Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey MP: "We should be far more alarmed than people seem to be. This is impacting our politics, impacting people's views, and I think it's toxic to a good democracy." #Musk #X

Just listening to a podcast where someone said they'd been to "all three" party conferences and you'll not be surprised to learn that the three are not in fact just the conferences of the three largest parties in order but, in fact, Labour, the Tories and Reform's.

If this is what happens when Reform runs a council, just imagine Farage running the country. Care homes closed and vulnerable people abandoned. We cannot let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

I hope Starmer as much as Farage is watching this.

If you're just waking, it's been a good night for Democrats across the US, with voters rejecting Trump nationwide. 🎉 Mamdani's comfortable win in New York, on the highest turnout since 1969, provides further proof that you don't have to pander to the right to win. news.sky.com/story/zohran...

Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani. Hope wins - and it resonates far beyond New York. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Reform UK now having to take down flags so that Christmas doesn't get cancelled www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Amid all the horror of the attack on Saturday we see the very, very best of human beings. The passengers who helped each other, the heroic train worker who put himself in harms way and undoubtedly saved lives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

Today my thoughts are with everyone affected by the dreadful attack near Huntingdon - the victims, their loved ones, and everyone who witnessed it. We're all hoping those injured make a full recovery. Grateful to the passengers and emergency services who showed such bravery.

Our thoughts are with all those affected by the awful attack near Huntingdon. We’re wishing those injured a full recovery and thank the passengers and emergency services who stepped in to help those in need.

Shocked at the terrible events on the train in Cambridgeshire last night. I hope that in time reliable information will emerge about why this happened. In the meantime thanks must go to all the people who responded so bravely. All good wishes for a good recovery to the victims.

I’m 57 and have never been called for jury service. Two of my children were called in their early 20s, one twice in the space of a few months. I guess I’d better not rely on the lottery!

I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament They were crooks and shysters to a man They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Nigel Farage's Halloween Horror 🎃

When the government didn't turn up to oppose Farage's bill to leave the ECHR, the LibDems led the charge to stop the bill. See Ed Davey's powerful speech against the bill links.liberal.democrat/s/c/cM9W59ad...

🚨BREAKING: Lib Dems have won more local by-elections than any other party this month. In real elections, up and down the country, Liberal Democrats are winning.

In real elections up and down the country, it's the Liberal Democrats that are taking on Reform UK's divisive politics. #UK #Libdems

The polls, the polls🤔 Meanwhile in actual elections: The Liberal Democrats had a bumper month of by-election wins in October. It’s the Lib Dems that have the momentum when it comes to beating Reform U.K. #VoteLibDems #LibDems 🔶🔶🔶🔶🔶 #StopReform

There have been a few cases now of Reform members and this case an actual councillor quitting over their extremist position about ending ILR. As an aside both the Grauniad and Sky mention his concerns over ILR but the BBC report doesn’t… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It would be very churlish of ne to point that the 6 months since the election are nearly up. And that if a councillor has not attended in that time they are disqualified. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

% of Seats Successfully Defended by Each Party: 🔶 LDM: 93% (26/28) 🌍 GRN: 67% (6/9) ➡️ RFM: 50% (4/8) 🌹 LAB: 28% (13/47) 🌳 CON: 27% (9/33) 🏘️ Localists: 0% (0/9)

A Reform Government is not inevitable. They can be defeated locally and nationally. Well Done Sam Ammar and the Liberal Democrats in Worcestershire! 🔶🧡👏🎉

Apple News presented me with these three headlines simultaneously last night. I’m sure there must be some clues there about what is ailing our country.

We just stopped Nigel Farage’s plan to drag Britain out of the ECHR and tear up people’s rights. Farage wanted to scrap Churchill’s legacy and bring us closer to Trump's America.

An apocalyptic storm is barreling around the Caribbean. I just hope people can find shelter in time. The rebuilding needs are going to be huge. news.sky.com/story/hurric...

Voting is now open in the internal LibDem federal elections (email today). I am standing for 2 committees: federal international relations, and LD delegation to ALDE. I’d be very grateful for your votes.

This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The select committee report on the asylum hotel shambles highlights a point I made repeatedly - the absurd gimicks pursued by the last govt like Rwanda took resources away from running the actual system properly.

🤣🤣🤣 almost like journalistic standards are absent. Does anyone in journalism actually know anything any more? Even if they don’t, 3 minutes with Wikipedia should enlighten them.

The reform party nativity scene. No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation. And not a wise fvcking man in sight…

The go-slow, reduced timetable on the West Country main line from Waterloo really is very tiresome. Thank you, clay shrinkage! Thank goodness @richardfoordld.bsky.social is working on it. Over 4 hours from London to Exeter is no joke.

Biff says what? news.sky.com/story/trump-...

The unwillingness of a great many people to call racism racism because doing so is seen as rude or uncivil is hugely problematic.

I’m in Waterloo watching massive ads for tourism in the US roll by on a hoarding. Yeah, good luck with that. Think I’ll give it a swerve for then next 4 years.

I’m sick of racism and prejudice being normalised by several political parties. Can we please go back to not being horrible to each other? Life was better then.

Sarah Pochin is a racist. Reform is a racist party. Her ‘apology’ makes no difference to that. Trying to claim your words really meant something else is not an apology. It’s a lie about who you are and what you think. So, she’s a racist. And, for all our sakes, that MUST be a shameful thing to be.

The people of Caerphilly obviously recognise the danger of a Farage led Government, maybe the media could start doing their job and challenge Farage on his tin pot dangerous policies and downright racism.

Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners." In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures. Maybe Beth is on a diet.

3 weeks separate these two photos.

Oh dear! GB News were once again hoping that Reform U.K. would snatch many of the 7 local council by elections up for grabs this week. Reform win zilch , even losing the Caerphilly Senned election. The Lib Dems were once again the big winners, winning 4 out of the 7, with 3 GAINS. #LibDems 🔶🔶🔶🔶🔶

The Government's digital ID plans put our rights to security and privacy at grave risk from hackers and any future authoritarian government. www.midweekherald.co.uk/news/2556567...

This is such an embarrassment “Germany stepping in to pay thousands of local workers at US bases amid shutdown” www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.

"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

Can anyone make this make sense? With my date of birth (early 1968), I become eligible for the shingles vaccine some 3 to 5 years *after* 3 of my younger siblings (1969, 1972 and 1973). #NHS

The Liberal Democrats have won the most by-elections on what they've dubbed ‘Super Thursday’, winning 7 out of the 10 council seats up. The wins came in Surrey but also in Preston, Lancashire, where the party gained from Labour, beating Reform to win it. One ward was in Michael Gove's old seat.