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Charlie Murphy 🔶

@charliemurphy.bsky.social
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🔶 Liberal Democrat candidate to be the next MP for Portsmouth South 🔶 Worked in EU Parliament in 🇧🇪, now work in planning. Assistant to a very spoilt cat. Talks about housing, poverty and sustainability. Born at 366ppm. He/him

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 21/04/2026
Only the Liberal Democrats will stand up to Nigel Farage, Reform and their destructive brand of populism.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Moldovan democracy stands strong. We can all hope that other European democracies can show the same resolve and resist Putin apologists and Kremlin stooges. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Moldova's pro-EU party wins vote mired in claims of Russian interference
The election was seen as critical for Moldova's EU path, and President Maia Sandu warned the country's future was in danger.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Great to join Surfers Against Sewage in Bournemouth this weekend. Our beaches are for everyone to enjoy, and our coastal environment is fragile. To keep people and wildlife safe, water companies must stop sewage dumping and clean up their mess.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Sickened to see the march in Central London today. I feel concerned for friends and loved ones in the city, and the stories I've heard from them today are awful. I take comfort in the fact it was much smaller than the far right had hoped for, England is not with them. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Complete lie with a video from 2015. What a charlatan. He will fan the flames of thuggery and disorder with lies, only to then sit back and say "I told you so" when something horrid happens. Patriotism is alien to him.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Labour's position is that the UK will recognise Palestine, but only as a punishment for Israel. This is so strange. Why does Palestine only deserve state recognition if Palestinians are so cruelly mistreated?
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
A brilliant showing by team GBR at home in Portsmouth. They absolutely dominated the first day of racing, secured their place in the final, and went on to push the Kiwis hard for the trophy. Proud of my city and my team today. Well done Portsmouth and team GBR.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Bang on. The housing market is not immune to supply and demand mechanics. If we want to lower the cost of housing - both to rent and to buy - we must deliver lots more homes. It's time for a grown up conversation about how we do that without compromising on quality and the environment.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Anyone who has worked in the private sector knows delays mean £££. The fact that this critical infrastructure project is taking so long is precisely why it is costing us. What about the British system is snarling this project up at every single stage? www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
HS2 line to be delayed again with no new date given
The Transport Secretary is expected to say there's "no reasonable way to deliver" the line on time.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A masked mob extrajudicially detains an opposition politician with the blessing of the government, simply for asking to see a warrant for a constituent's arrest. The United States is no leader of our free world. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested by ICE
The city's chief finance officer Brad Lander was detained as he guided a defendant out of immigration court on Tuesday. He was later released.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The single strongest argument against the death penalty is that only 4% of us have 'a lot' of confidence in the judicial system. Even among those people, who could believe the system is not capable of making a terrible mistake? Why should the state have the power to kill when it too is fallible?
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
So proud to share our city with UK Pride this weekend, and to march with so many friends, colleagues and allies. Pride and community are so important in the face of an increasingly challenging political environment. LGBT+ people are welcome here and free to be who we are.
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Portsmouth Liberal Democrats @portsmouthld.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
81 years ago today, the heroes of D-Day showed extraordinary bravery and sacrifice. We're proud of the role our city played in D-Day and the hospitality residents of Portsmouth showed to those going to fight.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This week is the first of Pride 2025. This year is no celebration. The rights of LGBT+ people are under sustained attack, most worringly from a Labour government. LGBT+ people in our community do not feel safe in their ordinary lives. They feel things are getting more dangerous.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Terrible to read about the incident in Liverpool yesterday. I feel there is nothing I can add which others have not already said. My thoughts are with those injured and their loved ones.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 23/05/2025
Liberal Democrats are standing up to the divisive, destructive brand of politics that is threatening to sweep our country.
Graphic showing a Ed Davey taking a selfie with a voung voter, underneath is the caption Source: YouGov - Lib dems are 18-24 year olds
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Joseph Elliott @jelliott94.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Todays rental price statistics show the rate at which rents in the private rented sector have been increasing in recent years is out of control. Since Jan2020 rents have shot up by £300 a month, up 31%, over 2.5x the rate of growth in the preceding 5 years (12% growth)
Rental growth by UK nation since 2015. Title reads: Private rents have increased by 31% (up £300/ month) since 2020, compared to a 12% increase (up £100/ month) in the preceding five years
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Bedtime after an exciting reveal of Eurovision results. Felt like a photo finish. Congratulations JJ of Austria 🥳🇦🇹
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Stand by your trans friends and loved ones. Just as day follows night, good follows the bad eventually.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The PM's 'island of strangers' speech is at best clumsy, at worst careless, divisive and echoing a dark past. Some of our vital services such as social care depend on talented, caring individuals from around the world to help. I'm proud to have called them colleagues.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger Win the fight
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Feels like this + kicking social care reform into the long grass is a perfect storm for social care sector. In turn, that could lead to catastrophe in the NHS.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This is deeply disturbing. Not only are 250,000 more people being pushed into poverty by Labour's welfare changes, but 700,000 people who are already in poverty are on the sharp end. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
theguardian.com
Disability benefit cuts to hit 700,000 families already in poverty, DWP forecasts show
Exclusive: Internal government forecasts obtained by the Guardian reveal ‘truly shocking’ effects of planned cuts
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Diane Langford @queer-red.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #TransLiberation #NicolaSturgeon #StopTrump&Starmer
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Transgender people’s lives at risk of being made ‘unliveable’, says Nicola Sturgeon
Former Scottish first minister expresses concern about interim advice from EHRC
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Great May Fayre in Fratton over the bank holiday. Really pleased to be running our 'Hands off Portsmouth' campaign from the @portsmouthld.bsky.social stall. People in Portsmouth don't want to be forced into public service cuts and higher taxes by the government.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I'm sure we can all trust the Labour government to respond sensibly to these bruising results. They won't go further right and further abandon their promise of change, right? Right?
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Anyone who says you won't be free until they remove your human rights is lying to you.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
18 year old George on #C4News, "Hearing the discussions today I don't think the UK is strong enough by itself to talk tough against President Trump" "Personally I think we'd be much stronger with a Customs Union, a Single Market, even the entire EU"
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Portsmouth Liberal Democrats @portsmouthld.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
"The Liberal Democrats were the most progressive party. They still are today." - @bobbywdean.bsky.social Thank you to Bobby for coming to Portsmouth and joining us at our Spring Dinner, inspiring us with his 2024 victory in Carshalton and Wallington - and making sure we're ready for 2026
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Listen when someone tells you what they are.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22/04/2025
Minorities were frightened under the Tories. They're now terrified under Labour.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
It is only a matter of time before this costs a trans person their life. I will not be silent while my friends and their peers are treated like this. Shame on this government. Throwing trans people under the bus will not save them from the voters.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech: “How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A long bank holiday weekend wouldn't be complete without another look at our fabulous sea defences along Southsea seafront. Got a nosey peek at the next bit too!
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/04/2025
wrote about my trans friends www.theneweuropean.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Free speech news (Imagine still believing Vance's bullshit about free speech)
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Trans women are women, trans men are men, and non-binary and intersex folks are valid just as they are. It's time this was reflected in the law of the land, and LGBT+ Lib Dems will be at the forefront of pushing for that change. Lots of love to our trans+ siblings and their loved ones today. 💛🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Today's news will be difficult for trans people in the UK. While we await the effects of the Supreme Court's ruling, lots of people will feel anxious and afraid. The UK must remain a safe place to be trans, and for trans people to get the healthcare they need. 🏳️‍⚧️
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The power of the state in the hands of the reckless and cruel is terrifying. Never let anyone tell you that politics doesn't matter.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I've noticed a significant jump in train companies refusing delay repay refunds on spurious grounds. Shame on South Western Railway for refusing a refund they are legally obligated to give, only to accept it on appeal. Chancers. Lots of people would trust them and lose out.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I'm deeply concerned by reports that changes at the Spring Statement will push 50,000 children into poverty. It also comes with higher taxes for GPs, care homes and hospices too. This is a huge disappointment to so many people who believed Labour's promise of change last July.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Musk: I mean, have you Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price.. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Tried climbing for the first time today in Fareham. Great fun, but I have to say my arms are exhausted! Not sure the footwear suits me...
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Blind people set to lose thousands in benefits still cannot read details of Labour’s welfare reform plans
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Blind people still cannot read details of Labour’s welfare reform plans
Lib Dem MP Steve Darling, who is registered blind, said the delay was ‘nothing short of a disgrace’
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Darren Jones, "What is it that we need from our government?" #BBCQT We need a government that, when it sees an impact assessment of a policy that puts 50,000 more children into poverty, says, no, that's a bad policy, we aren't doing it. That's what we need
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Daisy Cooper, "Everyone is saying we've got to get a deal with Trump" "America has a trade deal with Canada and Mexico" - which Donald Trump negotiated, signed and gloated about "That didn't protect neither of them getting tariffs from the US" "So we have got to look at Europe at the same time"
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Oh I know this one. It's Paddington. Or Newbury I suppose. 🚂
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Today has been depressing. Every time I raised the issue of child poverty at the General Election, Portsmouth's Labour MP insisted it would be a priority for the government. 50,000 children will be plunged into poverty by Labour's spring statement. Priority it is not.
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Charlie Murphy 🔶 @charliemurphy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This is a political choice. There are alternatives, such as reversing tax cuts on banks or making the social media barons pay their fair share.
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