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Bleeding heart, pragmatic libertarian. Remoaner. Real food enthusiast. CrossFit. Lib Dem Cllr for Horley West & Sidlow. Promoted by RBLD, 77 Earlsbrook Road, RH1 6DR
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Freedom to live you life as who you are is not too much to ask. Today, members passed our new policy to strengthen the rights of the LGBTQ+ community and support them as in living their lives freely.

Good thread. We use the word “democracy” to mean constitutional government. Meanwhile the autocrats use the same word to mean something quite different. Ultimately both have “voting” in common, but not much else.

Holmwoods & Beare Green (Mole Valley) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 46.5% (+1.1) 🌳 CON: 27.2% (-2.8) ➡️ RFM: 21.6% (+11.5) 🌍 GRN: 4.7% (-3.6) No LAB (-6.2) as previous. Liberal Democrat HOLD. Changes w/ 2024.

Giving me strong Brexit vibes

Stalin. Mao.

Great essay, worth a read.

Right now, Kemi Badenoch is doing more to defend JD Vance than the US is doing to defend Ukraine.

NEW: Keir Starmer commits the UK to putting “boots on the ground and planes in the air” to defend Ukraine as part of a peace deal. A show of strength and solidarity, against the backdrop of Trump’s unfolding betrayal.

We cannot in anyway permit a state visit by that man. If it goes ahead we are on the streets.

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That was the most shameful performance by any American president in a century. I want to fucking throw up.

And more than half of Surrey. Where the Tories had won every single constituency in every general election since 1906.*

I think we will be fine.

If Ukraine is forced to surrender its sovereign territory to Russia, it will be the greatest betrayal of a European ally since Poland in 1945. The UK must lead in Europe in defence of Ukraine. We cannot stand back and watch as Zelensky is bullied by Trump.

Does anything eat spiders? Yes: wasps, lizards and birds.