Do you think he hates it so much because 'Indefinite Leave to Remain' was the three-part mental journey of so many thoughtful, economically aware Brexiteers who now see his last project for the public fraud it was? This is cheap fag packet politics. #liberalism 🌎

I don't know who the tallest MP is since DK lost Shrewsbury, but for a stunt, could @eddavey.libdems.org.uk jump off their shoulders and into glass of House of Commons rioja 🍷? Maybe something about alcohol awareness? A large glass. I'm not a monster. @conference.libdems.org.uk 🔶️

Good morning and happy Monday! Please enjoy this small hippo 🦛 #Monday #hippo

There are many worse things a person could do with a chunk of time than bark at the tide with @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social I may have turned this concept into street fighter.... 💙🖤🖤 💛💛💛 🫵🏫🌊 vs. 🦮🔶️🥃 Excellent post @caronmlindsay.bsky.social #liberaldemocrats

Changing political colours across countries. I have made a viable personal rainbow (science rather than art version) 😊 ❤️ Liberal 🇨🇦 🧡 NDP* 🇨🇦 💛 Alliance 🇬🇧🇮🇪 💚 D66 🇳🇱 🩵 Teal Independents 🇦🇺 💙 Democrats 🇦🇺 💜 Social Democrats 🇮🇪 *depending on candidate and local tactical voting options #rainbow #politics

Dear The Telegraph. It's important this week to defend your right to free speech. Here is mine You are a transphobic, fact-distorting, Reform up-sucking xenophobe-apologist hate factory. May you in time be remembered for what you chose to say about the vulnerable, the abandoned and the different.

@conference.libdems.org.uk I treated this as a shameless invitation. Bad puns winning here 🔶️!

Im not at the @libdems.org.uk conference, I'm going to a wedding do and a boxing match (separate events). My pal's fighting colour is red, so I shall spend the day in a red tie.... In conference season 🫢.... In a Labour-facing area.... Let's just say I'm Canadian today ☺️ 🔶️❤️🇨🇦🥊💍

Thought for the day If you are only interested in representing and governing for 'ordinary people', you are in fact morally not a democrat. Most people - in one respect or another - are not ordinary. So....erm.....there ☺️ Happy Friday

Had a think, and decided to support @pruebray.bsky.social for president of @libdems.org.uk. 🔶️💛🔶️💛🔶️💛🔶️💛🔶️💛🔶️

Cheese sauce mindfulness moment #cheese #cheesesauce #mindfulness

Playing around with ways to succinctly capture the guts of a liberal offer in local government. #liberaldemocrats 🔶️

Political lyrics innit..... (Link is in comment) #transrightsarehumanrights #lyrics #songlyrics

I'm going to say this again. THEY DON'T LIKE YOU. THEY DON'T LIKE THIS COUNTRY.

Something lighter.... BEST PIE FILLINGS 🥧 Sweet/savoury fine. Comment and tag 3 others. I will tag @sandwelllibdems.bsky.social @chichesterlibdems.bsky.social @gatesheadlibdems.bsky.social @northstaffslibdems.bsky.social @justified72.bsky.social @rigg.lgbt @shyamalirodrigues.bsky.social

Fairly left-liberal though I am, I wonder what has happened to the liberal conservative tradition in this country. Let's be clear, we are Liberals, not conservatives, but it's a legitimate part of the spectrum, and Kemi has abandoned it with sheer hate. #liberaldemocrats 🔶️💛

Too late Wes. You sided against trans kids. You are part of a government that glories in racially focused deportation posters. You cosy up to the hateful pro-doxxing JD Vance. You and this disingenuous @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government are part of the problem.🥀 #transrights #refugeerights

I want my roundabouts back

Sometimes liberalism is about closing inhumane detention centres. Sometimes it's ensuring there's a bus. There's direct philosophical continuity between these things - meaningful, usable freedom. This is why liberal critique is needed, and why liberalism in local government matters. 🔶️💛

It's that time again #bears 🐻🐻‍❄🧸

I'm pretty hard on Labour here, usually on things where if they acted like the Labour Party we would be on the same page, so props to @charlotte2153.bsky.social @kevinmckenna.co.uk and @kerrymp.bsky.social for calling the Musk-Robinson March out for what it was. I hope there are others.

🧵/1 Question for fellow @libdems.org.uk Does anyone else find... a) Minivan b) Our leafletting maps c) Pre-campaign event rapid roadside briefings with the unspoken assumption that everyone knows what their doing ...clashes hard with their neurodivergence? #neurodivergence #adhd

It’s not just the disgusting misinformation the UK mainstream media spew about trans people, it’s also about what they DON’T talk about! 100K people attend London Trans Pride and it’s *crickets* 100K people attend a Tommy Robinson hate rally and it’s all over the front pages! 😖 It’s blatant bias!

I was already pretty united thank you, mostly with friends and neighbours who, across other political points of variation, never felt the need to take over central London, terrify people who don't look like them and spread far right lies. #refugeerights

Credit to @rigg.lgbt for making this viable to me

Good thoughts to @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social and her staff. She's shown profound dignity and resolve following the fire in her office. If this was a targeted attack, everyone needs to be clear that this can't be how politics works.

Dear flaggists. As a good liberal I have no problem with you flying the flag on your fence/car/hat etc. I have a flag on my person, so I feel ya, but my person is VERY MUCH PRIVATE PROPERTY!! Unlike roundamabouts, which belong to everyone, and we need to see them. Also #bipride 🩷💜💙. So there.

Human rights means everyone. Everyone.

Crisps in sandwiches. 1. Yes/no 2. If you're a yes, what's your filling, crisp and bread combination. Be specific. Go...... (I like sourdough, cheese savoury, jalapeños and rock salt Real McCoy's. Sometimes a little bacon. Contrasts!) #crisps #sandwich

Liberalism must be pro-nuance and anti-reductionist. It means acknowledging that an appallingly transphobic MP is good on reproductive rights, or that a church that fails hard on lgbt+ rights stands up to defend asylum seekers and welfare. If we don't do that, we become tacky puritan conformists.

I don't have many followers, but anyone glorying in or being witty or smart about a likely political assassination can unfollow me. Seriously, you are fired. I couldn't stand him, but we cannot run a democracy like this; we have to be better than those who think we can. Also, he had kids. Be human.

Word is that Charlie Kirk has been shot at an event in Utah. Facts are emerging, but it is important to say that political violence, if that is what this is, is never ever moral. It's even more important to say it when the target is someone you'd oppose and argue against till you were hoarse.

Reform UK don't like you. You might think they do, but they don't. What they actually like, fellow Brits, is the idea of you. Fall short and you're done. The country is not your Friday night pint. When you love the idea of it more than the reality, it's a problem. #liberaldemocrats 🔶️

Given that we have become a home for both @jamiegreeneuk.bsky.social and @dylantippetts.bsky.social, should we think of ourselves as THE place for humanitarian social liberals who fit with different parts of the economic spectrum that spans the #liberal family? 😊🌏 #liberaldemocrats #libdems 🔶️💛🔶️💛🔶️💛

Erm. What the.......what??!! Gin. Now.

Chris Philp has criticised @eddavey.libdems.org.uk for being unserious, playing politics and rewriting history. That's Chris Philp. Former Home Office minister and Truss Cabinet member, who said asylum seekers were cheeky to criticise poor housing. That Chris Philp. #torychaos #liberaldemocrats

HAIKU My bear votes Lib Dem He sometimes leaflets for us If given salmon 🔶️🐻🔶️ Want a haiku? Drop a subject suggestion in the comments 😊 #liberaldemocrats #haiku #bear

I want cheese. Lots of cheese. On a board. With crackers. Cheese #cheese 🧀

🚨EMERGENCY ALERT WORKS🚨

It's been angry week, so I'm attempting to be cheery and celebrate that in @libdems.org.uk we debate how to liberate people, not whether we should. 📙📔BUDDIES!!🧡💛 #liberaldemocrats #libdems #orangebook #socialdemocrat

What do Reform, the Conservatives and @teamlabouruk.bsky.social have in common? They all want to take away your fundamental rights. Not just those of asylum seekers. Yours. I don't care how left/right you are on other stuff - if you care about fundamental human rights, you're a liberal. #echr

🔶️💛🔶️💛🔶️💛🔶️💛🔶️ LIB DEMS!!!! If you were given the choice, what cabinet job would you like to do? I'd go either 🔶️Justice 🔶️ DWP (probably the leftiest bit of my politics) 🔶️ Commons Leader Feel free to be serious or frivolous, but no PMs allowed. #liberaldemocrats #reshuffle 🔶️💛🔶️💛🔶️💛🔶️💛🔶️

With apologies to the excellent @helenmaguiremp.bsky.social for wading into her post about the UK government emergency alert test happening tomorrow (Sept 7th) at 3pm, please share the below widely....

I'm a humanist atheist, who was once a St Luke's Gospel liberal Anglican. Nevertheless, that false idols commandment is ringing loud and true. Especially when the idol has a pyro show. I think he's evil. Actively evil. Said it. #liberal

Waiting for the report before you end a person's careers is how it is supposed to work. Shame Starmer doesn't have these rigorous standards with other things. KB is an utter hypocrit who only left Johnson's government when it was politically expedient. She gets no points here #sameoldtories

More heft to the argument that we need, and will always need, a liberal party. No-one else can be trusted to defend liberty and human rights against the authoritarian tide. #liberalism #liberaldemocrats 🔶️ #tabloidlabour🥀

Something that always cheers me is the fact that the justice portfolio in NI is always held by someone who, politically, sits outside the standard duopoly, understands the position of the outsider, and is therefore equipped to be critical and unideologically humane and liberally communitarian. 💛

History will remember you Robert. It will remember the removal of cartoons, the misuse of women's rights and safety to get attention, the evident hatred of the concept of rights, the vicious suggestion that human beings should be housed like animals. You can't change that now. #refugeerights

LABOUR POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT!! SPREAD THE WORD! When confronted by bullies, HM Government will respond by giving them your lunch money. Not theirs. Yours. Especially if you are vulnerable/persecuted, and your lunch money is the HRA 1998. #tabloidlabour🥀 #refugeerights #transrights #humanrights

🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵 I have spoken. #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #socialliberal