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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We tried to adopt a kitten, we set a day to see it and a member of staff then said actually they wanted it. Three week wait gives other people to adopt

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I never have got why people want to see horror films. They're either not good, full of tropes etc. or they are scary and unnerving and last after wat hing the film

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Never call an election you don't need to. You don't know what will happen between then and now. I think they will end up recovering to 30%, lose seats and need Lib Dems and Green in a coalition or confidence and supply

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Lab plus Lib Dem was still short of a majority, and Brown didn't offer the Lib Dems anything until he realised the talks with the Tories were real. Lib Dem and Lab both lost seats, and the Tories were the largest party. We could have left the Tories as a minority govt, but that would have been worse

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The options in 2010 were austerity, more austerity, or less austerity. Ppl voted for more austerity, and they got austerity. It was wrong, and led to Brexit, but that was the options given to people. Cameron was good at claiming Lib dem policies as their own, then blaming them for unpopular stuff

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The progressive parties voters tactically vote. Reform voters aren't willing to in as large a number, so I think the effect would be limited

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Gay marriage, increasing the tax allowance, limiting Tory austerity you mean to what Labour would have done anyway? We are in a period of coalitions with this number of parties. No party get all of their manifesto accepted by another

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Like FIFA being corrupt you mean?

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There was the Olympic shootimg competition where a woman won by a huge margin, and they suddenly made it single sex the next Olympic games

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Vote for chaos with Labour, or for everyone else for that matter

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Every time you see FIFA remember, they took bribes to have football in Qatar, and they used slave labour to build the stadium. Equally, the head of FIFA has been given a jet by the Saudis

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Scottish Lib Dems are a separate thing

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Maybe if it was the UK we'd actually win

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

As they say in aoe2. 14. Start the game already!

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

You mean get recruited by a secret society that lets you curve bullets, and you are tasked with killing your own father, who sacrifices himself to keep you out of the Fraternity?

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Rugby is absolutely fine. Except Red Bull buying Newcastle Falcons maybe

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Should have used Barley Straw, if it was the right kind of algea

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Season 1 is great. The rest is a slog. Nothing happens, and no-one comes together at the end of the season so you don't feel like anything has been offered consequences

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Help me understand why ppl have put up with dynamic pricing, the Americans not investing any money to improve their cities to cope with more fans, the blatant corruption, and it being held in another political dodgy country for sports washing?

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Whilst people wait for that big structural issue to be fixed they are suffering. I think people are turning to populism because they've been promised sunlit uplands so often and got nothing

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It should be unwatchable because they haven't fixed the corruption

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Well, they'd run out of resources and were contained. They still needed to be defeated, but there wasn't a way for the Nazis to win

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

'Moustache man' annoys me. But when your income is derived from being monetised and YouTube etc is touchy about certain phrases despite context, I understand why

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The marina probably doesn't have planning permission for residential boats and so there should be a restriction on the amount of days you can stay over. Or move the boat onto the cut for the two weeks you're allowed before moving on

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Wasn't he also a chair of the fisheries?

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Washing machines live longer with Calgon!

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

There are even places Labour disappears. Why in the south they haven't voted for them for years

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I was engaging in hyperbole. Obviously some people hate us, but not as many as other parties. The party has a seats first approach, and not chasing opinion polls. However, it is disappointing that we didn't expand in other areas

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I rather think the Greens have peaked, as has Reform. Lib Dems are topping favourability in polls, basically no-one hates us. We also turned 12% of the vote into 12% of seats in 2024. If you look at where we have our strongest number of seats we're doing very well

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

How often has airstrikes or naval bombardment ever actually achieved regime change? I'm guessing zero

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Votes in a general election don't match what you get in local elections. Take it from a Lib Dem

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Well if we walk there, we restore PR to Mayor's and extend it to all local elections because the London assembly was PR

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Lowest winner in May had 20% of the vote

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In New Zealand Labour got more votes, the opposition got more seats. It completely broke the system and they brought in PR. Crucially, Conservatives and Labour are losing out, and it makes democracy unpredictable. We already have PR in Wales and Scotland, and had it for England Mayors for a while

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

They do have to be realistic, the trouble is they've been realistic before and been let down

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

When they shot up in the polls, it was said they were peaking too soon. The best thing we can do right now is have PR. I'm tired of asking people to vote tactically to beat Tory and Reform. I want people to vote for something, not against something

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The increase in vote share from the Greens was enough to prevent Labour from holding many seats against Reform, but the votes going to Reform is Boris Johnsons electoral alliance of voters. I'm not saying I believe the govt is doing a bad job at delivery. I'm saying the bad part is communication

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Well I'm not a Labour councillor. I just don't want a Reform national govt, so I just want someone who will keep the Labour vote from going to Reform

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Yep, most of the papers want the govt to fail. Even though a better economy is better for everyone, although not always equally

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Our side knows that the Tories messed everything up for 14 years, and it will take time to fix. Ppl have been promised a lot that hasn't been delivered. In an instant world ppl expect instant results. Starmer only got 34% of the vote, he started with a low base of support to start with

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm not saying that I hold these views. I'm saying that someone who voted for austerity, then Brexit, then levelling up, then had massive govt intervention in COVID, wants everything fixed because they have voted for it time and again and they are impatient. They have waited ten years

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In May my voters stuck with .e, and Reform probably took from Tory, Labour and from 'not normally vote' depends what messaging they're using, and strength of candidate

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Starmer would need to be more passionate and the Ukraine and middle east wars would need to end so the cost of living is seen as under control by then

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

If the electorate was you and me that would be fine. But the electorate is a consumer at the moment. They need to be sold on what has been done and what the future looks like. If the MSM isn't doing it for you, you need to get the messaging direct to the consumer and sell it

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Stephen Pimm @stephenpimm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

No, I'd like governments to have a chance to enact what they've promised. But that isn't where we're at at the moment. Everyone was promised pain for some gain later on and it was the wrong pain for no gain, and now everyone wants immediate results

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