ft. @marycatedelvey)

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

If America sneezes out something fashionable, like trans rights or antisemitism, Ireland comes down with a bad case of cold.

[David Smith @GrumpyOldMan23]

@fifisyms

[Nick Buckley MBE @NickBuckleyMBE]

At the height of the British Empire we had 16,000 civil servants and ran the largest empire known to man.
Today, we have over half a million and nothing works - is there a connection? I think so.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

The British state has no idea how much different profiles of migrant cost or contribute.

It won't tell us the nationality or immigration status of benefits claimants.

Nor the nationality or immigration status of criminals.

My speech in Westminster Hall yesterday:

[Talk @TalkTV]

BREAKING: Dominique Pelicot has been found guilty of drugging and raping his ex-wife Gisèle and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her.