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On reports the Tories will back leaving the ECHR, Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

“Kemi Badenoch has chosen to back Nigel Farage and join Vladimir Putin by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights – a proud British creation championed by Churchill that protects everyone's rights and freedoms."

Crikey 😬

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We can fund health care and keep the government running, or we can shut everything down to raise prices on people.

To me, that’s a pretty easy choice.

Andrew’s Previews | Andrew Teale | Substack "All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order". Click to read Andrew’s Previews, by Andrew Teale, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

❗ Liberal Democrat GAIN from SNP (seat change)

Last week's Tain and Easter Ross (Highland) council by-election result, first prefs:

LDEM: 38.8% (+17.2)
IND: 28.4% (-8.8)
SNP: 14.8% (-15.8)
REF: 12.9% (+12.9)
GRN: 3.2% (+3.2)
CON: 1.9% (-8.7)

+/- 2022

andrewteale.me.uk/previews

Now we're talking: Hakeem Jeffries just called JD Vance's bluff and challenged Trump and GOP leaders to meet TOMORROW in front of the press to discuss the shutdown. Allow the cameras in. Full transparency.

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Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high - Carbon Brief The UK’s high electricity prices have become intensely political, with competing claims over the cause of rocketing bills and how best to get them down.

Useful explainer here… 🙃

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

Money latest: Major changes to EU travel rules next week - everything you need to know New EU travel rules take effect next weekend ahead of a €20 charge for Britons in 2026 - we outline everything you need to know. We also examine "part and part" mortgages in today's Money blog, Sky Ne...

Major changes to EU travel rules next week - everything you need to know

news.sky.com/story/money-...

The express poll asking whether reforms migrangt visa plan is racist is about 91% "no" so it REALLY needs your help - this is a direct link to poll

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Done!

In shocking: "most people want to eat competitively priced, good quality fresh food and don't care where it comes from or what Nigel Farage thinks" news.

Badenoch, the blunders master. #ukpolitics

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

‘Taking over Latin America’s second-largest country made Milei the poster boy of the international hard right. Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.” Kemi #Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.”’

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims, and to all the Jewish community in our country.

"This terrorist outrage is an attack on all of us. And we should stand in solidarity with our Jewish friends, and make it clear that violence is unacceptable." @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

They’re baaack. 🤣

Repairs and all…

just became easier for the Lib Dems to hold on to their new Home Counties seats

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Strong words from Ed Miliband at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool...

"Elon Musk: Get the hell out of our politics and our country"

How support for digital ID cards has plummeted since Keir Starmer announced his plan Keir Starmer needs to realise that leaders lead by following their principles, not by chasing opinion polls

Writing in the Scotsman this evening on why support for ID cards has plummeted since Keir Starmer announced his plan.

Last week I wrote that I would reject the government’s digital ID card. This week it has emerged that the general public feels the same way.

www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

Yet it's a potentially fruitful line of argument. Many of the UK's current problems stem from something most of us would prefer not to dwell on - Brexit. Depressed investment, low productivity, stagnant economic growth and living standards, the strain on the public finances and thus public services, food prices, the "Boriswave" of more than 2 million (legal) immigrants, increased red tape and border hassles for businesses, farmers and travellers... all can be traced back, to a greater or lesser extent, to 2016 and the EU Referendum. And who, as he reminds us again now, spent 30 years of his life campaigning for Britain to leave the EU? Farage. It is he, Farage, who 'broke Britain' with Brexit and is now capitalising on the vast damage he caused

“Farage “broke Britain" with Brexit and is now, outrageously, capitalising on the vast damage he caused”

Article argues there’s no need to mention Reform’s racism as the Brexit shitshow is failure enough.
But that had its roots in racism too. So let’s do both.
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Indeed! Ed Davey demonstrably walks the walk on #environmental issues:

Politico: "Kemi Badenoch has pledged to scrap the Climate Change Act, stripping away legally binding targets that have underpinned nearly 20 years of climate policy under red and blue governments alike."

No doubt pushing any remaining climate friendly Tories to the Lib Dems...

Keep talking, Howard, keep talking.

Hard to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when you're in charge of all 3 branches of government, plus the Supreme Court.

American democracy might not survive another year – is Europe ready for that? | Alexander Hurst Trapped between Putin and Trump, EU citizens understand the grave dangers facing the continent. Their leaders urgently need to face reality, too, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

It’s intentional - as explained here. “At his strange funeral-rally-spectacle, Stephen Miller… gave a speech dripping with everything Eco sought to warn us against, raging against a diffuse “they” who “cannot conceive of the army they have arisen in all of us.” 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

The “too” is very telling 😏