Iain SM

Grumpy grandad. Getting grumpier day by day. if you don’t understand sarcasm, give me a block.

[Iain SM @SmIain]

If you couldn’t persuade us to vote for you before the election, berating us for not voting for you post election is unlikely to persuade us to vote for you in the future.
Just saying.

[Iain SM @SmIain]

Incoming Lab/Con coalition at next GE.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Tories Instruct Personnel Not to Attack Andy Burnham https://t.co/VnU3dOGfZT

[Iain SM @SmIain]

You pay to be part of the ill-informed commentary Alastair. Bravo!

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

USA is sick. Well its government is. Ditto this platform. The constant ill-informed commentary on other countries about which they know little and care less has to be called out. Not sure that if the World Cup was in Europe right now that there would be the kind of boycott that is hitting the usa travel industry

[Iain SM @SmIain]

Damian Low is extremely tolerant of people whose political views differ from his own.

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Good to see Starmer pushing back on Musk.

Musk is whipping up hatred for his own ends. Just like Farage, Adam Brooks, Yaxley Lennon, Jenrick and co who have all gone against the family's wishes.

Starmer is correct when he says "In Britain, we are reasonable, tolerant people."

[Iain SM @SmIain]

The Emperor’s new clothes.

[John O'Connell @jdpoc]

Starmer quietly ripped Farage a new one.

When virtually every MP in the Commons, barring the tiny handful of Reform MPs, cheers approval at the words of the Prime Minister, Farage has to know he has crossed the line this time, and there is no way back.

[Iain SM @SmIain]

I’ve never seen his face, that’s his arse he’s speaking from.

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

This man repulses me on a level I cannot describe. From his face, to his voice, his smugness, and his arrogance, and the stupid fucking sticky out ear. I feel genuinely nauseated by him.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.

Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.

She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.

[Princess Pinocchio 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @PinocchPrincess]

I found this moving account of someone at the Southampton vigil for Henry Nowak on Facebook:

Last night a few people mentioned the 'Southampton Riots' and were surprised I was there. So let me clarify.

I went to Southampton to show my respect for Henry, that his death wasn't in vain, and that knife crime and two tier policing needs to stop.
I am not a 'grief tourist', a 'far right fascist' or a 'rioter'.

What the media didn't show you, was that the initial 2000 people showed absolute respect. A minutes silence, the Lords prayer, a song.

The only incitement was the police who tried to push us down the stairs twice to bait a reaction.
Then we marched. People parked their cars and joined us. People came out of flats, houses and shops and joined us. Drivers bibbed their horns showing solidarity. Sikhs shook our hands apologising. (we know it's not their fault) When we passed the Gurdwawa there was silence and no chants. The march grew to about 5,000 people. We ALL CARE. This won't be shown on social media as it doesn't fit the narrative.

The police tried to kettle us. Fire engines and ambulances sent up and down the road for no other reason than to remove us.

At Belmont Road (where Henry died) we stayed 100m away from the location. The police were protecting the Digwa house. Where the father, charged with various knife offences (not charged with perverting justice or kidnap) and the brother charged with similar knife offences (but not perverting justice, kidnap and assualt) were happily watching TV. 1000 of us all got on one knee. We asked the police to join us. At this point there was no riot gear. They refused. They were asked please join us. They refused.

I don't for one minute condone the riots or violence. I was stood on top of a high wall with two polish fellas. Out of the way. We could see from our vantage point the police donning riot gear behind the row of vehicles.

At that point I and a friend from the IOW left and walked back. Then the riots, which we never saw, must have occurred.

Please don't be blindsighted by the biased media. Please watch GB News.

This isn't black v white. Many different ethnicities joined us and as mentioned Sikhs shook our hands. I never saw any race hate whatsoever.

This isn't left v right.

It's about the unlawful killing of a white man because he was white, because of knife crime and because the police are so scared to be called racist they prioritised lies and false claims of racism instead of an obvious desperate and dying young man.

If you can't see that yet, then I really hope that that day will soon come.

Thank you to the messages of support too.

I will never ever change. I will always stand up for what I believe in. My integrity has been expensive, yet worth every penny.

For those that missed this before, here is the silence observed perfectly by the 2000 at Southampton Police Station..

Thank you.

[Iain SM @SmIain]

We will prove there is no two-tier policing by policing this differently!

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

“We will make sure anyone engaging in disorder meets the full force of the law, as we’ve done before.”

What about when BLM rioters were smashing shops and setting fires?

What about when Pakistani-Muslim gangs were raping little girls?

Where was your outrage then?
Utter cretin.

[Iain SM @SmIain]

And when is your party going to do the right thing? Burying your heads in the sand and hoping the problem will go away is what has got us into this mess. More of the same is not going to cure it.

[Luke Charters MP @lukejcr]

My direct message to @Nigel_Farage on @GBNEWS just now:

Restrain your language and use your platform as Leader of Reform UK to call for calm. It is time to lower the temperature and your voice carries weight.

As one father to another, there is still time to do the right thing.

[Paul Weston @PWestoff]

Watching the Brutal behaviour of @HantsPolice over the last few days reminds me of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's famous quote on much the same subject re the Soviet Terror:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

Evading the issues raised by the Novak killing by hiding behind the family is wrong on many levels. The one Starmer would understand, as a lawyer, is that the case against Henry Novak's killer was brought by the Crown, on behalf of everyone. This isn't a private prosecution. Nobody wants to cause the Novak family additional anguish, but this case was brought to trial for the public good. The issues it raises remain in the public domain and are entirely legitimate subjects for political debate.

[Iain SM @SmIain]

Are you deliberately disingenuous or are you just thick?

[Mary Creagh MP @MaryCreagh_]

Farage raises the tragic murder of Henry Novak at PMQs to get social media clips and further inflame tensions when Henry’s family have explicitly asked for calm.

He is an utter disgrace.

[Iain SM @SmIain]

Tell me you don’t understand “cold rage”.

[Connor Naismith MP @connor_naismith]

The Prime Minister was absolutely correct in his response to Nigel Farage at #PMQs and I suspect Farage knows it.

His response to the events surrounding the tragic death of Henry Nowak - to call for "cold rage" - show exactly who he is.

[Iain SM @SmIain]

Brings people together? Like Henry Nowak and Vickrum Digwa?

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Nigel Farage is trying to exploit Henry Nowak’s murder to divide people – exactly what Henry’s father asked us not to do.

We need a different kind of politics that brings people together to stop knife crime.

[Iain SM @SmIain]

OBN

[Andrew Western MP @AndrewHWestern]

I thought the Prime Minister was outstanding at PMQs in response to Nigel Farage’s question about the tragic murder of Henry Novak.

Calm, dignified and decent leadership at an important moment.

Thank you @Keir_Starmer

[Iain SM @SmIain]

Always “lessons must be learned”, but the truth must not.

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

The Prime Minister says “lessons must be learned” over the death of Henry Nowak.

He then goes on to say “there is no two-tier policing” despite being read a line by Nigel Farage, from the Police racism guidelines, which instructs officers to police unequally.

They don’t want to change anything. Let’s be clear.

When George Floyd died, they demanded change to policing in Britain. They got it. The change they got was to make the laws that saw Henry die without a shred of dignity.

You cannot hate this government enough.

[Iain SM @SmIain]

If you can’t beat them in the ballot, then just perhaps, your message is the wrong one.

[Andrew Western MP @AndrewHWestern]

Good. They shouldn’t be on any programme spreading their filth.

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

Do you know what the biggest thing the British are pissed off about?

People like you in the media and people in Westminster telling us all how were entitled to feel and react when something shit happens.

You sanctimonious arseholes have all dictated to the British people, for too long, about their reaction, their entitlement to hate and be angry.

In a domestic abuse setting, in law, this is called "reactive abuse" whereby after a prolonged period of mental and/or physical abuse, the victim finally reacts, and they are the person perceived as the irrational or abusive person.

This is what is happening now, collectively, to the British people. And you are part of it.

@grok explain the concept of "reactive abuse"

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Keir Starmer: “there is no such thing as two-tier policing”.

Police chiefs today: “we will review controversial guidance advising officers to treat ethnic minorities differently”.

The absurdity of modern Britain.

[Iain SM @SmIain]

This is precisely what idiots like Jack have caused. Their attempts to shut down conversation has inflamed the situation.

Jack and his ilk are a disgrace.

[Jack Dart @JackWDart]

This is precisely what Farage and his cronies have caused. Their language has inflamed the situation.

Reform is a disgrace.