Come Rain or Shine the Lib Dems Dream Team are working hard for your Communities! Never Forget That! 😎😎

Fantastic doorstep session today. Strong Lib Dem backing and our message is landing — residents receiving updates and seeing the local work we’re doing. The Lib Dems are well known for our community work, and people recognise the difference it makes.

Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU, ITV poll finds www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

Fascinating. Reform UK voters are way more obsessed with immigration that those who support their populist radical right and extreme right counterparts in continental Europe. (Source: news.gallup.com/poll/701990/...)

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

Earlier this week the Aziz family stood with Sadiq Khan on stage and praised London’s community values. Now they’re conducting a sudden clearout of almost all private tenants from their vast residential property holdings, seemingly to replace them with more profitable temporary accommodation.

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

I'm not sure even Malcolm Tucker has a broad enough range of vocabulary to respond to this.

Why didn’t he just settle in the nearest safe country?

Here's the actual numbers on the trade deficit in Trump's second term. Large deficits in early 2025 driven by one-off stockpiling of goods by US importers to avoid expected incoming tariffs distorted comparisons. Distortion now easing, increasing the trade deficit again...

I spoke to students at Sciences Po on moral ambition in a driverless world. Watch full speech if you want my proposals on how we fight back for solidarity and humanity. bit.ly/4aIBdKa Part 5: And here is what we need from you👇

Team Starmer just keep knocking the ball into their own net at the moment. The Erling Haalands of political own goals

@willforster.bsky.social is pleased to introduce Ellen Nicholson and Peter Graves candidates for the #Woking South East in May’s elections. Ellen & Peter have a lot of experience helping local people already, they will make a great duo on the new #WestSurrey Council. @assoclibdemcllrs.bsky.social

Good luck Ellen and Peter 🔶

#ReformUK appears to be a magnet for these people. Thank heavens they're not in charge of the country. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A survey of 100 commercial foods for dogs and cats revealed that PFAS chemicals appear in numerous brands and types, with fish-based products among those with the highest levels

Penguins - 1 Trump - 0

This really is an astonishing story, and I hope that any MP found to have been involved is held to account. It’s straight from the Kremlin’s playbook ironically, and has no place in our politics.

This week, @timfarron.bsky.social, @victoria-collins.bsky.social & I travelled to Israel and Palestine to listen, learn and ask questions of a range of people. We had robust discussions about aid access, tackling corruption, settlement expansion, overcoming terrorism, and delivering accountability.

Nigel Farage is almost as disliked as Keir Starmer. Recent polling shows that 62% of the British public dislike him, while only 27% like him. There is nothing inevitable about a Reform UK victory - join the Lib Dems to make sure it never happens. #politics #farage #starmer #polling

Some good news that the government may allow expired passports for dual nationals to prove they're British, but it's not enough. It's wrong that some British citizens will find it harder and more expensive than non-citizens to enter the UK under the new rules.

Zetland (Redcar & Cleveland) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 50.5% (+15.2) 🌹 LAB: 21.6% (-25.2) ➡️ RFM: 13.5% (New) 🌍 GRN: 7.4% (New) 🌳 CON: 7.0% (-10.9) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2023.

Sudan: RSF siege of El Fasher bore ‘hallmarks of genocide’ – UN report www.channel4.com/news/sudan-r...

Look out for new articles from me on Central Bylines and Lion & Unicorn very shortly.

This is absolutely peak median voter behaviour

My Seat Model: SNP: 55 (-9) LAB: 21 (-1) RFM: 18 (+18) LDM: 13 (+9) CON: 12 (-19) GRN: 10 (+2) Changes w/ 2021.

Holyrood Voting Intention: Const: SNP: 33% (-2) LAB: 19% (+1) RFM: 18% (-1) CON: 11% (=) LDM: 11% (+1) GRN: 6% (+1) Reg: SNP: 31% (+6) RFM: 16% (-4) LAB: 16% (-3) LDM: 12% (-1) CON: 12% (=) GRN: 9% (=) ALBA: 2% (+1) Via @moreincommonuk.bsky.social, 30 Jan - 10 Feb. Changes w/ 24 Jan - 4 Feb.

I bet he's learned to sweat, now.

More than almost anyone else Sodha’s faux-reasonable anti-trans diatribes in the Guardian - claiming *concern* about women’s rights - contributed to undermining the Equality Act. If Reform gets in cis women will lose every gain they fought for since the 1960s, thanks to “journalists” like her. 1/3

Disappointing to see the green candidate neither admit error not apologise here for presenting quotes of mine on a misleading way on her leaflets (I have still had no contact from the local Green Party though the national party did admit error and apologise).

Libdems long to #RejoinEU. 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

The only question worth asking at these incredibly flash Reform press conferences that take place every week now, is who is paying for all of this and what do they want in return bsky.app/profile/pete...

We are pleased to see European countries continuing to undo some of the harm caused by Brexit. Thank you, France! We long for the day when we rejoin, and all the harms are undone 🇪🇺 www.connexionfrance.com/news/french-...

So obviously the EU should respond by putting up websites with all of the vaccine science and racial history that the current US government is censoring, and that will be fine, right?

It's also a reminder that whatever happens in the next days, the European countries who host US bases (🇬🇧🇩🇪🇮🇹etc) will be complicit in this war.

As we speak: the biggest move of 🇺🇸military assets we've seen in years in preparation for war with Iran This right here is why the US will never voluntarily pull out of Europe. Without these European bases, the Americans can't launch their military adventures in the Middle East.

😡"Dirty decision". Zelenskyy reacted to the return of the Russian flag to the Paralympics "I don't want to say that it's because of money, because I don't know. But these are dirty decisions - absolutely disrespectful and un-European. I mean Europe from the point of view of values."

Electoral reform will mean parties can focus on advocating for their policies and principles rather than spending half of every leaflet with competing speculation about who is and isn't in the two horse race.

The bickering between progressive parties about which is best placed to stop Reform in Gorton & Denton is tiresome. Reform can win if and only if the progressive vote is split. This underlines the point Labour ought to reform the electoral system for by-elections to give voters more power.

Leaflet wars now going large

Reform have been telling people that refugees go to the top of the housing list - this is a lie. While claims are processed asylum seekers have no access to social housing. If granted legal status then they still get no special treatment - and are typically at the *back* of the queue

Meet our Goose Green team for May 2026: James Barber, Kaz Doyle & Luke McSorley Local residents. Active in the community. Working all year round – not just at election time Safer streets. Cleaner roads. Better pavements. A modern East Dulwich station www.southwark-libdems.org.uk/your-local-l...

Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.

You’re on social media, so this should concern you. The U.S. government has been asking platforms like Meta for user data. You don’t have to be paranoid to see the problem. You just have to be paying attention. If you’re online, this includes you. 1/2

Without a pint and fag in your hands and a glitzy press conference funded by undisclosed donors, no one will hear about this... you know, stuff that actually affects everyone in the UK. The press ain't that interested.

I feel like tattooing this on my forehead: the UK is in serious danger. Yes, the same forces are on the rise across Europe (including where I live in NL) but the UK has the perfect storm of FPTP; submissive media; high levels of inequality and a constitutional framework that’s easy to circumvent.

@joshbabarinde.bsky.social Can the party ask this question? I feel that there has been a complete shift in political coverage that never existed before.