This is why I never get into the football :(

Football could or could not be coming home, but it’s probably having nostalgic feelings of its childhood in England during the 12th century

I feel that reactions to the football on Bluesky are the perfect counter to any argument that English liberals/progressives lack national pride.

Saying you're the "most physically attacked" MP when two MPs have been killed in the last decade is just horribly self-absorbed.

The rudderless Foreign Office is making huge cuts to its staff. The atmosphere is grim. Few staffers are safe from the cull. They describe colleagues in tears as they prepare to re-apply for their own jobs, and probably other people’s too. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Nigel Farage pocketed a £5 million Brexit reward. When he promised we would be better off, he clearly only meant himself. 10 years on, it's time to end the chaos and fix our broken relationship with Europe, starting by joining the single market.

The British people are sick of being let down by an endless merry-go-round of Prime Ministers while nothing really changes. This time must be different. It can’t just be about changing who’s in Number 10, it has to be about changing our broken politics so we can fix our country.

He was, in part, another victim of Brexit

🚨 NEW: Ed Davey says the new Prime Minister has to change our "broken politics" "The British people are sick of being let down by an endless merry-go-round of Prime Ministers while nothing really changes"

It doesn’t feel like there’s any excitement or gravitas in this resignation. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad sign for our politics.

Got to love British election declarations. A Prime Minister-in-waiting launching his bid for the leadership of the country from between a man with a bin on his head and a man in a fox costume.

It’s time to move forward. It’s time to end the chaos. Today, Ed Davey will set out our plan for a bold new deal with Europe to make Britain richer, safer and stronger.

The sheer level of illiberalism from the government is galling - on teens, on protest, on speech, on immigration, on private business. It’s like they did securonomics but forgot the economics bit.

The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance or do enough to protect everyone from discrimination, and it is not compatible with longstanding British values. @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk and @MarieCGoldman.bsky.social have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️

With the weather right now, I’m very glad I studied in Taiwan for a month last year - it was obviously the perfect preparation for Britain undergoing climate change… I just hope that our rainfall combined with the heat doesn’t land up simulating monsoon conditions 😅

This is very fun! I also did the American focused version and got broadly the same results. I would argue that I am generally centre-left economically, but I’m also classically liberal enough to trust free markets more than the average social democrat, so I get why I was put in the centre.

I’d usually say each year which song I wish had won Eurovision (apart from in 2024, when Europe chose correctly for once), but this year I’m just happy that Israel lost. It’s sad that I have to treat my favourite event of the year with the seriousness of an election as long as Israel acts like this.

🗳️ The local election results show that the need to reform the voting system "has never been greater," says APPG member @wendychambld.bsky.social Business Questions to the Leader of the House this morning 👇

Listening to Labour MPs speaking about Starmer right now, he’s just done for. It doesn’t matter when he goes, unless there’s some sort of miracle, he can’t regain the authority he’s lost, he can’t lead his party, and therefore he can’t lead the party.

The live BBC News feed showing No10 is incredibly entertaining when they’re not playing audio from one of the main news shows. You just hear the camera people and journalists chatting, shouting questions to ministers, and then complimenting each other on how loud their voices are 😅

Our politics is the bus that reaches the remotest villages, it is the laughter in a warm home, it is the sigh of relief from those who dare to dream. Politics is better when it’s focused on you. That’s the bright side of Britain Lib Dems deliver  ☀️✨

We think GB News presenter Camilla Tominey needs a calculator, and a map… 🤦‍♀️

Through my vast knowledge of Catherine West (I've read her Wikipedia page) she's a genuinely interesting challenger. Former leader of Islington Council, started out as a caseworker for Lammy, outspoken on Hong Kong (with a masters in Chinese Studies from SOAS) and a staunch Remainer.

Lib Dems control more English councils than the Conservative Party, the Green Party and Reform UK. Not that you'd know this from yesterday's coverage. The media's lack of curiosity and imagination and its inability to explore beyond the populist noise is as depressing as it is boringly predictable.

We're on course for more massive gains, taking control of both East and West Surrey councils! So proud of all our activists who have offered a positive alternative to Reform and delivered another set of record-breaking results.

This is incredibly funny because "Labour" and the Tories colluded to gerrymander Surrey to keep the Lib Dems out. They split Surrey into east and west, abolishing all the borough councils, and now *both* halves have emphatically elected the Lib Dems! election.news.sky.com/elections/en...

Liberal Democrats GAIN East Surrey 🔶 40 Councillors 💪 34 gains

Liberal Democrats GAIN West Surrey 🔶 56 Councillors 💪 34 gains

I am reminded of Elmer the elephant by the Birmingham political map of 2026 though the quite positive patchwork of harmony message of that storybook may be challenging to emulate in city local politics

The future is Birmingham. www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...

Please sir, my first past the post electoral system, it is very sick.

Which means that all of Surrey is now orange!!! After almost 50 years of Tory rule, both East and West Surrey will be LibDem. Honestly when I first joined the party back in 2021, I thought I'd see this in my lifetime, but not with five years, before I even graduate. I'm genuinely so happy.

Not shown on any polling agreggator yet, but we've won East Surrey!!! I can finally sleep at night knowing my hometown is still run by a party that genuinely cares about it!

We've won in West Surrey!!!

What happened last night is truly unacceptable. At moments like these, everyone should stand united across political differences in defense of democracy, the rule of law, and each other. We stand with our members at @jongedemocraten.bsky.social 🩷

Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong government with Proportional Representation, or chaos with First Past the Post.

I’m glad that no matter how much our party system changes, British politics will remain to just be honestly weird, in a good way. Everything about this post is just amazing. The Americans wouldn’t have any bees, and their candidates wouldn’t go near a leisure centre.

The only one-party state I’ll accept as legitimate!

Speaking of Hull, interesting to see the Labour leader there call for Starmer to go. Also fun to see her say the Lib Dems split the anti Reform vote, when the Lib Dems are the most popular anti Reform party in Hull - not Labour. Maybe her party are actually the vote splitters sometimes…

🎉 Liberal Democrats have GAINED control of Stockport Council.

💪 Liberal Democrats have GAINED control of Portsmouth City Council.

Really sad to see a loss in Hull, but it’s good that it should be an easy coalition. But having a Hampshire family and the honour of being descended from a lineage of Mancunian Liberals, I am very happy to see the results in Stockport and Portsmouth! Hopefully they’ll be replicated in East Surrey 🤞

Obligatory election night coverage post: if you’re at a count and want to known who’s won before anyone else, just find the slightly odd Lib Dem activist who has a spreadsheet, they always know the result first.

Green Party leader does need stronger boundaries, policies & processes to vet & reject antisemitic candidates than it had when selecting at pace in this cycle. He is also being portrayed using antisemitic tropes in the national press. The newspapers need their cartoonists & editors to recognise that

Sorry, this is beyond tone deaf. Israel’s genocidal war horrifies me, but it does not make not want to stand with the Jewish community when they’re being stabbed in the streets. Any form of racism is morally abhorrent and a scourge on us all - that’s one of the core values of progressivism.

Awful news.sky.com/story/man-in...

My genius idea for the Koh-i-Noor is to split ownership between all the legitimate claimants, rotating physical possession between them annually. Protecting the process via treaty to ensure the transfer actually happens at the end of each year.

If it’s a time travel style scenario, I’d head to Normandy and track down my Poyser ancestors, to once and for all debunk the insane family legend what we’re in England because we crossed the Channel in wooden barrels at the end of the Conquest. And make sure we didn’t assist in the Harrying…

It’s interesting that one of the first Labour MPs to call for Starmer’s resignation is on the right (Brash co-founded the Blue Labour caucus) and not the left. They may have more of an advantage, in having a pretty clear candidate in Shabana Mahmood, while the rest of the party lacks leadership.