Paul Tyler
@ptylerxlords.bsky.social
Refugee from politics, total of nearly 30 years in Parliament, Cornish MP 1974, then 1992-2005, working Peer 2005-21. Co-author "Can Parliament Take Back Control?" 2023.
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A good excuse to re-plug my piece on whether it's really seats, not votes, that matter for the Lib Dems: theweekinpolls.substack.com/p/do-the-lib...
December 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A good excuse to re-plug my piece on whether it's really seats, not votes, that matter for the Lib Dems: theweekinpolls.substack.com/p/do-the-lib...
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This is a major concession from the Government and should be welcomed as such. After a tough year, farmers and their supporters finally have a reason to give cheers this Christmas.
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Inheritance tax reliefs threshold to rise to £2.5m for farmers and businesses
£1m Agricultural and Business Property Reliefs threshold increased to £2.5m from April 2026 – allowing spouses or civil partners to pass on up to £5m in qualifying agricultural or business assets betw...
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December 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is a major concession from the Government and should be welcomed as such. After a tough year, farmers and their supporters finally have a reason to give cheers this Christmas.
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www.gov.uk/government/n...
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They were going to make it ten years of not saying bad things about Trump on social media before you can enter the country,l. But that would mean that JD Vance and several other Trump Administration people would be denied access back in, if they traveled overseas.
December 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
They were going to make it ten years of not saying bad things about Trump on social media before you can enter the country,l. But that would mean that JD Vance and several other Trump Administration people would be denied access back in, if they traveled overseas.
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This is a very astute observation. I hadn't thought about Keith Kellogg, he just disappeared from the scene. It makes perfect sense that Putin would want to fainthearted guy like Witkoff doing the negotiations. 🗽
December 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This is a very astute observation. I hadn't thought about Keith Kellogg, he just disappeared from the scene. It makes perfect sense that Putin would want to fainthearted guy like Witkoff doing the negotiations. 🗽
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Word of the Day: winningest
![White background with text reading: winningest [advective]
: having achieved the most wins
| the Liberal Democrats were the winningest party in 2025's council by-elections](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5cb5baul4azrgk7rkkgyt64w/bafkreibdaaiyzxjhlmpub6kd3frzwaz66fthmwoeycjdbo26yjzlktbqxu@jpeg)
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Word of the Day: winningest
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Watch @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk's First PMQ vs Last PMQ of 2025.
Sadly, social care still remains an afterthought for this government, in 2026 this must change to fix our NHS.
Sadly, social care still remains an afterthought for this government, in 2026 this must change to fix our NHS.
December 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Watch @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk's First PMQ vs Last PMQ of 2025.
Sadly, social care still remains an afterthought for this government, in 2026 this must change to fix our NHS.
Sadly, social care still remains an afterthought for this government, in 2026 this must change to fix our NHS.
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Starmer’s Trump Tax is a disaster for our NHS and for patients. Billions of pounds will be plundered from hospitals and GPs to pay big American pharma, all to please the White House.
What on earth is Labour playing at?
What on earth is Labour playing at?
December 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Starmer’s Trump Tax is a disaster for our NHS and for patients. Billions of pounds will be plundered from hospitals and GPs to pay big American pharma, all to please the White House.
What on earth is Labour playing at?
What on earth is Labour playing at?
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Kier Starmer is IGNORING the NHS Crisis! | Prime Minister's Questions
Kier Starmer is IGNORING the NHS Crisis! | Prime Minister's Questions
Patients left on trolleys for hours. No privacy. No dignity.This winter crisis did not start today and it will get worse unless social care is treated as the...
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December 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Kier Starmer is IGNORING the NHS Crisis! | Prime Minister's Questions
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A reminder that Nigel Farage has pocketed more than £400,000 this year from GB News.
No wonder Farage is cheering Trump on in his attacks on the BBC.
No wonder Farage is cheering Trump on in his attacks on the BBC.
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A reminder that Nigel Farage has pocketed more than £400,000 this year from GB News.
No wonder Farage is cheering Trump on in his attacks on the BBC.
No wonder Farage is cheering Trump on in his attacks on the BBC.
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Questioning the Prime Minister at the Liaison Committee yesterday on the impact of inheritance tax changes on farmers. The personal, mental and financial impact on farmers over the age of 75 is particularly acute at this point, and yet there is little sign that the government is listening.
December 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Questioning the Prime Minister at the Liaison Committee yesterday on the impact of inheritance tax changes on farmers. The personal, mental and financial impact on farmers over the age of 75 is particularly acute at this point, and yet there is little sign that the government is listening.
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I'm glad Keir Starmer has listened to our calls for this inquiry following the Reform Russian bribery scandal.
Nigel Farage should be the first to give evidence.
Nigel Farage should be the first to give evidence.
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has launched a formal investigation into foreign election interference
It comes after former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was sentenced to over 10 years in prison last month for making pro-Russia statements for bribes
It comes after former Reform UK Welsh Leader Nathan Gill was sentenced to over 10 years in prison last month for making pro-Russia statements for bribes
December 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I'm glad Keir Starmer has listened to our calls for this inquiry following the Reform Russian bribery scandal.
Nigel Farage should be the first to give evidence.
Nigel Farage should be the first to give evidence.
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Lib Dems launch farming version of Teach First to boost food security
Lib Dems launch farming version of Teach First to boost food security
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP and Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Tim Farron has unveiled a major new food security plan, which includes a proposal to launch a 'farm...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Lib Dems launch farming version of Teach First to boost food security
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🔴 Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s £9m Donor Profits From Putin Propaganda Platform While Holding MoD Stake
Reform UK’s biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation.
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Reform UK’s biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation.
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Nigel Farage’s £9m Donor Profits From Putin Propaganda Platform While Holding MoD Stake
Reform UK's biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation
bylinetimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🔴 Exclusive: Nigel Farage’s £9m Donor Profits From Putin Propaganda Platform While Holding MoD Stake
Reform UK’s biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation.
@nafeez.bsky.social
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Reform UK’s biggest donor is profiting from ties to a pro-Kremlin platform that hosts a Russian intelligence-backed influence operation.
@nafeez.bsky.social
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Reform is mired in scandals of racism, corruption and Russian interference.
It's no wonder more and more people are turning to the positive voice of the Liberal Democrats as the antidote to this divisive politics.
It's no wonder more and more people are turning to the positive voice of the Liberal Democrats as the antidote to this divisive politics.
December 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Reform is mired in scandals of racism, corruption and Russian interference.
It's no wonder more and more people are turning to the positive voice of the Liberal Democrats as the antidote to this divisive politics.
It's no wonder more and more people are turning to the positive voice of the Liberal Democrats as the antidote to this divisive politics.
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🔥 WATCH THIS
Ben Maguire MP confronts the Taxpayers’ Alliance, one of the right-wing think tanks behind the Liz Truss mini-budget that sent people’s mortgages soaring.
The people who broke the economy don’t get to lecture the rest of us.
Ben Maguire MP confronts the Taxpayers’ Alliance, one of the right-wing think tanks behind the Liz Truss mini-budget that sent people’s mortgages soaring.
The people who broke the economy don’t get to lecture the rest of us.
December 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🔥 WATCH THIS
Ben Maguire MP confronts the Taxpayers’ Alliance, one of the right-wing think tanks behind the Liz Truss mini-budget that sent people’s mortgages soaring.
The people who broke the economy don’t get to lecture the rest of us.
Ben Maguire MP confronts the Taxpayers’ Alliance, one of the right-wing think tanks behind the Liz Truss mini-budget that sent people’s mortgages soaring.
The people who broke the economy don’t get to lecture the rest of us.
Congrats = Cream first in DEVON (jam first in CORNWALL cos it is so super superior you can get more on that way).
Looks like we’ve scone and done it!
Celebrating our 13th by-election win of the year in Devon - beating the Tories and Reform yet again.
Celebrating our 13th by-election win of the year in Devon - beating the Tories and Reform yet again.
December 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Congrats = Cream first in DEVON (jam first in CORNWALL cos it is so super superior you can get more on that way).
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Our democracy is under threat.
Unless we ditch our outdated voting system, the next election risks allowing Nigel Farage into Number 10 on the “pull of a one-armed bandit” gambling machine. I asked the Leader of the House to back the Lib Dem elections bill when it returns to Parliament in January.
Unless we ditch our outdated voting system, the next election risks allowing Nigel Farage into Number 10 on the “pull of a one-armed bandit” gambling machine. I asked the Leader of the House to back the Lib Dem elections bill when it returns to Parliament in January.
December 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Our democracy is under threat.
Unless we ditch our outdated voting system, the next election risks allowing Nigel Farage into Number 10 on the “pull of a one-armed bandit” gambling machine. I asked the Leader of the House to back the Lib Dem elections bill when it returns to Parliament in January.
Unless we ditch our outdated voting system, the next election risks allowing Nigel Farage into Number 10 on the “pull of a one-armed bandit” gambling machine. I asked the Leader of the House to back the Lib Dem elections bill when it returns to Parliament in January.
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We need an emergency flu vaccine drive to protect the vulnerable and prevent a disaster in the NHS.
That means jabs offered in pubs, churches and community spaces, and taking on the anti-vax lies promoted by Reform and other conspiracy theorists head on.
That means jabs offered in pubs, churches and community spaces, and taking on the anti-vax lies promoted by Reform and other conspiracy theorists head on.
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We need an emergency flu vaccine drive to protect the vulnerable and prevent a disaster in the NHS.
That means jabs offered in pubs, churches and community spaces, and taking on the anti-vax lies promoted by Reform and other conspiracy theorists head on.
That means jabs offered in pubs, churches and community spaces, and taking on the anti-vax lies promoted by Reform and other conspiracy theorists head on.
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And it passed by the narrowest of margins...with Nigel Farage absent.
🚨BREAKING🚨
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
December 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
And it passed by the narrowest of margins...with Nigel Farage absent.
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It's taken Putin 4 years, over a million dead Russians, an insurrection, an expanded NATO and the complete evaporation of the myth of military might... and he still hasn't achieved the scale of Liz Truss' complete economic meltdown. Not yet, at least.
Liz be like: "8% inflation? Tut... Amateurs."
Liz be like: "8% inflation? Tut... Amateurs."
Russia cannot be beaten.
"But Putin can. He’s losing, not winning. And sooner or later, like the tsars and totalitarians of old, that same eternal Russia whose name he glorifies will chew him up and spit him out."
Outstanding piece on Putin's deluded gambit.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"But Putin can. He’s losing, not winning. And sooner or later, like the tsars and totalitarians of old, that same eternal Russia whose name he glorifies will chew him up and spit him out."
Outstanding piece on Putin's deluded gambit.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall
The war against Ukraine has hit ordinary Russians hard, and the deteriorating situation is likely to inflame tensions, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It's taken Putin 4 years, over a million dead Russians, an insurrection, an expanded NATO and the complete evaporation of the myth of military might... and he still hasn't achieved the scale of Liz Truss' complete economic meltdown. Not yet, at least.
Liz be like: "8% inflation? Tut... Amateurs."
Liz be like: "8% inflation? Tut... Amateurs."
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The penny has dropped FINALLY
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The penny has dropped FINALLY
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A 'Russia Hoax' or Russian Hopes? How Putin’s Troll Farms are Boosting Nigel Farage’s Campaigns – Again
🔎 From the archive — July 2024
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🔎 From the archive — July 2024
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A 'Russia Hoax' or Russian Hopes? How Putin’s Troll Farms are Boosting Nigel Farage’s Campaigns – Again
Islamophobia, the Great Replacement Theory, and GB News are key elements in the Russian propaganda networks supporting the Reform Party
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
A 'Russia Hoax' or Russian Hopes? How Putin’s Troll Farms are Boosting Nigel Farage’s Campaigns – Again
🔎 From the archive — July 2024
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🔎 From the archive — July 2024
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This is getting stupid now.
We're at the point where Labour acknowledge both the damage caused by Brexit AND that rejoining the Customs Union (more accurately, joining A Customs Union) would boost growth.
And yet they still reinforce their red lines.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
We're at the point where Labour acknowledge both the damage caused by Brexit AND that rejoining the Customs Union (more accurately, joining A Customs Union) would boost growth.
And yet they still reinforce their red lines.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This is getting stupid now.
We're at the point where Labour acknowledge both the damage caused by Brexit AND that rejoining the Customs Union (more accurately, joining A Customs Union) would boost growth.
And yet they still reinforce their red lines.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
We're at the point where Labour acknowledge both the damage caused by Brexit AND that rejoining the Customs Union (more accurately, joining A Customs Union) would boost growth.
And yet they still reinforce their red lines.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Striking geographic pattern for where parties have been winning principal authority council by-elections since May.
(The part of the UK cropped out hasn't had any.)
One might even says this... looks like a two-party system?
(The part of the UK cropped out hasn't had any.)
One might even says this... looks like a two-party system?
December 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Striking geographic pattern for where parties have been winning principal authority council by-elections since May.
(The part of the UK cropped out hasn't had any.)
One might even says this... looks like a two-party system?
(The part of the UK cropped out hasn't had any.)
One might even says this... looks like a two-party system?
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The real scandal here is the Chancellor hiked people's taxes during a cost of living crisis instead of fixing our trade with Europe.
That is exactly what the Conservatives did for years after their disastrous Brexit deal. No wonder Kemi Badenoch isn't keen to talk about it.
That is exactly what the Conservatives did for years after their disastrous Brexit deal. No wonder Kemi Badenoch isn't keen to talk about it.
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The real scandal here is the Chancellor hiked people's taxes during a cost of living crisis instead of fixing our trade with Europe.
That is exactly what the Conservatives did for years after their disastrous Brexit deal. No wonder Kemi Badenoch isn't keen to talk about it.
That is exactly what the Conservatives did for years after their disastrous Brexit deal. No wonder Kemi Badenoch isn't keen to talk about it.