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Sean Maher

@smaher2.bsky.social

Dad, husband, headteacher, scouting, liberal, Catholic, pro-Europe….

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Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza is abhorrent and it's increasingly clear that his goal is ethnic cleansing.

The UK can't just sit on its hands. The Prime Minister must stop all arms exports to Israel and sanction Netanyahu and his cabinet.

08.08.2025 09:30 — 👍 534    🔁 190    💬 24    📌 11
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Join us Become a Liberal Democrat member today.

For all those who can't forgive the Conservative Party for the chaos they left behind, who are disappointed by this Labour Government, who reject the divisive politics of Nigel Farage and Reform - there is an alternative.

Join the Liberal Democrats today: libdems.org.uk/join

04.07.2025 15:26 — 👍 170    🔁 39    💬 9    📌 1
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The Culturist on Substack C.S. Lewis with the most insightful paragraph on temptation you’ll ever read…

substack.com/@culturist/n...

22.06.2025 12:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"

The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened

The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"

bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

10.06.2025 19:41 — 👍 1658    🔁 630    💬 90    📌 37

Farage pretends to support Welsh steel. Meanwhile, his mate Trump is hitting the UK with brutal tariffs that target our steel industry.

Nigel backs Trump all the way, then claims to stand with the workers paying the price. 🤦‍♂️

09.06.2025 15:24 — 👍 277    🔁 68    💬 10    📌 1
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We are different from Reform. We are community politicians, we get things done in our local areas.

We care about the NHS and care, whereas other parties like Reform stay silent.

07.06.2025 11:46 — 👍 117    🔁 39    💬 4    📌 2
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Momentum to revive Sure Start is long overdue – it’s been a lifeline for my son and me | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett The early years service stayed open in my area as many others closed. A recommendation to restore it across England is long overdue, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Yes!
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

01.06.2025 21:27 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This should be put in front of Robert Jenrick during every interview

01.06.2025 09:27 — 👍 968    🔁 294    💬 42    📌 8

The absolute last thing schools need right now - while dealing with an extremely tight funding settlement and rising poverty - is a radical overhaul of the exam system.

01.06.2025 11:55 — 👍 168    🔁 38    💬 24    📌 1
A graphic of a cartoon river stream being polluted with the words saying: Make Thames Water a public benefit company.

A graphic of a cartoon river stream being polluted with the words saying: Make Thames Water a public benefit company.

This should be the final nail in the coffin for Thames Water.

It needs to be turned into a public benefit company and Ofwat needs to be scrapped and replaced with a real regulator with teeth.

28.05.2025 18:30 — 👍 99    🔁 34    💬 2    📌 1
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Government Must Seize Unprecedented Chance To Halt Economic Decline Triggered By Brexit, MP Warns Writing for HuffPost UK, the Green Party's Ellie Chowns called for a "bold reset" in British relations with the EU.

"Frictionless trade would rescue our factories, farms, and workers from suffocating barriers”

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/govern...

27.05.2025 06:11 — 👍 372    🔁 107    💬 12    📌 3
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"We've got to rebuild the relationship with Europe and we've got to take the British people with us."

‪@eddavey.libdems.org.uk‬

26.05.2025 11:05 — 👍 218    🔁 71    💬 18    📌 5

Yes! Yes! Yes!

26.05.2025 14:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At @hayfestival.bsky.social with Yulia Navalnaya. Not many people get standing ovations before and after their event but she did. Pleasure and privilege to interview her about Patriot, Alexei Navalny’s final words. Both of them models of courage and hope

23.05.2025 17:11 — 👍 731    🔁 82    💬 17    📌 3

The article suggests that schools will receive 3% of the funding but in fact when you go onto the government calculator for the extra funding it suggests that my school is going to receive less than 1% of what the 4% pay increase would cost us! Maybe the calculators broken? I know I will be!

22.05.2025 13:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The article suggests that schools will receive 3% of the funding but in fact when you go onto the government calculator for the extra funding it suggests that my school is going to receive less than 1% of what the 4% pay increase would cost us! Maybe the calculators broken? I know I will be!

22.05.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

The article suggests that schools will receive 3% of the funding but in fact when you go onto the government calculator for the extra funding it suggests that my school is going to receive less than 1% of what the 4% pay increase would cost us! Maybe the calculators broken? I know I will be!

22.05.2025 13:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report

Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds

New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report

and the Tories destroyed them

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

22.05.2025 07:38 — 👍 717    🔁 313    💬 32    📌 19
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Nigel Farage missed debate on Brexit reset because he is holidaying abroad The Reform UK leader, who has made at least nine trips abroad since general election, will return to UK next week

Farage missed a debate on the biggest reset to the EU since Brexit because… he’s on holiday.

Does he think he’s an MEP again?

He’s made NINE trips abroad (eight to the US) since the GE, many funded by donors, some for other paid jobs.

Recess is next week.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

21.05.2025 09:41 — 👍 704    🔁 248    💬 87    📌 8
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🚨 Lib Dem leader Ed Davey says hearing the Conservatives complain about the UK-EU deal "is like listening to a backseat driver who previously crashed the car".

Keir Starmer agrees that yesterday's deal is a "first step", with annual summits to "take cooperation further step by step" with the EU.

20.05.2025 12:33 — 👍 293    🔁 52    💬 8    📌 6
Morrisons says UK-EU deal will 'ease' price pressure

Morrisons says UK-EU deal will 'ease' price pressure

Morrisons chief exec: "Sweeping away trade barriers with the EU will remove cost, complexity and delay in food imports from the continent".

20.05.2025 15:07 — 👍 141    🔁 31    💬 10    📌 2

Turns out Brexit Derangement Syndrome is a thing after all.

20.05.2025 07:57 — 👍 2492    🔁 331    💬 138    📌 8
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Looking at private school pupil numbers in the ISC census and they've fallen back to where they were in..... 2022. Not exactly the disaster many predicted....

20.05.2025 09:45 — 👍 345    🔁 84    💬 28    📌 18

“Close your eyes, hold your breath, listen hard- and it all comes back. The fevered talk of surrender, the endless tedious cascade of zero sum arguments, accompanied by the sum of zero insights- an obsession with fish”

This is excellent.

20.05.2025 15:15 — 👍 130    🔁 18    💬 4    📌 0
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"My fear is that Starmer stops there."

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey welcomes the EU reset deal but stops short of backing a return to free movement.

@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social

20.05.2025 15:40 — 👍 52    🔁 12    💬 7    📌 5
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My book is all about care.

About how being a carer has shaped my life, the role of caring in our society, and how we make sure everyone gets the care they need.

20.05.2025 16:07 — 👍 107    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 0

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk is consistently saying what I want to hear from our politicians. For my money, he’s a long way ahead of all the other major party leaders in parliament at the moment. Keep going Sir Ed!

20.05.2025 16:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

God the tabloids and Brexit dinosaurs were boring today… 🦖

Braying the same “betrayal” lines they’ve brayed since they got what they wanted… then found they had no benefits in it whatsoever.

Still they came out today to play victim yet again.

But the world has moved on.

19.05.2025 21:55 — 👍 1458    🔁 237    💬 49    📌 7

The unbelievable condescension we’re already seeing today towards working class people- suggesting they don’t travel to Europe or their kids might not want to go to university and study in Europe- is quite something to behold.

19.05.2025 10:44 — 👍 3827    🔁 787    💬 174    📌 46
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Today's deal is a positive first step in rebuilding our relationship with Europe.

The government must now face down the naysayers and dinosaurs in Reform and the Conservative Party and be more ambitious to go further and secure the best deal for our country.

19.05.2025 18:41 — 👍 142    🔁 47    💬 9    📌 3

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