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UK - Member Libdems In Europe 🔶️ Portugal - Iniciativa Liberal curious. She/Her #Breturn Interest in Portuguese, European, UK & Indian politics. 'If you tolerate this, then your children will be next'. From London, Live in Lisbon ##SlavaUkraini
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submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Ukrainian MP: ‘Hard to see’ how Trump deal leads to peace www.channel4.com/news/ukraini...

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

📊 Con lead of 1pt CON: 25% (-1) REF: 24% (-) LAB: 23% (-1) LDEM: 16% (+3) GRN: 8% (+2) via @Moreincommon_, 21 - 24 Feb Chgs. w/ 03 Feb britainelects.com

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

I’m taking part in Crossroads Surrey’s I’m a Director, Get Me Out of Here! to fund respite breaks for carers who give so much but often lack support. £1,000 can fund up to 11 weeks of respite for an unpaid carer, please donate if you can: buff.ly/41yhfi6

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

This morning’s thoughts…

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Lib Dem leader @eddavey.libdems.org.uk is on tomorrow's Pod Save the UK discussing how Starmer should handle Trump. Out tomo. Follow Pod Save the UK, with @cocobyname.bsky.social & @zoegrunewald.bsky.social (covering for @mrnishkumar.bsky.social‬), available wherever you get podcasts.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Sad news, remember watching Henry Kelly present Going for Gold while off sick from School or on in-service days: “I am an archipelago off the west coast of Africa populated by a wrecked French slaver. Saskia, will you play or pass?”

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

This is because no politician will ever explain to the public why overseas aid is so important & is a good thing & so like with many things, the narrative is entirely dominated by rightwing hate mongers

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Great to be with the Parliament Women's Football Team supporting this launch today with England Football. ⚽ MPs from across the house believe women and girls don't just belong in football. They are #MadeForThisGame 🙌🔥

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I see the French government isn't tying itself in knots over percentages like we do in the UK. They're just buying the kit they need.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Yesterday YouGov gave Lib Dems highest rating since Nov 2019. Today More in Common gives Lib Dems highest rating since they started polling. Which technically means it is true to say: BEST LIB DEM RESULT SINCE DINOSAURS ROAMED THE EARTH.*

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

In obsessed with Latvia's Eurovision entry this year. It sounds like Philip Glass producing Girls Aloud. It's *that* good. #ESC2025 youtu.be/b1_t79mQkm4?...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The Liberal Party of Canada takes the lead in the Canadian opinion polls!!! 👏🇨🇦

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Cotswold District Council's Lib Dem leader Joe Harris to resign #LDReporter #Gloucestershire

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

For three years, the brave Ukrainian people have heroically defended their country against Putin’s war machine. Now, more than ever, we must stand firmly in support of our Ukrainian friends, resist Trump's stitch up with Putin and work with our European neighbours to defend freedom and democracy.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

We had a marvellous piece of music from the Liverpool Ukraine Junior choir at event at an event to mark the 3rd anniversary of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. 400 people packed into Liverpool Parish Church for a joint service of the Anglican and Orthodox churches. #ukraine

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I understand we have to stay informed and whatever, but I am just so, so sick of hearing him. I hate his tone, I hate his timbre, I hate his inflection, I hate his word choice, I hate how obvious and stupid his lies are, I hate how he always sounds condescending. I'm just sick of hearing from him.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

How is it possible that the BBC News "five key takeaways from Trump and Macron's remarks" don't include "Macron calls Trump out as a liar"?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Lib Dems have been calling on the Government to seize frozen Russian assets. Russian assets frozen by the UK and EU countries could provide Ukraine with over £40 billion worth of military support. This is now even more urgent given Trump’s rhetoric. www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

ICYMI: I questioned the Paymaster General over the Govt's approach to negotiations with the EU and how we can rebuild our broken relationship with our nearest neighbours. Watch here:

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The EU President, Antonio Costa, with a backpack with a bottle of water. So relatable. 👍

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been a doctor for over 30 years and I’ve never heard any qualified doctor use the term ‘double pneumonia’…..the media however…🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

You can get great coverage of the German Elections in English here 👇 DW.com

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Note: 20% of the Hungarian workforce is employed in German owned companies. I expect Merz to slap Viktor Orban so hard he will wake up from his bad Russian dream.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🇨🇦🇺🇦 "Ukrainians survived the Holodomor. Ukrainians survived Stalin. Ukrainians survived Chornobyl. Ukrainians survived Putin. Do you think Donald Trump can break Ukrainians?" — Canadian Member of Parliament Charlie Angus.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Hoje na Praça Dom Pedro IV Continuando a apoiar a Ucrânia como em 2022: pasc.pt/actividades/...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Brilliant 🤣 👏

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I hope those that say FPTP keeps the extremists out of power have noted recent events.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

‘AfD are our enemies, not competitors’, says CDU member www.channel4.com/news/afd-are...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain embarks on 40th anniversary tour www.channel4.com/news/ukulele...

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

So the major surprise turned out to be the rise of the populist left in Germany 🤔

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

Fun fact: Germany includes voter turnout as one of its national wellbeing statistics. www.gut-leben-in-deutschland.de/en

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Election turnout at 83,5% - highest turnout since German reunification

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

submitted 3 days ago • 257 comments

This exactly. The Nazi salute has a clear meaning, and if you don’t want to communicate it, you simply will not do that. If you’re being cute about it, you’ve already crossed the line.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Donald Trump's stitch-up with Putin makes it is clear: we are living in a new and dangerous world. We must respond.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Quite striking results for Germany’s young (+\- compared to 2021).

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

submitted 3 days ago • 153 comments

(yout)Houston, we have a problem:

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Had a fantastic time getting some gardening done with @johnmilnehorsham.bsky.social , got to meet with volunteers from Friends of Horsham Park and the Maze garden group at the Strawford Centre. 🌿 Their brilliant work is keeping the parks clean and showing true community spirit in Horsham.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Cancel one of your tax dodging US owned streaming services for 1 month and buy this 👇 book instead

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11 As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments