🔶 Willis 🔶

Out with @libdemwillis.bsky.social delivering for residents in Woodhouse regarding their high street.

This is what hard work for a community looks like!

Seen, reported, sorted!

With a Lib Dem Councillor, stuff gets gone!!

Thank you! :)

No - Sheffield South East!!

Had a brilliant morning with Cllrs Sophie Crossthorn and Richard Williams, and a lovely afternoon joined by @libdemrobreiss.bsky.social spent on the doorstep in Woodhouse today!

With just 2 days to go until the election, it really is feeling great on the doors!

Had another brilliant day out on the doorstep in Woodhouse today speaking with voters, joined by a fantastic group of helpers.

As always a big thank you to the wonderful people on Woodhouse who once again gave us a wonderful reception!

Many thanks, O Holy Lord of Memes

Thank you!

ATTENTION ALL NORTHERN LIB DEMS!

I need YOUR help this coming fortnight to get over the line in the Woodhouse By-Election on 28th November!!

Labour has held this ward since 1968, but the tides have turned, and we are on the up!

Whether it be clerical, delivery or canvassing, any help is welcome!

The sorta folks to defend billionaires by saying they pay more in tax than working people, are the sorta people who would side with the Crown during the French Revolution on the grounds that the nobility paid more in tax than the average peasant/bourgeois.

I feel like the notion that state ownership discourages innovation can be easily dismissed just by examining British Rail during the 60s & 70s - where arguably the problem was that there was *too much* innovation, with new models coming out each year slightly better than the previous.

The only thing in missing from 1.21 is hoes being able to break leaves faster, and the lack of Grindstone. (I have enchanted 5 diamond pickaxes which have just been efficiency 4 IN A ROW :( )

And while this may be controversial, I am very much enjoying the old mining and caves, as well as the Nether actually feeling like a "hell" dimension, villager trades being hard it exploit and Oceans being mostly barren.

Playing Minecraft in Version 1.12 - my fav.

Old textures, but before there were too many blocks added using the new texture scheme.

Every feature had a function and was interconnected with multiple others.

Old terrain gen for the other-worldly feel.

Harsh environment yet can be tamed with work.

Bang on! We need to make the public more aware of this/understand that this is what we're about!

Should have made that clearer in the original post, my apologies.

I agree with you, however that's not the perception the voting public have of them, which is what I'm concerned with.

I don't believe that the voting public is aware of this, however, and I view this lack of awareness to be a fault of the current Lib Dem party, and we need to work harder to undo this ignorance, not just by winning elections, but by winning arguements too in favour of Liberalism.

For example to me a Liberal is someone who supports:
-Social Welfare
-Community
-Fairness
-Individual Freedoms & Rights
-Long-term Solutions & Stability
-State Intervention to protect individual freedoms from social or economic oppression

Along with room for various nuances and additions.

Not that I'm proposing that we start putting Liberal ideological thesis on our literature, but I feel like there needs to be a greater focus nationally on making it clear what a Liberal stands for.

Obviously, within Lib Dem circles, we know what we stand for, however I feel like the broader electorate don't think we stand for anything in particular, and see us as an alternative to their preferred party if they feel displeased by them, rather than a positice choice for Liberal ideas.

I feel like a massive problem that the Lib Dems face in is that we need to make it clear what a Liberal stands for.

Labour obviously stands for working left, Greens for green issues, Tories for the wealthier classes, and Reform for the working right.

But what does it mean to be "Liberal"?