A plan for growth can’t wait until the October Budget. Burnham must restart talks with European leaders now.
Meg Thomas 🔶
@drmegt.bsky.social
Lib Dem Town Councillor, retired GP and hispanophile. Swimming, yoga, Buddhism, books, wool and baskets. Born in Manchester Grew up in Stockport. Newbury Lib Dems. RG194QD https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092503418422&locale=en_GB
A disgusting law. Never debated. @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to repeal this thing, if that is at all possible
Meg Thomas 🔶@drmegt.bsky.social · 11h ago
The Health and Social Care Select Committee released a report into the cost of inaction on social care last year. Last week, in light of Andy Burnham's announcement, I spoke to Matt Chorley on 5 Live about the social, moral and economic cost of doing nothing to fix this issue. buff.ly/LLyycP7
"OIL GIANTS MAKE $90BN FROM PRICE SURGE AS CLIMATE CRISIS ENGULFS EUROPE" @DPCarrington.bsky.social / #JillianAmbrose for @TheGuardian.com Oil giants made over $90billion in 3 months from soaring prices driven by the #Iran conflict amid #Europe's climate crisis. #TheGuardian #TomorrowsPapersToday
Bar billiards player in Ouden Tijd, Leuven mistook me for a musician that he admired - Thé Lau - we had a nice chat after his game - sorry to disappoint him! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A...
Thé Lau - Wikipedia
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The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
Al menos 17 migrantes han muerto en una patera que llevaba 15 días a la deriva y que trataba de alcanzar las costas de Baleares con un total de 19 personas a bordo
Mueren al menos 17 migrantes al tratar de alcanzar las costas de Baleares
Los dos únicos supervivientes rescatados de una patera declaran que una quincena de personas murieron tras dos semanas a la deriva y que sus cuerpos fueron lanzados al mar
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Listening to the blues in De Blauwe Kater, Leuven. 🇧🇪 Cheers!
I’ve just responded to the government’s consultation by saying no to Heathrow’s climate-wrecking third runway. Will you join me and tell the government you oppose expansion too? @friends-earth.bsky.social action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/say-n...
Stop Heathrow's climate-wrecking third runway
Take action We're in a climate crisis, with out-of-control wildfires in the UK, France and Spain and an ongoing battle to clean up the air in our cities. So why is Andy Burnham's government backing pl...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
By the end of the year we will be experiencing net emigration, just to make Nigel's obnoxious idea even more ludicrous
Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · yesterday"Were Farage to accept the pact, then Lowe would have dragged him reluctantly towards his own position and set himself up as a power player on the hard right. Were he to reject it, he’d be sending a hefty signal that the most radicalised right-wing voters should jump ship and follow Lowe."
People are fed up with privatised water companies letting us down and ripping us off. We deserve a real conversation about public ownership. Can you help build pressure by asking your MP to attend this crucial debate on water ownership? actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
Ask your MP to attend the water debate
People are fed up with privatised water companies letting us down and ripping us off. We deserve a real conversation about public ownership. Can you help build pressure by asking your MP to attend th...
actionnetwork.org
Join me and tell Chancellor John Healey: no more airport expansion while we’re in a climate emergency 🚨🌎 @friends-earth.bsky.social 👇 action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sto...
Tell John Healey: don’t put plane profits before planet
The UK government has backed airport expansion while we're in a climate emergency. Expanding airports like Heathrow won’t do much, if anything, for the communities that need growth the most. Instead, ...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
I just signed the @stoprosebank open letter Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP. Sign here and ask her to #StopRosebank or fail the very first test of the UK's climate leadership: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
Open Letter to the Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP
Our new Secretary of State for Energy faces the first big climate test for Andy Burnham's new government -- whether or not to approve new North Sea oil & gas developments. Sign the open letter asking ...
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BREAKING 🚨: reports suggest Andy Burnham could approve new oil and gas fields, including Rosebank. Is he REALLY going to cave into the demands of the profiteering oil giants and Trump? Or is he going to stand with people facing soaring bills and a worsening climate crisis?
William Wallace writes: The case for higher taxes www.libdemvoice.org/william-wall...
William Wallace writes: The case for higher taxes
Liberal Democrats believe in a limited state and a market economy. We are naturally cautious about how much of the economy should be taken by the state. Our party started out strictly opposed to hig...
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"I've worked with Andy Burnham. There is much to look forward to" www.libdemvoice.org/ive-worked-w...
“I’ve worked with Andy Burnham. There is much to look forward to”
An interesting perspective on working with Andy Burnham comes from former Special Adviser to Nick Clegg Shabnum Mustapha. Shabnum advised Nick on Scotland media matters during the coalition years. In ...
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"I've worked with Andy Burnham. There is much to look forward to" www.libdemvoice.org/ive-worked-w...
“I’ve worked with Andy Burnham. There is much to look forward to”
An interesting perspective on working with Andy Burnham comes from former Special Adviser to Nick Clegg Shabnum Mustapha. Shabnum advised Nick on Scotland media matters during the coalition years. In ...
libdemvoice.org
"I've worked with Andy Burnham. There is much to look forward to" www.libdemvoice.org/ive-worked-w...
“I’ve worked with Andy Burnham. There is much to look forward to”
An interesting perspective on working with Andy Burnham comes from former Special Adviser to Nick Clegg Shabnum Mustapha. Shabnum advised Nick on Scotland media matters during the coalition years. In ...
libdemvoice.org
UK public service contracts account for 10% of Palantir’s Global Revenue….but it pays less tax here than countries with smaller outlays, such as S Korea, France, Japan, Germany. And markedly less than the 25% rate for companies of its size.
Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · last mo.This is crazy. Peter Thiel’s spy tech Palantir is embedding itself in the British state, and makes hundreds of millions from Government contracts in health, policing and defence, but pays barely any taxes
I really liked this, thank you. Small query, can we really be sure that the life story of the historical Buddha is not true?
David Aaronovitch@davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 3w agoTwo men, two books, two srlf-serving accounts of redemption. open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
Well said, Ed Davey! #TommyRobinson
Ed Davey@eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 4w agoTommy Robinson is a useful idiot for a hostile state. What kind of so-called British patriot jets to Moscow to rub shoulders with Putin’s cronies, bankrolled by a US trillionaire? We must protect our democracy from far-right thugs, shady tech bros and foreign interference.
Thanks to Wendy Moore for this gripping account of 18th century life. It is uncanny how familiar the themes are: #misogony #corruption in politics. Early modern #history has it all.
