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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 13h
WITHOUT a Wealth Tax someone with £11M could buy a decent family hatchback... But they probably already have a Ferrari (or 2). WITH a Wealth Tax, we could have free childcare for all AND build 90K new social homes. Oh, & someone with £10,980,000 could STILL buy a new hatchback.
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Vikki Slade MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social · 23h
At the end of conference recess I took the opportunity for a long walk at my happy place. Three weeks full of conference, community visits, school trips and casework Now back in London with a busy week ahead
Todd examining a tree at the edge of the heath with the harbour in the background Looking past the early Holly to the gorse and heathland beyondTodd enjoying the steps through the heather and gorse The pine tree standing tall in the heathlands through the silver birch on a path across the heathland
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 10h
For too long, successive governments have turned a blind eye to the huge damage caused by the Johnson-Farage Brexit deal. I really hope this marks a real turning point. x.com/BBCPolitics/...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/10/2026
Ofcom rules are clear: broadcasters cannot use politicians as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in any news programmes. So why is Farage allowed to have his own show on GB News? Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action.
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Britain is facing a crisis of trust and power. That's why today we're launching Better! - an alliance to remove the grip on power, wealth and information by the few - and return it to the many - for a better future for all. 🧵1/4
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davidor74.bsky.social @davidor74.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We need better conversations on AI and the environment www.libdemvoice.org/we-need-bett...
libdemvoice.org
We need better conversations on AI and the environment
AI is not one thing. Neither is its environmental impact. We need to keep our eyes, our debates, and our policymaking focused on the problems we’re trying to solve. On the outcomes we’re trying to ach...
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davidor74.bsky.social @davidor74.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Welcome to the Brexit argument, Prime Minister! www.libdemvoice.org/welcome-to-t...
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Welcome to the Brexit argument, Prime Minister!
This week Andy Burnham told the Labour conference in Liverpool that Brexit has done ‘more harm than good’. In a broadcast interview the next day he said that an in-out referendum on membership of the ...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/10/2026
🚨Our new research reveals the UK could rejoin the EU within a single Parliament. Reports that accession would take a decade are wide of the mark. Read more in the @financialtimes.com 👇 www.ft.com/content/3aa9...
ft.com
UK could be fast-tracked back into EU, pro-Brussels group argues
Best for Britain says alignment between London and bloc would speed up any rejoining process as Andy Burnham prepares ‘options’
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 08/10/2026
The polls have now closed in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election! A huge thank you to everyone who knocked on doors, delivered leaflets and supported Patrick Stillman throughout the campaign 🧡
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/10/2026
We don't often agree with Kemi Badenoch, but she's spot on here 🚨
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Britain can’t rebuild on vibes. It needs investment. That means getting serious about the Tax gap. Because right now £59Billion— enough to pay for free school meals AND affordable childcare AND build 1.45M social homes— is being lost to non-payment. 👉 bit.ly/4z9JQrK
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Tax gap 2026 - Tax Justice UK
Britain's tax gap is growing which will provide a headache for the Prime Minister in-waiting, Andy Burnham, and his plans for devolution.
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Lang Rabbie @langrabbie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One for Transpontine fans of the former detached hamlet of the ancient parish of Battersea.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Camilla's gushing tribute to Jeffrey Archer is very ill judged. Archer had more than flaws, he destroyed a vulnerable woman's life without hesitation.
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@AlanWalter @alanwalter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m an RNLI volunteer crew member and I invite her to get on a plane from her hideout in Dubai and say that to my face here in the UK
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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm pleased to see that Private Eye's cover and lead story is on Manchester City. The only place they normally cover football is in Pseuds Corner.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 07/10/2026
Three years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific terror attack in Israel. We remember all those killed and taken hostage, and the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed in Gaza since.
Two candles burning against a dark background, with one in sharp focus in the foreground and the other softly blurred behind it.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 07/10/2026
Badenoch has spent half her conference making unfunded promises, and half lecturing the country on fiscal responsibility. We’re all still paying the price for Conservative financial mismanagement. Liberal Democrats will act as the firewall stopping her handing No 10 to Farage.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Reform’s farting racist councillor is another embarrassment for Nigel Farage www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
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Reform’s farting racist councillor is another embarrassment for Nigel Farage
The party let Andy Mahon off after one scandal - only to see him blamed for breaking wind at an opponent
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VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com · 06/10/2026
Cauliflowers are heavy feeders & demand rich, fertile, well-drained soil with plenty of compost or aged manure mixed in. Grow guide here : vegplotter.com/grow-guides/...
Mature pale cauliflower curd nestled in broad green leaves, growing in a garden bed.
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The new PM has some interesting suggestions, many of them similar to those of his predecessor. But take-off, sadly, has been severely delayed ✏️ @tombaldwin66.bsky.social
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Burnham has some great ideas – a shame we won’t get them for years to come
The new PM has some interesting suggestions, many of them similar to those of his predecessor. But take-off, sadly, has been severely delayed
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
A newly elected Reform UK councillor has been arrested on suspicion of making false statements in nomination papers. Reform UK is haemorrhaging the people it recruits. We keep track of all of them: bestforbritain.org/reform-uk-defect…
independent.co.uk
Reform councillor arrested over election paperwork
Elected representative for Nigel Farage’s party arrested on suspicion of making false statements in nomination papers
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 05/10/2026
“Privatisation of Water was a success.” Read the room, Kemi.
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
📺 Make Votes Matter in the news 📺 Our CEO @emmacampaigner.bsky.social appeared today on the BBC's Sunday Morning Live, alongside Sir John Curtice and Lord Robert Hayward. We deserve better than this broken voting system that leaves millions of people ignored. It's time for PR 💪
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's been 2 weeks since we delivered a message in a bottle from ̶1̶5̶0̶,̶0̶0̶0̶ ̶ 180,000 of you to No 10 North... now just 3 weeks left to see if he listened. 💰Hoarded wealth is holding us all back.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Calls grow for investigation into Reform UK’s ‘extensive’ links with UAE" 'FairSquare wants the relationship examined by the government’s Defending Democracy Taskforce. It has also called for the UAE to be placed alongside Russia and Iran ...' thedailybritain.co.uk/reform-uk-ua...
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LGA Liberal Democrat Group @libdemlocalgov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Liberal Democrat Councillor installs own hedgehog sign after Labour council refuses to act! York City Councillor Christian Vassie paid for and installed the sign, following a campaign sparked by concerns over hedgehog deaths on the village's roads www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026
A must-read ⬇️ Naomi Smith, CEO of Best for Britain: “It’s on us, now, to seize the moment to make that possibility a reality. "To turn an abstract promise of a better future someday, into an actual fact of a measurably improved today.”
bestforbritain.substack.com
Our country has a choice to make. We need to give it everything we’ve got
“The ten-year silence is broken. The genie is firmly out of the bottle. And crucially, the majority supporting EU member
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davidor74.bsky.social @davidor74.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’ve just asked my MP to join those calling for a proper tax on private jets. Will you do the same? This could raise £billions every year for things that really matter. Let’s make it happen! action.wearepossible.org/page/196342/...
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Ask your MP to join those calling for a proper tax on private jets
The money raised from simply taxing private jets in line with commercial flights could wipe out energy bill debt overnight and bring energy bills down for every household across the UK.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📣 The first screening of the People's Emergency Briefing in a national parliament! The film was shown at Holyrood last night. Grateful to First Minister John Swinney for committing to helping ensure it is “shared and understood very widely within Scotland”. #TimeToStepUp #NationalEmergencyBriefing
The First Minister John Swinney with Gillian Martin msp cabinet secretary for climate and rural affairs, and Prof Mike Berners-LeeThe First Minister giving an address next to a large screen about to show the Peoples Emergency Briefing A packed room of MSPs and staff watching the film
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Proportional Commons @propvoting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Similarly around the world 👇
List of countries with PR
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APPG for Fair Elections @appgfairelections.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We welcome Andy Burnham's announcement of a National Commission on Electoral Reform. Last year we published a proposed Terms of Reference 👇 Our voting system needs an upgrade. It's time for a national conversation about what comes next.
fairelections.org.uk
National Commission on Electoral Reform: Terms of Reference
APPG for Fair Elections
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah right… Says man with net favourability rating of minus 45, a shitload of investigations into possible corruption, a team of utter inadequates and with every constituency bar 4 favouring rejoining because we all know how crap Brexit is now. Bore off. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham’s reopening of Brexit debate is ‘biggest boost in my career’, says Farage
Reform UK leader tells supporters PM’s move has ‘opened up a huge flank to us’
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR]. It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to” Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
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In short, if Britain were to leave the ECHR, it would not be
'taking back control. It would be surrendering influence over the rules and institutions that help keep us safe.
The debate about the ECHR is too often conducted as though it were a choice between national sovereignty and international law. That is a false choice.
The Convention advances British interests because it reflects British values: liberty under law, democratic government and the accountability of power.
Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.
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davidor74.bsky.social @davidor74.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.leweslibdems.org.uk/campaigns/do...
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Don't scrap our environment - Lewes Liberal Democrats
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today's announcement marks the beginning of the end of First Past the Post. To everyone who has contributed to our movement over the years: we can't thank you enough. Now let's push PR over the finish line 💪💯 A message from our CEO @emmacampaigner.bsky.social:
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LiberalHistoryToday @libhistorytoday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
2/2 ... political establishment, and stating that the role of Liberal activists was to organise people in communities to take and use power and to help redress grievances. Carried by a substantial majority, this was the formal adoption by the party of community politics.
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LiberalHistoryToday @libhistorytoday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#OTD 1970 1/2 - The Liberal Party assembly at Eastbourne passes by 348 votes to 236 a Young Liberal amendment, moved by Tony Greaves, to a motion on party strategy and tactics calling for a dual approach to politics, acting both inside and outside the institutions of the...cont'd
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LiberalHistoryToday @libhistorytoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2/2 - Sir John Simon, who remained in the government. Liberal MPs continued to sit on the government benches, occupying an increasingly anomalous position until, following increasing pressure from the party, Samuel and his Liberal MPs crossed to the opposition benches in November 1933.
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LiberalHistoryToday @libhistorytoday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#OTD 1932 1/2 - Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir Archibald Sinclair resign from the National Government in protest at the protectionist schemes proposed at the Ottawa Conference. The resignations, along with eight junior ministers, completed the split with the Liberal Nationals under...
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LiberalHistoryToday @libhistorytoday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#OTD 1956 Liberal leader Clement Davies steps down, stating: 'It is time that the tiller was placed in the hands of a younger man. Fortunately, I can step down knowing that there is a worthy successor waiting - one who has fully earned his master's certificate.' Jo Grimond takes over in November.
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💥BREAKING: Andy Burnham announces a National Commission on Electoral Reform. This is a historic moment. The era of First Past the Post is coming to an end. It's time to transform politics and make all votes count. It's time for Proportional Representation.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If we passed a similar law, how many in Washington would be out of a job? ================
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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sedgeford, Norfolk A thread 🧵 - Cottage with interesting stone, brick & tile walls. • End gable with random flint nodules, carstone & brick wall. • Wall with row of terracotta tiles of 4 designs. • Detail of carstone, flint, brick & terracotta tiles. Tiny carstone galleting. #TilesOnTuesday
Cottage. End gable of random flint nodules, carstone & brick. Blocked windows & new brick window frame with drip mould.
Side wall of stone & brick with terracotta tiles frieze.Upper part of wall of rows of brick & a terracotta tile freize. Lower course of wall with carstone, flint nodules & brick. Infilled with tiny carstone galleting.Upper part of wall of rows of brick & a terracotta tile freize. Lower course of wall with carstone, flint nodules & brick. Infilled with tiny carstone galleting.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 26/09/2026
🇺🇸 Donald Trump is unreliable and untrustworthy. We must move closer to our European allies and build up our defence.
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davidor74.bsky.social @davidor74.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've just signed "Don’t scrap young people’s voice" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/do... @OpenBritainHQ
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 25/09/2026
They will try to break our country, we will stop them.
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David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/704...
nytimes.com
Manchester City found guilty on almost all Premier League charges relating to financial breaches
City were charged by the Premier League in February 2023.
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