"Labour has recorded its lowest poll rating since before the 2019 general election. A little under a third of British adults would back #ReformUK if there was a national poll tomorrow. #Labour has dropped a point to 21%, only just ahead of the #Tories, who have jumped three points from last week to 19%. Support for the #LibDems has fallen slightly to 15% while the #Greens are on 11% and the #SNP remain backed by 2% of UK adults."

#UKPol

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/labour-poll-share-slumps-to-lowest-since-2019/template

Lib Dems doing Labour's job again.
Let's face it, the Greens, Celts and Lib Dems are doing what we expect of Labour, while Labour go Tory and lose all their votes.

#PrepaymentMeters #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Poverty #LibDems #Labour

@petergleick

#NickClegg never really did understand the nature of consent. But he did understand how to copy things and put out an offbrand crappier version.

#LibDems #ConDems #UKPolitics

John Harris is one of the few remaining true journalists. He talks to people, he listens, he reports. He also has an autistic son. He also is an empathetic person.

Here he writes about the complete failure of the UK system to manage the incredible work done by "carers", people who support family members who are disabled or need constant help for one reason or another. Not an easy read.

He also speaks about Ed Davey, the leader of the UK's (left of centre) Lib Dem party. Davfy had multiple personal involvements with Carer roles in his life. Very moving. I completely recalibrated my views about this politician. He's someone real and authentic.

#carers #disability #EdDavey #LibDems #UKpol #JohnHarris

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/25/family-carers-hidden-face-care-crisis-ed-davey

Clegg claims that clearly regulating the theft of intellectal property would 'kill the industry'. You can tell he has taken googler-juice as part of his indoctrination as well and vast sumes of moneyin the process. Uselss lyibng bar steward,

Oh I believe he is coming back to help the Lib Dums. Good luck with that.

#Theft #Art #Books #Music #AI #Clegg #LibDems #DummerThanFuck

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/nick-clegg-work-train-ai-l6xl5djb7

Ella Baron @EBaronCartoons on #EdDavey #NickClegg #LibDems @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

"A new #Labour MP in a northern English seat said she feared from her experience knocking on doors in the local elections that the party was losing more voters to the #Greens and #LibDems than to #Reform."

#UKPol

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/19/starmer-tells-mps-he-will-fight-farage-as-labour-at-anxious-private-meeting

"Previously, we have seen one or other of the #LibDems or #Reform (and their predecessor parties) perform well at a set of local elections. We got a taste in 2024 of what might happen should both perform well at once at a general election, though largely at the expense of an extremely unpopular incumbent party. This week we got a further indication of how this might look when both the ‘main’ parties are seen by the electorate as failed governments."

#UKPol

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/multi-party-politics-here-to-stay-local-elections

"More than half of people who voted Labour in July say they are considering switching to the Liberal Democrats or the Greens at the next general election."

#UKPol #Labour #LibDems #GreenParty

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/half-of-labours-voters-consider-switching-lib-dem-greens

Shame Labour is terrified/enamoured of racists that they can't trumpet these benefits to the country, so it's to the Lib Dems and Greens to pick up all those votes.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/17/lib-dems-claim-deeper-trade-deal-with-eu-would-raise-25bn-of-tax-revenue

#Brexit #LibDems #GreenParty #GPEW #UKPOL #Labour #UKPOLITICS #EU #Austerity

When are service reductions not 'cuts' and when is a government bail out 'not a loan'?

Councillor Ade Adeyemo challenges the Conservatives on likely cuts to council services and the £48.273M government EFS bail out, without which #SolihullCouncil could not balance its books.

Solihull was one of 18 councils who applied for emergency government bailout agreements and were given Exceptional Financial Support (EFS) in February to stave off bankruptcy and help meet their legal duty to balance their books in the next two financial years (2025/26 and 2026/27).

Exceptional Financial Support (EFS) enables councils to take out loans to pay for day-to-day services. The government has said councils will not be able to dispose of community and heritage assets to repay the loans.

Liberal Democrats are concerned that EFS could load the struggling council with further debt and costs in the future and undermine future capital programmes.

https://youtu.be/RoC-r-fA5oE

#Solihull #LibDems #EFS #Cuts

Lib Dems doing the things Labour should be doing but won't.

#Labour #LibDems #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #DailyTelegraph #BritishPress

“Make it easier to recruit British workers” = code for what, exactly?
Lower standards? Subsidised wages? Deport migrants to manufacture shortages?
This is reheated Tory-speak. Lib Dems, we expected better.
#Immigration #Lib #Dems #ImmigrationPolicy #LibDems #ImmigrationDebate
https://www.libdems.org.uk/press/release/immigration-clear-plan-needed-to-make-it-easier-to-recruit-british-workers-for-vacancies-instead

@Lazarou @roastinghouse Lib Dems and Green really need to start shouting about what a #Reform government would really look like. For one, say goodbye to the NHS. Probably ditch the minimum wage because it's too "woke". Food standards going down.

I don't get why Labour is racing to the bottom by pandering to the Reform racists. Sure, let's be more like Trumpian USA and see how far it gets us. Well, Starmer will be okay, he's rich.

Some voters are just racist and nothing will change their minds. Some are just ignorant, and will believe whatever crap Farridge, Rogan and... well I was going to say Badenoch, but maybe not her... But they'll believe whatever the populists tell them, because it's an easy answer. Like my Johnson-fanboy former colleague, who is otherwise intelligent, but falls for this crap. It's all the immigrants' and asylum seekers' fault I can't get a council flat, apparently. No, it's the fault of successive governments selling council stock and allowing oligarchs and wealthy foreign investors to buy up properties and leave them unoccupied, because they don't see housing as a human need, but a commodity to be traded. This is the message the #LibDems and #Greens need to get out. People need to see who the real enemy is. And it starts with wealthy grifters like Farridge.

#farrightgrifters

Greens, Lib Dems and the Celts should go in hard about what is actually happening in America right now and how the three Tory Parties want to drag us into that horror for their own profit.

Call it an 'Anti-Quisling Alliance' or something....

#UKPOL #UKPolitics #Labour #Tories #LibDems #GPEW #PlaidCymru #SNP #Greens #Politics #Quislings

#LibDems launch ‘#Reform watch’ to monitor party in local government

The Liberal Democrats have set up an internal “Reform watch” system to monitor Nigel Farage’s party in local government, with Ed Davey saying Labour and the Conservatives are too scared of the threat from Reform to hold it to account.

The Lib Dem leader defended his party’s performance in last week’s local elections, saying council contests where they unexpectedly ended up behind Reform mainly happened because of a collapse in votes for other parties.

As well as gaining more than 160 councillors and taking control of three new councils, the Lib Dems are the biggest party in three others, and in four areas came second to Reform – which will be the core of the monitoring project, intended to scrutinise Reform’s mayors as well as councils.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/11/lib-dems-reform-uk-watch-monitor-party-local-government

Finally a mainstream party holding the #fascists to account rather than pandering to them. I wish the Lib Dems would take over as the party representing the centre and left. Labour have brought in some good legislation, like increased workers' rights and holding water company execs to account for illegally dumping sewage, but the way Starmer keeps pandering to the racists is just stupid. They should be showing that it's not whatever scapegoat minority of the day that's responsible for them struggling to make ends meet, but the rich, like their saviour Frogface Farridge.

#RightWingLies #RightWingHypocrisy #nigelfarage #ReformUK #fascistwatch #UKPolitics #UKNews

@roastinghouse the way that Labour doesn't care about the majority of the votes they lose to the Greens and Lib Dems but obsess over the ones they lose to ReformUK tells me that decent people no longer have a home in that party.

Are Labour Party Members telling me they have some sway in how the Party operates, because I'm not seeing it!

#IslandOfStrangers #KeirStarmer #Starmer #Labour #Farage #NigelFarage #ReformUK #GPEW #LibDems #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS

@ChrisMayLA6 @BackFromTheDud @HarriettMB @NorthantsGreens All except for the Reform UK-inclined & Brexit-supporting voters in the "Red Wall" constituencies, that is. We progressive voters can get lost, apparently - or they don't care if we vote for the #greens or the #libdems.