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Greater Anglia will be nationalised and run by the Department for Transport from 2am this Sunday. There will be no changes to any of the core aspects of train operations.

I recently wrote to the Transport Secretary seeking assurances that their excellent record will be maintained after Sunday.

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STOP UK HATE FEST - email the Home Office Over 5-6 September, Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. We’ve stopped gigs like this before, now we need to put pressure on the Home Office to block the...

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As we reach the end of August, here is a roundup of the casework my team and I have done this month, as well as some of the most mentioned casework topics.

Why can’t Sky tell the truth like this guy? bsky.app/profile/anne...

Farming incomes have fallen by almost 20% in just one year.

Farmers in Newbury and West Berkshire are being clobbered by rising costs and the damaging Family Farm Tax.

It’s time to scrap the tax, increase the farming budget and back British farmers with a new FIELD Fund.

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Pecksniff: Hush… what’s that sound? The Liberal Democrats are coming! In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

Lib Dems on the EU * Reform’s Taliban deportation wheeze backfires * Farage skips Parliament for Trump rally * City council loses £6m on housing firm * Tories drift deeper under Badenoch...

…this and more in Pecksniff's political Diary

I predicted that the numbers would become far fewer when the football season started........

We need a voting system where parties are incentivised to work collaboratively on fixing the long-term issues like the climate emergency, housing, the care system, education etc.

With First-Past-The-Post, the new government in 2029 can undo everything the last one achieved.

#MakeVotesMatter

Oh.............

My Mounjaro order has been approved - beating the deadline by 2 days

Phew!

I know lots of people have been very disturbed by Eli Lilly's sudden price hike

The BBC need to get better at challenging Farage's lies.

Farage attacked for ‘ugly’ rhetoric of plan for mass deportation of asylum seekers Reform UK leader says he will rip up UK’s human rights commitments and pay despotic regimes to take people back

#LibDem leader, Ed Davey: “Nigel Farage pretending to be patriotic while pledging to rip up Britain’s proud record on human rights. As we’ve seen across history, his populist playbook is ugly & incredibly destructive. We know where it'll lead if we don’t stop it.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A miserable day for the last 61 bus from Winchester to Eastleigh via Colden Common.

Rural buses are a lifeline for individuals who do not drive - they are vital to allow people to live independently and get to hospital appointments or work.

Sign our petition to stop Hampshire County Council from cutting vital bus services like the 61 through Colden Common ⬇️

www.winld.org.uk/campaigns/st...

‘Outstanding’ Richmond joins country’s top councils for children’s services - London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Find out how Richmond joined the country’s top councils for children’s services.

Congratulations to Liberal Democrat run London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Council who achieved an Outstanding rating in their most recent Ofsted inspection of Children's Services 👏

This is how the average Brit feels, not the image promoted by the BBC.

Lib Dems smash Labour in West Hampstead

West Hampstead - Mark Carney & I lived there for 10 years - not together (!)

(and last week Hinchley Wood where I grew up) - well done Lib Dems

Massive gain for @libdems.org.uk with over 50% of the vote!

Summer Tour day one ✅️

Lib Dem leader to boycott king’s Trump banquet in protest over Gaza | Ed Davey - United Kingdom The Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, will boycott King Charles’s state banquet held in honour of Donald Trump to protest against the US president’s failure

Lib Dem leader to boycott king’s Trump banquet in protest over Gaza | Ed Davey

https://www.europesays.com/uk/378407/

The Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, will boycott King Charles’s state banquet held in honour of Donald Trump…#uk #news #uknews

Yougov poll for Times / Sunday Times 25-26 August showing Westminster voting intention:

Reform 28%
Labour 20%
Conservatives 17%
Lib Dem 16%
Green 11%
Other 4%
SNP 3%
Plaid 1%

The Lib Dems are far out performing the Labour government in taking on Reform directly and showing up Farage for the Poundland Trump tribute act most voters know him to be. It's smart politics because there is a massive dislike of the far right and everything they stand for across the UK.

Reform lose yet another newly elected councillor.

Another day, another set of press releases, featuring @helenmorganlibdem.bsky.social on US attempts to raise UK drug prices, a Reform UK u-turn on immigration policy, @timfarron.bsky.social on Thames Water and Ofwat…

However, the Lib Dems did...

Which may be a good opportunity to remind people that if you want a party that does stand up against such things - libdems.org.uk/join

The populist playbook used by Farage is incredibly destructive. As we've seen across history, the populist playbook used by Farage is ugly, powerful and incredibly destructive. We know where it will lead if we don't stop it.

The populist playbook used by Farage is incredibly destructive.

Nigel Farage wants to follow Putin and tear up our hard-won rights.

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Abhorrent.