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Steve Lodge 🔶

@comedysteve.bsky.social

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Marketing specialist. Runs a comedy club. Lib Dem. 🔶. Father of three. Loves funk!

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Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · Mar 21

My imprint, should anyone want or need it: promoted by David Wulff on behalf of Steve Lodge (Liberal Democrats), 2B Oaklands Court, Tiverton, EX16 6TG.

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 13h

This shines a light on how the media amplifies the wrong stories... on purpose, of course, distorting national priorities for political gain [and more clicks].

Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 1d

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 1d

Bobby G's Bucks Fizz have been touring for decades and all the members have been in the group decades longer than the original lineup.

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. They've left Tiverton in a dire state. Lives are at stake.

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 1d

At a macro level, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer under far right governance. That doesn't bode well for those in our communities who are essentially voting for a worse future for themselves.

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Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 4d

Well he's councillor for Tiverton East, and I'm councillor for Tiverton West - and I'm the one sitting on Children's Scrutiny committee 😀

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Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 4d

Anita Anand said 'normalcy' on Radio 4 this week. Which must mean they're using ChatGPT to draft scripts.

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Ed Tyldesley 🔶 @chulmleighed.bsky.social · 5d

In Barnstaple today, we sent a clear message:

We reject Trump’s America and we reject Nigel Farage’s vision of Britain.

Hate has no home here.

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Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 7d

We all feel that not enough has been done to hold water companies to account for pollution and lack of investment. Paying more for long-time failures is a bitter pill.

Rachel Gilmour, MP for Tiverton and Minehead @rachelgilmourld.bsky.social · 7d

Time after time, water firms like Wessex Water increase their prices while failing consumers - and now the regulator has been completely outmanoeuvred.

The Govt must move swiftly to replace Ofwat with a stronger regulator.

Consumers deserve so much better than this.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Water bills to rise further for millions after appeal

Five water companies win permission for higher bills as they seek more funds to fix outdated infrastructure.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael @michael-fox.bsky.social · 8d

If you aren't ready to join up fully, you could consider our Registered Supporter programme. It's free and helps you get involved.

www.libdems.org.uk/join

Join us

Become a Liberal Democrat member today.

www.libdems.org.uk

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Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 8d

"Beginning to hear"? He hasn't been listening for the last few years.

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Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 8d

Surely this is a matter for the Labour government? It seems odd to me that they sit on their hands like they do with BBC bias.

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 9d

Is no one concerned about Jenrick wanting a 'new order'? Isn't that blatant nazi signalling? I don't see Conservatives diving for their copies of Blue Monday.

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 10d

They’ll usually ask you to make a “No Licence Needed” declaration. You can do this online on the TV Licensing website

They may send an officer to check, but you don’t have to let them in without a warrant (and warrants are rare).

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 10d

As a copywriter, I have to say this is very poor from the Conversatives.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10d

Another astonishing sign of incredible incompetence from the UK Conservatives. They can’t even get right the name of the country they want to represent.
(Image via LBC political editor Natasha Clark)

Promo bar of chocolate saying
"When Labour negotiates,
Britian loses"

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13d

“Clever, isn’t he?”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 16d

The backlog is in excess of £300m. That says everything when the capital budget per annum is £80m.

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 18d

So Brexit Party and Reform are LITERALLY the same party. A great thread as ever.

Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 19d

There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them

“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”

“But, but he was in UKIP”

“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”

So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵

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Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 18d

Science is wonderful.

Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 18d

Curiosity calls for science.

Making sense of spaghetti physics: "Why does the strand break like that?"

🍝

#science #physics #pasta #interesting

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 19d

Is that leaflet ignoring Reform?

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 20d

Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID. That’s not the kind of country we want to be. Lib Dems have always stood up for people’s freedom and privacy, back our petition to say no to digital ID cards. Our national petition: www.libdems.org.uk/nodigitalid.

No to Digital ID Cards!

Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID. That’s not the kind of country we want to be. Back our petition to say no to digital ID cards.

www.libdems.org.uk

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 22d

Chris Mason has forgotten to mention that in his latest piece on Ed Davey's speech for the BBC, instead quoting the BBC statement on lack of bias and mentioning Farage more times than Ed Davey.

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Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 22d

Why is this absent from BBC and Sky?? Trump attacks Britain at UN just days after state visit including lies about Sadiq Khan

www.itv.com/news/2025-09...

www.itv.com

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 24d

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Something for a newsnight investigation? Why is this at the top of the BBC news page? Is this not simply right wing propaganda pretending to be news?

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 25d

Should be worth watching.

Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 25d

Catch Eye hack Richard Brooks tonight on ITV1 in The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money.

The documentary tells the story of how some companies with little or no track record in supplying PPE or medical tests were given massive contracts - and made a killing from Covid.

🕙 10:15pm on ITV1 / ITVX

Steve Lodge 🔶 @comedysteve.bsky.social · 26d

Great new brand of clothing for autistic children especially those with sensory difficulties kanna.co.uk

Kanna sensory clothing for kids

Feel Good, Wear Better Sensory Friendly Fashion. Creating sensory-friendly clothing designed to provide ultimate comfort and style for all children, during all seasons.

kanna.co.uk