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Jun 14
@EdwardJDavey, on #bbclaurak and #SkyNews' @TrevorPTweets, about care: as a #Liberal, mandate eldercare insurance via a state exchange, propose foreseeable social care investment grants, and instead of 'in loco parentis' #SEND, introduce term-time care tax rebates or allowances.
5 Jun 2023
Liberal Democrats are standing up for the millions of people across our country who are caring for loved ones.
📺Watch @EdwardJDavey's #CarersWeek message
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Jun 12
@LibDemMedia, at the weekend, on shows like #bbclaurak, to counter #Tory and #ReformUK politicians bloviating about defence, as Liberals, @LibDems MPs must advise that, post-#Brexit, as America's Century ends, #Britain establish an intergovernmental Alliance d'Europe with the EU.
Jun 12
'John has effectively said I will not preside over the death of the Royal Navy'
Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, a former Security Minister, spoke to #BBCBreakfast after John Healey resigned as Defence Secretary and told Keir Starmer the upcoming defence investment plan "falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time"
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In all things, at all times, I apply the wisdom of Solomon to the #LibDems, @WillForster. It's the reason I ask: are you Liberals, and why not demand devolution via council-set Westminster-collected same-rate local income, business, & property transaction taxes instead?#Newsnight
I'm delighted that the Government have agreed to give Maybury Primary School and Westfield Primary School more money to improve their buildings - it's great news for our community.
I'll continue to push for more investment in local schools right across #Woking constituency.
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.@MakeVotesMatter and @FairElectionsUK, retain single-member constituencies by ending the electoral pacts, spoiler candidates, & tactical voting features of the plurality-winner vote and introducing the alternative vote. In all things, I apply the wisdom of Solomon; say #YES2AV !
People are rightly worried about Reform winning power on a small % of votes
But as Emma Harrison from Make Votes Matter says: NO party should have 100% power on a fraction of the vote. It doesn't matter who they are
Times have changed, & the voting system has to change with it
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This apologist for ethno-confessional fascism, Lord Mann, is a Zionist Statist. He asserts that the #NHS is a state monopoly, but does not propose healthcare via a tax-funded state monopsony vs an in-network market, rather than parastatals. #PoliticsLive
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@EdwardJDavey, bearing in mind the regressive economic incidence of in-work benefits, after the #Makerfield by-election, as Badenoch demands spending cuts and Burnham proposes more deficit-spending and #JobsTax hikes for transfers, mandate out-of-work insurance instead.#Newsnight
Jun 3
Kemi Badenoch says PM is more than happy to release text messages of his Labour MPs while all of his have disappeared
PM asserts that Kemi Badenoch and the Conservatives are "totally irrelevant" before outlining Labour's achievements in power
#PMQs bbc.in/43LkeUs
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@EdwardJDavey, monetise the exchange of labour by abolishing non-wage costs, ending in-work benefits, instituting an incidence transfer from employers to workers, and mandating out-of-work, childcare, & eldercare insurance from a state exchange. #Newsnight
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@sarahjolney1 and @pippaheylings: While the Fabians disregard their regressive economic incidence to extend subsidies to pubs, clubs, & factories, as Liberals you must propose mutuals, profit-sharing, & steered-tax discounts for surplus #NetZero combined heat and power. #r4today
‘Come here, walk the factory floors, and talk to the families that risk losing their livelihoods.’
GB News’ @CDP1882 speaks exclusively with Adrian Hanrahan of Robinson Brothers, who has warned the chemical industry faces risks of major job losses due to soaring energy costs.
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@sarahjolney1 and @pippaheylings, honestly, Fabianism is Statism, which is Socialism, and therefore illiberal. The clamour, endorsed by apologists, @TheIFS, for Labour's redistributive energy market policy, has a regressive economic incidence.#BBCBreakfast
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@sarahjolney1, @libdemdaisy, & @CalumMillerLD, bearing the new balance of power of our world (#China and #India) and the blood-soaked continuum of European history in mind, Britain needs an intergovernmental, not a supranational, Alliance d'Europe with the EU, not a tariff union.
#OTD 1975. Cabinet Ministers Tony Benn and Roy Jenkins go head to head on TV during the EEC referendum.
Benn repeats his controversial claim that membership had cost half a million jobs already - with Merseyside, the Midlands and Scotland hardest hit.
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@LibDems, Fabians are statists who prioritise redistribution, not energy security; likewise, apologists for statism from @TheIFS, the @IPPR, & @resfoundation. Instead, propose firm, not intermittent, #NetZero geothermal and virtual power via a green capitalism bank. #PoliticsLive
'The wholesale cost of electricity and gas are not much higher for the UK than they are elsewhere. What really makes a difference is actually the way we tax these things.'
On our latest podcast we discuss Britain’s energy policy.
🎧️ Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/why-uk-e…
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@LisaSmartMP, before you comment in the media on the murder of Henry Nowak by Vikrum Digwa, a Sikh, and his subsequent sentencing; watch this professional reporter's piece-to-camera on #GMB. The identitarian right wants a race war. The Police aren't going after "whites"! #r4today
Jun 1
A man will be sentenced today over the stabbing death of 18-year-old Henry Nowak.
Vickrum Digwa was found guilty of murdering the Southampton student with a ceremonial blade which Sikhs are required by their faith to carry.
Digwa had accused his victim of racial abuse which was later found to be a lie.
Despite telling police he'd been stabbed, Henry was handcuffed and was struggling to breathe in the moments before he died from his wounds.
@ashnahurynag explains from Southampton.
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May 31
Like Palmerston, I am reticent about electoral politics, @LisaSmartMP. That said, citizens are within their rights to question their mayor, and the next Prime Minister, about his "cultural" priorities in our plurality-winner vote system, if he is identity-alarmed. Say #YES2AV !
Within DAYS of taking office, Andy Burnham commissioned an inquiry into grooming gangs that:
- vindicated the whistleblowers
- exposed institutional cover-ups,
- and led to arrests and convictions of perpetrators who would otherwise have walked free.
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May 29
@LisaSmartMP and @JoshBabarinde, silence as you hold out for MPs elected by a plurality in a multi-member constituency, rather than ending spoiler candidates, tactical voting, & plurality-winners by retaining single-member constituencies via #YES2AV is complicity. #Newsnight
A Congressman’s warning: “I really hope the British public learns the lesson from Donald Trump when it comes to Nigel Farage”.
“Farage is a total fraud, and I hope they realise before its too late”
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May 29
Seriously, wild near-crazed threats to named judicial officeholders like this by #ReformUK's Zia Yusuf end the moment single-member constituencies via the alternative, not the plurality-winner, vote are made law by legislation, not a referendum. #Newsnight
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May 29
@JoshBabarinde and @EdwardJDavey: the ease of Starmer's, British nativists', & U.S. identitarians' manipulative promotion of #ReformUK and shift of Britain's Overton Window to include angering identity-based grievances is embarrassing. Ahead of #GE2029, say #YES2AV ! #Newsnight
'There is no data overall to suggest that, in fact data suggests that structural privilege goes the other way.'
Former Labour Adviser James Schneider discusses claims of two-tier policing in the UK.
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May 29
@EdwardJDavey, with Andy Burnham set to win the #Makerfield by-election, after scrutiny of Nigel Farage. @ #GE2029, our single-member constituencies plurality-winner system necessitate the same for Zack Polanski. Disavow @TheGreenParty; propose a green mortgage bank. #Newsnight
May 29
Robin Wells from @fossilfreelondon on how a coalition of royals, billionaires and corrupt businessmen are ruining our country. #AbolishTheMonarchy
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May 27
Nobody wants to live next to a war criminal... I've just signed my name calling for the government to investigate Brits who have returned from serving in the IDF, as it does with #ISIS and Al-Qaida - you should too! #r4today #Newsnight @DeclassifiedUK secure.declassifieduk.org/pa…
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May 27
@soclibforum, first, I'm a Liberal, not a Fabian.
Second, on pensions, Daisy Cooper must counter: an earnings link, not the @LibDems' triple-lock, matters.
Thirdly, on the #NHS, she should say: a state monopsony vs an in-network market is required, not state monopolies or a #PFI.
May 27
"If we carry on like this... we're going to create a situation where economically we're not able to grow."
Sir Tony Blair says the current welfare and pension triple-lock policies are 'not affordable', and argues for change in the NHS.
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May 27
@LibDemPress, in all seriousness, I contend that a Liberal, as with pregnancy, cannot be a bit of a Socialist. It's been sixteen years of @bbcpolitics' prohibition on Liberalism as enunciated by a Liberal, rather than a Social Democrat. #bbcqt #Newsnight
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May 23
@LibDems, I'm as minded to laugh at @EdwardJDavey, @KemiBadenoch, & @Keir_Starmer as grind my teeth, if #ReformUK win the #Makerfield by-election by a plurality. Invite the #Conservatives and #Labour, ahead of #GE2029, to enact single-member Constituencies via #YES2AV .#BBCLauraK
May 23
🚨 NEW: The first Makerfield by-election poll shows Andy Burnham will win the seat
🔴 LAB - 43%
➡️ REF - 40%
🇬🇧 RES - 7%
🟠 LD - 4%
🟢 GRN - 3%
🔵 CON - 2%
⚪ Other - 1%
Via Survation, 369 sample, May 18-22
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May 23
@LisaSmartMP: @FairElectionsUK must adopt single-, not multi-, member constituencies via #YES2AV , but the #LibDems should proscribe the publishing and broadcast of opinion polls in the run-up to referendums, by-elections, & general elections. #Britain is vulnerable! #bbclaurak
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May 18
#r4today, #GMB, #bbcbreakfast, Ed Davey after #GE2029 as @Nigel_Farage becomes Prime Minister, because he proposed a supranational, not an intergovernmental, Alliance d'Europe and deficit-funded NetZero, not lithium-, sodium-, & vanadium-battery-storage via a green mortgage bank.
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