I have no time for the Lib Dems. Ed Davey was a prince of austerity
But they will be responsible regardless of defeating a lot of Reform insurgents in the South West and other places
But they will be responsible regardless of defeating a lot of Reform insurgents in the South West and other places
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Glastonbury: Lib Dems hold council seat as Reform leapfrog Tories
Ewan Cameron wins Somerset Council by-election as Reform UK push Conservatives into third in Glastonbury
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October 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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I'd go with all the Green and Gold parties except the Lib Dems after Ed Davey disgraced himself last week by joining with Starmer and Badenoch in the demented cry of 'antisemitism' over the proposed ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters. He disgraced himself and his party.
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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I think they’ve decided they want to be a socially conservative ginger group in a Lib Dem led coalition rather than a party of government
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Ditto Lib Dems - focus on say 90-100 seats (upper end as some former seats now held by Labour might be ripe for recovery) and target wards in the likes of London boroughs they've nothing.
(if that makes any sense)
(if that makes any sense)
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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my shitpost turning into a dem lib echo chamber
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Not sure we stocked enough hotdog suits
October 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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It's clearly cutting through to left of centre English voters that Labour now are further to the right than the Lib Dems and massively to the Right of the Greens. People desperate to keep Farage out of power could switch in huge numbers unless Starmer changes course in a big way soon.
October 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Which is why I think for now at least the party should ignore ramping from some quarters + focus on say 10 parliamentary constituencies and individual target wards to break through elsewhere. A strategy borrowed from Lib Dems that seems to have worked recently.
October 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Yeah, but I'm a Lib Dem anyway who has tactically voted Lab since 2015
Lib Dems might have a chance but the main population places are nailed on reform so it would be very tough
Lib Dems might have a chance but the main population places are nailed on reform so it would be very tough
October 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Lib Dems finished second in Burnley in the 2024 GE btw
October 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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October 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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I think that is optimistic. Labour in power has been a PR disaster, when they haven’t also been a policy one.
Think you’ll see similar tiny Labour % in other, previously safe Tory seats as the Lib Dems/Greens scoop up the non racist vote.
Think you’ll see similar tiny Labour % in other, previously safe Tory seats as the Lib Dems/Greens scoop up the non racist vote.
October 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Amuses me how Labour apologists have kicked the Lib Dems for a decade about tuition fees the LDs could do nothing about in a coalition.
Yet Labour themselves choosing not to undo Brexit while they have a massive majority? Silence.
Labour pushed tactical voting and now it's being used against them
Yet Labour themselves choosing not to undo Brexit while they have a massive majority? Silence.
Labour pushed tactical voting and now it's being used against them
October 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Colchester ward elected three Lib Dems in 2016 + slowly turned red since.
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Looks to us like another bright spot improvement for the Lib Dems along with the other 4 seats (3 gains) won yesterday...
October 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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A new poll puts us in second place!
With 7 MSPs we delivered free bus travel under 22s, ended peak rail fares, banned new incinerators, increased taxes on the rich, scrapped school meal debt, introduced rent controls, and much more.
Imagine what we could do with double that. 👀
With 7 MSPs we delivered free bus travel under 22s, ended peak rail fares, banned new incinerators, increased taxes on the rich, scrapped school meal debt, introduced rent controls, and much more.
Imagine what we could do with double that. 👀
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Which also has a Lib Dem councillor making them the obvious tactical progressive choice + presumably means they've got better ground game?
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('Progressive' in quotes as it can be a useful shorthand for anti-Reform but there is clearly absolutely no agreemetn across parties/activists you might usually put in that grouping - Labour, the Greens, the Lib Dems, Plaid, SNP - as to what the right political/policy solutions are for the UK.)
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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If the objective (rightly) is stop Reform, part of the problem is ensuring Labour, which has more electoral capacity than either the Greens or Lib Dems, is part of the 'progressive' solution, when the reason the Greens and Lib Dems are doing well is precisely because Labour is alienating people.
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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The Greens can poll well nationally, as can the Lib Dems, but that doesn't translate to seats as we saw with Reform - until you reach a tipping point level driven by resonant narratives and matched by campaigning capacity/capability. Reform UK have the former and are quickly developing the latter.
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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The challenge in a UK-wide GE is that the dynamic of replacing Labour will remain across the UK, but with 'progressive' opportunities (for non-Labour parties) limited to the geographies where support for the Lib Dems and the Greens is strong enough to win a seat under FPTP.
October 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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This is why local elections in the next few years are crucial, as if the local signal is strong enough then the tactical voting that propped Labour up in 2024 becomes the tactical voting that knocks them out in 2029.
Death by a hundred “only Lib Dems/Greens/Plaid can beat Reform here” bar charts
Death by a hundred “only Lib Dems/Greens/Plaid can beat Reform here” bar charts
Labour has toxified itself though.
And when it's only polling 20% nationally, is losing three out of four local election defences and is being smashed in parliamentary elections, it's going to struggle to make the claim that it can win locally - which is the first essential of a tactical vote.
And when it's only polling 20% nationally, is losing three out of four local election defences and is being smashed in parliamentary elections, it's going to struggle to make the claim that it can win locally - which is the first essential of a tactical vote.
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yes as a green party member I don't actually see why at this point we should form an electoral coalition with Labour - the Lib Dems sure but given Labour's hostility to Green issues and voters there needs to be some effort on Labour's part if they want some sort of pact (granted still a big if)
This was such a problem in 2010 - an arrogant assumption that *obviously* the Lib Dems would bail them out, despite the disdain the party was shown. There does need to be some wooing.
Like, if Labour want LD and Green voters to like them and be willing to vote tactically for them, that has to be an active process, and a worryingly large number of Labour people's entitlement around such voters hardly helps that.
October 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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