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Soon to be ex-Tory voter unsure who to vote for on 1st of May? Here's why I harp on about education. Civic studies should join critical thinking our kids now start at 8. Reform tax cuts = no public services @libdems.org.uk For a Fair Deal and efficient working public services.

Good to see the long lasting poisoning impacts of manufacturing faced today. We know now how they can be and why they must be prevented in new industries, for a better tomorrow.

It was an honour to lead a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK delegation on tackling Climate Change to Zambia last week with Paulette Hamilton MP, Lord Oats, & Brian Mathew MP. www.uk-cpa.org/programmes-a...

I adapted. I did. Air raid alert. Drone threat in Kyiv. I’m having a warcoffee and choosing a book of the week. It’s a beautiful bookstore that opened recently.

Remember when the food mountains were a politcal football caused by the EU.

Today Mark Petterson took his oath and joined the team. Mark co-founded Warwick Energy in 2000 and has developed three offshore wind projects that are now in operation. They include Thanet, the world’s largest offshore wind farm when it came onstream in 2010.

Service personnel can spend years in single living accommodation. Julie Smith, Defence spokesperson, has won a change to the Armed Forces Bill that sets a military homes standard at least equal to the decent homes standard.

Say No To Putin. Here 22 bi-partisan Congress members put Trump on the spot to reverse the decision on Russian diesel, but subtly, to sanction many more people by the date of the new law is 18th of October. Trump has Putin's misuse of pressure Trump put on Zelensky to act. @libdems.org.uk

Things are not normal in Kyiv. A European city under bombardment from Putin's Russia. Who the f does Putin think he is to ignore any country's border and attack the people living there? Why are 30,000 plus Russians every month prepared to be injured or die for such an outrage? Say no to Putin.

Putin's bombs are killing Ukrainian civilians, and Donald Trump is funding them by buying Russian diesel. The UK must stand up and call this what it is: another Trump betrayal of the Ukrainian people and European security.

❔Former commander-in-chief Syrskyi explains why he sent troops to Kursk operation instead of defending Pokrovsk

Putin targeting civilians saying Kyiv doesn't deserve respite, while announcing hundreds of billions of roubles for offense military spending - money he wouldn't have had until Trump seemed to bale him out, to sell America Iranian diesel, for Trump to win midterms. It's a Distopian nightmare.

I welcome the Prime Minister’s admission that the Brexit deal is a disaster for our economy, but the real test is: will he drop Labour's red lines that stop us fixing it? Today he says no – so we have more work to do!

Wow. Donald Trump is giving money to Putin’s war machine so he can keep killing innocent Ukrainians and attacking democracies across Europe. The UK must lead a coalition of the willing that stands up and says no.

...and counting. The numbers should shame #Putin into leaving all #Ukraine. Why isn't he? Are Russian military officers too frightened to admit they're destroying Russian everything? Not just youth. Everything. @LibDems. Don't just love and respect us. Join us. Www.libdems.org.uk/join-local

Badenoch has spent half her conference making unfunded promises, and half lecturing the country on fiscal responsibility. We’re all still paying the price for Conservative financial mismanagement. Liberal Democrats will act as the firewall stopping her handing No 10 to Farage.

When I visited the Nova music festival site, the impact of October 7th hit home. Three years on, the violence continues, and we have seen an appalling rise in antisemitism here and around the world. We must stand with the Jewish community, stamp out antisemitism, and work for a lasting peace.

Don't lose any more time @andyburnham.bsky.social Clock's ticking in Brexit damage and it's in your gift to put it right.

I would go even further and say that it leaves us all feeling less safe. I was horrified to read what went on at the Green conference. We need to support all communities which have survived or are surviving genocide, but not at the expense of the rights of other communities or diasporas.

We need real action from the Prime Minister on Europe, not more hesitation. The Liberal Democrats have a plan to strengthen our economy, cut living costs, and boost defence by rejoining the Single Market, Customs Union, and working with European partners on security. These issues cannot wait.

Olha Taran became the first woman in Ukraine's Navy to receive the Hero of Ukraine title, awarded posthumously The combat medic from the 36th Separate Marine Brigade died shielding a wounded soldier with her own body 📷 Naval Forces of Ukraine

F-off Putin, Russia and Russians deserve better than you. What a shame and a shambles. We all know this means many many Ukrainians too and the lives of their families and loved ones changed forever. Endless war must stop or be stopped by a greater effort to impose a no-fly-zone over Ukraine

Today I submitted a House of Lords Liaison Committee Draft proposal for a Special Inquiry Committee in 2027 on "The implications of global biodiversity loss & ecosystem collapse for UK national security, food security & long-term resilience." It will be some time before I know if it is shortlisted

Extreme heat is hitting communities across the country, yet Andy Burnham has been bafflingly silent. After the UK’s hottest summer on record, we need to see far more action. We need cross-party talks to protect Britain from worsening extreme weather.

I've written to the Prime Minister ahead of his first statement later today, with a clear message: Our politics is broken and we can’t fix our country until we fix our politics.

Officially, the water industry in England is regulated. Practically, it's unregulated. There's no difference between what it does under the eye of the Environment Agency and what it would do if the EA did not exist. The EA is completely useless, by design. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

🧵 Families are bracing for an even tighter squeeze on their budgets, with energy bills, fuel, and the weekly shop all skyrocketing. The Government needs to do much more to bring down energy bills and get our sluggish economy growing again.

@libdems.org.uk calling on @andyburnham.bsky.social to reconvene COBRA and start urgent cross-party talks on tackling climate impact. Joint letter from @eddavey.libdems.org.uk and myself

Miles away from Farage’s stunt in Clacton, Liberal Democrats are beating Labour in Devon and Reform in Yorkshire. Stunning victories for hard working liberals - who turned up to their counts!

We need cross-party leadership on the climate crisis. Preparing communities for extreme weather while moving away from fossil fuels and protecting families, farmers, the NHS and our economy. @PippaHeylings.bsky.social

This is no minor detail. It's a key safeguard in a worl where we're resource poor, changing systems with too few staff to meet demand. Mistakes will happen, must be monitored, remedied at speed, to stop them embedding in cover-up. Perfect's not possible but best effort in good faith. We need that.

This is a stark warning: the climate emergency is here, yet the Government moves at a snail’s pace. It's time for a national strategy: funding cool hubs for vulnerable groups, mandating cooling and ventilation in new homes, supporting drought-affected farmers and heat-proofing NHS facilities.

This is the moment for Andy Burnham's new government to replace the water regulator as our Water Authority. That's what the Emergency needs to mandate water companies to stop leaks and sewage, support farmers with engineering muscle for water storage in ponds, lakes and reservoirs and EA in nature.

It's so very hard to believe we are still letting Putin rain munitions in Kyiv after for years. Everyone in control of decisions needs to focus.Putin is not for giving up. We must stop his munitions killing Ukrainians by night. He's not like a fairy tale monster. He is evil. @libdems.org.uk

✅ Long queues ✅ Faulty tech ✅ Missed flights The EU’s Entry/Exit System is causing chaos at passport control. We’re calling to suspend it. Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, @CalumMillerLD.bsky.social, explains why 👆

After 22 failed attempts to sort the social care crisis. The 23rd must now deliver. It's time to put family carers first, guarantee free personal care, and end catastrophic care costs. @AlisonEBennett.bsky.social

Our discussion on why governments fiddle while the world burns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQat...

Well if a comedian can become the President of Ukraine …

Earl Russell talks about three of the worst ever harvests in the UK are since 2020. He hits a few other marks that make this worth the four or five minute read. @libdems.org.uk @greenlibdems.org.uk @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Five new Liberal Democrat members of the House of Lords have been announced, bringing decades of experience in farming, the NHS, economics, campaigning and clean energy into Parliament.

🌿 @pippaheylings.bsky.social—CNCC Vice Chair—at the Seventh Carbon Budget debate: “We must stop treating nature protections as a blocker to economic growth, and I ask the Government to get rid of reckless rhetoric dividing climate and nature rather than seeing them as indivisible necessities.”

Thames Water increased its bonus payouts to £4.1m for senior managers. It has £19.7bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, loses billions of litres of water to leaky pipes. Numerous criminal convictions, licence not revoked. But bosses rewarded .. for what? Govt/Ofwat do nothing.

An MP, since 1623, is not permitted to resign. The only mechanism is to accept a position, an “office of profit under the Crown”, the Chiltern Hundreds or the Manor of Northstead, in the Prime Minister's gift. Will the Liberal Democrats press the PM to refuse this option?

30 people in one night. Ordinary Ukrainians in homes blown apart. Putin must be handed to the International Criminal Court by ordinary Russians to end this. He's not fit to be 'disappeared' nor sent to a gulag. Too easy. Our way is face justice in fair courts. Where are you Russia?

Nigel Farage has lined his own pockets and is using this by-election to escape scrutiny. The people of Clacton deserve better.

Nigel Farage has made a career out of ‘taking back control’ - but he is not being straight with the British people about who controls him. Today, I have written to the Standards Commissioner to urge that the latest Sunday Times revelations are investigated.

Here's to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Happy Birthday America!

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Is this government happy to have everyone think they're running our biggest budgets without data?

This is a wake-up call for Starmer and Burnham. Stop repeating the mistakes of the Conservatives and get serious about funding our armed forces properly. We cannot afford years more political chaos while our national security is put at risk.

If you read one thing today ... An essential article by the great @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-br...