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Tim Murray

@tim-murray.bsky.social
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Sussex; School Governor, Charity Trustee, Town Councillor, Liberal Democrat etc.

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 14/09/2026
WATCH: @alisonebennett.bsky.social call out Lee Anderson on Reform’s compliance chaos. “What’s a bit rich, Lee, is your Reform team are all over the place - that’s why the Met are investigating you.”
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Tim Murray @tim-murray.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 10/09/2026
This is the third time Martin Rolfe has caused chaos to UK airports. The Government has failed to launch an investigation into NATS to prevent further disruption. @laylamoran.bsky.social
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
😅😅🔥🇨🇦 #Canada #LakeOntario
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Philip Stephens @philipstephens.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is of a piece with broader degeneration of BBC's political coverage which focuses on Westminster punch and judy and opinion polls. Farage and co largely escape serious scrutiny and robust questioning. Political Editor seems determined to show BBC is with "the people"
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Conservatives lost almost 60 seats to the Lib Dems at the last general election. How many of these does she expect to win back with this strategy?
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At this point it’s more defensible to be on Truth Social than X. Being on the former at least is honest. Being on the latter is at best delusional.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Madness. Utter madness. Badenoch is quietly turning what used to be a broad church into an even narrower sect.
conservativehome.com
Kemi begins her purge of the wets | Conservative Home
Every functioning party has red lines. Positions which are so central to its identity that abandoning them means abandoning what the party is for. For Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives, net zero and...
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Bart Crisp @crispybart.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is an absolutely cracking speech. Covers a lot of ground and explores some interesting details, in the service of a complex but pretty complete argument. Also seems pretty overtly aligned with Burnhamism...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 08/07/2026
A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea
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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There's a bar chart, courtesy of: www.facebook.com/share/14hP4M...
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
10 years to the day....
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 17/06/2026
Today Ed Davey will call for a new deal that puts Britain back at the heart of Europe. Britain needs a new plan. For growth, for jobs, for defence.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Could it be you? New vacancy listed on Lib Dem website: Campaign Manager (South East)
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Campaign Manager (South East)
To deliver election success in priority areas across the South East, with a clear objective of putting “more gold on the map” – based on a programme of work jointly agreed between the Federal Party...
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Tim Murray @tim-murray.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Straight out of the populist playbook. It’ll be interesting to see if the Greens climb in the polls or whether this guy who boosted their polling is in effect putting a cap on it.
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 14/05/2026
Latest party leader net favourability ratings, May 2026 Ed Davey: -9 Kemi Badenoch: -17 Zack Polanski: -27 Nigel Farage: -37 Keir Starmer: -46 yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
However you cut it, Labour is looking utterly contemptuous of both the country and the electorate at the moment after being elected on a mandate to restore stability to government
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Lest we forget (the Tory Party). Spot-on (and beautifully written), as per, from @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk (Source: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/have-the-t...)
These results show the Conservative Party are painted into an electoral corner. No longer nationally competitive, they are holding on only where Reform is demographically and culturally too weak to challenge them. The London Boroughs point to this. Winning Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Wandsworth, Bexley, holding up in parts of places like Croydon and Enfield, this marks who is sticking with the party rather than Reform. In short, it is the Farage-averse right-wingers. Well off enough not to be tempted by populist grievance politics, metropolitan enough to be queasy about some of the immigration rhetoric and policy, and in places where the Lib Dems have no real foothold to compete from. That is who is remaining Tory.

Outside of London, there is a similar dynamic. Reform failed to break through in places like West Oxfordshire, or Hart, or Three Rivers. Councils with decent chunks of affluent commuters, where the Conservatives have remained the main anti-left option. By contrast, in the seats of the semi-urban north, Reform surged forward, adding to their gains from last year in the less affluent Tory rural areas. This is not a party fighting back; it is a party besieged in its strongest of redoubts.
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Tim Murray @tim-murray.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
For Uckfield on May 7th vote Liberal Democrat
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Reform's biggest strength is also its biggest weakness: namely Nigel Farage. He's adored by those who are absolutely determined to vote Reform but hated by those determined to ​vote against it - and disliked and distrusted by far too many who might otherwise be tempted to move in its direction.
observer.co.uk
Reform and Farage are losing support. There are two key r...
The party’s polling average has fallen 5 percentage points since August and its leader is no longer the preferred choice for PM. It may be proving harder than Nigel Farage thought to keep two kinds of...
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Tim Murray @tim-murray.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
What a total buffoon. Sad to see the town of my birth run by muppets from Reform. But equally the Tory and Labour councils haven’t been great over the years.
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Tim Murray @tim-murray.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
There’s a London-centric media bubble that somehow seems either to just dismiss the LibDems or somehow make out that we have the wrong strategy. Yet, we just keep on winning, in the actual polling booth, that is. @stephenkb.bsky.social @lucyfisher.ft.com
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 01/03/2026
General Election Nowcast - 01/03/26: RFM: 315 (+310), 28.5% (11 Short) LDM: 83 (+11), 12.4% LAB: 78 (-333), 19.0% CON: 53 (-68), 18.6% SNP: 44 (+35), 2.7% GRN: 42 (+38), 14.2% PLC: 10 (+6), 1.3% Oth: 6 (+1), 3.4% electionmaps.uk/nowcast
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Alison Bennett @alisonebennett.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
It's Friday! We Lib Dems are looking forward to getting out over the weekend to speak to people right across Mid Sussex. If you see us, do come and say hello. If you want to get involved in our county council campaign, why not volunteer? www.midsussexlibdems.org.uk/volunteer
Six people holding leaflets outside with flats and buildings behind.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Totally appalling way to treat anyone but in this case this woman had not broken any immigration rule at all. And the British consulate were completely and inexcusably useless. Awful and I think deserves some response from the Foreign Office. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Tim Murray @tim-murray.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
CPR for Potus: (100 beats per minute) Donald The President got the ‘ump and waved goodbye to his tar-iffs; Off he stomped with a trumpety-trump; Trump, Trump Trump. The rest of the world were smirking far far away….
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 18/02/2026
I've been out campaigning in Sussex where the local elections are back on! Come join us to help defeat the Conservatives, stop Reform and wipe the smile of Nigel Farage's face in May.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 17/02/2026
Out campaigning in beautiful Sussex where local elections ARE now going ahead despite the local Conservatives trying to cancel them. Like in so many areas of the country, the Tories and Labour are finished and it’s turning into a fight between the Lib Dems and Reform.
Ed Davey, Alison Bennett and Jess Brown-Fuller with a large crowd holding Liberal Democrat signs
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/02/2026
If the liberal world order is fading, it should get its proper due as the most successful system in history, says Janan Ganesh: ft.trib.al/84D7DuC
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James MacCleary MP @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Starmer is finally waking up to the threat of relying on Trump for our security. The PM should be personally leading negotiations to get us into the EU SAFE defence fund and adopt the @libdems.org.uk defence bonds for an urgent cash injection for our armed forces. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
bbc.co.uk
Munich Security conference live: Starmer announces deployment of warships and fighter jets to Arctic
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer tells the Munich Security Conference that the US, Canada and other Nato allies will play a role in the operation, as he calls for closer EU ties.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 11/02/2026
Read more: www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...
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Get Britain Growing Again
Lib Dems announce plan to replace Treasury with new Department for Growth based in Birmingham
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 11/02/2026
🚨BREAKING: Lib Dems announce plan to replace Treasury with new Department for Growth based in Birmingham. It's time to get Britain growing again.
Graphic under the heading 'get Britain growing again' showing Daisy Cooper announcing plans for a new UK department for Growth.
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Alison Bennett @alisonebennett.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The government's relationship with Palantir stinks. Palantir has links to Mandelson and Epstein, and it's extending its web of influence across our public sector services. That's why I think the govt must be more open about the deals between Palantir and the MoD.
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Tim Murray @tim-murray.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I sat in on a Safer Internet session with a group of 8, 9, & 10 year old primary students learning about AI. During the interactive session I noticed that the children could spot which were the AI generated images 100%; unlike the adults.
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James MacCleary MP @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
It was great to meet Royal Marine Commandos at Parliament ahead of their deployment to Norway for a NATO exercise. They showed us their kit and spoke about the vital work they’re doing to keep us safe in an increasingly unstable world.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 07/02/2026
We're delighted to welcome Councillor Manu Singh who has joined the Liberal Democrats from the Green Party in Surrey! 🔶
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Tim Murray @tim-murray.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Exactly
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I guess the question that people who believe the PM should stay on need to ask themselves is whether they'd have said the same had Boris Johnson appointed someone as Ambassador knowing full well they'd stayed mates with a nonce - and, believe me, that's exactly what most voters think Starmer did.
Photo of Starmer and Mandy smiling together
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Alison Bennett @alisonebennett.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Watching the Jenrick Press Conference: Really hoping a journalist asks him in the manner of Mrs Merton: "What was it about losing the Tory leadership contest that helped you realise that the Tories had broken Britain?"
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a woman with glasses is sitting in a crowd and says " what first attracted you to the millionaire paul daniels "
ALT: a woman with glasses is sitting in a crowd and says " what first attracted you to the millionaire paul daniels "
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Tim Murray @tim-murray.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Shocking failure of key infrastructure affecting thousands of homes and businesses
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Cllr Freddie Hoareau @freddiehoareau.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
It currently looks like elections might be cancelled for East and West Sussex, giving some county councillors at least a 7 year term. All the boroughs could cancel elections too, except Crawley. What a mess the government is making of local government reorganisation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Will Sussex get to vote in 2026 or will elections be called off?
All 2026 local elections in Sussex face being scrapped after vote for mayor postponed amid changes.
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Citizens Advice @citizensadvice.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Whoever you are and whatever your problem, we're here to help you find a way forward 💙 #ThePeoplesChampion
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Pete @petetheref.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 23/12/2025
The Liberal Democrats won 106 Council By-Elections in 2025, more than any other party #ByElectionsWrapped 1) LDM 106 2) RFM 104 3) CON 45 4) LAB 36 5) GRN 24
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Tim Murray @tim-murray.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Meanwhile, in the real world, away from the London-centric Westminster media bubble where everyone is obsessed with Farage/Polanski….this:
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Correcting typos in captions and subtitles counts as “engagement” and drives the algorithm. Often its done deliberately. Like I just did there. That alone should be depressing enough a fact to encourage you to be more like Bob. You know it make’s sense.
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