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Phil Aisthorpe 🔶️
@sandgrouse.bsky.social
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Retired IT project manager. #LibDems 🔶️. Ex Labour, disillusioned idealist. I go for walks and take photographs. My 3 political wishes: 1 Green economy, 2 #PR, 3 #Rejoin 🇪🇺 #FBPE. Make that 4 - free 🇺🇦. PS, I don't reply to DMs.
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The Tories can shout at me all they like, but the truth is their Brexit deal it is hurting our country and Labour won’t do anything about it.

Today I urged the Prime Minister to actually fix it.
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There is no quick route back to growth without the EU – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit.
It is the right way to go: leaving the EU has been a disaster. But refusing to admit it has cost Labour precious time and credibility www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr
It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
Surely John Healey, Defence Secretary, must resign over this issue. Labour promised that nimbyism would not be allowed to stand in the way of the green revolution, and yet here he is, attempting to torpedo his own government's flagship green policy.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
MPs oppose 3,500-acre Rotherham and Doncaster solar farm plan
Campaigners say the 3,500-acre development in South Yorkshire is too big and in the wrong location.
www.bbc.co.uk
I wonder how many residents of Istanbul could read that shop sign in 1870?
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Five hours left.
The Kindle edition of 'Made in Manchester' is available for one day only at just 99p. Fill your boots! www.amazon.co.uk/Made-Manches...
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Ffs @uklabour.bsky.social what are you thinking? Even the Israeli authorities are banning Maccabi fans.
Bridget Phillipson still says its wrong that [violent racist] Maccabi fans are banned from the Villa game & the govt is doing what it can to overturn the ban.

Phillipson wasn't asked about yesterdays events in Israel.
Is it hug-a-thug week or something?
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Developers encroach on 2,000-year-old Devon wetland citing ‘blockages’

Quite apart from the environmental questions raised here, shouldn’t we be asking how sensible is it to be building houses that are clearly going to be flood-prone in the near future?
Developers encroach on 2,000-year-old Devon wetland citing ‘blockages’ to Labour’s housing plans
According to planning conditions, Wolborough Fen in Newton Abbot must be protected as groundworks are prepared for 1,200 homes
www.theguardian.com
Another opportunity for Labour to flaunt their contempt for the environment.
I'm sure ultra right-wing football thugs will show Keir Starmer the utmost respect at Villa Park. Why on earth is Starmer politicisng a public safety issue?
Autumn in the park. Sunday morning.
We planted this in 2017, and 8 years later, it's flowered for the first time! #plants #gardens #gardening
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Lib Dems are the winners of by-elections Super Thursday!

💪 Won 7 out of 10 local by-elections
↗️ GAINS from the Conservatives, Labour and the Green Party
🔶 6 from 6 seats in Surrey as what remains of the Blue Wall crumbles away

Congratulations to our brilliant campaign teams and new councillors!
England is just the bit of the UK that's lacks any clear identity outside of sport.
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The most interesting vote of the night imho and one that foretells a potential apocalypse in the suburbs of the south-east for the Conservatives. More liberal Tories go LD, more reactionary ones go to Reform.
Camberley West (Surrey) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 49.5% (+16.6)
➡️ RFM: 25.9% (New)
🌳 CON: 20.4% (-28.8)
🌹 LAB: 4.3% (-11.4)

No WPB (-2.3) as previous.

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ 2021.