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This is outrageous from @surreycc.gov.uk First they ask Govt to cancel 2025 elections, now they are attempting to close down routes to report #SEND cases for MPs. Least we forget Surrey CC have been found wanting with SEND provision. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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I fear that Labour is falling into the same trap that the Tories did – leaning on hostile rhetoric around immigration and damaging our public services and our economy in the process. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Community nurses - how much of your work involves end of life care? Does any of this work have to go deferred? Please help with our short anonymous survey & share widely with colleagues 🙂 Take part here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @crystaloldman.bsky.social @theqicn.bsky.social

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The 8th May has been marked as VE Day since before Trump was born. VE stands for Victory in Europe. As for the First World War, the idea that some Yank who refused to serve in the military, will command people around the world not to call it Rembrance Day is laughable. Sod off.

submitted 12 days ago • 137 comments

More news re. the need for PR... Thank you @munirawilson.bsky.social , our voting system clearly contributes "to the distrust and alienation we see in politics" & there are many supporters in all parties! www.fairelections.uk @elliechowns.bsky.social @alexsobel.co.uk @makevotesmatter.bsky.social

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Massive congratulations to my friend, Jo Trigg in Lambrok (Trowbridge) and to fellow #LibDems in Wiltshire, so pleased that #Trowbridge has elected 6 Lib Dem County Councillors and that gains are being made across the County. 💛 @libdems.org.uk

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BREAKING: The West of England has a Mayor that only 25% voted for. 3 in 4 voters chose a different candidate and didn't get the chance to pick their second option. Regardless of which party you support, one thing is clear: this is not a democratic mandate. The system is broken.

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In waiting mode for election results now. I wish that the elections had been held in Surrey too rather than postponed. 😢 The Local Government Reorganisation timelines are wickedly (and to my mind unrealistic) tight. #localelections2025

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I am sorry to hear today's news about the Pope. Thinking of the many Catholics within our community and further afield who will be feeling a profound sense of loss. I hope that the Pope's Easter message of hope and resurrection brings some solace.

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Whether you celebrate Easter or are enjoying the holiday, I wish you all a peaceful day. 🧡

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🆕 Still a 3 way tie in our new @moreincommonuk.bsky.social VI, Labour up 3 Tories down 3. BUT biggest shift is Lib Dems up 4 to 17% a high for us ➡️ REF UK 24% (-1) 🌹 LAB 24% (+3) 🌳 CON 23% (-3) 🔶 LIB DEM 17% (+4) 🌍 GREEN 7% (nc) 🟡 SNP 2% (nc) N = 2,058 | Dates:4-7/4 | Change w 31/3

submitted 35 days ago • 11 comments

Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention (6-7 April) Lab: 24% (= from 30-31 Mar) Ref: 23% (=) Con: 22% (+1) Lib Dem: 17% (+3) Green: 9% (-2) SNP: 3% (=) yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

Joshua Reynolds, 26, Liberal Democrat MP for Maidenhead in the Times young power list. Also spotted @ellzsummary.bsky.social !

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

The Digital Services Tax currently brings in over £830M a year - enough to completely cover the cost of free school meals. Politics is about choices. Cutting this Tax while diluting free schools meals would be choosing Donald Trump and Elon Musk over hungry school children.

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Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention (23-24 Mar) Lab: 23% (-3 from 16-17 Mar) Ref: 22% (-2) Con: 22% (=) Lib Dem: 16% (+2) Green: 10% (+1) SNP: 3% (=) yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

submitted 50 days ago • 17 comments

Listening to MPs from Bicester & Woodstock, Lewes, Epsom & Ewell outlining the UK response to Trump. F14 Policy motion & the amendments talk of overseas aid, new customs union & European re-armament, support to Ukraine, Canada … Proud being in @libdems.org.uk prepared to stand up to Trump.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

The Lib Dem spring conference has just endorsed making it party policy to support a national postal HIV & STI testing service, digital PrEP prescriptions and expanding opt-out HIV testing to GP services 👏

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Next month I’ll be joining a convoy delivering 5 ambulances from London to Ukraine. Through Europe nonstop, overland and overnight. If you want to support us, you can do so through the link below. The armed forces of Ukraine are the firebreak between tyranny and the free democracies of the west.

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Drug shortages in the UK have risen to their worst level for four years, official figures show, with Brexit considered a key reason so many medications are scarce. We warned about this impact of Brexit - it is an avoidable harm & impacts lives and wellbeing. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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The Government has announced it will abolish NHS England in a bid to ‘reduce duplication’ with the Department of Health. www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/breakin...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

The fastest way to bring peace in Ukraine is for Putin to withdraw his troops immediately. I’m relieved Trump has now reversed his senseless decision to suspend intelligence sharing and security aid. There’s no doubt it cost Ukrainian lives and emboldened Putin.

submitted 64 days ago • 14 comments

Lovely morning to be planting trees in White Rose Lane Nature Reserve with Woking Environment Action 🌳 🌲 Added in a bit of litter picking too. Please take cans and plastics home to dispose of there.🙏 #treeplanting #littercleanup #NatureReserve @willforster.bsky.social

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Happy #internationalwomensday "As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it" – Ruth Bader Ginsburg #IWD2025

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.

submitted 75 days ago • 254 comments

We need to secure funding to ensure Ukraine can sustain its war effort, and we need European partners to swiftly discuss the security guarantees they can offer. @calummillerld.bsky.social

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

Trump will have cordial phone chats and arrange friendly meetings with a murderous dictator but when he brings the president of an invaded and brutalised country into his office he bullies and mocks him. He’s not a president, he’s a gangster.

submitted 75 days ago • 11 comments

I welcome the announcement of more funding for primary care. To impact poorer health, it first needs to start with prevention and care close to home General Practice funding had fallen as a total share of the NHS, so the 7.2% increase will help secure it's future 1/ www.gov.uk/government/n...

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