A very moving Borough Service of Remembrance today held at Holy Trinity followed by a ceremony at the Castle Grounds. Honoured to lay a wreath at Guildford’s New Memorial in remembrance of all those who have served and died for our safety and freedom since the Second World War. #WeWillRememberThem

Why does the UK handle budgets like this? Another budget, and another set of parliamentary debates – and newspaper comments – that will generate much heat but very little light about the choices Britain faces in raising state revenue and fund...

Why does the UK handle budgets like this? www.libdemvoice.org/why-does-the...

West Devon Borough Council- Okehampton South

Liberal Democrats GAIN from the Green party

🔶Lib Dem- 356- 57.1% (new)
🔵 CON- 152 - 24.4% (-5.9%)
⚪ IND- 116- 18.6% (-17%)

Congratulations to Cllr Jan Goffey and the team! A third win in 6 months in Mel Strides constituency! 🎉

No other parties (Green, Labour, RefUK) bothered to stand...odd, given that the vacancy was caused by a Green resignation; that Labour came within 61 votes of winning Central Devon 18 months ago; and that this Borough ward is within a County division won by RefUK 6 months ago...

Jan Goffey (Lib Dem) won the Okehampton South (West Devon BC) byelection with a magnificent 56% of the vote - trouncing the Tories and an Independent former Tory!

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.

But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.

You can’t negotiate with people like that.

Outdoor education can help build confidence, resilience, and love of learning and the outdoors.

Really glad to see such a positive response from the Education Secretary today about supporting our cross-party campaign to give every young person these life-changing opportunities.

"being English requires Anglo-Saxon lineage"

Angles - a Germanic tribe
Saxons - i.e. from Saxony, in Germany

Sorry to those with Celtic, Nordic, or Norman lineage ... you're not English either!

Government must continue to Support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria | Parliament Politics Magazine Increasing financial pressures are no secret, so in an era of budget constraints, we need to be smart with our budgeting. That is exactly why I fully support

What's missing is the political will.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, we all waited for science to catch up. We waited for a vaccine, for hope.

When it finally arrived, the world changed almost overnight.

With HIV, TB and malaria, we don’t have to wait. The science is already there. The treatments already exist.

The British Council faces a financial crisis. Without action on their pandemic-era loan and the recent grant cuts, they could be insolvent within a year – along with the soft power they provide. The Foreign Secretary must meet their CEO urgently.

Serious financial irregularities have been uncovered with claims that some donors were awarded questionable contracts.

Today a specialist financial crime court in Brussels will deliver its verdict.

At a LD meeting on innovation and growth last night I was struck by how much support criticism of our slow and imaginative policy process is - and how concerned people were about our absence of anything interesting to say on the economy. Its why we need new blood on FPC

Only ten days to go now till our big event in Totnes. There are still a few tickets left if you want to join us.

With cycling being my main mode of transport across the constituency and beyond, I know first-hand the dangers of headlight glare.

The Government must update its road safety strategy to include vehicle lighting. It’s time to make our roads safer for everyone.

The Kinks: Autumn Almanac Time to get his posted before autumn turns to winter. Autumn Almanac is a non-album single from 1967 that made no. 3 in the UK singles chart...

Liberal England... The Kinks: Autumn Almanac

"The words were inspired by Charlie, my dad’s old drinking mate, who cleaned up my garden for me, sweeping up the leaves. I wrote it in early autumn, yeah, as the leaves were turning colour."

There was a time the party opposite condemned Enoch Powell.

We can hear the dog whistle. Being British is about our values, the way we act, and the way we cohere together 🇬🇧

BBC doing the job of Goebbels facilitating fascism; but then will obviously be full of hypocrisy over the Remembrance Day events

We must not allow Reform UK and the Tories’ misleading attempts to demonise human rights protections to gain media traction when, in truth, the public strongly wants to maintain the high standards which keep us all safer.

Latest YouGov poll shows multi-party Britain breaking the voting system If there were a general election tomorrow, who would form the next government? It sounds like a simple question if you have access to the latest polls. But when the latest YouGov poll, r

Latest YouGov poll shows multi-party Britain breaking the voting system electoral-reform.org.uk/latest-yougo... Electoral Reform Society – ERS

Fix Britain's Trade Liberal Democrats want to turbocharge our economy by forming a Customs Union with the EU, tearing down the trade barriers and red tape holding us back.

www.libdems.org.uk/trade

Lib Dems gain seat off Reform in council by-election. More good news in recent by-elections, as Reform not the sweeping force they keep telling us.

Quite a big flip to Lib Dems too considering the majority the Reform candidate had back in May!

What an idiot! Congratulations to the REAL winner, Lib Dem Cllr. Sam Ammar...

Controversial former Reform councillor resigns from Cornwall Council 'Christine has made a real difference to her community, from supporting local initiatives to ensuring residents’ voices were heard in every decision she took.'

Controversial former Reform UK councillor resigns from Cornwall Council

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Factionalism, farce and chaos dog Reform UK in the garden of England All is not well in Kent for Nigel Farage’s party as the recent video of an incendiary meeting suggests

Not sure why this was kind of buried in the Guardian story

Kent leader Kemkaran "failed to ensure that her register of interests listed the fact that her husband is the director of digital transformation at East Kent’s health authority"

It's a criminal offence to knowingly omit relevant interests.

Fantastic result in Bromsgrove, congratulations to Sam Ammar and the local team!

Across the country, it’s the Liberal Democrats who are taking the fight to Reform and winning 💪

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

#ReformRussianBribes

Farage says he’s “sad” his constituency tops the deprivation charts, yet he’s done nothing to change it. A hollow Putin's pet posing as a patriot, more interested in gold ads, crypto and GB News than Clacton’s struggles. All bluster, no backbone. The people deserve better than this racist fraud.