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sjrichmond.bsky.social
The lefty egalitarian type of Liberal that appears to be out of vogue!
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If the cuts to welfare go ahead as drafted, there will be many more early deaths and many more headlines like these on Labour's watch. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

BREAKING: Mayors for Guaranteed Income say 20 studies show basic income increased employment. "Not a single pilot has shown decreased employment among recipients of guaranteed income, and the vast majority of pilots have shown increased rates of full-time employment."

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

The claim that immigration has "exploded" in the last 30 years comes up a lot followed by talking points about crime. Well, if that's true, I can't help but note crime is WAY down over that period!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I think I'd be a fun Pope. Not a very religious one admittedly, but fun!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty sure it could cut it up to 100% but 40% is a pretty good next step.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

"Since the election, Labour has lost more than three times as many voters to the Lib Dems as to Reform" (Rachel Sylvester writes in the Observer today). They don't act like they are concerned about *those* lost votes

submitted 25 days ago • 41 comments

Off the wall bananas choices from Labour atm.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Remember kids if doing something causes you to fail so badly it causes a wafe of fascists to win elections up and down the country... time to double down!! No wonder Labour are getting crushed, amazingly short sighted.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

What an opportunity for we Libs to develop some ideological definition! 🔶️🙏

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is correct. I too was right all along and I agree with this.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

LDs doing this well I do like.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Not great.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

What we're seeing at a local level could easily repeat itself at the next general election. Imagine waking up in 2029 to a government supported by less than 30% of the public. This is an emergency. We must scrap First Past the Post before it completely destroys our democracy.

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

There is a lot of great potential for the Liberal Democrats to win over Labour voters across the country. Labour neglects its centre-left liberal-leaning voters at its peril. @libdems.org.uk (Source: @steveakehurst.bsky.social)

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Liberalism is about wanting each and every person to get as much of the life they want as possible, to be as free as possible. Yes, that does sometimes require regulation. It has to be well written and used carefully, but when it is, it can make us more free, not less.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

This graph tells you f-all about whether free trade is good or bad BUT it does tell you is that political actions affect voters policy preferences & thinking you can triangulate based on opinion polling/never change voters minds is nonsense. You HAVE to account & plan for changing minds as well.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

One of the things that baffles me is that young right wingers draw, like, zero, none at all, connection between the idea that they can't persuade people on the planning issues argument on housing with the way their previous policy choices broke trust in markets. My dudes. 🤷

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I just realised that Pedro Pascal is the US David Tenant. It makes perfect sense and I'm correct.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

My new opinion, that I very much haven't fully thought through yet, is that the way IP should work is that rather than getting a monopoly on the product you get a share of the tax revenue from all derivative products.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not actually sold that nationalising British steel is the best choice tbh. It may well be, I can see the strategic importance, but I'm not totally sold. If we were talking something like the EU or the AUKUS plus Canada/NZ/maybe Japan? S. Korea? Even if we're taking out the US for obvs reasons...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

An important lesson from Jean-Luc Picard that I’m still sharing all these years later.

submitted 49 days ago • 161 comments

Cook County’s pilot program to provide $500/mo in guaranteed basic income to 3,000+ people did what it was intended to do, as usual. 45% said they were able to avoid debt, while another 31% reduced their debt. At one point roughly 94% of recipients said they used the money to manage an emergency.

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments