A small blue gaming piece science officer with Opinions. Not a member of any military organisation currently existing in this timeline. Liberal. He/Him I guess.
Former UN Rapporteur David Kaye: “for anyone who ever argued for key escrows, i offer you the example of the muskovites rampaging through USG systems” | Ofcom, please take note…
Attempts to stop the County Council elections from taking place with just a few months to go are shocking.
Residents should be allowed to hold the council to account for decisions that it has taken since the last elections nearly four years ago.
https://t.co/ab7tTRvhjk
Down in London for filming today’s ITV Central, Lobby. Am #libdems guest on today’s debate & will be speaking against plans to scrap Districts & Boroughs & bring in huge, remote Unitary authorities
Conservative Kent County Councillors could remain in office for SEVEN YEARS under the current devolution plans, something that my constituents are appalled about.
Spa Valley Railway in the heart of Tunbridge Wells is under threat as one of its major bridges is facing serious corrosion damage and must be replaced.
Fundraising appeal to save our railway 👇
https://t.co/NCUy12ppiY
Ed Davey's push for a shorter review period on social care is a good one. There is a solid policy case (we've had reviews before), it's an issue that he can come back to again, and it fits with his consistent political narrative (focused on care and caring).
This is precisely why the Tories are running scared of county council elections in May. They have lost half their support since the last set of elections in 2021. @LibDems on the up.
@RFishBlueFish@PoliticalKiwi The other fun tidbit is that we just reached the tipping point this year where 18 year old white women are more Democratic than 18 year old non-white men.
As Kemi Badenoch has written this is a "fundamental misunderstanding" of the equality act. The Protected Characteristic applies to every person - eg white, black, Asian; eg male, female
It seems increasingly likely that the SAS committed war crimes in Afghanistan.
If proven in the Afghanistan Special Forces Inquiry, the government must bring the UK special forces under parliamentary oversight.
@BBCNews at Ten with some comments from me.
The government’s push to cancel May’s County elections & scrap boroughs & districts & bring in unitary authorities is most high handed attack on English local govt since Thatcher govt of mid 1980s scrapped the GLC & Metropolitan Counties. Time for govt to slow down & rethink
Really fed up with ITV News. I did a pre-recorded interview in which I expressed strong scepticism about the 'coffee only good in the morning' story. But they cut all that out, leaving me apparently supporting their credulous story. I really should not be so naive.
We need to make up for the excess of Long centuries by applying cuts to some other centuries to balance the (history) books. It may be painful but it's time to declare the 21st century over - it ran from 2007 to 2020. The rest of the century is being used to pay off the deficit.