Christopher Woolmer

Sutton North’s Ruth Dombey spoke of her family’s own heritage fleeing persecution in Russian occupied Poland,

and of her pride at living in a country that has “decency at its very core”.

Sutton West and East Cheam’s councillor Christopher Woolmer spoke movingly about the experience of his wife - and how stripping away the rights of those with IDLR would break the promises given to people in the past, who have made their whole lives here.

Brexit has been a resounding disaster. Starmer must find the courage to change course | Ed Davey Poll after poll shows most voters think leaving the EU has been a failure. Closer ties with Europe would bring huge rewards, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A wonderful result in the Carshalton South & Clockhouse by-election with the brilliant candidate, Lisa Webster, winning 52.2% of the vote for the Liberal Democrats!

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY

I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent.

It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy.

based on
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Voters want Keir Starmer to focus on rebuilding trade ties with EU, poll reveals Open trade with Europe is more important to the UK than a deal with Donald Trump, most Britons believe

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Westcroft Leisure Centre Goes Green with Solar Power! YouTube video by LBS Internal Comms

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This project will reduce emissions that harm the climate, save money on energy costs, and create a more sustainable future for our community.
Learn more about the benefits 👇

Sutton Central (Sutton) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 55.7% (+17.4)
🌳 CON: 14.1% (-10.0)
➡️ RFM: 12.2% (New)
🌹 LAB: 9.3% (-17.4)
🌍 GRN: 4.1% (-6.8)
🙋 IND: 3.6% (New)
✝️ CPA: 1.0% (New)

Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2022.

Well, I don’t imagine I made a lot of friends at Thames Water today!

But I was proud to use the chance to take them to task for their shocking record in Westminster Hall.

Customers, and our river, deserve so much better.

Organs & Organists starter pack updated…
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@felixhell.bsky.social
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If you’re an organist but not in the starter pack, feel free to let me know so I can add you. 😎

As I answered at Full Council, Sutton remains in the Top 5 Boroughs in London for recycling...

No second state visit for Trump This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...

Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

Read this twice. The world we know is shifting beneath our feet.

The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All The Washington Post reported that the United Kingdom is demanding that Apple create an encryption backdoor to give the government access to end-to-end encrypted data in iCloud. Encryption is one of th...

There is no technological compromise between strong encryption that protects the data and a mechanism to allow the government special access to this data. Any “backdoor” built for the government puts everyone at greater risk. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Music is far more important than some people realise… chng.it/d4RvTNBhds

Great canvass session this morning in my Council Ward with my two Cllr colleagues @cmwoolmer.bsky.social and Qasim Esak.

We all had a very warm reception and some casework on parking, school drop off congestion, and also concerns about school places and how GP waiting times.

Auschwitz survivors return as world remembers Nazi death camp 80 years on Fifty survivors - now in their late 80s and 90s - will attend a ceremony marking the camp's liberation.

Survivors return as world remembers Auschwitz 80 years after liberation www.bbc.com/news/article...

The individuals who change the course of humanity While Trump threatens to make the world worse, I take comfort in the artists and geniuses who make it richer

“Hitler, Stalin and potentially Trump leave behind them death and destruction. It is comforting to remember that there are others who illuminate our world for a while and leave it richer and finer.”
www.prospectmagazine...

Nigel Farage’s anti-WHO campaign has link to nicotine products industry Action on World Health co-founder’s firm provides services to organisation that advocates for nicotine pouches

Jo Maugham, the director of the Good Law Project, said campaign groups without transparency around their funding should be treated with scepticism about who was financing them. #FBPE
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Happy Christmas from the organ console! 🎄

Trump to discuss ending childhood vaccination programs with RFK Jr. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, about ending childhood vaccination programs.

Going against evidence will cost lives… www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The House of Commins is now on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/hous...

I talk about this endlessly in my book....how our current electoral system is NOT fit for purpose

@petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations

Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....

Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic' Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.

NBC: Mississippi Free Press "Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter,” Pittman said. “Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited.”

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1/ With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic.

Sharing some details about our impersonation policy 🧵

Study confirms face masks' effectiveness in reducing disease transmission, calls for improved public understanding Researchers reviewed the benefits, practicalities, and harms of masks and masking, finding that masks are effective in reducing respiratory disease transmission despite some adverse effects, and empha...

When the mask mandate was lifted from Mass General Brigham in May '23, hospital transmission of resp virus went up. When the mandate was re-instituted in Jan '24, infection rates went down. www.news-medical.net/news/2024052...

Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Net Zero Secretary Funded by Backers of Tufton Street Climate Science Denial Group The Conservative party leader and several leading members of her new Shadow Cabinet have ties to the opaquely-funded group campaigning against plans to reach Net Zero

Kemi Badenoch and Shadow Net Zero Secretary Funded by Backers of Tufton Street Climate Science Denial Group

The Conservative party leader and several members of her new Shadow Cabinet have ties to the opaquely-funded group campaigning against plans to reach Net Zero

bylinetimes.com/2024/11/05/k...

Consensus On Climate Change