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This week, we successfully kicked off the conversation about a visitor charge in Bristol! Read about our idea to generate new income for our city ✅🏨💷⬇️ www.bristollibdems.org/news/article...

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The US just voted alongside Russia, Belarus and North Korea against a UN resolution to support Ukraine. This is a wake-up call for all those cheerleading Trump in our country.

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Meeting Henleaze residents by Horfield Common to discuss local traffic and parking issues, especially on Bristol Rovers match days. (We could hear the crowd cheering the 3 Rovers goals 😀)

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Amazing Lunar New Year event at Bristol museum, great performances by Bristol’s Chinese and other East Asian community groups, grand finale by Bristol University lion dance group, I was blessed to greet the lion and receive the good luck lettuce. Happy Year of the Snake 🐍

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Lib Dem Cllr @stephenwi11iams.bsky.social secures funding for Bristol’s libraries and lays out plans to address the challenges the service faces ✅📚🏛️👇 www.bristollibdems.org/news/article...

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Bristol's draft budget for the forthcoming year has just been published! Read our Lib Dem Councillors' initial reaction to this landmark budget 💷📊🔶️👇 www.bristollibdems.org/news/article...

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Success! Local residents celebrate the new Canford Lane zebra crossing, finally installed after years of campaigning and secured by Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze's Lib Dem Councillors ✅🥳🦓👇 www.bristollibdems.org/news/article...

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Libraries are a vital community resource. That's we are fighting drastic cuts proposed for Bristol's library service 📚💵🛑👇 www.bristollibdems.org/news/article...

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Delighted to be joined by local residents and campaigners to mark the opening (at last) of the new crossing on Canford Lane. This will be a major help for people to cross safely a very busy road on their way to Westbury village shops and cafes.

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“Jailed Bristol grandmother says she's being ‘discriminated against as a woman’” We’re supporting Gaie Delap as she’s been put in prison – because the Government can’t find an electronic tag that fits her: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

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And so ends The Mirror and the Light, drama of the year, brilliantly scripted and acted, and wonderfully set. (Pleased to see Cardiff castle getting a starring role at Cromwell’s execution)

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Joined Bristol @makevotesmatter.bsky.social today at their stall outside Waitrose in my ward. Pleased (but not surprised 😀) that large numbers of shoppers were in favour of switching to proportional representation.

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Our motion today has pledged Bristol City Council's support for Lib Dem MP Roz Savage's Climate and Nature Bill in Parliament, and has called on Bristol's Labour MPs to do the same ✅🧡👇 www.bristollibdems.org/news/article...

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Catch me on BBC Sunday Politics West, discussing local council budget pressures, child fostering, crime and my opposition to the expansion of Bristol Airport.

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Delighted to speak at Bristol’s World AIDS Day event, which was inspiring, moving and unexpectedly entertaining with music from Sing Out Bristol and a drag queen 😀 Well done @brigstowe.bsky.social for putting it together.

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Pleased that a majority of MPs have voted for the Assisted Dying Bill. I’ve long supported this change, due to my traumatic childhood experience of witnessing my father die slowly and painfully. Many deaths are neither peaceful nor dignified and can be awful for everyone.

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Frampton Cotterell (South Gloucestershire) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 49.3% (-2.4) 🌳 CON: 41.7% (+8.1) 🌍 GRN: 6.0% (-3.0) 🌹 LAB: 3.0% (-2.7) Liberal Democrat HOLD. Changes w/ 2023.

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Bristol council and the West of England Green Recovery Fund will invest over £1million in managing the city’s parks and green spaces for the benefit of nature and wildlife, helping stem the ecological emergency. Pleased to launch the scheme at Oldbury Court. news.bristol.gov.uk/press-releas...?

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Male violence against women and girls is totally unacceptable. All of us have a duty to call it out, including associated behaviours such as cat-calling and drink spiking. As an ally I attended this evening’s vigil on Bristol College Green and will continue to work with colleagues on these issues.

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The ability to levy a hotel/visitor tax should be one of several fiscal powers devolved to local councils or combined authorities. England is massively over-centralised. Great cities like Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, etc should not have to proffer the begging bowl to Westminster all the time.

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We are calling on Tory WECA Mayor Candidate Steve Smith to condemn disgraceful comments made by Tory Bristol City Councillor regarding the wording of the Colston Plaque www.bristollibdems.org/news/article...

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One of our campaign pledges in Westbury and Henleaze was to deliver the long needed zebra crossing on Canford Lane. Delighted to say that the contractor will be on site next week, so residents will soon be able to cross this busy road more safely.

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Buoyed up by the positivity at Bristol One City Many Communities conference on community cohesion. There is so much that unites us and lots more to discover about our diverse city by bringing people together.

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Rebuilding our close relationship with the EU is vital to boost our stuttering economy, to help withstand the Trump turbulence that is coming to the world. Starmer needs to rediscover his former Remainer instincts. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Excellent day at Western Counties Liberal Democrats conference, held in Clifton. We are all still basking in the orange glow of winning so many MPs in every county, our largest contingent of MPs since 1906. Good to meet many of them this weekend.

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My first post here, I’m likely to post about Bristol politics in my role as chair of the council’s Public Health and Communities Committee and chair of Bristol’s Health and Wellbeing Board and of course about @bristollibdems.bsky.social

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