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Councillor Andrew Makinson

@andrewmakinson.bsky.social
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Liberal Democrat councillor for Allerton Ward, Liverpool City Council

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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
8 Months without lollipop wardens while Liverpool Labour freeze recruitment to save money. Children put at risk to pay for Labour's poor financial management. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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Children 'walk in the road' as wait for lollipop wardens goes on
Parents fear an “accident waiting to happen” on the school run without lollipop wardens
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Poignant that the last Hereditary Peers departed the House of Lords on the anniversary of the People’s Budget. 117 years to the day since Lloyd George set out to curtail the power of the aristocracy.
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Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonld.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Tonight Parliament failed disabled people. 🥀 Labour voted down my amendment to scrap unfair bus pass restrictions. 🌳 The Conservatives whipped their MPs to abstain. 🚌 This isn’t good enough. I won’t stop until disabled people get the fair, accessible transport they deserve.
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Labour’s minister for the homeless is a private landlord who pushes out her tenants so she can hike up the rent. You couldn’t make it up. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Homelessness minister hiked rent weeks after removing tenants - BBC News
Rushanara Ali faces criticism for increasing the rent on a house she owns by hundreds of pounds.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 04/06/2025
Trump spent 75 minutes on the phone with Putin. He praised him, talked about teaming up on Iran, but apparently never called on him to stop targeting innocent civilians. What a disgraceful way to treat our allies and the brave people of Ukraine.
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Manchester, Yorkshire & Birmingham getting new tram lines, Tyneside extending their Metro, and Liverpool City Region is getting… New buses! A huge missed opportunity by Labour to build a station at Bramley Moore and get a rail link to Liverpool Airport! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rachel Reeves to announce £15bn for transport projects
Money will be spent on tram, train and bus projects in England across the Midlands, North and West Country.
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Every time this happens, Liverpool City Council promises to learn the lessons, but they never do. We’ve now had multiple people over the past 5 years awarded compensation after being abandoned to sleep on our streets while the council looks the other way. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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Council told to pay £1,350 to homeless man
He complained to the ombudsman about how he had been treated
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I spoke to @liverpoolpost.bsky.social about my 2 year investigation into the unspent £Millions the council is sitting on from developers. Liverpool council has sat on money for up to 18 years, while communities are left with run down parks & playgrounds. www.livpost.co.uk/developers-g...
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Developers gave the council millions to improve Liverpool. Why haven't they spent it?
£17 million of compensation for local areas has accrued over the past two decades. Where is it?
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 24/02/2025
The US just voted alongside Russia, Belarus and North Korea against a UN resolution to support Ukraine. This is a wake-up call for all those cheerleading Trump in our country.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 25/02/2025
The PM is doing the right thing increasing defence spending - I have been callling on the govt to do this for years. Cutting international aid is cutting soft power and piling up problems for the future as Putin and Xi fill the gap left by Britain.
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Proud to stand alongside Ukraine this evening. Putin’s Poodle in America may have turned his back on Ukraine, but that means Britain and the rest of Europe must stand even firmer to support them.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 24/02/2025
For three years, the brave Ukrainian people have heroically defended their country against Putin’s war machine. Now, more than ever, we must stand firmly in support of our Ukrainian friends, resist Trump's stitch up with Putin and work with our European neighbours to defend freedom and democracy.
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Here are a few pictures I took today on a short walk through Kensington (the ward represented by the leader of the council). Doubling skip fees might look like an easy way for the council to make money, but it’s just a tax on people who do the right thing, instead of flytipping.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 11/02/2025
While Reform and the Conservatives are obsessed with fighting each other, we will continue to be the true opposition in this parliament. We will always work to provide a responsible and constructive challenge to the government and to put forward solutions to the big problems facing our country.
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This morning I joined up with a dozen volunteers from @PennyLnWombles for a litter pick. 23 bags were filled, making a huge difference to the area around Allerton Road & Mather Avenue. A big Thank You to all the volunteers who go out day after day helping make L18 a better place to live.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Ed Davey, "The Liberal Democrats are going to lead the debate in Britain to have a closer relationship with the EU" "It's great for our trade, our economy, our defence, our security" "And a customs union would be great for growth, far better than anything the Labour government has announced"
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I can’t help feeling that, if this was in Manchester, Andy Burnham would’ve made sure he was part of the negotiations. £450M of much needed investment in Liverpool and high quality jobs lost, because Labour politicians locally & nationally are asleep at the wheel.
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A year & a half after businesses were evicted by Liverpool City Council, residents are still waiting for new shops to open. This Labour council's inaction blights a community, costs jobs & lost 18 months of rent that could've funded council services. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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High street 'blighted by boarded up shops' that shut down suddenly
Shoppers feel they are being "kept in the dark" over the future of the high street
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Nadine Smith @nadinesmith.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 23/01/2025
Why is the government happy to cosy up to China, but won't even look at a better customs deal with our closest neighbours in Europe? Ministers say they’re looking everywhere for growth but are ignoring what is staring them in the face.
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Katie Westwood @katiewestwood.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Rape crisis centre RASA Merseyside says it will need to make ‘drastic’ changes to its support for victims of sexual violence due to real term cuts to its funding from central government. Read the story here: www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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Anger and devastation over government cuts to rape crisis centre
RASA Merseyside says it will need to make 'drastic changes' to its support for victims of sexual violence
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Very disappointed to hear that Colomendy will now close. For years I’ve demanded Liverpool City Council force Kingswood to carry out repairs to the facility. Looks like Liverpool council tax payers will now have to foot the bill. Another Labour failure. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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'Heartbreaking' scenes at holiday camp adored by Scousers
Liverpool Councillor submits report raising concerns about authority's management of Colomendy site
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 16/01/2025
Let’s not kid ourselves. Donald Trump is a threat to peace and prosperity around the world. The UK will not be able to depend on the US to be a reliable partner on security, defence or the economy. How do we deal with Donald Trump? We need to do it from a position of strength.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Given how many UK media and politico types are still on X, I think that Ed Davey has a point here.
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Labour are threatening ever deeper cuts and austerity, but there is a better alternative. The quickest way to boost the economy and protect services is to rejoin the single market. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK should seek new customs union with EU, Lib Dems to say
Leader Ed Davey to call for talks to begin immediately, urging ministers to be ‘far more positive, far more ambitious’
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Mikey Smith @mikeysmith.com · 11/01/2025
Kemi Badenoch shadow minister rejected calls for mandatory child abuse reporting in 2018 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Tory shadow minister rejected calls for mandatory child abuse reporting in 2018
Then-safeguarding minister Victoria Atkins - now a member of Kemi Badenoch's shadow cabinet - said the case for a mandatory reporting duty had "not been made."
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Schrödinger’s Mayor! Always there to take credit for Merseyrail and the new trains, while simultaneously not to blame when things go wrong.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 09/01/2025
It is completely unacceptable for a senior official in the incoming Trump administration to threaten to overthrow the result of our democratic elections. The place to resolve disagreements with our government is in our country, in our Parliament.
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Our Democracy Is Not for Sale
It is completely unacceptable for a senior official in the incoming Trump administration to threaten to overthrow the result of our democratic elections.The ...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 08/01/2025
We can't let British democracy turn into a plaything for overseas billionaires with short attention spans. At PMQs, I urged the Prime Minister to work with us to make sure power always sits with the voters, not wealthy foreign oligarchs.
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Currently waiting for this guy to come round to arrest me… unless the Grammar Police pick him up first!
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Rmember when Labour promised to fix the NHS? 1000’s of doctors struggling to find work while patients wait up to 91 hours in A&E. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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Royal Liverpool at 'full capacity' as some patients wait 91 hours
City centre hospital activates emergency measure as it struggles to cope with soaring number of people in A&E
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 06/01/2025
People have had enough of Elon Musk interfering with our country’s democracy when he clearly knows nothing about Britain. It’s time to summon the US ambassador to ask why an incoming US official is suggesting the UK government should be overthrown.
Screenshot of a post by Ed Davey on a pink-gold gradient background, with the Liberal Democrats logo at the bottom. Ed's post reads "People have had enough of Elon Musk interfering with our country’s democracy when he clearly knows nothing about Britain. It’s time to summon the US ambassador to ask why an incoming US official is suggesting the UK government should be overthrown. This dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric is further proof that the UK can’t rely on the Trump administration. It’s in our national interest to rebuild trade and security ties with our allies in Europe."
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
If Twitter was owned by an Islamic extremist intent on sowing unrest in the UK & subverting our democracy, we’d shut it down. It’s time to regulate the cesspit before we end up like America. His dispute with Brazil proves Musk quickly chickens out if a country has the guts to stand up to him.
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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Elderly Quaker is going to spend Christmas in prison for a non-violent crime because the justice system can’t find a small enough electronic tag. Have we gone back to the 19th century? www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 20/12/2024
"The government have made this awful decision to slash winter fuel payments. The least they can do is to make sure that everybody who would qualify for pension credit and qualify for winter fuel payments has the opportunity to do so." Sarah Olney
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This is a shameful betrayal of millions of women who have been denied a fair state pension. Labour breaking their promises is not that unusual, but brazenly choosing is to ignore the ombudsman ruling is unprecedented.
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Not saying there's any chance such a situation could ever arise here, but if it did....Ed Davey would be straight over that gate.
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Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
No one is talking about the costs we're all accepting by not reforming the social care system. Costs to: ➡️patients and their families ➡️the NHS ➡️local authorities ➡️the economy and the Treasury Contribute your views and experiences to our new inquiry: committees.parliament.uk/committee/81...
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Health and Social Care Committee launches inquiry into cost of inaction on adult social care reform - Committees - UK Parliament
The Health and Social Care Committee launches its inquiry on the costs of not reforming adult social care. 
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Absolutely shocking that Liverpool's Labour council is having to write-off massive debts because they didn't keep decent records to prove that the debt is owed. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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£1 million of school debt written off due to 'lack of records'
One of the debts, for £320,000, was written off as Liverpool City Council said “no significant records” existed
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Councillor Andrew Makinson @andrewmakinson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The levels of homelessness in Liverpool are heartbreaking to see. However this feels like crocodile tears from a Labour council who chose to gave £4 Million back to the Tories, instead of building a 100 bed homeless recovery shelter for our city.
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Glostermeteor 🔶 @glostermeteor.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
If all Labour stand for is austerity, then why did we bother changing govt? They will get turfed out in 2029 if they cut public services its that simple. inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Public spending cuts coming from 2026 as Reeves vows not to put up tax again
Chancellor said she would not provide any top-up funding to Whitehall departments between now and the next election, which independent estimates suggest will result in real-terms cuts
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