Terry Weldon

Reintroduction🧵: Lifelong liberal activist since 1970, knocking on doors in Cape Town; now Liberal Democrat councillor in Surrey UK. Openly gay, married - with two daughters from previous marriage. Practicing Catholic; previously active campaigner for LGBT inclusio, ran "Queering the Church blog

Chicken production run off has all but killed the River Wye in Wales and England

The Reform UK economic plan in full Pure anti-Robin Hood pro discredited trickle down economics while removing all regulations ensuring they'll be lots more Hillsborough, Grenfell, Post Office Horizon, Covid PPE fraud, etc etc scandals meme via News Thump

DOWNGRADE ⬇️ "The CCC− rating places Thames Water deep into speculative-grade territory, indicating substantial credit risk" Come on @andyburnham.bsky.social YOU can slash the debt so households 🏡 don't have to pay for it REMOVE THAMES WATER'S LICENCE www.watermagazine.co.uk/2026/10/28/s...

Volunteer, 78, says Reform official likened her to Nazi collaborator for teaching asylum seekers English Mair Godley claims Essex councillor Carl Johnson told her she was ‘facilitating the invasion’ by giving language lessons www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In 24 hours Thames Water's creditors will decide whether to award it another bailout of £2.4 billion. Sign our petition before tomorrow and get Andy Burnham to block the bailout. 👉vist.ly/5qb9s👈

Pointless paying any attention to their economic/financial proposals as Reform will never be in govt. The business leaders invited know this and stayed away. BBC should have done the same.

The errors caused by AI in processing asylum claims have been shown to be far higher than the Home Office's claims, somewhere around a quarter. For many people that can be a life of death decision. AI has no place determining that for people. www.wired.com/story/uk-hom...

This is objectively very very funny

🌍 Every tree cut down is a step backward in the battle against climate change. We must prioritize preserving our forests and mangroves! #ClimateCrisis #EcoAwareness

There's no justification at all for any donations from abroad. Ban the lot.

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

The Thames Valley is getting a Mayor! It's a massive opportunity for the region and I think it's a massive opportunity for the Lib Dems too 👇🏻

⚡️ Poland threatens to fine social media giants over unchecked Russian disinformation, calling them a "silent ally" in Moscow’s digital war. Platforms acted on under 25% of 65,000 reports, leading Warsaw to demand Polish-language moderation and immediate bot bans.

For decades, people talked about pedestrianising Oxford Street. Yesterday, we made it happen. Almost 1km of our nation’s most famous high street is now officially traffic-free. And this is just the beginning.

Nigel Farage has given Reform UK candidates permission to publicly support the serial criminally convicted fraudster, thug, stalker and far-right activist who founded the English Defence League. This is who they are. Never forget it.

‎🚨 Deforestation is a crisis! Unscrupulous corporations are destroying our forests, ignoring the well-being of present & future generations. Let’s stand together to protect our climate’s biggest ally. 🌍 Say NO to deforestation! 💪 #SaveOurForests ‎Repost, like, comment!

“Conviction of Estonia’s ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow’s Interference in Brexit A ‘diplomat’ who launched the ‘Conservative Friends of Russia’ identified as a Russian intelligence officer involved in an attempted European disinformation campaign” bylinetimes.com/2026/10/26/t...

At the heart of Catholic Social Teaching (CST) is the principle that the business of business is not solely about profit. There must also be concern and provision for boosting the common good.

Amazing how many Labour MPs do not understand this quite basic point.

Any group that complains about the town being "hollowed out" but simultaneously complains about a local family opening a business that will help to improve trade in the town, is displaying obvious racism. If this had been opened by a "White" family, it's likely that Reform would have welcomed it.

A local Gurkha family open a shop and invite Shrewsbury's Mayor to do the honours, prompting a slew of racial slurs from the local branch of Reform. Excellent response from local Lib Dems. www.shropshirestar.com/news/reform-slammed-after-attack-on-new-shrewsbury-business-run-by-gurkha-family-9310465

No surprise really. There's no point in turnong up to hear the promises of what a party not in government will do, if there's no chance they will be in the next government. Completely irrelevant - except for the damage they do spewing out and spreading racism, sexism and homophobia.

a fundamental part of local government is that councillors and officers must be able to work together for the sake of the community. That must be based on mutual respect for their complementary roles. On Reform side, that respect appears to be singularly lacking - not only in Leicestershire.

Like Trump, Kushner's involvement in "peace" talks, concerning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, or in Israel's war on Gaza and other territories was never about genuine diplomacy. Just like Trump himself, the primary interest was always profit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/b...

All those scandals are starting to stick.

The Lib Dems have the best plan to fix our broken water system. Why doesn’t Andy Burnham use it?

Good news!

The climate crisis in one sentence: We have enough food, technology, and money to save the planet. We just have a system where destroying it is more profitable. That's not a climate problem. That's a greed problem. #ClimateJustice

Remarkable that a party that built it's appeal on the need to "take back control" is happy to accept financial dependence on foreign donors. But perhaps it wasn't really about taking back control after all, but just creating necessary publicity for a money making machine?

Solar is booming.

Oxford Street is one of the world's most famous high streets. Pedestrianisation can help unlock its full potential, creating a safer, greener and more vibrant destination for shoppers, visitors and businesses alike.

Europe is the future now www.arguably.uk/p/europe-is-...

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