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Elle

@centristmum.bsky.social

Mum, Lib Dem and naturalised Yorkshire citizen

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a man in a suit and hat is standing with his hands in his pockets in a black and white photo . ALT: a man in a suit and hat is standing with his hands in his pockets in a black and white photo .
03.03.2026 20:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Most of our coalition ministers were genuinely impressive people but I cannot to this day see what Clegg saw in him

03.03.2026 20:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My now husband and I met in 2011. After the AV referendum he decided to start buying me flowers whenever I lost an election. There have been a lot of flowers

03.03.2026 20:11 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The revoke policy remains the stupidest thing we've done in a while and that's a list with some hefty competition

03.03.2026 20:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

12 in 2017 was I grant you very lucky

03.03.2026 20:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

In 2019? It very much was not!

03.03.2026 20:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I actually disagree, Farron was already charting out a core vote approach on the refugee crisis and had the next GE happened on schedule in 2020 with a five year build up I think we'd have ended up with more than 11 MPs

03.03.2026 19:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Look on the bright side. I learned a lot about theology 🙃

03.03.2026 19:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

TBF they HAD made their point and we HAD got the message!

03.03.2026 19:49 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm astonished it's that low, I thought they all hated us because of coalition

03.03.2026 19:44 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

(citation needed)

03.03.2026 19:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah it's totally incoherent

03.03.2026 09:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think if you wanted to make a coherent argument it would be an acute/chronic one, the spike has passed but there's an underlying problem but honestly who the hell knows if that's what he was going for?

03.03.2026 09:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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But also what is the difference between a cost of living crisis and a living standards crisis?

03.03.2026 09:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It feels a bit lazy to go everything is gender but I bet his wife does their shopping

03.03.2026 09:30 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

If I had had to resign in disgrace and my wife was involved in a scandal that had brought down a minister I would never show my face in public again let alone whatever this is

03.03.2026 09:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are no longer in a cost of living crisis, I write, confident in the knowledge that there definitely isn't a global gas price spike that will create another one

(Also if he thinks we're no longer in a cost of living crisis he is welcome to look at my weekly shop because we very much are)

03.03.2026 09:25 — 👍 30    🔁 1    💬 5    📌 0

I actually think my favourite bit is the idea that his view is based on evidence and theirs isn't which is very much citation needed

03.03.2026 09:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MPs pay to increase to £110,000 by 2029 The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority announced that MPs will receive £110,000 by 2029 as they face increasing levels of abuse and bigger workloads

Hey guys good news, the childcare cliffedge is going to be fixed this parliament 🙄

03.03.2026 05:20 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

And never let Labour or Sir Keir Starmer forget that they helped encourage this with their tantrum on Friday, that they *still* haven't apologised for

02.03.2026 22:32 — 👍 31    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

When I lived in (country where alcohol is illegal) and bought home brew kits, the instructions came in English and Arabic. Gotta know your market!

02.03.2026 22:27 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Also the classic "of course I can't drink but my religion allows me to smoke as much weed as I want"

02.03.2026 20:44 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Put down that monkey's paw and walk away! It's not worth it!

01.03.2026 23:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Starting to think repelling the armada was a mistake

01.03.2026 22:15 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I'm not sure that's an electoral system problem, it's a Tory MPs are fucking idiots who can't read a poll problem

01.03.2026 21:56 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

If I wanted to steelman it I'd argue t
Truss was less damaging because she was so bad she got kicked out immediately whereas Sunak and Starmer are just competent enough to stick around. But no. Truss stands alone.

01.03.2026 21:54 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I honestly thought Sunak was world-beating at this but Starmer finds a way!

01.03.2026 21:48 — 👍 34    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I TOLD Ed Davey not to wish on a monkeys paw to be LOTO but did he listen? He did not!

01.03.2026 19:28 — 👍 20    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Make it free to apply for citizenship once you've got ILR and then we'll talk

01.03.2026 11:22 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

And of those, the PM is meant to govern for the whole country. This is the opposite.

01.03.2026 04:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0