Greg Foster
@gregfoster.org.uk
Greg 🇪🇺🇬🇧
Full-time cat Dad, recovering politico. Follow for minis, photos and baking.
📍Edinburgh
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Full-time cat Dad, recovering politico. Follow for minis, photos and baking.
📍Edinburgh
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🐈🐈 ginandmango
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Please see below my article for Lib Dem Voice titled 'Have we forgotten what we stand for?'.
In it I talk about why so many young and diverse members feel disillusionment with the party and what I believe needs to change.
www.libdemvoice.org/have-we-forg...
In it I talk about why so many young and diverse members feel disillusionment with the party and what I believe needs to change.
www.libdemvoice.org/have-we-forg...
Have we forgotten what we stand for?
I joined the Liberal Democrats six years ago. I was 16, I’d just finished my GCSEs and I wanted to make a difference. I believe in Liberalism, and the party’s preamble spoke to me. After all, who woul...
www.libdemvoice.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Please see below my article for Lib Dem Voice titled 'Have we forgotten what we stand for?'.
In it I talk about why so many young and diverse members feel disillusionment with the party and what I believe needs to change.
www.libdemvoice.org/have-we-forg...
In it I talk about why so many young and diverse members feel disillusionment with the party and what I believe needs to change.
www.libdemvoice.org/have-we-forg...
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Following the announcement by the Lib Dems returning officer on quotas in our federal elections I would like to make it clear I spent many hours and more emails trying to point out that this decision went against the expressed will of conference barely a month ago.
October 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Following the announcement by the Lib Dems returning officer on quotas in our federal elections I would like to make it clear I spent many hours and more emails trying to point out that this decision went against the expressed will of conference barely a month ago.
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Are you a 🔸️🔶️ #libdem 🔶️🔸️?
If so, whether you are cis or trans or consider yourself neither, you need to email compliance TODAY with something like the text in the image. If you need the address and don't have it i can supply in DM.
Want to know why? 🧵 from Charley ⤵️
If so, whether you are cis or trans or consider yourself neither, you need to email compliance TODAY with something like the text in the image. If you need the address and don't have it i can supply in DM.
Want to know why? 🧵 from Charley ⤵️
![Title: Removal of permission to use data about me
Text: If the party holds any information whatsoever about my sex assigned at birth, whether under my current name or any other names associated with [membership number], I hereby immediately revoke any permission I may have previously given for the party to hold or use this information in any way.
My gender is, and remains, [your gender].
Sincerely
[your name]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j2yiwzoek7ylj2iejah5ortj/bafkreidbeiejyjrame3kllcxjnnqudz3lakovooqdo4eavgn7dar2hyzqi@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Are you a 🔸️🔶️ #libdem 🔶️🔸️?
If so, whether you are cis or trans or consider yourself neither, you need to email compliance TODAY with something like the text in the image. If you need the address and don't have it i can supply in DM.
Want to know why? 🧵 from Charley ⤵️
If so, whether you are cis or trans or consider yourself neither, you need to email compliance TODAY with something like the text in the image. If you need the address and don't have it i can supply in DM.
Want to know why? 🧵 from Charley ⤵️
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Also highlights a point I spend a lot of time on in my book - the government is woefully bad at managing private contractors who endlessly rip us off. This is not more efficient.
October 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Also highlights a point I spend a lot of time on in my book - the government is woefully bad at managing private contractors who endlessly rip us off. This is not more efficient.
Nobody loves Croissant as much as this cat
October 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Nobody loves Croissant as much as this cat
The year of weddings starts early this year and once again I find myself deeply infuriated at men’s formal wear.
Want a shirt in blue, white or pink? Go right ahead. Want anything else? Hope you’ve the body shape for slim fit 💀
Want a shirt in blue, white or pink? Go right ahead. Want anything else? Hope you’ve the body shape for slim fit 💀
October 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The year of weddings starts early this year and once again I find myself deeply infuriated at men’s formal wear.
Want a shirt in blue, white or pink? Go right ahead. Want anything else? Hope you’ve the body shape for slim fit 💀
Want a shirt in blue, white or pink? Go right ahead. Want anything else? Hope you’ve the body shape for slim fit 💀
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People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
This sounds great. Can we also double their business rates and ban gambling advertising?
And use some of the revenue generated for a retraining fund to help staff who want to upskill and land new jobs?
And use some of the revenue generated for a retraining fund to help staff who want to upskill and land new jobs?
Betting firm threatens to end its entire High St presence if it has to pay any more tax bit.ly/4qhaL1j yet another in the too rich and too important to pay tax series
If gambling tax rises, we’ll shut all our 1,300 shops, warns Betfred
Increased levies expected to be imposed in next month’s budget could cost the company 7,000 jobs, according to Joanne Whittaker, the chief executive
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This sounds great. Can we also double their business rates and ban gambling advertising?
And use some of the revenue generated for a retraining fund to help staff who want to upskill and land new jobs?
And use some of the revenue generated for a retraining fund to help staff who want to upskill and land new jobs?
This is a really excellent piece and, I think, deeply insightful of our current moment’s predicament.
"Abu Ghraib . . . was a leak, and people were shocked. Now similar degradation in 'deportations' is being intentionally broadcast for the entertainment of half the country"
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This is a really excellent piece and, I think, deeply insightful of our current moment’s predicament.
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Ming Campbell was a dedicated public servant and a true Liberal giant.
His principled leadership opposing the Iraq War was a mark of his morality, courage and wisdom.
But more than that, he was an incredibly warm and caring friend and colleague.
We will miss him terribly.
His principled leadership opposing the Iraq War was a mark of his morality, courage and wisdom.
But more than that, he was an incredibly warm and caring friend and colleague.
We will miss him terribly.
September 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Ming Campbell was a dedicated public servant and a true Liberal giant.
His principled leadership opposing the Iraq War was a mark of his morality, courage and wisdom.
But more than that, he was an incredibly warm and caring friend and colleague.
We will miss him terribly.
His principled leadership opposing the Iraq War was a mark of his morality, courage and wisdom.
But more than that, he was an incredibly warm and caring friend and colleague.
We will miss him terribly.
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I see people are upset that I won an award for women because I'm the wrong type of woman. I was moved and honoured to have been awarded this by the party's women's group, and that the Lib Dems at all levels have my back and I will continue to fight for liberalism and my community.
September 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I see people are upset that I won an award for women because I'm the wrong type of woman. I was moved and honoured to have been awarded this by the party's women's group, and that the Lib Dems at all levels have my back and I will continue to fight for liberalism and my community.
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The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
September 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts
The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies
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Some people are really really bad losers...
Some people are really really bad feminists...
Some people are really really bad feminists...
September 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Some people are really really bad losers...
Some people are really really bad feminists...
Some people are really really bad feminists...
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Delighted that the @libdems.org.uk showed yet again that we reject the assault on trans people’s rights promoted by the small anti trans group in the party. #ldconf
September 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Delighted that the @libdems.org.uk showed yet again that we reject the assault on trans people’s rights promoted by the small anti trans group in the party. #ldconf
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the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger
my latest with @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...
my latest with @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...
Britain’s Bathroom Ban
The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing one without a vote
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger
my latest with @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...
my latest with @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...
Really very good from Mark. I’m likely not restanding to the FC for similar reasons - my energy can be better spent in Scotland without having to engage with any of the (very) small group of emotional vampires & wreckers that dwell on the FC.
Three years on Federal Council are coming towards an end so, even though I’m not running for re-election, here is a report back… liberalbureaucracy.blogspot.com/2025/09/fede...
Federal Council: not letting the door hit me on the way out...
Three years ago, when I ran for a place on the inaugural Federal Council, my aims were to: Establish the Federal Council as an effective scr...
liberalbureaucracy.blogspot.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Really very good from Mark. I’m likely not restanding to the FC for similar reasons - my energy can be better spent in Scotland without having to engage with any of the (very) small group of emotional vampires & wreckers that dwell on the FC.
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Three years on Federal Council are coming towards an end so, even though I’m not running for re-election, here is a report back… liberalbureaucracy.blogspot.com/2025/09/fede...
Federal Council: not letting the door hit me on the way out...
Three years ago, when I ran for a place on the inaugural Federal Council, my aims were to: Establish the Federal Council as an effective scr...
liberalbureaucracy.blogspot.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Three years on Federal Council are coming towards an end so, even though I’m not running for re-election, here is a report back… liberalbureaucracy.blogspot.com/2025/09/fede...
The US right has such an intense martyrdom complex. They’re just desperate to be oppressed by the government. It’s really fucking weird.
September 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The US right has such an intense martyrdom complex. They’re just desperate to be oppressed by the government. It’s really fucking weird.
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"Almost no one will have knowingly encountered someone who illegally entered the country, let alone seen them actually arrive on the beach at Dover. They just think there’s a crisis because other people keep telling them there is."
A nation is a shared illusion – so a government has the power to change it
Also this week: who was the first king of England? And my favourite giant semi-aquatic rat.
jonn.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"Almost no one will have knowingly encountered someone who illegally entered the country, let alone seen them actually arrive on the beach at Dover. They just think there’s a crisis because other people keep telling them there is."
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the first sentence is a Journey
September 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
the first sentence is a Journey
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Alex Phillips is clearly just shit at cutting bread.
August 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Alex Phillips is clearly just shit at cutting bread.
Is this the cat equivalent of sitting criss cross applesauce
August 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Is this the cat equivalent of sitting criss cross applesauce
Rest in piss, bozo.
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and one of the most influential voices in the conservative evangelical movement, has died at age 89
August 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Rest in piss, bozo.