LibDem leader Ed Davey wants Gibb removed from the BBC board now + "an end to political appointments" on the Johnson/Gibb model
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The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
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November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
LibDem leader Ed Davey wants Gibb removed from the BBC board now + "an end to political appointments" on the Johnson/Gibb model
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was thinking unironically it should perhaps be someone LibDem aligned - signals a change of direction without being an obvious land grab of the sort this lot seem allergic to - and at serious risk of persuading myself it should actually be Clegg
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
was thinking unironically it should perhaps be someone LibDem aligned - signals a change of direction without being an obvious land grab of the sort this lot seem allergic to - and at serious risk of persuading myself it should actually be Clegg
We often speak of the Greens alongside the LibDems - usually in the phrase "LibDem gain from Greens".
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
We often speak of the Greens alongside the LibDems - usually in the phrase "LibDem gain from Greens".
The deadline for voting in the #LibDem internal elections is 2pm tomorrow. If you haven't voted already, and you want our party to live its queer-supportive values the @pluslibdems.bsky.social have a handy list of endorsements
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November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The deadline for voting in the #LibDem internal elections is 2pm tomorrow. If you haven't voted already, and you want our party to live its queer-supportive values the @pluslibdems.bsky.social have a handy list of endorsements
Anyone wanting to keep updated on the chaos at Reform run Kent County Council, I suggest you follow Opposition Leader #LibDem Cllr @antonyhook.bsky.social.
cc @adambienkov.bsky.social, @writesbright.bsky.social, @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
cc @adambienkov.bsky.social, @writesbright.bsky.social, @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Anyone wanting to keep updated on the chaos at Reform run Kent County Council, I suggest you follow Opposition Leader #LibDem Cllr @antonyhook.bsky.social.
cc @adambienkov.bsky.social, @writesbright.bsky.social, @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
cc @adambienkov.bsky.social, @writesbright.bsky.social, @RMCunliffe.bsky.social
If the next government doesn't turn out to be a Green/LibDem coalition, I will eat my hat.
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If the next government doesn't turn out to be a Green/LibDem coalition, I will eat my hat.
If ppl vote for Greens in seats they can't win (95%+ of seats) they'll help Reform win by splitting the progressive vote. Greens best chance of maximizing seats is to vote tactically which means most will need to vote Labour & a big chunk Libdem. In seats they *can* win Lab/Libdems must vote Green.
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
If ppl vote for Greens in seats they can't win (95%+ of seats) they'll help Reform win by splitting the progressive vote. Greens best chance of maximizing seats is to vote tactically which means most will need to vote Labour & a big chunk Libdem. In seats they *can* win Lab/Libdems must vote Green.
I am a LibDem but they are behind the curve on this.
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I am a LibDem but they are behind the curve on this.
LibDem vs. Reform would be an interesting realignment.
Bear with me. This might be politics of the two party variety...?
Aggregate Result of the 155 Council By-Elections (for 158 Seats) since the 2025 Local Elections:
RFM: 54 (+46)
LDM: 47 (+19)
CON: 16 (-19)
LAB: 13 (-38)
GRN: 11 (+1)
Ind: 9 (-3)
Local: 4 (-6)
SNP: 3 (=)
PLC: 1 (=)
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RFM: 54 (+46)
LDM: 47 (+19)
CON: 16 (-19)
LAB: 13 (-38)
GRN: 11 (+1)
Ind: 9 (-3)
Local: 4 (-6)
SNP: 3 (=)
PLC: 1 (=)
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November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
LibDem vs. Reform would be an interesting realignment.
I can’t vote in this country but I agree with you, Flick. Green/LibDem coalition would be ideal.
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I can’t vote in this country but I agree with you, Flick. Green/LibDem coalition would be ideal.
The Scottish LibDem youth wing only still exists because I pushed through a constitutional change to increase the max age to 30 because otherwise there would have been too few people left to run it in 2016.
I imagine things have changed a lot for it in the near decade since
I imagine things have changed a lot for it in the near decade since
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The Scottish LibDem youth wing only still exists because I pushed through a constitutional change to increase the max age to 30 because otherwise there would have been too few people left to run it in 2016.
I imagine things have changed a lot for it in the near decade since
I imagine things have changed a lot for it in the near decade since
Can’t tell you how often this happens in #LibDem meetings. Recently, I suggested a QR code. It couldn’t be executed for that medium. My suggestion put down - roundly by all the men. Later “A MAN” suggests having the QR code on xxxx instead.
It gets done. Everyone thanks him for his brilliant idea.
It gets done. Everyone thanks him for his brilliant idea.
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Can’t tell you how often this happens in #LibDem meetings. Recently, I suggested a QR code. It couldn’t be executed for that medium. My suggestion put down - roundly by all the men. Later “A MAN” suggests having the QR code on xxxx instead.
It gets done. Everyone thanks him for his brilliant idea.
It gets done. Everyone thanks him for his brilliant idea.
I am glad to see Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick could praise the heroism of Samir Zitouni, alongside LibDem leader Ed Davey, and MPs across different parties
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I am glad to see Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick could praise the heroism of Samir Zitouni, alongside LibDem leader Ed Davey, and MPs across different parties
Have a look at BBC Scotland. Apart from the National newspaper, every paper is viscerally opposed to SNP / Scottish Government and BBC always use their front pages to set their news agenda. Do Lab/Tory/ LibDem object? No - they feed their lines to the media and they are happy to cheerlead.
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Have a look at BBC Scotland. Apart from the National newspaper, every paper is viscerally opposed to SNP / Scottish Government and BBC always use their front pages to set their news agenda. Do Lab/Tory/ LibDem object? No - they feed their lines to the media and they are happy to cheerlead.
A Green/LibDem coalition government would be fantastic. In many ways the current government is worse than the previous one because the desire for (and their promise of) change has been totally unmet. Can't wait to see the back of them.
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
A Green/LibDem coalition government would be fantastic. In many ways the current government is worse than the previous one because the desire for (and their promise of) change has been totally unmet. Can't wait to see the back of them.
Put that another way. Without LibDem supporting the Tories we would not have had Tory austerity or Brexit.
November 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Put that another way. Without LibDem supporting the Tories we would not have had Tory austerity or Brexit.
Significant numbers of Labour, LibDem and Green voters said they would even be willing to vote Tory to block Reform.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tac...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tac...
Tactical voting set to thwart Farage's election hopes, poll shows
Tactical voting looks set to block Nigel Farage's path to Number 10, according to a major new poll.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Significant numbers of Labour, LibDem and Green voters said they would even be willing to vote Tory to block Reform.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tac...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tac...
Talk of HMOs on #BBCPM No mention of the fact 'twas Tory LibDem coalition that placed limit of housing benefit on a single person under 35 at an HMO rate. Got that.
Low wage workers under 35 are expected to live in an HMO.
Of course HMOs are only "delivered" by private landlords
Low wage workers under 35 are expected to live in an HMO.
Of course HMOs are only "delivered" by private landlords
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Talk of HMOs on #BBCPM No mention of the fact 'twas Tory LibDem coalition that placed limit of housing benefit on a single person under 35 at an HMO rate. Got that.
Low wage workers under 35 are expected to live in an HMO.
Of course HMOs are only "delivered" by private landlords
Low wage workers under 35 are expected to live in an HMO.
Of course HMOs are only "delivered" by private landlords
Excellent win for our Town Council bi-election last night in the #SouthCotswolds
74% LibDem #LiberalDemocrats
South West stronghold, fascists not welcome here!
74% LibDem #LiberalDemocrats
South West stronghold, fascists not welcome here!
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November 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Excellent win for our Town Council bi-election last night in the #SouthCotswolds
74% LibDem #LiberalDemocrats
South West stronghold, fascists not welcome here!
74% LibDem #LiberalDemocrats
South West stronghold, fascists not welcome here!
Chris Philp opens by gymnastically framing the train attack with relation to asylum seekers, concludes that the reason for knife crime is foreigners in prison, then LOSES HIS RAG when LibDem Home Affairs spox @maxwilkinson.bsky.social pulls him up on it.
"Withdraw! Withdraw!" Utter clown. 🤡 ~AA
"Withdraw! Withdraw!" Utter clown. 🤡 ~AA
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Chris Philp opens by gymnastically framing the train attack with relation to asylum seekers, concludes that the reason for knife crime is foreigners in prison, then LOSES HIS RAG when LibDem Home Affairs spox @maxwilkinson.bsky.social pulls him up on it.
"Withdraw! Withdraw!" Utter clown. 🤡 ~AA
"Withdraw! Withdraw!" Utter clown. 🤡 ~AA
The vote on Oxford’s Congestion Charge is taken and goes broadly along party lines.
For removing the charge: 22 (Con, Lab, Ind)
Against removing the charge: 36 (LibDem, Green, Henley)
Abstain: 2 (Will Boucher-Giles, LibDem for Chesterton; Emma Markham, Green for Shrivenham)
For removing the charge: 22 (Con, Lab, Ind)
Against removing the charge: 36 (LibDem, Green, Henley)
Abstain: 2 (Will Boucher-Giles, LibDem for Chesterton; Emma Markham, Green for Shrivenham)
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The vote on Oxford’s Congestion Charge is taken and goes broadly along party lines.
For removing the charge: 22 (Con, Lab, Ind)
Against removing the charge: 36 (LibDem, Green, Henley)
Abstain: 2 (Will Boucher-Giles, LibDem for Chesterton; Emma Markham, Green for Shrivenham)
For removing the charge: 22 (Con, Lab, Ind)
Against removing the charge: 36 (LibDem, Green, Henley)
Abstain: 2 (Will Boucher-Giles, LibDem for Chesterton; Emma Markham, Green for Shrivenham)
Meanwhile Jamie Stone LibDem MP wants NHS Scotland to share our data with NHS England and by inference open up Scotland's personal health data up for Palantir to harvest ..
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Meanwhile Jamie Stone LibDem MP wants NHS Scotland to share our data with NHS England and by inference open up Scotland's personal health data up for Palantir to harvest ..
It's sad that Labour 'might' introduce PR only now because it may benefit them at the next GE. The Libdems advocate for PR whether it benefits them or not. It's a fair voting system in line with Libdem values.
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
It's sad that Labour 'might' introduce PR only now because it may benefit them at the next GE. The Libdems advocate for PR whether it benefits them or not. It's a fair voting system in line with Libdem values.
There indeed is the rub. As I've said, the only way out I can see is for a LibDem-Green alliance to somehow take office. As I've also said, stranger things have happened:
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I agree, but I hope I'm proven wrong in the fullness of time just as I was just four years after I visited Berlin in 1985 (my photo) and feared the Wall would never come down.
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
There indeed is the rub. As I've said, the only way out I can see is for a LibDem-Green alliance to somehow take office. As I've also said, stranger things have happened:
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Last call - voting ends shortly:
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November 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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