Tom Simon
@tomsimon.bsky.social
Lib Dem councillor and Leader of the Opposition in Camden, London. Also an aspiring writer of historical fiction seeking ways to publish my debut novel: The Belmond Legacy, an adventure story set in 12th century England.
This is classic Labour - their answer to a problem that could be addressed with some sensible technocratic changes is... to remove fundamental freedoms.
MP’s must resist any attempt by the government to undermine and restrict one of the fundamental cornerstones of our democracy. Write to your MP now
🚨The governments controversial plan to scrap jury trials for crimes with sentences of less than 3 years is a huge mistake, will make little or no difference to the backlog and will undermine and restrict one of the fundamental cornerstones of our democracy
WE MUST STOP IT
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WE MUST STOP IT
youtu.be/DvdUHAHf_4o?...
December 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is classic Labour - their answer to a problem that could be addressed with some sensible technocratic changes is... to remove fundamental freedoms.
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MP’s must resist any attempt by the government to undermine and restrict one of the fundamental cornerstones of our democracy. Write to your MP now
🚨The governments controversial plan to scrap jury trials for crimes with sentences of less than 3 years is a huge mistake, will make little or no difference to the backlog and will undermine and restrict one of the fundamental cornerstones of our democracy
WE MUST STOP IT
youtu.be/DvdUHAHf_4o?...
WE MUST STOP IT
youtu.be/DvdUHAHf_4o?...
MP’s must resist this attempt to undermine & restrict a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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December 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
MP’s must resist any attempt by the government to undermine and restrict one of the fundamental cornerstones of our democracy. Write to your MP now
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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One third of ALL council housing building started in London this year has been by Lib Dem Sutton council.
A great achievement from the Lib Dem team - but also a reflection that Labour have failed on housing - contributing to our terrible levels of homelessness.
A great achievement from the Lib Dem team - but also a reflection that Labour have failed on housing - contributing to our terrible levels of homelessness.
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
One third of ALL council housing building started in London this year has been by Lib Dem Sutton council.
A great achievement from the Lib Dem team - but also a reflection that Labour have failed on housing - contributing to our terrible levels of homelessness.
A great achievement from the Lib Dem team - but also a reflection that Labour have failed on housing - contributing to our terrible levels of homelessness.
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This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs
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Hello, new two party system.
Hunstanton (King's Lynn & West Norfolk) Council By-Election Result:
➡️ RFM: 29.2% (New)
🔶 LDM: 25.6% (New)
🙋 Ind: 18.2% (-11.0)
🌳 CON: 17.8% (-23.0)
🙋 Ind: 6.1% (New)
🌹 LAB: 3.2% (-21.0)
No Ind (-35.0) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Independent.
Changes w/ 2023.
➡️ RFM: 29.2% (New)
🔶 LDM: 25.6% (New)
🙋 Ind: 18.2% (-11.0)
🌳 CON: 17.8% (-23.0)
🙋 Ind: 6.1% (New)
🌹 LAB: 3.2% (-21.0)
No Ind (-35.0) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Independent.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Hello, new two party system.
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
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Labour has let London down yet again.
The Government has refused to fund vital infrastructure for our city, offered nothing to our struggling hospitality industry, and chickened out of seeking the new Customs Union with the EU our economy needs.
The Government has refused to fund vital infrastructure for our city, offered nothing to our struggling hospitality industry, and chickened out of seeking the new Customs Union with the EU our economy needs.
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Labour has let London down yet again.
The Government has refused to fund vital infrastructure for our city, offered nothing to our struggling hospitality industry, and chickened out of seeking the new Customs Union with the EU our economy needs.
The Government has refused to fund vital infrastructure for our city, offered nothing to our struggling hospitality industry, and chickened out of seeking the new Customs Union with the EU our economy needs.
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Keep our Democracy Resilient!
⛔STOP the super Chinese Embassy⛔
🔶TAKE ACTION: WRITE TO YOUR MPs -
⏰Time is running out - Gov decision in Dec.
⛔STOP the super Chinese Embassy⛔
🔶TAKE ACTION: WRITE TO YOUR MPs -
⏰Time is running out - Gov decision in Dec.
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Keep our Democracy Resilient!
⛔STOP the super Chinese Embassy⛔
🔶TAKE ACTION: WRITE TO YOUR MPs -
⏰Time is running out - Gov decision in Dec.
⛔STOP the super Chinese Embassy⛔
🔶TAKE ACTION: WRITE TO YOUR MPs -
⏰Time is running out - Gov decision in Dec.
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
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Brexit has cost each and every one of us £3,700 a year.
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
November 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Brexit has cost each and every one of us £3,700 a year.
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.
My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!
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The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests.
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests.
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn
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Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
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BBC Chair Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party.
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output
The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party
bylinetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
BBC Chair Samir Shah and Robbie Gibb asked to explain why they drew up a plan, as revealed by Byline Times, to win back the "trust" of Reform voters, but haven't made similar plans for voters of any other party.
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
Gibb says Reform voters least likely to trust the BBC bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...
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It's not going away
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
It's not going away
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An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.
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Lib Dems to force vote in Parliament on new customs union with EU
Lib Dems to force vote in Parliament on new customs union with EU
The Liberal Democrats are preparing to push a vote in Parliament on forging a new customs union with the EU.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Lib Dems to force vote in Parliament on new customs union with EU
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This is shocking. Up to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis, research suggests
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is shocking. Up to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis, research suggests
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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From @philipjcowley.bsky.social - thanks to a happy coincidence we have a much more rigorous than usual understanding of the impact of Keir Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech. As Cowley puts it "It is not obvious this was the intended outcome"
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
From @philipjcowley.bsky.social - thanks to a happy coincidence we have a much more rigorous than usual understanding of the impact of Keir Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech. As Cowley puts it "It is not obvious this was the intended outcome"
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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Huge thanks to everyone who campaigned for this: our 603 group, Camden transport team, local councillors, our MP! Let’s keep pushing for a service that meets the needs of our community!💪🚌
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November 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Huge thanks to everyone who campaigned for this: our 603 group, Camden transport team, local councillors, our MP! Let’s keep pushing for a service that meets the needs of our community!💪🚌
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Appeals against deportation on human rights grounds are vanishingly rare - less than one per cent of foreign national offenders remain in the UK on human rights grounds. So changing how the Convention is interpreted won’t make a material difference to migration figures
Labour’s plan risks weakening protections for all of us. Human rights are universal - politicians may not always find them politically convenient but it shouldn’t fall to any government to say who those rights should and should not apply to. It’s a slippery slope to oblivion youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...
The government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Appeals against deportation on human rights grounds are vanishingly rare - less than one per cent of foreign national offenders remain in the UK on human rights grounds. So changing how the Convention is interpreted won’t make a material difference to migration figures
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Asked how happy Keir Starmer is that Tommy Robinson is now backing his asylum plans, his spokesman replies that "the public can tell that the pace and scale of illegal immigration is out of control..."
"We must restore order... or we will lose public consent for giving refuge at all".
"We must restore order... or we will lose public consent for giving refuge at all".
November 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Asked how happy Keir Starmer is that Tommy Robinson is now backing his asylum plans, his spokesman replies that "the public can tell that the pace and scale of illegal immigration is out of control..."
"We must restore order... or we will lose public consent for giving refuge at all".
"We must restore order... or we will lose public consent for giving refuge at all".
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Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"