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William Tench @williamten.ch · 1d

The Traitors is making the argument against First Past The Post very well!

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 2d

This is one of several bad traits the current govt has in common with Sunak's. Nobody is impressed by constantly telegraphing your great (read bad) gambits that are going to turn your unpopularity around, especially when it's paired with ignoring the elephant in the room (cost of living).

Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 2d

No1 rule of great political strategy: constantly talk about your strategy, the fact it is a strategy, and that you wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't your strategy. People love this.

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 3d

going to celebrate Margaret Thatcher’s Birthday by selling off all my assets

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 4d

Even if they deeply and truly believe that the party’s LGBT+ wing have done something morally reprehensible, do they think it will benefit them in any way to broadcast that to their followers?

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 4d

Disgraced former Conservative MPs William Wragg and Peter Bone should start a consultancy called Wragg & Bone

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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 7d

🚨URGENT! On Monday, the Govt could make last minute changes to the Planning Bill, removing protections for national parks like the South Downs. Join my campaign to save nature. Sign the petition and share!. We must force the government to change their mind.

www.winld.org.uk/save-the-sou...

Save The South Downs

www.winld.org.uk

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Richard Foord MP @richardfoordld.bsky.social · 8d

Michael Gove finally admitting what we already knew: the Conservatives' trade deal with Australia failed British farmers. Any future deal must be given proper scrutiny by Parliament so that farmers, consumers, and our environment don't lose out again. www.fwi.co.uk/news/gove-ad...

Gove admits Tory trade deals failed to protect UK farmers - Farmers Weekly

Former Defra secretary Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australian trade deal negotiated by the previous Conservative government did

www.fwi.co.uk

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 8d

obscenely funny

Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 8d

My message to the millions of One Nation conservatives who reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is this:

Come and join us. Help us save our country. Come and win with us.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 8d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 10d

one of a million little ways that Brexit has ruined our politics

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 10d

Maybe the answer to political apathy, trust, and populism is for everyone to be a local councillor for a few weeks.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 12d

yet their conference main hall was our exhibition hall 🤔🤔🤔

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12d

The Green Party of England and Wales says it now has more members than the Lib Dems: 83,500 to 83,174 with "hundreds more joining daily".

Interestingly, both parties are growing while Reform and the Conservatives are shedding members.

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 13d

www.markpack.org.uk/160440/party...

BBC: party leaders Question Time audience contained almost no Lib Dems

The BBC 'balanced' the audience based on the number of MPs each party has in the House of Commons, which meant 3% Liberal Democrat.

www.markpack.org.uk

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 13d

remember when polling didn't matter for bbc coverage, only seats

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 13d

two local icons in one shot

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 14d

Most mid-sized towns and up are suffering from dying high streets, congestion and air pollution and loss of green space and the solution is right there!!

William Tench @williamten.ch · 14d

We simply refuse to build dense in most of this country and are paying the price

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development

Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Jones @narson.bsky.social · 15d

BBC now running stories entirely predicated on talks with Zia Yousef, whose position now is....running an internal policy group within Reform?

Trying to think of the last time the head of the Lib Dem Federal Policy Committee or internal figures from other parties were used as the basis for a story.

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Jack @jhol95.bsky.social · 16d

One day, a real-life journalist will question the British right's desperate need to be victimised rather than just regurgitate it for them

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 16d

Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform

Reform UK leader will claim in a speech today that Keir Starmer’s labelling of his migrant plan as ‘racist’ has endangered the safety of his candidates and activists ⬇️

Nigel Farage: Labour rhetoric incites violence against Reform

www.thetimes.com

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 16d

Tony Blair should be disqualified from any part of a peace deal in the Middle East for his illegal war in Iraq.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 17d

A remember when this guy had a pretty unblemished reputation and significant cross-party respect as late as... last year.

And then threw it all away to burn his reputation down publicly as a foot soldier for Starmer.

Key Figure Marjorie Bouvier Simpson KC @jorisbinned.bsky.social · 17d

Honestly just completely disappointed in how this guy is turning out. What a nasty thing to say.

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 18d

I’d rather a “fat bloke in a wetsuit” than a wet bloke with no spine

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 18d

I’m all for party’s doing surveys, but for the Green Party of England and Wales to claim it is a “confidential survey” when they process your personal data and use it for their campaigning is straight-up dishonesty and surely must be a breach of data protection legislation.

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 18d

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William Tench @williamten.ch · 19d

Did just encounter a nutter on the bus picking fights on everyone so maybe not!

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