mickft.bsky.social
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I support joining the EU. I suspect this sort of majority is not yet solid. I doubt there would be a majority for joining that would include the Euro and Schengen, which would be required of us as a new member. There is no rejoining with the opt outs we had last time.
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I doubt that Christine Jardine MP would much appreciate being described as an underling. Would you describe the Labour Equalities Minister as an underling of Keir Starmer?
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Er why? Clegg has had no role in the LibDems for 8 years nor will he have now or in the future.
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Thorpe murdered no-one and was acquitted in court of conspiring to do so. Both he and Smith are dead and no-one in the current LibDem parliamentary party served with them or was in a leadership position at the time.
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The last lot to defect had little chance to move the party anywhere as they all lost their seats in 2019. Even a substantial number of defections would still be a small minority in the current group of 72 MPs. I can’t see a big number defecting anyway
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Really? The last LD conference I was at in Harrogate had around 2000 attendees. Must have been a bloody big phone box or maybe it was a TARDIS.
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I doubt my mum would and certainly your grandpa would not
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It may not make him a paedophile, but it makes him a rapist
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Watch the government try to make such actions secret
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Er no. Dickies is a tile wholesaler in Halifax
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If we were in the EU we would have trade deals with many many more countries.
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We will not be rejoining. If we join the EU we will be treated as a new applicant and will have no special deals of the sort we used to have. We will have to follow the rules for new applicants and that will eventually mean Schengen and the Euro.
That will not be an easy sell, though I’d go for it.
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And doing a very good job promoting green energy
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We have done with Clegg. If he wanted to come back he wouldn’t be acceptable to the LibDems in any role, certainly not as a parliamentary candidate. Precious few LibDems want a repeat of the years under Clegg and/or the coalition
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It was only when Ed started the stunts that he began to get publicity. How do you suggest he actually gets media attention? The stunts actually allow a serious message to be put across. They also show Ed as a genuine human being who enjoys having fun, unlike so many other political leaders.
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I have stopped doing any reviews because they are now meaningless and only waste my time. If we all stop, will they stop asking?
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He is leaving the running to our equalities spokesperson, Christine Jardine MP. We LibDems don’t think the leader is the source of all policy in the party.
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Where I do find disappointment is in the proposed action. It ought to be to change the law so it means what everyone thought it meant. The LibDem equalities spokesperson, Christine Jardine MP has been very supportive. Watch this space
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Actually he didn’t say he welcomed it, he said he accepted it, and, in our system you do accept SC judgements because, as in this case, the SC is simply saying what the law means. The judges are not making a moral judgement nor expressing an opinion on what the law ought to be
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You clearly have no idea about the LibDems. Keeping the offenders in prison is one thing, forcing them to have chemical castration quite another.
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A majority Lab/LD government wasn’t possible, the numbers didn’t add up. A rainbow coalition would have had to include the SNP and the DUP and that was politically impossible.
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Shows how little you know about the LibDems. Our recent party conference passed overwhelmingly policies to promote and protect trans rights and gave the bird to those very few people who spoke against it. Equality and human rights are in our DNA and that includes trans rights
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Yes. There is work to do, but you have to have women putting their names forward if they are to be selected never mind elected. And yes, councils need to be family friendly and to meet at times when people can attend. My experience-a lot- is that women take a lot of persuading to stand.
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It seems as though it wasn’t Stephen who stood but Alexander, according to ALDC. He is Christine and Stephen’s eldest, I think
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This used to be a LibDem seat with 2 of the 3 seats held by the LibDems, one of them the candidate in this by-election.
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Lucy Powell is right actually, just phrased it badly
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Actually they may never be contested again as Labour has promised unitary councils to replace both counties and districts with election to the new councils taking place in 2027 and the new councils taking over in 2028
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Hm. She has no power to approve or ban fracking. Local planning committees do that and then subject to ministerial diktat if ministers don’t like their decisions. Yet another example of the ignorance of reform leaders as to who does what in local government.
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Goodness me, I knew him in the sixties and seventies before he went to Aberdeen. He invented THOR, an election system we all used long before computers. He used to have a stall at party assemblies. I was surprised he was still around as I hadn’t heard from him in years. Condolences to his family.
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Nearly 14 years in opposition and they didn’t have a plan for government! Surely that should have been a must have? Let’s ensure that the LibDems DO have one ready if they do get there.
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Anything in fact because coffee is a contributor to my asthma. Tea is also a no no. Chocolate (cold or hot) is far better
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I have an autistic stepson who earns serious money working for a major ratings agency. It follows that he pays a lot of tax. He is perfectly able to live on his own with no help from anyone else.
RFK is talking out of the hole in his backside and regurgitating discredited theories about vaccines.
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What have you been reading? LibDems have supported LGBT+ rights long before any other political party in the UK and have never been backward in coming forward. We have never been afraid to say what's right, whether it has been on immigration, the Iraq War, international aid, the war in Ukraine
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That group are pretty much outcasts within the LibDems and enjoy almost no support. LibDems are committed to trans rights and reaffirmed that at our recent Spring Conference. Now we must see how to change the law to make this SC ruling redundant.
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The SC ruling is not what most of us in the Lib Dems had hoped for. It is important to realise that it's not a ruling about what should or shouldn't be, but a ruling about what the law means. Laws can be changed and now we must campaign to get this one changed.
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You can't have looked very far. Christine Jardine MP, the spokesperson on equalities has already issued a supportive statement
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So why did the LibDems make so many gains? The stunts allowed Ed to attract attention and then make serious points about the election and its issues. How otherwise do you suggest a third party leader should get attention in an election
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I am and you haven't
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The court actually said that ‘in UK law’ biological sex is binary, not that in reality it is. The SC doesn’t make the law, it only decides what the law means. So, let’s hope that the government moves swiftly to change the law to what we all thought it meant
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I saw them live at Bromley Court Hotel in the sixties too
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Go Pippa
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Actually you should be calling for a don’t buy American
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It most certainly is not. Alas, we have the most treasury orthodox chancellor my lifetime. Playing right into the hands of the liars and charlatans of the far right.
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And everyone is facing big increases in costs for power, water, council tax, phones whilst tax thresholds are frozen and benefits are frozen or cut and winter fuel allowance is scrapped for most pensioners. Anna is spot on
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Of course, UK consumers could simply not buy it, but not allowing it in the first place is much better.
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I never had any illusions about the USA. History has told us they retreat into isolationism at regular intervals. They are only reverting to type. The rest of the world should stop flogging a dead horse and plan to manage without them