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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 21h

More or less than 1.9 percentage points?

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

And efforts to distinguish between FoM & immigration in 2016 onwards were not only a total failure but also created division in the progressive & pro-EU causes. You want (or need, to rejoin) to sell FoM, you need to sell immigration more widely.

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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 10/10/2026

RETVRN to lib dem parliamentarians having at least a passing knowledge of what liberalism is FOR, because if they don't know, how can they communicate it to voters? Once again the conflation of liberalism (noble, clear, beautiful) with centrism (hollow, rudderless, horrid) is making me angry :(

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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I suspect it will make him double down on stuff. Some should be good - being outspoken on criticising Trump. Some will probably be bad - advocating for fuel duty cut. As you say, it would seem better to me to concentrate on getting several next gen MPs ready to step up.

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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My podcast feed seems to have bit of a theme going…

Screenshot of a podcast app showing a string of podcasts speculating on the Green Party leader’s future

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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

From Ian Dunt's Striking 13 newsletter today "But the fact remains that under Burnham, Labour has now won in Makerfield and Holborn..." Ahem. Labour won Makerfield under Starmer. <runs away>

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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I would guess (as an outside observer, so large pinch of salt required) that the supporters of the motion wont care as they will want to get one of their own elected as leader.

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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perhaps even a significant incentive to upsize…

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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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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you for sharing this and glad that normal service has resumed!

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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Liberal Democrat Conference votes overwhelmingly to oppose the EHRC guidance and restore trans rights! 🎉🏳️‍⚧️

Lib Dem Conference
Motion Passed
Restoring Trans Rights

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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not going to get my hopes up until both left- & right-wing commentators are making a positive case for freedom of movement.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Brexit Brexile Brexodus Breturn Brentrer Breaction Brealism Breality Brecognition Brevulsion Breverse Bremorse Brecap Brebound Brevolution Brefreshing Brexecution Breavement Brextinct

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 30/09/2026

Nicholas Winton was overwhelmed. When I went to interview him before the programme, he was surprised anyone was interested in what he'd done 45 years previously. So all the children he'd saved standing up around him was just astonishing. He couldn't believe it.

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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’d settle for a seat, but then I do sometimes make the mistake of going by Cross Country.

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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I fear that another factor is the reduction in teaching of foreign languages, especially at A Level. Though I suppose that is somewhat offset by how ubiquitous English is in lots of EU countries now.

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Citizenship should never have been allowed to become a conditional and impermanent gift from the state to the individual. It is a permanent status, universal and equal to all that have it, that brings obligations of care and protection *from* the state as well as to it.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are two ways to sort this - perhaps BOTH need to be implemented. By far the best is to introduce short primary legislation to restore the position of trans people in the Equality Act. The second is to recognise that the promotion of womens’ (or anyone’s) rights is a matter for all.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The chipping away at citizenship, which started with Shamima Begum, is utterly poisonous. Anytime now, Restore will support the removal of citizenship on the basis of race or religion.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I suppose the Tories’ logic is that we would have to leave / rescind the 1951 Refugee Convention too? Wonder what the UN would make of that…

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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 23/09/2026

Clear evidence that lactose intolerance is taken seriously in this country: hit someone with a milkshake and you are ordered to pay them compensation and get a suspended prison sentence. Hit someone with a metal stick, with a gang of your mates joining in, and it's a caution

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Aprilciate🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @aprilciate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today libdems are putting trans rights as their emergency motion on the conference floor. The ten terfs in the party have already briefed the telegraph ahead of time. Moaning Today their hateful rhetoric I predict, will push the party into making a solid and worthwhile position

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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I cannot comprehend anyone targeting RNLI volunteers with hate and threats. I cannot understand how anyone can have anything but respect and awe for people willing to set to sea in hurricanes, with waves as high as houses, to try to save lives.

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Dr Manuela Perteghella MP @mp4stratford.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am appalled and disgusted at the comments made by the Leader of Restore Britain about Stratford-upon-Avon and one of its schools. We should be celebrating that children are going to great schools in my constituency and go on to contribute great deals to our society in a positive way.

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am the local LD councillor and I have not supported this campaign. No one asked me to, presumably because they knew what I'd say. This just absolutely, categorically untrue.

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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This isn't true. I know because I'm the local LD councillor. I did object and posted about it on my Facebook page. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Az9...

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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The local Councillor is a Lib Dem and they definitely didn’t support it. bsky.app/profile/laur...

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A personal story about that phrase “young men of fighting age” applied to asylum seekers. As many of you know I took in a young Ukrainian woman under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. As part of that process, soon after she arrived we were visited by the local authority rep and a Fire Brigade rep.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/09/2026

But they’re doing a PR stunt out of racism and frankly maybe we should let them have ‘indepedence’ and see how many want to show their passport every time they go to the big Tesco

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Tapping the sign. There is a solution to the “problem“ of the *scary* (ooooOOOOooh spooky) asylum centre and its to just treat them as normal people and start integrating them into society the moment they get here and just find them homes

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ironically there are “legitimate concerns” you could have about warehousing the unfortunate asylum seekers on a rural military base - it’s not suitable accommodation and will do nothing for their wellbeing or integration or the local community- but acting as if they’re a danger is gutter racism.

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Earl Russell LD @earlrussell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What the Conservative's did today was outrageous and I am pleased that they were roundly defeated. This was third reading on the Financial Services & Markets Bill. We normally only tidy up at this stage. The Conservatives forced a vote to try and defeat government concessions which were agreed.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On Labour planning to introduce tougher residency requirements in response to Reform's £72m donations, Lib Dem spokesperson Lisa Smart MP said it's "not good enough" and calls for an overall cap. "We can't keep playing whack-a-mole with each new attempt by Farage to sell out our democracy."

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is pitiful. Allowing the very thing it claims to condemn because it is too cowardly and self-interested to support that which would stop it.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm only catching up with this days late due to thankfully not being on X, but it's actually got to this point - the last week multiple videos of trans women being harassed have gone viral, with huge support for the harassers, including prominent lawyers and GC commentators.

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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Agree that mayors are a poor form of devolution, but an English parliament would be too big. We need a system of Regional assemblies with powers similar to the Scottish Parliament. My vote would be to base them around the old TV regions, so they a have an identity and ready-made scrutiny structure.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.

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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We used to have a baseline set of agreed facts, but now the far right make up any old bullshit and their fanatics just lap it up. Is this all down to this rise of social media and radicalisation of many traditional media outlets (seemingly via social media)?

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Lib Dem activists have been complaining for some time that the party isn't giving people a clear, simple reason to vote for it. THAT ISSUE IS HERE. Masked right-wing thugs getting away with law-breaking on our streets while Labour stands by doing nothing should be an open goal for the party.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve reached the point - well actually, I reached it a while ago - where I’m militantly anti-AI. Fine - use it in bioscience labs and radiology where it might help analyse data more effectively. Use it sparingly for systems engineering. Everywhere else, it can fuck off.

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Phil Kohler 🔶 @leamingtonphil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

And I suspect that if she wins she will make a really great MP.

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