Liberal Tweets
Last updated Monday 10th May 2021 09:07 BST
RT @sidthekid1965: Tories intent on making it harder for people to vote. The slow erosion of our liberal democracy continues.… https://t.co/AEAU5GZTNc
In case you missed it: Unboxing the RSPB's Welcome Pack! What's inside the box? And is it any good at cementing don… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Though looking up the Benn case it seems that one of the key facts there was that voters were deemed to have known… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
To all new #LibDems who have been elected, welcome! We will have a range of training events in the upcoming weeks t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @kierongillen: This is, to use the technical term, some bullshit designed to disenfranchise primarily poorer voters, justifying it… https://t.co/vULZTaH2Ds
RT @libertyhq: The Government is trying to make itself and future governments untouchable. Being able to stand up to power is at… https://t.co/PipPXOw5zz
Article says there'll need to be a new election, but can someone who knows election law better than me confirm that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @RhonddaBryant: I presume all those who were totally opposed to vaccine passports for access to pubs last week will be totally oppo… https://t.co/PSjclrp6ma
RT @IanMurrayMP: Does anyone think that pandemic recovery is front & centre in Scottish politics since the election results? Wall to… https://t.co/sfgSFOyMyV
RT @BBCHughPym: Report by @IPPR: postcode lottery for end of life care in England - people in London, the North East and Yorkshire… https://t.co/xTdE2tx4QG
RT @ianvisits: What the City of London will look like in the mid-2020s ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/05/0… The City of London has released s… https://t.co/CtntuRzkpl
RT @DuncanWeldon: “Do you think if you went to red wall seats, they’d know what calling out meant?” Oh for god’s sake.
RT @edjeff: Before you're allowed to vote you should have to present a photo of yourself respecting the queen
RT @MaudsleyDoN: @XavierWhite9 @simons_herring getting ready for Nurses Day @MaudsleyNHS Exciting! @GoalsOlivers @ollythesquid… https://t.co/eyeS8JyL7j
Voter suppression is the name of the game for the @Conservatives so they can stay in power for ever. Electoral fra… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
shoutout to @wendychambLD @LaylaMoran @Wera_Hobhouse @EdwardJDavey for being so good on this! (and everyone else to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @LDTradeUnionist: 1 in 2 women and 2 in 3 LGBT+ workers experience sexual harassment in the workplace. Register for the Ending sexua… https://t.co/aOYZEQC81t
RT @MrMcEnaney: I'm a 34 year old professional and I don't think I'd be able to cope with an exam timetable like this. I certainly… https://t.co/7KsXv2aun2
RT @Wild_Ham_and_P: Lovely thread on one of the wonders of Ham! twitter.com/tomopteris/sta…
This is a good read about abuses in the Church and has crossovers to abuses in other hierarchical institutions. Li… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
We’re streaming more @CrusaderKings today at 7pm UK time, and we’ve had a rebranding! New logo, new stream overlays… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Obviously, they spend several years in a parallel dimension where time works differently. Once you accept that, thi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @gordoncorera: US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
RT @jamiesont: It’s been six days since their teenage son went missing & everything she thought she knew about her husband has tur… https://t.co/oWXAI6raoE
So many new Liberal Democrats elected! Congratulations to all and apologies if we missed anyone out during a hectic… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @1Br0wn: Shockingly cynical gerrymandering >> 🇬🇧 voters will need photo ID for general elections theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
RT @JesusCollegeCam: Did you spot our wisteria in Thursday's @Telegraph ? Here's more for all the keen #WisteriaWatchers out there - t… https://t.co/e5X2vNUnAJ
Liberal Democrats are moving forward in former Conservative heartlands, gaining seats in Cambridgeshire, Hertfordsh… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @JonnyAnstead: ‘Aldi says, “With direct access to the strategic road network...the site is the ideal location for a food store." W… https://t.co/a2h8ONs6i5
What was in an election observer report covering both an inspection and a polling station visit in the Metropolitan… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @PeterBradshaw1: We’re ten minutes into The Pursuit Of Love and Wes Anderson’s lawyer is on the phone
Because a few gains in the south, however great, don’t offset massive losses in the midlands and north. twitter.com/argyleloz/stat…
RT @claireOT: This outrageous woman-hatred is so normalised that no-one intervenes when women are harassed, kicked or spat on, un… https://t.co/oOxAbbyqs3
What was in an election observer report covering both an inspection and a polling station visit in the Metropolitan… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @LawrenceRAG: More of the same. Yet again, the occupants of Luxury Student Homes property at Old Salisbury pub dumping their wast… https://t.co/1hKyhK0ZOq
RT @BEERG: It would appear that "freeports" should now be understood as ports free of exports as most countries will not accep… https://t.co/iLzNx87imu
RT @GardeningAtNigh: @BorisJohnson_MP Voters thanked Boris Johnson by dismantling the blue wall in Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire! https://t.co/6PGTcaG2eQ
RT @SarahNobleLD: What should happen is that the ARO will declare 2nd place elected, as happened in the 1961 Bristol South East by-el… https://t.co/5cpKav31VR
Plus Lib Dems have 11 MPs as opposed to one Green. But @LibDems should not be complacent. twitter.com/WorrallJack/st…
RT @alya_zayed: Huge difference between Keir Starmer who hasn't tweeted in several days and Ed Davey who has the Cambridge News fro… https://t.co/Ukmt9GD5da
RT @MickWSmith: Chris Emmas-Williams, outgoing Labour leader if Amber Valley council: ‘It’s been a disastrous day for us. The voter… https://t.co/YbugX5SxB1
RT @TheYidanPrize: Thanks for the shoutout @Camfed! We are excited for our #YidanPrizeConferenceSeries: Europe 2021, where we will hea… https://t.co/Ui464tp7Ht
RT @TheYidanPrize: Our warmest congratulations to Yidan Prize laureate, Professor Usha Goswami, on her election to The Royal Society! https://t.co/T2uDYDvvjG
RT @guardian: Queen’s speech: voters will need photo ID for general elections https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/may/10/queens-speech-photo-id-future-elections-social-care?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1620601590
RT @WorrallJack: Greens - we are now the third party!! The actual results- pic.twitter.com/1uhXHQqioG
RT @jonworth: Okay... one thing parties ought to know how to do is check if candidates comply with the criteria! twitter.com/danob1986/stat…
Welcome to my day - 10 May 2021: reasons to be cheerful? ldv.org.uk/67656 by @honladymark
RT @realbreadbeds: @BedfordVann A great day out. The weather held out and the wonderful people of Bedford came along and help us to co… https://t.co/arZeAM3kwU
Years ago there would by by elections because MPs were appointed colonial governors or high court judges. Voters w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @hussain_khanLD: Thank you to all @LibDems supporters, we increased our vote share in #Ealing & #Hillingdon 💪🏽 Much work needs to be… https://t.co/w8Fcoqfge0
The @LibDems have made impressive gains in Oxfordshire against the Conservatives, a ringing endorsement of our hard… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @ALDC: Congratulations @calibdems a fantastic result as the Liberal Democrats take control of Amersham Town Council.… https://t.co/wgHqfvQq4k
RT @StAlbansLDs: After a VERY successful morning, we had Lib Dem leader @EdwardJDavey pay us a visit! Here’s a few of our victory pi… https://t.co/qYiwwWqso2
RT @georgethisisnot: Concept: Labour lets the Lib Dems win in Chesham and Amersham, and in return the Lib Dems let Labour win in Batley… https://t.co/eVbI2KdxgZ
RT @oolon: I didn't get banned from Mumsnet when we were asserting they ban people for saying "cisgender", will I get banned f… https://t.co/pyWgq0Csmo
RT @portraitinflesh: Putting up with this sort of thing is a kind of tax women have to pay for the right to be out in public. Fuck off w… https://t.co/qBOWoZcKuS
RT @cutawayuniverse: AAAAAAAGH. We're still just SIX of your Earth Pounds away from unlocking the Kangs documentary and the Patricia Qui… https://t.co/odQCXxOFqk
RT @SarahNobleLD: “Everyone else present at the time is now dead.” I mean, in at least one case, that’s because he shot a man with l… https://t.co/p7skb4jtJM
Yes but CHEESE and PORK MARKETS! "officials disclosed on Sunday that recent post-Brexit trade agreements with 23 d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @LucieGutfreund: @CarolinePidgeon @LuisaPorritt It was an amazing campaign, one to be proud of. Hope you have had a great day unwin… https://t.co/aNJbSuKbTx
RT @SarahNobleLD: And as the good folks at @qikipedia will inform you every week on your favourite podcasting service, there is also… https://t.co/uwFPFfactH
Weekly Road Report – West End Ward #dundeewestend frasermacpherson.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/wee…
RT @SarahNobleLD: Shabana Mahmood coordinating campaigns? Is she gonna take on Rosie Duffield and Jess Phillips as understudies just… https://t.co/QMUBkfDvpP
The local election results confirm that “Brexit has changed Britain’s political landscape and driven a wedge betwee… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
More importantly, who are the party’s surrogates now? Labour needs new faces to replace the Novara media crew and m… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
A nice list of shadow cabinet members might be good for party management but it’s irrelevant to voters. Who are Lab… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @BorisOwes: As of 6:00am, 10th May 2021, @BorisJohnson owes our NHS £86.69 billion. whatdoesborisowe.co.uk
RT @PoliticsFiveAlI: 🚨🥰| BREAKING: Lord Adonis says Labour should be prepared to look widely for its next leader. “Obviously my first ch… https://t.co/vjObxy8feu
RT @BBCNews: Social care needs fixing now, council leaders tell chancellor bbc.in/3txDFvz
RT @ChineseLibDems: Unfortunate news of woman pinned to the floor after Chinese student attacked in Sheffield city centre https://t.co/weVBsNNQ69
RT @tristangrayedi: So whilst the GPEW has swept gains across England I have been glad for it, but my strongest emotion is reserved to… https://t.co/CzCZXKWCoj
RT @anton_georgiou: This is horrific and highlights once again how much there is still to do around the world to advance the cause of e… https://t.co/ZSwV3iBdwK
RT @Independent: Doctor who treated Putin critic Navalny goes missing in Siberia, police say https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/navalny-doctor-missing-siberia-russia-b1844664.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1620601021
RT @CarolineFLeaver: @lewis_goodall I am one of those @LibDems county gains from the Tories in Barnstaple South, overturning their major… https://t.co/aqDIf55j13
When I first watched Groundhog Day, I thought the song was by Icon Tina Turner. Dunno why I remembered that...
RT @SomhairleMM: @Hbomberguy @SoozUK Sickening. *This* is how to do wheelchair access - twitter.com/mobilitycat/st…
This is in better condition than some of the stuff I had as a kid So very cool twitter.com/Rattapoom_K/st…
RT @nicransome: @vivamjm Yes, but it makes the salient point that Free Trade deals (like all those we had as part of the EU) are in… https://t.co/z675lmxY6A
RT @vivamjm: Sigh! ... Once again this is not "news" anything coming out of a freeport does not benefit from host country trade… https://t.co/B1WPtYc7iy
RT @fascinatorfun: The oldest human burial in Africa was a toddler laid to rest with a pillow - CNN Unbearably touching. 78,000 year… https://t.co/oVIWhMuner
RT @noamchomskyT: "Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think." ~ Noam Chomsky
RT @Pogue: This @McSweeneys article appears to be a sillier and sillier excursion into making a sentence more passive and less… https://t.co/bB1TOH8sIX
RT @MelanieJaxn: When Mozart was 8 this tree was over 40. When first Steam Engine was patented this tree was 50. When the Wright Bro… https://t.co/OFlsYWP1gN
RT @marysuewriter: this is one of those times where it’s especially clear that transphobes don’t understand even the bare minimum abou… https://t.co/61hLDxpJ6U
Alhamdulillah, thank you to my brother/sister who has donated so generously and brought our total to £790, Mashalla… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @peterwalker99: While everyone is enjoying their Sunday, Bristol is quietly becoming a one-party Green state*. *Not completely, of… https://t.co/RltLCp0Ghf
seriously what part about "step on me tol mommy" don't you get twitter.com/Iverson_TMT2/s…
Thank you to my brother/sister who has just donated and helped us to reach £690. Alhamdulillah what a selfless act.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @jennycohn1: How the election-fraud myth was spread by Russell Ramsland and the Texas security company ASOG - Washington Post 1/ https://t.co/86Gaa5LjW5
Suhur is drawing closer and we are £320 short of reaching £1,000. If 10 people can give £30, we can achieve this, i… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @KarenBlade15: @TammRehgallag @DPJHodges What about @bbc @itv and all the back slapping colleagues too. 🤔 I don't believe these pe… https://t.co/KHRb9Zit2F
@A_C_McGregor @LiberalMorgan The other problem is when a party actually splits - one side will retain the formal ap… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @sansculotides: Today is primidi 21 Floréal in the year of the Republic CCXXIX, celebrating thrift. pic.twitter.com/BVp53TfPrr
RT @hendopolis: TIMES: Johnson to relax rules on building new homes #TomorrowsPapetsToday pic.twitter.com/ZMSagfAnUo
RT @trobertsBS: If the war on Woke is replaced with a war on NIMBYs I'm ok with that
RT @SarahNobleLD: With Rachel "tougher than the Tories on benefits" Reeves as the Shadow Chancellor, I feel better about the Lib Dems… https://t.co/wyAoNjfCI2
RT @Eleanor33896755: I've read both the picture book, and the longer biography. I'd recommend both to anyone who grew up with Playschool… https://t.co/4sJsZpD6rB
RT @Lou_Bookmarks: @FloellaBenjamin @MacmillanKidsUK @ColinThomasWebb @GorseyBank I am so pleased for you @FloellaBenjamin. 😃 I did say it was a great book.
RT @AlyxP1: Isn't this incredible? What a brilliant opportunity and experience for all these children. Online events are the in… https://t.co/ShZYuS4l8L
@LiberalMorgan The problem then becomes that you remove the ability to conscientiously dissent from whatever the wh… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Given we have closed lists, I'd be open to this. Not just the UKIP splinters but McEvoy and Oscar back in the day w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Elon Musk Reveals He Has Asperger’s On Saturday Night Live samedifference1.com/2021/05/10/elo…
RT @gustoitalianouk: Ready for tomorrow Yorkshire pecorino #otley @visitotley @OtleyBID @OtleyChamber @GregMulholland1 https://t.co/aFyubOl1mU
RT @BarristerNF: Voter ID is a method of voter suppression. It sounds superficially like a reasonable idea, but a) why is it needed?… https://t.co/wIUeKieBxK
RT @theron_amy: So what they found is a pregnant trans man. He was buried as a man with male affirming language on the sarcophagus… https://t.co/Mo8wzOVR3W
RT @lewis_goodall: NEW: Cherwell result- CON HOLD, one Lib Dem gain. Ladies and gentlemen that is all 143- we're done! https://t.co/VWUXyDSxpz
Disability And Domestic Abuse: ‘No-One Knows What Is Happening Behind Those Walls’ samedifference1.com/2021/05/10/dis…
RT @PoliticsFiveAlI: 🚨🔥| BREAKING: Keir Starmer SACKED as Labour leader following shadow cabinet reshuffle. Via @PoliticsFiveAlI
RT @PickardJE: - remember how companies have been promised close to zero import duties by setting up in Boris Johnson's 8 new free… https://t.co/8ipiMJ8H9D
Once again our “Prime Minister” will be so angry when he finds out which absolute lying incompetent negotiated this… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
SONY: Get Sony PlayStation to approve Days Gone 2 - Sign the Petition! chng.it/sNMQSzDW via @UKChange
RT @WCountryBylines: New edition out now. Please read and share! You are our distribution network. #CitizenJournalism #Byliner… https://t.co/THu45TZxIA
Trust Labour to appoint an austerity hawk as Shadow Chancellor... 😩 theguardian.com/politics/2013/…
RT @standardnews: Free Willy: Desperate rescue for baby whale stuck at Richmond Lock bit.ly/3tB7GKO
Deaf Awareness Week: Belfast Schoolboy Involved In BBC SignSong samedifference1.com/2021/05/10/dea…
Voters gave the Liberal Democrats Strong Support right across Hertfordshire on May 6th. westherts.lib.dm/a71dZ9
RT @Stephen19540131: And the news now is even better. LibDems have won control of St. Albans Council! https://t.co/eBLPdcjnCk
A late election count meant we couldn’t do Saturday… “I just do the best I can.” And Ben Aaronovitch’s Arthurian fu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Week 36 in our Classic Who selection: #DoctorWho Battlefield Across the playlist Dæmon calls to Destroyer Brigadier… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
ICYMI: Lib Dems make net gains of seats, council in local elections markpack.org.uk/?p=167476
#Charity is an opportunity to gain honour and achieve spiritual height inshallah. In these last few nights of Ramad… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
With key Blairites now occupying important economic and social policy briefs, Labour's top team is shifting to the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @sundersays: Overall, London's Tory voters preferred the Green Party to Laurence Fox. More London Conservatives have some time… https://t.co/Jc1Alp54MY
I do think that questions about the future of work and the effects that this will have on the economy are worth att… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@CadanapTomos @RobTR I'm so proud of him I would use pizza wheels if they were decently sharp and worked on surfac… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Not a bad call, if I say so myself. Thanks to Dumbarton as it turned out.
If the Scottish Parliament votes for a second referendum on Scottish independence, then I think Westminster should… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @thetorchsays: The beginnings of a new Yellow Wall? (And NB this map, courtesy of @NewStatesman, doesn't even include Wiltshire r… https://t.co/3wAHq6H2DB
RT @Thom_astro: This is #Europe's space in space: @esa's Columbus laboratory. #EuropeDay2021 #MissionAlpha flic.kr/p/2kXvoub https://t.co/sa4Yk18lYV
RT @AlexWEllis: The UK has sent the world’s largest cargo plane from Northern Ireland to India carrying 3 surplus 18-tonne oxygen g… https://t.co/2R9vPakLKs
@LiberalMorgan @RobTR introduced me to this and I've never looked back since. Makes you question even the point of a pizza wheel
RT @awildh198: The infiltration of a major fuel pipeline is "the most significant, successful attack on energy infrastructure we k… https://t.co/T75YRSKsKA
RT @carolewalkercw: Tonight @Jacob_Rees_Mogg tells @BBCcarolynquinn there will be legislation in Queens Speech to repeal Fixed Term Pa… https://t.co/1yP7XeRtsW
@po8crg @kernowshark If you remember the game "Cannon Fodder", which used to have the main recruiting screen also h… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Great to meet this fella for a pint tonight to celebrate him getting elected again, hugely deserved. What an excell… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @MartinChelt: @libdemsinhull showing off ever so slightly here with a 27% swing.. twitter.com/britainelects/…
RT @J_Holliss: When these are the next two by-elections it does feel like a fairly unique opportunity to at least *try* some kind… https://t.co/f5CRcNE41j
RT @thepig993: so that's it i think? LD +7 cllrs, +1 council. third consecutive net gain for the party, though much less impressive than 18 or 19.
RT @awildh198: While I understand a lot of people are happy the Lib Dems haven't sustained massive losses I think its really impor… https://t.co/RXddVLe9De
RT @SarahLudford: Haven’t talked to anyone about my idea yet, but maybe a sponsored (by me) award to a @StPetersLibDems… https://t.co/UTM9kE6ob6
ICYMI: New election looms for Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner markpack.org.uk/?p=167475
@Extinction65mya Yes, or the murdering of the younglings. Or you pick someone that is already known to be evil. D… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @CountBinface: A new dawn has broken, has it not? (Technically that’s true every day, but you know what I mean.) pic.twitter.com/qvTYZW1mC4
RT @Jonnyhibberd: HST at Market Harborough on the penultimate Friday of operation on the Midland pic.twitter.com/9VYsqMR7BD
@po8crg Which is twee but it’s also the real answer. You need like a Darth Vader March to show that Anakin is evil.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Personally, I like this style. Have a war where you (the reader) don't have to think about why it's happening, so… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @lewis_goodall: KEY ENGLAND ELECTION TAKEAWAYS (thread) 1) Brexit realignment continues 2) Tory Party now hegemonic in much of Eng… https://t.co/fM8Y77M7vk
Not to work with other parties to get rid of the Conservatives? twitter.com/guardiannews/s…
@Extinction65mya Also you can't stop and think. In a book, you can pause reading after hitting a twist and go "oh,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@Extinction65mya ... and I don't see any solution to that, you either have to be completely unsubtle, or you're goi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@po8crg I think movies make this much harder as well considering how much the condensed time frame requires the rel… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @MartinChelt: @antiquechic1 @thetorchsays @CatioMiles @NewStatesman Well I agree we’re pro-EU and pro-NHS (so everyone can be wel… https://t.co/hSK1GnGiDe
@Extinction65mya I think that telling people that your protagonist is the bad guy is hard, and you'd have to do it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@Extinction65mya Yes. You can frame the film so viewers approach it from the correct understanding, and that will… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
RT @GregSpruce: This is the subtext to the local elections ... forget the red wall this is the blue wall. We are 2nd place to the C… https://t.co/MMF9lGqJKt
RT @RaveCozensHardy: There is something seriously wrong with various journalists in the UK. Johnson is the most corrupt PM in history, w… https://t.co/8xiUZi8L0y
@po8crg I mean, that last bit is why he failed. You have to communicate your point effectively. I mean, Snyder is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@Extinction65mya But: market it as dystopian SF and it works. Now that people know what it is - that it's set in a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Labour pick homophobe as National Campaign Coordinator twitter.com/thetorchsays/s…
@Extinction65mya I'm not at all convinced that that film failed that badly. I think the problem was that the langu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…