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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And the biggest problem, the planning regulatory framework.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Altho you tentatively finished on a bit of a postive note… tbc I guess…

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Still find the history of the Republican party wild: "The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into American territories."

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Like the very clear commitment to Nuclear!

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The difficulty with trying to read anything from the anti-antis is that they have to engage in an absurd amount of cognitive dissonance and whataboutery, i feel it might better to just read undistllled Maga and groyper.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Ok, but can we pls compare total costs? Wholesale only is not the full picture.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I think the cost of a month worth of storage, which realistically is probably the minimum you need for Winter, would be more than the UK's entire GDP. So totally impractical.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Completely agree. But I suspect Trump will simply declare victory and walk away from it in a few weeks. It will then get kinda forgotten about.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I was struck by the NYT using “appear to” in this headline “videos appear to contradict federal account of killing”. They need to delete “appear to”.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We kinda need to find the money tho

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

One my favourites so far this year.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Also the Lib Dem / Reform voter is absolutely a thing. I have spoken to many of them. In short, they do not like the main parties and wont vote for them, so that leaves LD, Reform or Green. Many people cant get their head around it, but anyone who canvasses has met many people like this.

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Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Random poll where brits express their desire for some foreigners to pay for their stuff.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Interesting in my home town! Altho I suspect that I actually grew up in what I assume is probably the Bearsden North Ward. Parents are definitely in the South Ward. Would this end up being in May with other elections?

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

And adding even more complexity to a tax code that is already impenetrable. Moronic.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Another example of where I think of France. If you live in France you are French.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

For sure, just months and months of faffing about and dysfunction. I am increasingly of the view that they will largely fail, another casualty of the inbuilt structural incompetence of the UK state (have just finished reading @samfreedman.bsky.social Failed State and this seems like another example)

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Yes, but we don’t have the generating capacity, we have an approach to generation that is frankly economically self destructive and the current government are faffing about. But yes the tech is, I am sure, there now.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Agree, but we need to get a heck of a lot better at generating the stuff.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

But fundamentally, all the parties need to confront certain big ticket issues, the most significant is probably the triple lock. Many YLs agree on this.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

There are members of my party that fully understand the contradictions in many of our policy proposals. Hence, I am pushing to form an internal Lib Dem Growth Group, to advocate for a much more radical approach to Growth policies.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Looking forward to it. I have your book on pre-order with Amazon!

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This applies as much to the private sector as the public, btw.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Agree that all political parties lacked credible manifestos but worst were easily Reform and Green.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Why do polls close so early? In UK they close at 10pm, there is always a rush after dinner between 7 and 9….

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Just finished @samfr.bsky.social excellent “failed state”, it is a kind of modern Austrian critique, reminiscent of the “calculation” and “knowledge” problems. That a centralised stated (or central planning) cannot cope, indeed it is almost impossible to be successful.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

You get growth when we become more productive. We lack it because it is very difficult to build anything at all in this country.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

It is still a democracy. The US does not lack for voting. It is the other stuff, the liberal and constitutional bits that are fraying. Those are difficult to understand, unlike “voting” which continues broadly unchanged.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I’ve met many of them. Some voters don’t like the two main parties so go for anyone who isn’t them.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

We doubled our membership in the Brexit years, fat lot of good it did us.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I’m half way through your book, and here is an example of the dysfunction you describe. No doubt a lack of bandwidth means they don’t know what to replace it with, or have failed to meet a deadline and are running around with hair on fire.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

It is shaping up to be a great season on socialism. Also interesting to hear @iandunt.bsky.social hinting at the Austrian critique of socialism (the Economic Calculation debate) through the lense of the role of middlemen. It’s all about information.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Their coverage and details are great.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 15/09/2025

Elon Musk is a deeply irresponsible man and all party leaders should call him out.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Agree. So this morning @libdems.org.uk waffling on about how Reform’s plan would work, or not work as the case may be. Rather than just stating that is it cruel.

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

You should read the Russian constitution (if you haven’t already). It is hilarious.

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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

🚨OUT NOW🚨 Ed Davey’s reborn Lib Dems are on a 100-year high with 72 MPs and a shot at becoming the conscience of progressive Britain. So why do Reform get all the coverage? Listen to our conversation with the Lib Dem leader here 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

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Steve Wotton @stevewotton.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Yes! This! It is such an obvious way to start to simplify the moronic level of complexity we have.

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