Banbury Liberal Democrats

Have to say with this shower Private Education is ... well lets just say having turned out so lacking in empathy, decency, critical thinking, logic or sense then the only thing suprising is only one of the schools has gone bust.

Hedrig a Spanish water dog in front of a C13 church in North Oxfordshire with a lib dem leaflet in front of him

Another in our occasional 'Which village in North Oxfordshire is Hedrig helping the campaign today?' quiz. Particularly fiendish picture this one. So the church is C13 and the White Swan 😢 closed

A bit of Friday fun! 🤣 | Zoe Williams A bit of Friday fun! 🤣

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Pretty much sums up my view of LinkedIn and HR BS more generally

Maybe a minority of one, but so looking forward to the Jeff Buckley Documentary "It's never over" at The Lights, for a few days next week, going on Wednesday.
Strange 'Inside Politics' from the @irishtimes.com when this was raved about and Football made two interventions. Huw losing his grip?

I was in Tysoe Post Office a few days ago, feeling tired does that means Zahawi needs to flee his village?

Rep. Raskin Confirms ‘Troubling’ And ‘Unnecessary’ Epstein File Redactions

Jamie Raskin said he reviewed an email sent from Epstein to co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell that was a forwarded conversation between Epstein’s lawyers and lawyers for Donald Trump.

The DOJ (illegally) redacted Trump's name in the public files.
What else are they hiding?

This is why idiots/ racists etc being in favour of ICE equivalent in UK need to be challenged and taken down, this stuff always leads to this.

Can't help feeling at times Chairs/ newly ex-Chairs of Lib Dem constituency parties could do with a Union...

Thoughts on the new Oxfordshire map coming this summer

Local government reorganisation is happening….

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#LibDem momentum growing across #Birmingham, with Liberal Democrats being the change and a brighter future our City needs🔶
Today’s canvassing with #Bordesley & #Highgate candidate Waleed Obad and MP Manuela Perteghella confirmed our City is ready for a change #LibDems offer 🔶 All rubbish REPORTED ☑️

Al is impressive, on a call soon after the election he was across his brief, knowledgeable, spoke with clarity, honesty and candour but that was as a Defence Minister to a Defence meeting. Surely needs experience elsewhere for anyone to push PM, now particularly after his migration kite flying

I just saw this advert from indeed. Was curious about the language question, the job's in Southam, don't think there's a Welsh community in that part of South Warwickshire (like in Patagonia), that I was unaware.
No appears AI had picked up the address Welsh Road West. And did it's unusual genius

Well let's face it none of remember all of the freebies we get - £10k, loose change.
Don't get out of bed for such meagre sums. Move on nothing to see here

Peter Mandelson: Epstein is like dog muck; the smell won’t go away Peter Mandelson was sacked as ambassador to the US because of his links to Jeffrey Epstein. Now, he has resigned from the Labour Party. Is this the end for him?

Update: Mandelson *has* now remembered the 10k-ish for from a convicted sex offender for his husband's osteopathy course that he initially could not place & did not declare under the v clear rules on gifts, But it's ok everyone that was 'not a consequential decision' www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Liam reading Yeats. Genius writer and a decent actor. Easter 1916

Due process would be helping etc. I rather think an email would be.

So much of this sleaze was in plain sight. When US Ambassador, Mandelson took Starmer for a photo opp at Palantir, a client of Global Counsel in which he had a huge stake. This was a monstrous conflict of interest and it was all public domain. Why did Starmer think it appropriate to go?

Granted he did the decent thing in the Norway debate in 1940.

This piece of work was my Grandparents MP for a good while - and they were solid blue, (being a relation to Jeremy Thorpe notwithstanding, sort of embarrassing Uncle etcI with given a real telling off for being 'disrespectful' to their Man once. I came back with his appeasment, I was not popular.

1938 Oxford by-election - Wikipedia

I think you can make a case that the candidates at the 1938 Oxford by election were both local “celebrities” with some national profile.

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Why the hell is Mandelson not currently in a police station 'helping police with their enquiries'? Why the hell is Starmer not on the TV giving a resignation speech explaining his terrible decision to bring this corrupt, amoral, lickspittle back into public life?
Just go, "In the name of God go"

Another in our occasional series of identify the North Oxfordshire village Hedrig the Spanish Water 🐕 has just helped (or hindered) deliver to.
The only hint I will give this is by the ford - not Sibford or Shutford as neither have fords, yep me neither.

Worth calling out good stuff from our opponents, had a nice chat with Andrew one of the Labour Councillors in Hardwick. He was carrying a litter picker up with intention to use 👍

Group of Lib Dems prepare to campaign for Mike in Banbury Hardwick

Banbury Lib Dems were out about in Banbury (I know image us going to Banbury) Hardwick for Mike Offei.
Would have been more of us but some wanted to annoy Kemi Banenoch by doing a bit Church maintenance before.

They ran in Banbury in GE. Did not realise this until the count.
And frankly Oscar the Guide Dog Puppy we were raising would have have got a bigger vote - and that's just people in the Hall...

Well the troubadles have been busy. Here's the Boss in Minneapolis
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Billy Bragg - City Of Heroes Listen to City Of Heroes by Billy Bragg.

CITY OF HEROES, my song celebrating the courage of the people of Minneapolis defending their community from Tяump's goons, is now available to stream on numerous platforms via this link: bbragg.lnk.to/cityofheroes

YouTube video by RTÉ - IRELAND’S NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA Dominic West reads "The Second Coming" by WB Yeats | A Fanatic Heart: Geldof on Yeats, RTE One

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Going hard core. Dom West reading Yeats.
Wish my father was still around to talk to now. Of war and pre war Then and now he took a 8 year journey from 1936 to 1945 to see his parents, they were in Ceylon. The price was high
Our comfortable is gone, accept there is pain

Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America America is a ‘battlefield’, Simone de Beauvoir wrote, ‘and you can only become passionate about the battle it is...

Great essay by Adam; would argue some points obviously.
But his minor point about Jazz is clearly correct
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This time the dog is in Shutford

And Shutford