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Paul Chandler 🔶

@pauljchandler.bsky.social

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Long time Lib Dem and retired travel agent. That's my Lady friend at the Bois des Moutiers near Dieppe. Only picture I had that was long and thin!

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Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · May 6

We were F****d by Brexit and now we're being RefUKed.

Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 8h

'An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories.'
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How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

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Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, do support them by donation but unfortunately they ONLY receive money via direct debit. Bad decision by Full Fact.

Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, due to our crazy voting system. The vast majority of people didn't vote Labour.

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Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 2d

34% voted Labour but yes, the people roundly rejected the Tories!

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 5d

A stonker of a night for us. Three huge wins, Reform nowhere near us and the Tories down to ten percent in Mel Stride’s own seat.

We are the only party taking Farage on and the only party beating him.

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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Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 6d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'She really thought she was rehabilitating the Tories, but she has reduced them to a low-wattage thinktank attached to a warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Farage.'

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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Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 15d

I notice they say 'that isn't RefUK policy' it's Ukip or whatever. Does RefUK have any kind of policy making body? Or is it just whatever Nigel says?

Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 17d

Well, Bell I respect your opinion. I don't think it is clear yet how the Libdems will fall nationally

Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 17d

If we accept your premise (that it's a one-way street and slippery slopiness is inevitable), then what progressive ideas will ever be launched? Voting reform? Assisted dying? And looking back, equal marriage? I remember Norman Tebbit saying it would lead to sisters getting married!

Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 17d

Interesting survey - all to play for!!!

Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 17d

Yours is a fair point. I did use the word 'apparently'. My sense of speaking to friends (and fellow party members) is that most people think it's worth a try. Of course, once implemented we must watch for that slippery slope!

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Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 17d

Reform are against ID cards as are Corbynites and LibDems and apparently a lot of Labour MPs. Apparently the only people in favour are the majority of ordinary voters!!

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Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 18d

Have you ever met a 'granny'??

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 19d

This strip is 43 years old.

Tell me again how it all started because of 7th of October.

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Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 19d

Nice mixed metaphor - cars v trains!

Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 19d

People against things always say ‘slow down - don’t rush into this’. I believe this is the third attempt over 25 years. We must have covered everything by now!

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Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 19d

I’m not sure irony works on social media!

Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 19d

Yawn yawn - the slippery slope argument. If we listened to that would we have divorce, woman's rights, gay marriage, assisted dying - in fact any change at all???

Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · 19d

How do you know what you're missing?

Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Trump Not Welcome | 17 September 2025

Stop Trump Coalition

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Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fact is LibDems are too sensible and MoR for click hungry media. Of course the truth is more likely to be boring than lies.

Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · Sep 1

Of course you are correct it is not illegal to seek asylum. But what if their claim is rejected? Are they not then an illegal economic migrant? We need such migrants. Let's open more channels for them to come legally.

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Terrence Williams 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷 @terrencewilliams.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · Aug 24

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Paul Chandler 🔶 @pauljchandler.bsky.social · Aug 24

Parts of the internet are wild that's what we want to tame, just as parts of the wild west were wild and other parts really quite civilised.