I wonder what Trump’s mother took when she was pregnant with the orange felon, that caused his ableism. We need to know because preventing ableism has no downside. #Pinks

Interesting that every time we discuss women's rights at Lib Dem Conference the group that claims to care so deeply about "the rights of women and girls" is completely and utterly absent.

Quitter Quiz Time: What unique, Farage-induced event, sets the UK apart from other G7 members? Hint: BBC does not like mentioning it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Motion Passed! Protecting the Rights of Hong Kongers🔶 This is our determined will in Parliament. A strong message to China! #Ldconf

Hong Kongers in the UK, and across the world, face growing threats from Beijing’s campaign of transnational repression. Yet the Labour Government risks repeating the Conservatives’ failure to take these threats seriously.

From Clacton ...

Agreed. But Trump is also blaming mothers and promoting the notion that families and mothers in particular could have prevented Autism.

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.

People suddenly realising that Reform might mean them, too. 🙄#names

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Ed Davey is the most popular party leader nationally. Davey draws level with Keir Starmer on who would make the best Prime Minister. Quite something given that sitting PMs have an advantage. In straight Liberal Democrat versus Reform fights, the LDs are winning three-quarters of contests.

Picked up some Lib Dem stats at conference. Some of these surprised me (especially given media coverage): 1. The Liberal Democrats now control more councils than the Conservative Party 2. In May's local elections in England, the LDs elected more councillors than either Labour or the Tories. (1/x)

"Trump nonsense causes national Tylenol shortage" would be one amazing headline

Saddened I need to post this MHRA confirms taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe & there is no evidence it causes autism We do not need to prevent or cure autism Autistic people are valuable

I took paracetamol (Tylenol) when I was pregnant and my son is now a quantum physicist.

Here in the U.K. we start taking folic acid from when we are trying to conceive through to 12 weeks into the pregnancy. I was pregnant 29 years ago and it was standard back then.

Maybe everyone should go out and buy a packet of Tylenol. Give them a huge bump.

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has refused to rule out striking a deal with Sir Keir Starmer in order to stop Nigel Farage from entering Number 10, Sky News reports.

BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel is back‼️ www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

I’m so sick of seeing Farage and co on TV all the bloody time. They now know that if thy hold a press conference on any day ending in a ‘y’, they will be given endless coverage and broadcasting hours. All this for a party that could fit all of its MPs into a hatchback car.

L'Shana Tova Umetuka לְשָׁנָה טוֹבָה וּמְתוּקָה

I'm once again so proud that Lib Dem conference has backed a long-term plan for hospice funding, to rescue the palliative care sector. My statement below:

Hard agree and hard empathise and hard to be amongst LibDems joyous over flag waving and an MP draped in the Union flag that doesn’t, by the way sir, represent the whole Nation.

Because Monday is a Slow News Day and he’s exploiting it. LibDems need to get better at it.

Reform hold a press conference every Monday, for which they trail a policy announcement in that morning’s papers. Given Monday is a slow news day, that often means they lead the papers – and so the breakfast shows, and so they set the agenda for the week. It’s a good trick, but easy to counter!

We are in an all-hands-on-deck moment for women across the world. I spoke to the @nytimes.com about the strong forces trying to turn the clocks back and how we can all fight for women's rights and futures. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

Following up on this incident. I was interviewed by the Met today. They are looking into common assault and a hate crime. Next step is to see if they can identify the man. That is to say, I can identify him but he has to be identifiable in a way that satisfies their requirements.

Okay, if you're a bit weird like me, this sentence shall give you utter delight. "Rather than using actual rats in the film, dachshunds wearing rat suits were used to achieve the effect of super-sized rodents."

Nigel Farage should apologise for his role in causing the small boat crisis, Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has demanded www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

Just two authoritarians rekindling their relationship behind bullet-proof glass at a memorial for a pro-gun activist who was killed by a bullet.

A good read from Peter Black. I confess I was freaked out by the Conference flag waving, marching band & Union flag draping. Wales is not represented on the Union flag, of course. The @cesea-libdems.bsky.social event was superb though. Extraordinary insights from our Hong Kong community. #LibDemConf

Even though the absurd numbers quoted by Farage have been withdrawn- “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes"

The annoying thing here is that the Lib Dems talk policy quite a lot and get ignored by the media, which is what Davey's stunts were a response to in the first place. I don't think he's addicted to stunts. I'm sure he'd love it if his policies got covered www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

OH MY! IT SEEMS DONNY'S "RACISM CZAR" TOM HOMAN (NO RELATION TO HUMAN) GOT CAUGHT TAKING A $50K BRIBE. AND THEN DONNY (CRAPPY HAIR!) MADE IT GO BYE-BYE. THIS IS MY "SHOCKED" FACE. THANK YOU FOR TAKING A VERY STRONG LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL AND TREMENDOUS POST ABOUT IT. READ IT HERE: bit.ly/3W0e0Mx

Good man!

Not a Lib Dem voter but the BBC News channel just announced the start of the LD conference then went straight on to Reform having held their conference earlier. Then an explanation that polls show Reform would win a general election with graphs and a diagram of the House of Commons chamber. What?

Come to our fantastic event tonight #LDConf 3 new MPs on the panel, + our Hong Kong community councillors and CESEA exec members. 8:15pm - 9:30pm at Westbourne Suite

I am wearing the SpongeBob and they’re giving me side eye in The Marriott 😂 #LDConf

What should I wear to #LDConf ? The marine blue shirt or the SPONGE BOB- Ed Davey to Elon Musk *YoU aRe A cRaVeN cOwArD* T-shirt? #LibDems

For those who pay attention to UK politics, the Liberal Democrats and #LDConf A bunch of TERFs tried first thing this morning to impose a transphobic policy on our internal elections (they wanted to exclude trans women from the gender balance criteria) They failed, spectacularly.

Very pleased that the Lib Dem conference moved to the next business without letting the transphobes have their debate today. The vote was with an overwhelming majority in the hall and online! No right-wing encroachment today!

In Japan they have police kiosks in every neighbourhood. On the one hand when I moved to a new area I got a visit from the local Bobby checking my papers but also, one day he called me at work to say my dog (I was fostering) had got out and would be keeping him company in the kiosk until I got back.

Haha! 💪🏼🏳️‍⚧️🔸

Reassuring start to Lib Dem Conference as yet another attempt to hijack our values by a tiny handful of vicious bigot entryists was instantly rejected by a massive majority for about the thousandth time. Pushed heavily by the media, but transphobes have next to zero support in the Liberal Democrats.

😂😂😂

And in other news, apparently it is easier to pontificate about running a council than it is to run one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Always been sceptical of politicians who claim they can “breakthrough” in the media.

This is amazing work! Now throw the claimant out of office!

Oh wow! 9 months ago before the compromising emails with Epstein. Mandelson certainly was in good company.