🔶We did it!
I am beyond proud of what @bathnesld have achieved in the local election yesterday.
Thank you to everyone who voted for us and believed in our vision for a fairer and greener future.
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🔶“Ambitious for B&NES: a positive vision with the Liberal Democrats”🔶
The manifesto highlights achievements over the past four years and priorities for the next term.
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Typically the Government has got its priorities completely backwards. It is ‘fixing’ a problem that does not exist.
@davidyelland@pmdfoster@thetimes Worth listening to Prince Harry himself on this topic. He mentions why he included the number of deaths in his book at the end of this clip: https://t.co/icXTpD8Hdm
"Without a doubt, the most dangerous lie that they have told, is that I somehow boasted about the number of people I killed in Afghanistan." — Prince Harry tells #Colbert, adding that his "words are not dangerous," but the spin on his "words are very dangerous." #Spare
@wesbos If it's not too late for you... This is the URI object used in vscode and handily written in TypeScript. The `uri.with()` method might interest you?
https://t.co/JOhJFpY9vf
Despite financial challenges like Covid and inflation, a top councillor says the amount of money in #Bath and North East Somerset's Council reserves has actually gone up over the last three years - by ten million pounds
Read the #LDReporter story here: https://t.co/wNlzgZFpuc
@SarahDykeLD@Quantockhills And then you still managed to get to our @bathnesld AGM this evening and give a fascinating talk on overcoming complex organisational issues to win significant local elections in Somerset for the @LibDems. Inspirational. Thank you!
“All those people that put Liz Truss in No 10, I hope it was worth it”
Conservative MP Charles Walker describes chaos around Commons vote on banning fracking as a "shambles and a disgrace"
https://t.co/l2irPFiiwM
Seeing as the Bring Back Boris Barmy Army is now on the march, time for a little public service thread on Johnson's electoral appeal in 2019 and popularity since. Tl;dr - he wasn't popular then, and he *certainly* isn't now 1/?
Sign B&NES Liberal Democrats petition against fracking!
To solve the energy crisis we need to move forward with renewables, not look back at old and damaging technologies.
Make your voices heard and we can prevent it.
https://t.co/k1aTTQClcP
Ministers planning to evade scrutiny on such a widely opposed project is unacceptable and importantly, undemocratic!
The government’s arrogance is staggering and the public is suffering for it.
https://t.co/2QRpGcGkkz
Brilliant MacTaggart lecture by @maitlis - Why journalism woke up too late to populism and what do to now. A speech absolutely everyone interested in healthy democracy should watch. Here's the link. https://t.co/zUAWYQwtl1 https://t.co/0q8XEHvBqp