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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · 2d

This sounds great. Can we also double their business rates and ban gambling advertising?

And use some of the revenue generated for a retraining fund to help staff who want to upskill and land new jobs?

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 2d

Betting firm threatens to end its entire High St presence if it has to pay any more tax bit.ly/4qhaL1j yet another in the too rich and too important to pay tax series

If gambling tax rises, we’ll shut all our 1,300 shops, warns Betfred

Increased levies expected to be imposed in next month’s budget could cost the company 7,000 jobs, according to Joanne Whittaker, the chief executive

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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · 9d

This is a really excellent piece and, I think, deeply insightful of our current moment’s predicament.

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · Jul 21

"Abu Ghraib . . . was a leak, and people were shocked. Now similar degradation in 'deportations' is being intentionally broadcast for the entertainment of half the country"

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/

The Politics of Humiliation

The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · 14d

JJ was an absolute champ, in the LibDems defence.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 25d

Ming Campbell was a dedicated public servant and a true Liberal giant.

His principled leadership opposing the Iraq War was a mark of his morality, courage and wisdom.

But more than that, he was an incredibly warm and caring friend and colleague.

We will miss him terribly.

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Chris Northwood @chrisn.xyz · 27d

I see people are upset that I won an award for women because I'm the wrong type of woman. I was moved and honoured to have been awarded this by the party's women's group, and that the Lib Dems at all levels have my back and I will continue to fight for liberalism and my community.

Chris Northwood holds a glass award that says The Patsy Calton Award 2025 Liberal Democrats on it in front of a progress pride flag.

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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · Sep 20

The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies

The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts

The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies

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Charley Hasted @charleyhasted.bsky.social · Sep 20

Some people are really really bad losers...
Some people are really really bad feminists...

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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · Sep 20

Fresh off destroying the catnip, she’s right onto demanding banana

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Caron Lindsay @caronmlindsay.bsky.social · Sep 20

Delighted that the @libdems.org.uk showed yet again that we reject the assault on trans people’s rights promoted by the small anti trans group in the party. #ldconf

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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · Sep 20

I moved the catnip from the herb garden to the planter 2 minutes ago. #cats

A very naughty cat eating all of the catnip I’d grown for her the instant she can.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · Sep 17

the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger

my latest with @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing one without a vote

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · Sep 15

But, there is so much potential in what the FC could do, so I hope in another cycle or so, the worst of the dross will have left the party having realised their political home lies elsewhere and it can grow into a really good scrutiny body.

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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · Sep 15

Really very good from Mark. I’m likely not restanding to the FC for similar reasons - my energy can be better spent in Scotland without having to engage with any of the (very) small group of emotional vampires & wreckers that dwell on the FC.

Mark Valladares @honladymark.bsky.social · Sep 15

Three years on Federal Council are coming towards an end so, even though I’m not running for re-election, here is a report back… liberalbureaucracy.blogspot.com/2025/09/fede...

Federal Council: not letting the door hit me on the way out...

Three years ago, when I ran for a place on the inaugural Federal Council, my aims were to: Establish the Federal Council as an effective scr...

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Mark Valladares @honladymark.bsky.social · Sep 15

Three years on Federal Council are coming towards an end so, even though I’m not running for re-election, here is a report back… liberalbureaucracy.blogspot.com/2025/09/fede...

Federal Council: not letting the door hit me on the way out...

Three years ago, when I ran for a place on the inaugural Federal Council, my aims were to: Establish the Federal Council as an effective scr...

liberalbureaucracy.blogspot.com

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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · Sep 11

The US right has such an intense martyrdom complex. They’re just desperate to be oppressed by the government. It’s really fucking weird.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · Sep 11

"Almost no one will have knowingly encountered someone who illegally entered the country, let alone seen them actually arrive on the beach at Dover. They just think there’s a crisis because other people keep telling them there is."

A nation is a shared illusion – so a government has the power to change it

Also this week: who was the first king of England? And my favourite giant semi-aquatic rat.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · Sep 8

the first sentence is a Journey

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · Aug 31

Alex Phillips is clearly just shit at cutting bread.

Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · Aug 31

🚨BREAKING:

Bread is now woke, according to Alex Phillips

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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · Aug 30

Is this the cat equivalent of sitting criss cross applesauce

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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · Aug 21

Rest in piss, bozo.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · Aug 21

James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and one of the most influential voices in the conservative evangelical movement, has died at age 89

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · Aug 8

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · Aug 7

(She was not, she kept zipping around)

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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · Aug 7

Red Panda at the zoo was very well behaved

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Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · Aug 7

It is now August. I went to the zoo. The tram there and back was hell. I will not be leaving Leith again until September.

Greg Foster @gregfoster.org.uk · Jul 13

Edinburgh desperately needs a tourist tax. Which should get set at such a level that nobody has to pay council tax in August. Not even there yet and I’m already done.