It’s this that really keeps me up at night. The UK will become uninhabitable if the AMOC shuts down.

Today, I introduced the Water Industry Act 1991 (Amendment) (Payment of Fines) Bill. This Bill would prevent water companies, like Thames Water, from negotiating away fines. The government must act to close loopholes in the current legislation.

If you live in Morley South, vote lib Dem to beat Reform!

OTD 1937: Conrad Russell Liberalism exists to stop bullies. The most interesting Lib Dem intellectual guru of my lifetime A leading Civil War historian An incisive opposition peer (by a quirk of history both the last Liberal and first Liberal Democrat Lord created) He was my friend, and I miss him.

Elon Musk’s $78 million private jet? He can write that off. Jeff Bezos’ $500 million mega-yacht? He can write that off, too. It’s a scam. This is why billionaires buy politicians — to rewrite the rules and rig the system for themselves.

Labour are finally waking up to what we’ve been saying for a decade. We’re glad they’re coming round but now is the time for action. With worsening relations with the US we need to strengthen ties with our neighbours, and start the journey to rejoining the EU. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEW: Tunbridge Wells MP Mike Martin describes South East Water CEO's evidence to Parliament as "utterly pathetic". The Lib Dem told ITV News Meridian the company is a "disgrace" and that David Hinton "must resign" as chief executive.

Well done the @mariecgoldman.bsky.social representing the Lib Dems as the sole pro-trans voice in the trans rights debate in parliament today. So important to have a dissenting voice to push back on so much bigotry from Labour, the Tories and the DUP. parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

This morning, Police Scotland released a public service announcement, warning for rural communities to be vigilant for “suspicious people” of ill-intent. In unrelated news, on Tuesday morning Nigel Farage flew to the Northern Isles in his private plane. www.shetnews.co.uk/2026/04/14/f...

A study by Irish travel insurance company JustCover has chosen Lisbon as the most colourful city in the world. More than 2.6 million colours were detected in the photographs analysed of the Portuguese capital. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/dyzi

Only 5% think Brexit has worked. Two-thirds of Gen Z want a rejoin referendum. The Brexit settlement is dying in real time - and the only party honest enough to say so is the Liberal Democrats. Closer to Europe. Stronger at home. It really isn’t complicated.

Starmer defends King’s US visit as Davey calls Trump a ‘dangerous and corrupt gangster’

Shubho Nobo Borsho! Many thanks to the Victoria Bengali Cultural Society for a wonderful Halkhata event with history, culture, singing, dancing, and of course delicious food! #vbcs #yyj #victoriabc #bengalicommunity #newyearnewbeginnings @victoriabengaliculturalsociety @victoria_bcs

Can I be the first person to post this, please???? 🎶 You can be the President, I'd rather be the Pope 🎶 Prince, ahead of his time, as ever 💜

Israeli forces teargas schoolchildren in West Bank. Settler violence has also surged in the West Bank since the start of the Iran war. Excluding East Jerusalem, 500,000+ Israelis now live there in illegal settlements, among 3m Palestinians. #Palestine www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife charged with corruption

Tom Misch - Days Of Us

Wisteria on Drummond Street.

There are no words to describe the choices of the President of the United States sometimes - but these words from the Holy Father seem to do the trick...

On my @LBC show... 7pm Phone-in with @EdwardJDavey 8pm Cross Question with David Simmonds MP Luke Akehurst MP Colin Seymour aka Crystal Poppy Coburn 9pm Should the government be intervening on Spotted Dick in our school dinners?

🔴Conservative Candidate Tells British MPs to ‘Go Back to Pakistan’ EXCLUSIVE: Kemi Badenoch suspends the Conservative party’s candidate for North Harrow, after a Byline Times investigation uncovered a series of vile messages he posted over recent months bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/c...

A federal judge has dismissed Trump’s $10bn defamation lawsuit against the publisher of The Wall Street Journal over its report of his birthday greeting to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/b...

“Our economic growth has been flat!” says Matt, talking about the UK Errrrrrr…. 2016, what happened? Brexit!

Our political views are diverse. That's a good thing. No one party speaks for the whole country, and our opinions cannot be reduced to a choice between two options. It's time for a voting system that recognises this. It's time for Proportional Representation.

I agree. It is sickening.

Le Pen furious and worried that the model she and Jordan Bardella were going to offer to the French people next year - pretending to be European but wrecking the EU from the inside - has been rejected by the people of Hungary and will be rejected by the French as well

Reform’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice ‘failed to pay £91k in tax’ according to Sunday Times. He says ‘overall HMRC received the correct amount of tax due’

Reform are telling an outright lie about Tice's taxes. If you pay £1 less in corporation tax and then pay out that £1 in dividends, you will pay no more than 39p in tax. ie For every £1 you've avoided you are still 61p up. And that assumes you pay all the money out of your company.

Sorry, but this is Low era Bowie

The leader of the Lib Dems has come through with the put-down of the weekend for pro-Orban politician.

Argentina credit stress deepens as inflation and utility costs hit households reut.rs/48CHHtJ

“For existential philosophers, AI poses an existential threat because it offers answers faster than humans can ask the questions that help them contemplate their existence. And when humans stop asking existential questions, they stop being human.” www.forbes.com/sites/pialau...

The Lib Dems can win over pre-"Corbyinsta push" Green supporters who care about the environment but aren't as left wing as Zack Polanski, leader Ed Davey said in an interview with PolHome's @zoecrowther.bsky.social

In absolutely chef’s kiss timing, Matthew Goodwin is due to speak at Orbán’s in-house propaganda group MCC *today* Badloss strikes again.

Big challenge now for EU-pessimists. All they had to do to prove their point that the EU was doomed was say "Hungary" or "Orban." Yet he's gone, and EU still standing. Maybe it's time to rethink EU-doomerism.

unravel key pillars of Orbán’s “illiberal democracy” — demolishing the former prime minister’s tight control over the judiciary, state companies and the media. Declaring that “the regime is over” and that Hungary will again be “a strong ally in the EU and NATO,”

I did appreciate the Russian doll with Orbán on the outside and Putin inside at the Tisza party 😀

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

This is not just a victory for the people of Hungary, but for all those around the world who believe in international cooperation, democracy and the rule of law 🇭🇺

How are Orban's other far-right backers reacting to his defeat tonight? I'll keep a running tally in this thread. Send me any you see.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, like Trump, is also licking her wounds tonight after Orban's defeat. She full-throatedly endorsed Orban for re-election three months ago in a campaign video in which she appeared alongside Le Pen and Netanyahu. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

AfD promete eliminar os subsídios para a construção de infra-estruturas de energia solar e eólica e reactivar o gasoduto russo NordStream, inutilizado desde 2022.

Hungary, List vote, 88.9% counted: National parliament election TISZA-EPP: 53.7% (+0.2) Fidesz/KDNP-PfE: 37.7% (-0.1) MH-ESN: 5.9% (-0.1) DK-S&D: 1.2% MKKP→G/EFA: 0.8% +/- vs. 74.4% counted ➤ europeelects.eu/hungary

Has anyone noticed that wherever JD Vance goes, he just makes a mess. In Munich he insulted European allies. In Greenland he turned everyone against Trump. And now he’s helped Viktor Orbán lose re-election. Maybe better to spend more time on the couch VP.

“I’ve congratulated the victorious party.” After 16 years as PM, Hungary’s Viktor Orban conceded defeat to opposition leader Peter Magyar and his Tisza party.

Trump, Putin, Farage… your boy took a hell of a beating. Congratulations to the people of Hungary for showing that populist extremists can be defeated – even despite Donald Trump’s best efforts.

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