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What are you like @eddavey.libdems.org.uk thinking people are going to get all teary eyed about this? Churchill only appeared on the LOWEST denomination £5 note in 2016 - Alan Turing is on the fifty so must be more important, yeah?

Wildlife was chosen by the people you plonker

Daily Mail Headline: Pupils' drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, Labour councils tell schools - while music and dance classes may go against the teachings of Islam

Oh boy! What a headline...

Ask yourself:

"What am I being asked to believe?"

"Who am I being told to blame?"

Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.

Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵

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Breaking: Government just confirmed will apply new laws tackling tax avoidance schemes to tax ‘finfluencers’ - protecting millions who have lost money or been fined following their advice.

Expect a knock from the taxman if you have been ripping people off with your financial clickbait. #trueLabour

As Tories attack Starmer for the state of the military let’s have a look at David Cameron’s 2010 Strategic Defence Review. The Tories wanted a 10-20% cut in the defence budget and it ended up with a 8% reduction.

Just a thought but when Starmer said that Badenoch would have gone to war only to come back a week later and say 'sorry, I got that one wrong' I'm sure that he would know that she would never apologise or admit that she was wrong. She would double down and kill more people.

I had to look it up, it starts with public suggestions, then goes to a 'banknote imagery advisory group', and the final decision made by the governor of the bank of England

Nothing to do with anyone in the government 🤷

... Conservative government, which pursued a far more radical free-market agenda

... Corbyn period, aiming instead for a “mission-driven” government focused on growth and renewal—a centrist, reformist approach, not a right-wing one.

In short, while Labour today is more fiscally cautious than its past left-leaning incarnations, it is NOT more right-wing than the 2010 ...

... GDP growth or unemployment. However, Conservative governments historically performed better on inflation control, though recent performance has been poor.
The current Labour leadership explicitly distances itself from both the market-driven New Labour era and the more redistributive ...

...While Labour has not embraced radical redistribution or nationalisation, its policies are not as ideologically right-wing as the 2010 Conservative era.
Research shows that Labour and Conservative governments have converged on economic outcomes over the past 50 years, with little difference in...

...reforms and a deliberate shift away from state intervention.
In contrast, current Labour under Keir Starmer has adopted a fiscally responsible, pragmatic stance, focusing on economic stability, public investment, and managing public finances carefully—notably avoiding major new borrowing. ...

...in overall economic philosophy.

The 2010 Conservative government (Cameron) pursued a sharp right-wing economic agenda: deep austerity, significant public spending cuts, large-scale privatisation, and a focus on reducing the national debt. This was a period of strong market-oriented...

Is Starmer's Labour government more right wing economically than the conservative government of 2010? (If you know you know)

Labour's current economic approach under Keir Starmer, is more centrist and fiscally cautious compared to the 2010 Conservative government, but it is not more right-wing...

Agree, looking at wiki polling average graphs it's very clear Reform have had a significant fall in recent months, Greens a significant rise
Labour and the tories a very slight rise
Libdems a slight fall

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion...

The Iran oil crisis has proved Ed Miliband right on green energy. But households still need more help | Mathew Lawrence Britain’s whole energy economy needs to be reformed – decarbonising the grid is only part of the mix, says director of Common Wealth, Mathew Lawrence

"Given the scale of investment, even a percentage point difference in interest rates can make a big difference to end prices. When that investment is privately financed, households pay a premium that wouldn’t exist with direct public investment"

WE MUST PAY

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why the UK rejected zonal electricity pricing YouTube video by Simon Clark

First time I've understood why the govt decided NOT to go with zonal pricing. Perhaps in the future though

youtube.com/shorts/HyuU1...

Wind 56% UK power currently

Gas only 20%

Wind power to double in the UK over the coming years.

This will push gas down to under 5% Grid within 5 years

Sorry, what?😱🤬😱🤬😱🤬😱🤬😱🤬

TY

Bloody libdems what a disappointment

Rice gene discovery could cut fertiliser use while protecting yields Researchers from the University of Oxford, Nanjing Agricultural University, and Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (Chinese Academy of Sciences) have finally identified the master

Yield gains up to 24% were seen in field trials of rice plants with an improved version of a newly identified regulator. The discovery could help boost crop yields while reducing dependence on synthetic fertilisers: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-02... #Rice #Yields #PlantBreeding #Nitrogen #NUE #Fertilizer

Thanks 👍

Similar feeling to tories going to reform, or any other party defection for that matter, fair enough, but they really should stand for re-election

I was just thinking the petrol seems expensive and we're overcharged compared with other areas

Modernising Justice: Criminal Courts Reform | Ministry of Justice How the Government will tackle the backlog through investment, efficiency and reform.

IFG has confirmed that "The government’s approach to modelling of the impact of the [courts] reforms is sound." I had a lot of questions about the proposed reforms but I've been convinced that not only is it necessary, it's also proportionate. @sarahsackman.bsky.social
modernising.justice.gov.uk

"Years ago, before it was fashionable, some of the youngsters in the family were calling Andrew ‘the Nonce’"

'Mummy's favourite'

Surely the register would show the number of guests who had booked an individual room and their names, gender?? And you wouldn't give them access unless you could confirm they were one of those guests? Surely??

The perp is a monster, but he should have got nowhere near his victim

But the epstain files are out of the news 👌

Out of interest, what do you think that the government should do now, what military equipment/investment would you like to see announced?

There's always work going on in the background, but I sense people want some 'sexy' equipment announcement and I wonder how feasible it would be