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Translator, Parish councillor, district councillor, #EastDevonDistrictCouncil, #ALDEParty, #LibDems FIRC. 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺#FBPE

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 19d

I’ve just realised that I haven’t listened to BBC radio 4 routinely now for years. I stopped the news programmes including the today programme over a year ago when they became unashamed mouthpieces for Farage.

I was a lifelong radio 4 listener. I wonder how many others there are.

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 6h

Welcome Graham!

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Justin @justified72.bsky.social · 19h

So many mixed feelings about this.

For one, my party, The #LibDems, supports a federalist (rather than unionist) UK. We should be clearer on this.

We're not Tory-lite. We have stances on social issues which are FAR more progressive than Labour.

I'd welcome the converted, but am wary of entryists.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 23h

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has written an open letter to One Nation Conservatives who feel abandoned by their party urging them to join the Liberal Democrats, following Kemi Badenoch’s conference speech today

Full text of the letter:

Dear friends,

Our country is at a crossroads.

The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch is becoming more extreme and out of touch, chasing Nigel Farage instead of focusing on the issues that really matter to people. Meanwhile, Reform UK is growing in strength - threatening the tolerant, decent values that hold our communities together.

I know many One Nation Conservatives are deeply concerned about the lurch to the hard right in our country and under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership. Her plans to tear up the Climate Change Act and withdraw from the ECHR show she is abandoning traditional British values of tolerance, decency and the rule of law.

So my message to the millions of One Nation Conservatives who feel let down by their party and reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is to come and join us. Help us save our country and defend the values we all hold dear.

We will stand strong where others back down. We will not pander to Reform. We will fight to protect our environment, stand up for decency and the rule of law, and stop Trump’s America from becoming Farage’s Britain.

So if you share those values, now is the time to join the Liberal Democrats.

With best wishes,

Ed Davey

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 19h

I’d love to hear from the Conservative Party that they think things are going really, really badly for them, and they haven’t got their act together, instead of their continued insistence that they are owed government and they are completely competent, even as an entire country slaps its forehead.

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 19h

Delusional

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Shortly after accusing all other political party leaders of believing in "the magic money tree", Kemi Badenoch announces her plan to completely scrap stamp duty, without any word on how she plans to pay for it

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 19h

I wonder if she is as confused as she sounds.

The mental gymnastics required to believe two impossible things before breakfast should be keeping her fit.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

The Conservative party's treatment of David, who exposed the cash for questions scandal, is a former political journalist of the year, and has been covering party conferences for almost 40 years, is a disgrace
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

bylinetimes.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 2d

Two years ago, we watched in horror those appalling scenes of Hamas’s evil terrorist attack on Israel.

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t think for a second this is actually them behaving honourably. I think they are aimless, talentless, rootless, arrogant and lost. And shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly because of that.

Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 3d

FGS. How did “Ms” autocorrect to “and”?

Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 3d

Beyond the moral turpitude of what and Badenoch is proposing, I feel her strategy of fighting Reform for a small percentage of the votes is likely to backfire on them both.

Almost enough to wonder if this the Tories falling honourably on their swords.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d

Jane Goodall said she’d like to send off to another planet: Musk, Trump, Putin, Xi & Netanyahu. 🚀

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Amanda Jeyaretnam 🔸 (she/her) @liberalisms.bsky.social · 5d

Let’s be clear. Three organisations were bundled into one vote. Two were unequivocally terror organisations. I believe this is why the LibDem MPs abstained.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 5d

Polanski: "The proscription of Palestine Action must be withdrawn" - noting that Lib Dems failed to vote against the ban.

The Green leader calls it an attempt to "silence dissent"

"The alarm bells of authoritarianism are ringing loud and clear" he says

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Steve P 🔶️ @hammerdoc.bsky.social · 5d

That's more than a tad disingenuous. He knows full well why the Lib Dems mostly abstained.

Here's a clue: The vote was to proscribe three groups. The other groups were "Maniacs Murder Cult" and "Russian Imperial Movement".

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 5d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 5d

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

#r4today

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 5d

Just heard Chris Philp on BBC’s Today programme explaining why the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed ECHR isn’t mentioned in Belfast Agreement - which is simply untrue. The UK govt agreed to incorporate it into NI law & give direct access to the courts (Strand 3). Why no BBC fact-check?

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 5d

He’s loving the old AI at the moment.

Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 6d

Truly appalled to hear of the murders at the Manchester
synagogue, at the end of Yom Kippur. Violence is not acceptable, whoever carries it out.

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 7d

A true loss to the scientific world. Jane Goodall’s approach to primatology was unique and personal.

David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 7d

I am very sad to report that Jane Goodall has died. Zoologist, primatologist, and anthropologist. Worlds foremost authority on chimpanzees. 🧪

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7d

A whopping 38% of Russia’s refining capacity is now offline, according to The Economist.

Gasoline output fell by 1 million tons in September which has created a 20% domestic shortfall.

Repairs may take months because of sanctions limiting access to parts and tech.

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 8d

Are we any closer to knowing what the situation is on the stamp duty on the house in Clacton that doesn’t belong to Figel Narage but to his girlfriend?

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 8d

In fairness we were the test bed. The problem is that some people are doubling down even though it’s clear it was a monumental error.