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Resist and rejoin for future generations. Too irritated by X. Liberal left 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿+🇬🇧+🇪🇺+🌍+🔶+🌱

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
🔴 Brexit Turning Point as MPs Line Up to Make the Case for Rejoining the EU Parliamentarians cite Russian interference and post-Brexit red tape, as Andy Burnham opens up a debate which Westminster has avoided for a decade bylinetimes.com/2026/10/13/b...
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Brexit Turning Point as MPs Line Up to Make the Case for Rejoining the EU
Parliamentarians cite Russian interference and post-Brexit red tape, as Andy Burnham opens up a debate which Westminster has avoided for a decade
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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.org.uk · 13/10/2026
Negotiate a new UK-EU Customs Union. Re-join the single market. Boost our economy. We need to tear down the Brexit barriers harming British businesses.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
But by all means let‘s keep trading insults while the world burns. For goodness sakes. Is Russia interfering in democracy and the Western alliance NOW? Yes. Is Brexit working NOW? No. Does closer cooperation make sense NOW? Yes. Just go from there.
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Helen Maguire MP 🔶 @helenmaguiremp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Lifting sanctions on Russian diesel only bankrolls Putin’s war and leaves Ukraine to pay the price - all for a temporary boost in the polls before the midterms. It’s a pathetic, transparent manoeuvre from Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a 'gift to Putin'
Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is the real Russia Report, suppressed five years ago by Boris Johnson “I asked the question coming to Downing Street: was there interference in the 2016 referendum from Russia? And I’ve had the clear answer that yes, there was.” @andyburnham.bsky.social
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I thought I had seen it all, but this is an astonishing new low, putting the US in the company of Iran, Afghanistan and N Korea. I abhor the death penalty. The idea that kids, including my own, might see such an execution shocks me to the core. Abhorrent, barbaric, sick, warped, cruel and twisted.
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Lib Dem Peers @libdempeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Did you know 8 of the top 10 recycling councils in England are Lib Dem led? Mid Suffolk, a Green majority council, ranks 162nd, and Brighton was among the worst in the country when they ran it. @ollygrender.bsky.social put the figures to the government in the Lords in April.
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Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On Monday I joined a Demos panel at Lib Dem conference on hostile states weaponising our information environment. The next day, the PM announced a National Centre for Information Defence, as the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee urged in March. My test: public-facing and answerable to Parliament.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Virtually always the reply is “I would prefer EU membership but think more would be happy with SM/CU” I think we’ve got into a bad habit of trying to second guess what other people would be happy with and then choosing that, rather than simply stating what we think is the best outcome.
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ReformUK claim that their two crypto donors don’t want anything in return for their massive donations. Funny then that the first (and only) legislative proposal the party has come up with is on deregulating the crypto sector…
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Lib Dem Peers @libdempeers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Parties that campaign on British sovereignty are taking large sums from donors abroad. William Wallace said the Representation of the People Bill will not close every loophole, but Lib Dems will push for changes to limit donations and campaign spending.
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Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I joined ITV West Country to discuss NHS dentistry in the Honiton and Sidmouth constituency.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Britain is just looking on as a handful of tax hating billionaires buy our political future.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Fairly obviously Delo is giving this big a donation now as a precaution against an amendment being successful. Normally a donor would drip feed cash over years to keep some control.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11/09/2026
A new study in southeast England reveals that "green-blue infrastructure"—like parks, lakes, and trees—creates significantly cooler microclimates in built-up urban areas. Bobby Bascomb reports. #Environment
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What green options are best for urban cooling?
Academics have been studying how cities should be designed to protect their inhabitants from extreme heat
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Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
£32 million for cooling and ventilation in NHS hospitals was announced today. In time, the school estate will need the same. Seven children at Littletown Primary in Honiton wrote to me after their school closed for two days in June and I shared their sentiments with the Health Secretary.
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Daisy @daisymplewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just seen the most extraordinary production of Private Peaceful in Exeter. Brilliant performance. Will be touring the country.Thoroughly recommend it. playsontour.co.uk/private-peac...
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Private Peaceful Tour Dates & Tickets
Private Peaceful returns to the stage in an acclaimed adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel, touring the UK in autumn 2026 in a powerful one person production directed by Simon Reade.
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Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On Thursday, MPs debated the intelligence assessment that treats global biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as a threat to our national security. It is a framing that researchers at the University of Exeter - a few miles from where I live - have cautioned against.
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Earl Russell LD @earlrussell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Who funds them?
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“A party accused of plotting how to get around the law is now promising to impose a “national emergency” so that judges and officials will not get in its way. That is a telling and ominous reveal about how Reform understands power” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on Reform’s funding scandal: Nigel Farage has questions to answer | Editorial
Editorial: An undercover investigation raises issues around foreign money, political transparency and the rightwing populist party’s fitness for power
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Now might be a good time to read up on how political polling is regulated in the UK... and by happy chance, I've just written two pieces on this. Learn to tell your BPC from your MRS here: theweekinpolls.substack.com/p/a-warning-... and here: theweekinpolls.substack.com/p/market-res...
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A warning from the US for UK political polling?
Three different US pollsters have been in the news in the last few days for all the wrong reasons.
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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If Reform ever get their way, there won’t be any Channel 4 Newses left to expose them. Just contemplate that as you browse the BBC website and find only a headline about another ludicrous Reform promise to slash the state.
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Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On Wednesday I intervened in a Westminster Hall debate on the funding of rural county councils. I asked the question reorganisation has never answered: how is a rural Devon council supposed to pay for the growth Ministers keep talking about, once the city has been cut away from it?
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Daisy Cooper MP 🔶 @libdemdaisy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🧵 The gloomy outlook for the country’s finances will continue until the Government changes course on its anti-growth agenda. They must focus on cutting energy bills and reducing the burden on small high street businesses to boost growth and get money back into treasury coffers.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here‘s the real story from @nafeez.bsky.social The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 18/08/2026
Reform’s plans would leave disabled people without the support they rely on.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 18/08/2026
Free local bus travel is a vital lifeline for many disabled people. After an almost two-year campaign the Government has finally listened to Liberal Democrat calls to stop restrictions to disabled bus passes. Disabilities don’t start at 9.30am. Neither should disabled bus passes.
BBC News headline announces 24-hour free bus travel for disabled people in England; a crowd of cheering Liberal Democrat supporters hold bus-shaped placards and party signs celebrating the policy.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So North Korea helps Russia, Russia helps Iran, Iran fights the USA, and the USA now hates South Korea and loves North Korea. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Russia is shipping explosives to Iran to bolster its missile and drone arsenal in U.S. war
The Russian shipments, which haven’t been previously reported, underscore the deepening strategic alliance between Moscow and Tehran.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There are 71 Lib Dem MPs in Westminster. There are 8 Reform MPs. When was the last time a Lib Dem press release led the BBC News headlines or was the main story on the BBC News website? (Rhetorical question)
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 15/08/2026
As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...
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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/08/2026
10/10 take from Morten Morland in The Times
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/08/2026
It’s vital the Parliamentary standards investigation into the £5m gift Farage accepted from a crypto billionaire now resumes at pace. No one must be beyond scrutiny, least of all those elected to serve the public. bestforbritain.org/farage-probe-mus…
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Farage’s re-election means £5m gift probe must now resume - Best for Britain
The parliamentary standards investigation into Nigel Farage's £5m gift from a crypto billionaire must now resume at pace
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Vikki Slade MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So Farage voters last time still support him. Everyone else either voted for Count Binface or stayed away He has proved nothing and the lack of grace by staying he would not degrade himself by standing with “nobodies” is pretty offensive www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Nigel Farage says he won’t attend count in Clacton byelection against Count Binface - UK politics live
The Reform UK leader will not be present at vote count in byelection he has tried to frame as the ‘people versus the establishment’
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 12/08/2026
Britain is woefully unprepared for extreme heat, and families across Britain are paying for the cost of inaction. the government must step in with a new plan to build homes fit for the future – insulated properly and equipped with air conditioning.
The Guardian headline arguing every new UK home should include air conditioning, attributed to the Liberal Democrats, over a blurred photo of a hand holding a remote pointed at a wall-mounted air conditioner.
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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I doubt many will mourn NHS England, but losing Healthwatch and independent investigations is a worry www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Risk of patient safety 'bonfire' with Health Bill changes, Lib Dems say
The party says the government's plans to modernise the NHS risk another major hospital scandal.
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Rachel Gilmour, MP for Tiverton and Minehead @rachelgilmourld.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
He stepped down because he knew we'd scrutinise his past. He was right. That's exactly what we would have done. He was a neo-Nazi! Let's be clear. The Conservative Party didn't remove him. He stepped down himself, showing better judgement than the Leader of the Opposition.
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Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate
It follows a backlash against the party's decision to pick Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a council candidate in Somerset.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 05/08/2026
Resetting our relationship with Europe is the fastest way to boost growth. It's time to cut red tape, back small businesses, and join the Single Market and Customs Union. @libdemdaisy.bsky.social
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Lib Dem Peers @libdempeers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Half of England and all of Wales in drought with crops failing and hosepipe bans in force. The Environment and Climate Change Committee warned in May. Its chair, Shas Sheehan, says parties must stop treating net zero as a political football. www.ft.com/content/643c...
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Letter: Stark warning from the environment committee chair
From Baroness Sheehan, House of Lords, London SW1, UK
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Among the other issues with this... it's extremely dismissive of the importance of services that councils deliver and which have huge effects on people's lives, such as their roles in education, child protection or social care.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 04/08/2026
From pensioners left bedbound to life savings being spent on dementia care, our system better resembles the 1920s than the 2020s. Andy Burnham must work with local government and the NHS to finally end the social care crisis.
an older woman in a wheelchair looks away while bold text states More than 275,000 denied social care in England.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Nigel Farage says Reform UK would use the Navy to stop people asking questions about their financial scandals.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 03/08/2026
This is a stark warning: the climate emergency is here, yet the Government moves at a snail’s pace. It's time for a national strategy: funding cool hubs for vulnerable groups, mandating cooling and ventilation in new homes, supporting drought-affected farmers and heat-proofing NHS facilities.
2026: The driest July since records began — bold headline over a close-up of parched, straw-like grass, with an orange "MET WARNING" band at the top and the Liberal Democrats logo at the bottom.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 30/07/2026
Reform is right about one thing: the system doesn’t work for millions. But they’re wrong to blame people – the real culprits are decades of short‑term fixes. Read Steff Aquarone on why it matters – and where the problem actually lies..
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Britain doesn’t have a people problem. It’s a systems problem
Britain has the talent, creativity and resilience to thrive. What we need are institutions and systems designed for the decades ahead
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Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Lloyds Bank agreed to retain the ability for people to pay in cheques at Post Offices and banking hubs until 2030. After I joined with 120 MPs on a cross-party basis they thought again. Honiton loses its last bank branch next March, this matters for older residents here who still rely on cheques.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It is extraordinary how it has become a sort of “settled wisdom” these days that Net Zero is an absurd aim, a sign of mad political correctness, and “has got to go”, when our planet is literally burning to death.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Last week I joined MPs from across the South West to expose the hidden deprivation behind our region's prosperous image. Too many families here are overlooked by national funding, while disadvantaged young people face some of England's worst education outcomes.
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MPs warn beautiful coastlines are hiding deep poverty across the South West
South West MPs have united in Parliament to demand greater recognition of the hidden deprivation affecting coastal communities, warning that…
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Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A productive morning in Newton Poppleford - the latest stop on my summer tour. It was wonderful to see faces familiar and new. We covered the Northmostown road closure; traffic through the village; local government reorganisation; South West Water; and SEND. Thank you for a warm and honest welcome.
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Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I am wholly opposed to a reorganisation of local government that produces 'Devon Coast and Countryside' as an outcome next year. Separating the more expensive-to-run rural and coastal areas from the urban economy of Exeter makes no sense. 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
What does local council shake-up mean for Devon?
The changes are the biggest made to local government in more than 50 years.
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