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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I was at the first party meeting he turned up at, but then I’m the sort of anorak who could name most of our MPs.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Well put - the second point being even more important.

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George Potter 🔶 @georgepotter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For those looking for the Lib Dem leadership election rules, see below. Key bit is "a vote of no confidence in the Leader being passed by a majority of all Members of the Parliamentary Party in the House of Commons"

ARTICLE 18: The Leader
18.1 The Leader of the Party shall be elected by the members of the Party in
accordance with election regulations made pursuant to Article 9.9.
18.2 An election for the Leader shall be called upon:
a. the Leader asking for an election;
b. the death or incapacity of the Leader;
c. the Leader ceasing to be a Member of the House of Commons (other
than a temporary cessation by reason of a dissolution);
d. the receipt by the President of the resignation of the Leader or of a
declaration of intent to resign upon the election of a new Leader;
e. a vote of no confidence in the Leader being passed by a majority of all
Members of the Parliamentary Party in the House of Commons;
f. the receipt by the President of a requisition submitted by at least 75
Local Parties (including for this purpose, the Affiliated Organisation or
Organisations representing youth and/or students) following the
decision of a quorate general meeting; or
g. the first anniversary of the preceding general election being reached
without an election being called under any of paragraphs (a) through (f),
provided that:
i. the Federal Board may postpone such an election for no more
than one year by a two-thirds majority of those present and
voting; and
ii. this paragraph (g) shall not apply if the Leader is a member of the
Government.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What’s that sound? The screech of a handbrake turn.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well, yeah. But the right seem to have engaged in the last week or so.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A couple of lazy hacks have listed this as a supportive statement. They clearly haven’t read it very well.

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Radical Association @radicalassociation.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This challenge to Ed Davey's leadership is timely and necessary. Lib Dem support is flatlining, and Davey's only response has been increasingly desperate attempts to appeal to Tory voters, most recently with unfunded tax cuts, which is both amoral and looks ridiculous.

bbc.co.uk

Lib Dem MP quits frontbench job over Ed Davey's leadership

Deputy party leader Daisy Cooper says "the vast majority of our MPs support Ed... and are furious at this distraction."

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Charlie Maynard isn’t on the left of the party by any stretch.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Davey being a prime mover in the defenestration of Charles when he was unwell, of course. The parallels with Campbell are remarkable.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You can’t make decisions like that when you have councillors of four different political persuasions in parts of Oxford. Susan Brown is not talking about temporary mitigation and was silent until after the works were finished - by contrast the discussion with Saj has been constructive.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

…and I’m open to reviewing the threshold for that. What I’m not going to do is tear up established policies just because someone on the Internet shouts. You mentioned “polarisation”. I’m interested in sensible pragmatic solutions that don’t put safety at risk.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The only person gaslighting is Susan Brown, who didn’t contact me and offers no sensible suggestion. You can’t run a road network as if it’s a weathervane and suddenly throw traffic onto calmed routes without clear reason and communication. There is clearly a point at which this can be considered

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That may have been part of the thinking (I don’t know).

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not at all. There is nothing more ableist,or dangerous, than opening/ shutting LTNs at a whim. I’ve been talking in depth with officers to learn lessons and look practically at how we manage the network. What I don’t take kindly to are clueless interventions from people who should know better.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Keynes, on the other hand….. I didn’t see this coming from this particular quarter. But it is welcome and not before time.

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Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Here’s a 32-year-old Nadhim Zahawi - then working as Jeffrey Archer’s press spokesperson on his Mayoral campaign - reading out Archer’s resignation statement, after the publication of the evidence of perjury that eventually saw Archer jailed.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’ve never seen Robyn Hitchcock live before. Massive oversight. Especially when he starts with “I Often Dream Of Trains” and signs an album thus. (A trolleybus trip in Reading is also mentioned)

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Andrew Harrop @andrewharrop.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch has just KILLED downsizing in retirement Welcome to millions of frail, single pensioners, in homes far too big for them, refusing to move for fear of the tax hit giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Tory conference live: Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap inheritance tax on family homes

Conservative leader pledges to slash levies while accusing Andy Burnham of ‘spending money we don’t have’

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In a world with insufficient Grimond, Be more Grimond.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As nobody thinks there’s a snowball’s chance in hell of them gaining seats let alone anyone else, (and that doesn’t change after today’s Kool-Aid for the donors) let’s not get too fussed.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The death of local journalism, part 5,831. (Though in the case of the Oxford Fail, cats’ homes have experienced less) [credit: Private Eye]

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thanks. It’s an interesting idea. The last two years I’ve still been pulling up spuds in December but they’ve all gone already, yields have been so low. Dilemmas, dilemmas…..

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Winter potatoes? Tell me more….

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Oxfordshire County Council @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚌 Thanks to the congestion charge, 40,000 more bus journeys are being made in Oxford each week. Watch Luke Marion, Managing Director of Oxford Bus Company, explain the increase they’ve seen.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It was definitely lighter last South Newington Parish Council meeting!

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Presumably the answer is to build more hospi….. oh wait. Because 20mph zones save lives. That’s why road casualties are down in Lib Dem Oxfordshire and up in Tory Buckinghamshire.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Speaking as someone who just about stayed in, I agree.

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Let asylum seekers work: it'll fix a few problems in our labour market, save taxpayers some cash and mean we don't need giant asylum sites like MOD Bicester. Or we could keep being performatively awful to asylum seekers for no benefit.

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Oxfordshire County Council @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We’ve been digging into the future of trams. Actually, we didn’t need to dig as deep as you might expect: news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/exploring-th...

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Delighted to launch this yesterday. And the video’s really good too.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If I’d have known in advance that I was to share a platform with Mark E. Smith this afternoon, my speech might have been a bit different-uh.

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James Graham @jamesgraham.theliberati.net · 30/09/2026

Ah yes. That’s the Tom Watson I remember. The one who had a mob follow the Lib Dem candidate around in the Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election, labelling her “Nokia Davies” and alleging she wanted to put up phone masts everywhere to give children cancer despite marketing himself as the pro-tech MP.

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Oxford University Hospitals @ouhospitals.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Visiting hospital in Oxford? You can reach the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre by car without driving through a traffic filter. 🔗 www.oxfordmail.co/.uk/news/265...

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They can’t even get the correction right!

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It seems the organ in question has quietly corrected its error, but only after complaints to IPSO…..

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And her Joy Division Oven Gloves?

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Oxfordshire County Council @oxfordshirecc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Work has started on developing ambitious plans to regenerate Banbury: news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/project-aims...

A signpost in a town centre in front of a civic building

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you saying the Fail prints news, Danny? Or are you indulging in fashionable nostalgia for when it did?

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Evidence and facts are of no consequence to the likes of them. You’re right (of course), extra free permits are available even though only a tiny proportion of patients would conceivably pass a filter on a preferred route to the hospitals.

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Gareth Epps @garethepps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our local paper is known as the Oxford Fail, the toxic clickbait factory of Osney Mead (due to be regenerated). The penultimate paragraph is why. The hospitals are well away from traffic filters. Needless to say, the lazy hack didn’t bother checking his facts before fabricating disinformation.

Misinformation about Oxford’s traffic filters from miserable anti-Oxford rag, the Oxford Fail.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oxford's traffic filters switch on today. Oxford Liveable Streets' Siobhann Mansel-Pleydell looks at which one will be better for Oxford and commuters, the congestion charge or the traffic filters? oxfordclarion.uk/traffic-filt...

oxfordclarion.uk

Traffic Filters vs Congestion Charge : Contest or Evolution?

The Oxford Traffic Filters switch on this morning, and we've just got used to the congestion charge. Oxfordshire Liveable Streets are a not-for-profit organisation working alongside residents across O...

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