Mick Smith

@Heccles94 @esther_livesey @jeremycorbyn Lost two general elections

No man has done more for the British left that this man. Love and solidarity always @jeremycorbyn

@AmericanForce_ @LouisUksov He’s won the latest golf trophy awarded by the GOP or FIFA

@MrBlue1701 @mseebach @c_kennaugh @Steven_Swinford @patrickkmaguire @oliver_wright Green are extreme? What is Reform then?

@mseebach @c_kennaugh @Steven_Swinford @patrickkmaguire @oliver_wright Corbyn got more votes than Starmer. Apathy and vote splitting on the right could easily see an extreme Green Party close to power

Exclusive from @patrickkmaguire and @oliver_wright * Labour's internal MRP polling is said to be apocalyptic, in the capital and beyond. Labour is on course to lose *every one* of the 50 seats it holds in Sunderland, home to Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary. Most are predicted to go to Reform * London, where all councils are up for election, is expected to be especially challenging. There are fears that the Greens could make significant gains in Camden, where Starmer’s seat is located, as well as Hackney, Lewisham and Lambeth * Labour officials are so concerned by the threat now posed by the Greens in the central London councils they have long won by landslides that they have diverted almost all the party’s campaigning resources to contests in the heart of the capital * One minister said that a bad night in London would be “existential” for ­Labour, given how many of its members were based there. The party leaders are well aware that Labour MPs are holding 59 out of the capital’s 75 parliamentary seats * The minister added that the elections looked set to show that there were “no safe seats” for Labour, adding that they feared it was going to be a “bloodbath”. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

@MrBlue1701 @c_kennaugh @Steven_Swinford @patrickkmaguire @oliver_wright A good few Tories have gone so far right they’ll vote Reform which is full of failed Tories

@c_kennaugh @Steven_Swinford @patrickkmaguire @oliver_wright I don’t know. A good few Labour voters I know have gone so far left they make woke seem not so bad

@MrBlue1701 @Steven_Swinford @patrickkmaguire @oliver_wright Utter bollocks

@Steven_Swinford @patrickkmaguire @oliver_wright I can see Labour getting no seats at the next General Election as a lot of the country are moving hard left so will vote for The Greens.

@Steven_Swinford @blairibee @patrickkmaguire @oliver_wright Local elections. General election isn’t for another 3 years. Reform won’t do half as well as you hope

If America Leaves NATO, the Bill Lands in Washington “NATO wasn’t there for us. We send billions of dollars to them every year to protect them. We would have always been there for them. But based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be, do we? Why would we be there for them if they’re not there for us?” That argument sounds airtight. It also gets almost everything backwards. The Industrial Logic No One Wants to Say Out Loud. For decades, NATO membership has functioned as the world’s most effective arms sales platform. When a country joins the alliance, it buys American. F-35s, Patriot batteries, HIMARS, Javelins. It becomes structurally dependent on American spare parts, software updates, and maintenance contracts. It is the most sophisticated captive market in military history. Poland alone devotes 4.7 percent of its GDP to defense. These are not abstract trade figures. They are jobs in Fort Worth, Orlando, and East Hartford. They are the economic foundation of entire congressional districts. A US exit from NATO does not preserve this arrangement. It ends it. Canada and Portugal have already signaled reservations about F-35 commitments worth up to $19 billion, citing political unpredictability in Washington. When two countries walk away from an American platform, others begin running the same calculation. EU member states spent 343 billion euros on defense in 2024, a 19 percent rise from the year before. The political momentum behind “Buy European” is real and growing. The market will remain. NATO gives the United States something no defense budget line can purchase: forward positioning, intelligence integration, and political legitimacy across 30 countries. These are the operating system of American global influence.Without them, the United States becomes alone. The Indo-Pacific pivot is not wrong on its merits. But forward positioning in Europe is not a drain on Pacific readiness. It is the network that makes global power projection coherent. Cut one node and the whole system degrades. The Quiet Withdrawal Already Underway. A formal exit has not happened. But the functional retreat is well advanced. The Trump administration has told European allies the US will no longer serve as NATO’s primary conventional defense provider after 2027. Joint force commands are being transferred to European generals. Intelligence-sharing arrangements built over decades are being quietly renegotiated. Each move is individually defensible. Collectively, they produce the same outcome as a formal withdrawal, without the legal fight or the Senate vote. The irony is considerable. The administration that views NATO as a bad deal for America is dismantling the mechanism that made American arms exports dominant in global defense markets. The alliance was never just a security arrangement. It was the most durable commercial advantage in the history of the defense industry. So back to the question. Why would America be there for allies who aren’t there for America? Because “there for us” included $343 billion in European defense spending flowing toward American suppliers. It included 30 countries hosting American bases and intelligence networks. It included the political architecture that let Washington call itself the leader of the free world and have other governments agree. Not a subsidy to Europe. A return on investment that took 75 years to build. The bill for dismantling it will not arrive in Brussels. It will arrive in Fort Worth.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@razorblue @Capt_Fishpaste @TeresaC123 Ricky you’re so full of shite

@smith04_michael @Capt_Fishpaste @TeresaC123 Do you get out much .murders sexual assualts illegals pestering following women hanging around schools a 12 yr old girl latest to be raped foreign crime gangs rife. Tens thousands illegal male migrants they will all soon want women you do know this right .list is huge .

For me, #SAFC are a beacon for what cultural, racial, and religious diversity can achieve and inspire. A white devout Muslim partnering with a black devout Christian to produce the best midfield partnership we've seen at the club in generations ❤️🤍❤️ The very antithesis of what Farage preaches.

@_Hakobian @Capt_Fishpaste @TeresaC123 No I’ll be here challenging bigots like you

@smith04_michael @Capt_Fishpaste @TeresaC123 "a few thousand" fuck right off

@theboyGT00 @Capt_Fishpaste @TeresaC123 Bot

@smith04_michael @Capt_Fishpaste @TeresaC123 Jesus Christ 🤣🤣🤣

@KevinJames65110 @Capt_Fishpaste @TeresaC123 From Holland you coward

@smith04_michael @Capt_Fishpaste @TeresaC123 A few thousand? Cunts like you are the problem.

@RoystonCroppa @HoldMyNuke88 @Capt_Fishpaste @TeresaC123 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@HoldMyNuke88 @smith04_michael @Capt_Fishpaste @TeresaC123 Look at his timeline screams of divorced at 50 and the kids don’t invite him round at Christmas anymore

@CreativeDeduct @ChablozAlison @ZackPolanski Bollocks

@smith04_michael @ChablozAlison @ZackPolanski I have no expectation that you believe me or that you will try to confirm if you’re actually right or I am. “Bollocks” is your intellectual level, and that’s a good measure of why we’re in the mess we are.

This is why Daily Mail journalists are going after my family now. The right wing propaganda machine will not work on the Green Party. We're ready to end Rip Off Britain, end the cost of living crisis and make hope normal again.

@CreativeDeduct @ChablozAlison @ZackPolanski Bollocks

@smith04_michael @ChablozAlison @ZackPolanski Brexit is a small part of it. The big reasons are taxes and regulations strangling private investment.

@CreativeDeduct @ChablozAlison @ZackPolanski Thanks to Brexit. Brexit caused my the lies of the right.if it’s so shite here go home then?

@smith04_michael @ChablozAlison @ZackPolanski GDP per capita is falling. Production comes before consumption. You do the math…

@CreativeDeduct @RickyEaston2 @ZackPolanski Can you sort out my tax refund then?

@RickyEaston2 @ZackPolanski The right wing pays the bills, don't forget that. The left are a coalition of immigrants, welfare recipients and public sector workers.

@CreativeDeduct @ChablozAlison @ZackPolanski You get what you pay for. UK public services need more investment

@ChablozAlison @ZackPolanski VPN. Denmark’s taxes are way too high but at least pubic services are not crumbling and immigration is somewhat under control.

@ZackPolanski @Hopeiswithme There’s three years to a general election

@RpsAgainstTrump @JEustance Deluded liar

Trump: “When I didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. You gotta understand, I don't care. Norway has lost so credible. I stopped 8 wars… I do it the best. I stopped wars that nobody thought—President Putin called me, he said, 'I can't believe you stopped this one and this one.’”

@alford101628 @Capt_Fishpaste @TeresaC123 You’re in NZ ffs!! You’re an immigrant yourself you hypocrite

@smith04_michael @Capt_Fishpaste @TeresaC123 so you want illegal migrants and non required legal migrants come over, i’d love to know what you theory is apart from your racist you prat.