Cllr Mike Giles 🔸

Liberal Democrat PPC for Earley & Woodley. District Councillor for Sonning Common, SODC cabinet member. Views my own

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

I’ve written today to the CEO of Thames Water, requesting he participate in a public Q&A in Earley and Woodley constituency, before the end of the year.

Additionally I have asked about price hikes 📈, sewage dumping 💩 and executive bonuses 🤑.

I’ll keep residents updated!

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Good to be out in Bray earlier, campaigning for Joanna Korczak with @JoshReynoldsSL6 MP and Cllr @AVCrabtree. Voting open until 10pm!

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Excellent news which will benefit low and middle earners with the cost of living.

Both the Conservatives and Labour have frozen tax thresholds for years - essentially a tax hike by the back door.

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

Liberal Democrats took more than 3 million people out of paying income tax altogether with the personal allowance. Rewarding hard work and aspiration. Helping the lowest paid the most. 

So we will raise the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000. Taking 2 million more people out of paying tax altogether, and giving most taxpayers a £680 tax cut.

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Visited the River Thames in Sonning & the Thames Water HQ in Reading to discuss the impact of their price hikes and sewage dumping, and what needs to change. #SewageScandal #SaveOurRivers

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Very pleased to announce I’ve been selected as the @LibDems PPC for Earley and Woodley!

Many thanks to @wokinghamlibdem and @ReadingLibDems members for your support. Excited to get started working hard for residents across the entire constituency.

https://t.co/k2Yd8UUcCk

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

This is appalling and risks collapsing the entire scheme. It also may also end up simply shifting costs onto councils

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

EXC: Labour Quietly Slashes Homes for Ukraine Host Payments by 71% https://t.co/9csX3S80WJ

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

No surprise to see Reform banning journalists from their party conference…

They are a deeply unserious outfit who can’t handle proper scrutiny of their dubious financial arrangements.

https://t.co/xOOB3CbmgB

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

@CalumAM Where to start with this nonsensical and discriminatory social engineering… the policy is seemingly anti-gay couples, implies Brits born abroad are ‘foreigners’, and pushes struggling single parents down the queue

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Happy Independence Day to Ukraine 🇺🇦!

We must continue to do more to support Ukraine, including providing the weapons they need to defeat the Russians.

@LibDemFofU

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Good to see @LibDems seeking to put an end to Farage’s pointless and self absorbed by-election stunt

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

Triggering a vanity by-election was a blatant attempt by Farage to dodge being held to account.

Our ‘Clacton Clause’ would stop a stunt like this being pulled ever again.

A sitting MP under investigation should never be able to weaponise a by-election into a taxpayer funded attempt to escape scrutiny.

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Great to be out delivering in Hillside in Earley! @wokinghamlibdem

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Interesting… @wokinghamlibdem

[Yuan Yang @YuanfenYang]

Great to be working for Chancellor @JohnHealey_MP as his new Parliamentary Private Secretary. We have a lot to do to build a new economy where inflation is low and the essentials are affordable again. (1/3)

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Lovely day for delivering around Shiplake. Positive feedback on the door about @fivanmierlo & local Lib Dems @LibDemsOxon

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Great to be out delivering for South Lake and Hawkedon this afternoon! @wokinghamlibdem

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

@PolitlcsUK Makes sense. This by-election is just narcissism and deflection from Reform UK

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Quite. This is Russian state-sponsored indoctrination of children

[Tom Gordon MP @tomgordonLD]

This isn’t just harmless kids’ entertainment.

The show has repeatedly leaned into a positive portrayal of Russia, folded in Soviet-era imagery and the occasional military theme, and exported Russian cultural messaging to children worldwide.

With Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine still ongoing, it’s worth asking why one of the Russia’s biggest cultural exports continues to reach a global audience of millions.

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Very pleased @LibDems run SODC Cabinet approved a 15% business rates cut for pubs last night.

There are some excellent pubs across Sonning Common ward, incl. the Hare & Hound and Butchers Arms, who will benefit from our policy

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Interesting essay, but it skips Gov’t decisions:

✈️ Tory trade deals (eg Aus/NZ), backed by Labour, undercut farmers

🇪🇺 Failed UK replacement for EU farm subsidies

🚫 BOGOF ban, hiking food costs

⬆️ Labour’s farm tax rise

🛒 Yang’s illogical opt-out policy on Sunday trading

[Yuan Yang @YuanfenYang]

Rising food prices are one of the clearest examples of the cost of living crisis, and it's something that shoppers have to contend with every week. In @TheFabians new pamphlet, I set out what a new Labour government can do to to bring inflation down.

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

If true, this Luddite madness would stop taxi journeys from being safer for women and girls….

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

🚨Team Burnham want to slow down introduction of driverless taxis in London says FT.

A major symbolic shift towards government actively slowing tech development to protect existing jobs

Big debate on this ahead…

https://t.co/epHaSSMIEq

[Cllr Mike Giles 🔸 @mikegiles4EW]

Thanks to Lib Dem-run Oxfordshire County Council for fixing potholes I’ve been reporting on @fixmystreet

Local roads have been in poor condition due to the Conservatives’ policy of ‘managed decline’