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Translator, Parish councillor, district councillor, #EastDevonDistrictCouncil, #ALDEParty, #LibDems FIRC. 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺#FBPE

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 25d

I’ve just realised that I haven’t listened to BBC radio 4 routinely now for years. I stopped the news programmes including the today programme over a year ago when they became unashamed mouthpieces for Farage.

I was a lifelong radio 4 listener. I wonder how many others there are.

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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 19h

Take a bow Ed Davey 😅

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@JonWorcesterMan @jonworcesterman.bsky.social · 1d

Join your local Lib Dems’ 🔶🤝👍

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As a member you can:
✔ Decide our party policy.
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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 2d

Equal marriage was LibDem policy driven forward by LibDems. Which Cameron then took credit for when he saw how popular it was.

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Exmouth & Exeter East Liberal Democrats 🔶 @eeelibdems.bsky.social · 2d

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 3d

It might nudge it in parts but many of us are social liberals who believe in redistribution at a level that enables opportunity, social mobility and choice.

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 3d

So rather than ask @eddavey.libdems.org.uk heading a 72 MP Party what he thinks about Blair governing Gaza

Sky asks Farage who has a total of (checks notes as the number keeps changing).. currently just 5 MPs what he thinks

Yet another example of not MSM promoting the toxic turd over others❗️😡

Nigel Farage says Tony Blair 'not my choice' to help govern Gaza but understands Donald Trump's logic

Donald Trump has said former Labour prime minister Sir Tony Blair would head up a "Board of Peace" in Gaza.

news.sky.com

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 3d

And I say “alleged” because how disruptive can a party made of tired defecting Tories peddling an extremely regressive agenda really be?

Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 4d

The infinite power conferred by infinite money makes a person the full expression of who they are, without restraint, checks or balances.

What you see in him and musk is who they really are. They are rich enough to have got rid of any scruples and conscience.

Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 4d

It’s abundantly clear at every level of politics that the press are just desperate to endorse the alleged disrupters, at the expense of our entire country.

They even misrepresent events to make this point- which should surely be taboo in journalism.

News as entertainment is a scourge.

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 4d

Private Eye always gets it. It’s becoming clear to me that MSM journalists care more about themselves than the story. #ukpolitics

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 4d

It’s certainly a take. Generally things are controversial only when they could be seen or interpreted as truth. I think we are safe on this one.

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 4d

The Tories are failing apart, especially at local level.

Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 4d

This is just abject untruth. It scares me that people take so little interest in their political system.

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 4d

I hope we can believe in this ceasefire in Gaza.

The scars of the last 2 years will run for many decades.

Incalculable generational trauma.

How is it ever going to be possible to more forwards positively from these horrific events?

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Barry Howard 🔶 @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 5d

LIB DEM GAIN from CONSERVATIVES 💪
#LibDems
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 5d

Kenn Valley (Teignbridge) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 50.4% (+11.0)
➡️ RFM: 23.1% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.6% (-19.0)
🙋 Ind: 8.2% (New)
🌍 GRN: 5.5% (-13.9)
🌹 LAB: 2.7% (-9.9)
🙋 Ind: 0.5% (New)

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ 2023.

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome Graham!

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Justin @justified72.bsky.social · 6d

So many mixed feelings about this.

For one, my party, The #LibDems, supports a federalist (rather than unionist) UK. We should be clearer on this.

We're not Tory-lite. We have stances on social issues which are FAR more progressive than Labour.

I'd welcome the converted, but am wary of entryists.

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 6d

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has written an open letter to One Nation Conservatives who feel abandoned by their party urging them to join the Liberal Democrats, following Kemi Badenoch’s conference speech today

Full text of the letter:

Dear friends,

Our country is at a crossroads.

The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch is becoming more extreme and out of touch, chasing Nigel Farage instead of focusing on the issues that really matter to people. Meanwhile, Reform UK is growing in strength - threatening the tolerant, decent values that hold our communities together.

I know many One Nation Conservatives are deeply concerned about the lurch to the hard right in our country and under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership. Her plans to tear up the Climate Change Act and withdraw from the ECHR show she is abandoning traditional British values of tolerance, decency and the rule of law.

So my message to the millions of One Nation Conservatives who feel let down by their party and reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is to come and join us. Help us save our country and defend the values we all hold dear.

We will stand strong where others back down. We will not pander to Reform. We will fight to protect our environment, stand up for decency and the rule of law, and stop Trump’s America from becoming Farage’s Britain.

So if you share those values, now is the time to join the Liberal Democrats.

With best wishes,

Ed Davey

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 6d

I’d love to hear from the Conservative Party that they think things are going really, really badly for them, and they haven’t got their act together, instead of their continued insistence that they are owed government and they are completely competent, even as an entire country slaps its forehead.

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 6d

Delusional

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

Shortly after accusing all other political party leaders of believing in "the magic money tree", Kemi Badenoch announces her plan to completely scrap stamp duty, without any word on how she plans to pay for it

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Eleanor Rylance 🔶🌳🌍🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇦 @eleanorrylance.bsky.social · 6d

I wonder if she is as confused as she sounds.

The mental gymnastics required to believe two impossible things before breakfast should be keeping her fit.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

The Conservative party's treatment of David, who exposed the cash for questions scandal, is a former political journalist of the year, and has been covering party conferences for almost 40 years, is a disgrace
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

bylinetimes.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 8d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 7d

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 8d

Two years ago, we watched in horror those appalling scenes of Hamas’s evil terrorist attack on Israel.

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