The Guardian · Starmer tells MPs he will fight Farage ‘as Labour’ at anxious private meeting
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"Previously, we have seen one or other of the #LibDems or #Reform (and their predecessor parties) perform well at a set of local elections. We got a taste in 2024 of what might happen should both perform well at once at a general election, though largely at the expense of an extremely unpopular incumbent party. This week we got a further indication of how this might look when both the ‘main’ parties are seen by the electorate as failed governments."
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/multi-party-politics-here-to-stay-local-elections
Politics Home · Multi Party Politics May Be Here To StayThe two-party system is creaking, and it is not just the doing of Reform UK.
"More than half of people who voted Labour in July say they are considering switching to the Liberal Democrats or the Greens at the next general election."
#UKPol #Labour #LibDems #GreenParty
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/half-of-labours-voters-consider-switching-lib-dem-greens
Politics Home · Over Half Of Labour's 2024 Vote Considers Switching To Lib Dem Or GreensMore than half of people who voted Labour in July say they are considering switching to the Liberal Democrats or the Greens at the next general ele...
Shame Labour is terrified/enamoured of racists that they can't trumpet these benefits to the country, so it's to the Lib Dems and Greens to pick up all those votes.
The Guardian · Lib Dems claim deeper trade deal with EU would raise £25bn of tax revenue
When are service reductions not 'cuts' and when is a government bail out 'not a loan'?
Councillor Ade Adeyemo challenges the Conservatives on likely cuts to council services and the £48.273M government EFS bail out, without which #SolihullCouncil could not balance its books.
Solihull was one of 18 councils who applied for emergency government bailout agreements and were given Exceptional Financial Support (EFS) in February to stave off bankruptcy and help meet their legal duty to balance their books in the next two financial years (2025/26 and 2026/27).
Exceptional Financial Support (EFS) enables councils to take out loans to pay for day-to-day services. The government has said councils will not be able to dispose of community and heritage assets to repay the loans.
Liberal Democrats are concerned that EFS could load the struggling council with further debt and costs in the future and undermine future capital programmes.
Lib Dems doing the things Labour should be doing but won't.
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#FBPE #RejoinEU “Make it easier to recruit British workers” = code for what, exactly?
Lower standards? Subsidised wages? Deport migrants to manufacture shortages?
This is reheated Tory-speak. Lib Dems, we expected better.
#Immigration #Lib #Dems #ImmigrationPolicy #LibDems #ImmigrationDebate
https://www.libdems.org.uk/press/release/immigration-clear-plan-needed-to-make-it-easier-to-recruit-british-workers-for-vacancies-instead
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@Lazarou @roastinghouse Lib Dems and Green really need to start shouting about what a #Reform government would really look like. For one, say goodbye to the NHS. Probably ditch the minimum wage because it's too "woke". Food standards going down.
I don't get why Labour is racing to the bottom by pandering to the Reform racists. Sure, let's be more like Trumpian USA and see how far it gets us. Well, Starmer will be okay, he's rich.
Some voters are just racist and nothing will change their minds. Some are just ignorant, and will believe whatever crap Farridge, Rogan and... well I was going to say Badenoch, but maybe not her... But they'll believe whatever the populists tell them, because it's an easy answer. Like my Johnson-fanboy former colleague, who is otherwise intelligent, but falls for this crap. It's all the immigrants' and asylum seekers' fault I can't get a council flat, apparently. No, it's the fault of successive governments selling council stock and allowing oligarchs and wealthy foreign investors to buy up properties and leave them unoccupied, because they don't see housing as a human need, but a commodity to be traded. This is the message the #LibDems and #Greens need to get out. People need to see who the real enemy is. And it starts with wealthy grifters like Farridge.
Greens, Lib Dems and the Celts should go in hard about what is actually happening in America right now and how the three Tory Parties want to drag us into that horror for their own profit.
Call it an 'Anti-Quisling Alliance' or something....
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@roastinghouse the way that Labour doesn't care about the majority of the votes they lose to the Greens and Lib Dems but obsess over the ones they lose to ReformUK tells me that decent people no longer have a home in that party.
Are Labour Party Members telling me they have some sway in how the Party operates, because I'm not seeing it!
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@ChrisMayLA6 @BackFromTheDud @HarriettMB @NorthantsGreens All except for the Reform UK-inclined & Brexit-supporting voters in the "Red Wall" constituencies, that is. We progressive voters can get lost, apparently - or they don't care if we vote for the #greens or the #libdems.
Just seen the data from last week’s #localelections for English county councils
Not only did #greenparty hold our 3 seats in #malvern with massively increased majorities but, looking at total votes cast aggregated across the Malvern Hills District, #greens won most votes, with 26.94% of all votes cast
Yup, not only beat the #Tories & trounced the #redtories (7.69%) but also beat the so-called winners of these elections, #ReformUK & #libdems 
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/11/lib-dems-reform-uk-watch-monitor-party-local-government. "As well as gaining more than 160 councillors & taking control of 3 new councils, the #libdems are the biggest party in 3 others, & in 4 areas came second to Reform - which will be the core of the monitoring project, intended to scrutinise Reform’s mayors as well as councils." Well done them - the #greens should do the same thing, IMO, @NorthantsGreens.
The Guardian · Lib Dems launch ‘Reform watch’ to monitor party in local government
The Guardian · Lib Dems launch ‘Reform watch’ to monitor party in local government
@onthisday
#ukpol #libdems #tories #cameron
Today in 2010, 15 years ago: David Cameron takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats form the country's first coalition government since the Second World War.
"and it was a catastrophe from the get go. Cameron, couldn't find his own rse if his life depended on it. What were the Lib Dems thinking?"
(LordMatt) 