St Peter’s Ward Cllr for Petersfield 🔸Liberal Democrat~For a Fair Deal 🕊️🔸

Please stop. Please. I’m begging.
Burnham is risking a repeat of the Winter Fuel Payment fiasco.
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Wait, WHAT?? You mean he LIED to the press and made up a fake story to cover the fact he couldn’t be bothered to go to the budget? Shooketh. Hope everyone’s ok, this is brand new information.
NEW: It has since emerged that Nigel Farage did not attend prayers in the Commons this morning so did not properly reserve his seat Read more from @hope_sapphire 👇
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This is what a valid prayer card looks like, @Nigel_Farage. Got one today. Attended prayers. Seat reserved. No altercation required. Happy to show you how it works sometime.
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And we both know that’s not true Nigel don’t we? I’m still waiting for the apology you were required to write to me… Though I won’t hold my breath
🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage says he didn't attend the Budget in Parliament to "avoid a physical altercation" "Given my prayer card [to reserve a seat] was removed, I was heading towards another physical altercation... being a quiet, shy and modest person, I decided against it"
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Fake news. I was 2nd in the MPs’ queue from 7.30am this morning (behind Des Swayne) for a prayer card to reserve a seat and there was no sign of Farage then. I didn’t see him come to prayers at 11.30am to come and claim a seat then either. You snooze, you lose.
Nigel Farage was unable to attend the Budget in the Commons because his seat reservation was removed, The Telegraph understands. The Reform UK leader’s prayer card — a green slip of paper that backbench MPs put on a spot on the green benches to reserve their seat — was moved after it was placed this morning. 🔗 telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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Farage's prayer card lacked a valid date stamp and was removed per House of Commons protocol. MPs confirm seats were available unreserved and he did not attend prayers to secure one. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/… x.com/hope_sapphire/
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🚨 Liberal Democrats have revealed that ministers have repeatedly failed to set a deadline for Roman Abramovich's legal team to transfer £2.6 billion in proceeds from the sale of Chelsea Football Club to Ukrainian humanitarian causes. @CalumMillerLD
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We have spotted an albino squirrel in our garden. Just how rare are they? Should we report it to anybody?
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Robert Jenrick is pathetic. It’s not that difficult to see, nor say, that these comments about Kemi are racist. What a coward.
‘Is calling Kemi Badenoch a “Nigerian scammer” racist, yes or no?’ ‘…I’m not on your show to talk about what a journalist has tweeted.’ Reform's Robert Jenrick refuses to engage with @Lewis_Goodall's question about Raheem Kassam's comments on the Tory leader.
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And here we see our problem Lidl want to create jobs, an average size Lidl employees 50 people. All form local area, normally younger people too. Lidl is also very affordable. So in time of a NEET youth crisis and cost of living issues, we have entitled middle aged NIMBYs celebrating rejecting planning. If you view this post as a good thing, you’re part of the problem. We need to build, grow our economy and support families.
Planning Application for a Lidl superstore on the London Road, Bath REFUSED
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Lib Dems if they locked in
❗️📊 Latest version of the Nowcast UK elections sandbox is now live. Set vote share, vote concentration, incumbent effects and correlation to various geographic & demographic attributes. In theory, there are no limits to the results you can generate 🔗 nowcast.uk/sandbox
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Striking how fast Reform went from free-press defenders to calling for the arrest of journalists who investigate it. Its move to the populist-authoritarian model is unlikely to do much for its poll rating.
STATEMENT: Reform UK has reported ITV, its board, and its undercover reporters to the police. Some of the crimes carry up to 10 years in prison. They forged a passport. They directly interfered in elections and almost certainly altered the results. Being paid to “canvass” for Reform in crucial wards we lost by a few dozen votes. They lied to a veteran about their service and left him “violated”. This is unprecedented. The police are now involved. Scrutiny of political parties is one thing. But anyone breaking the law to try and ruin the lives of Reform’s staff, members or volunteers will be reported to the police and pursued relentlessly in the courts. Here’s what happened 👇
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#Onthisday 1990. The Liberal Democrats won the Eastbourne by-election, overturning a 16,923-vote Conservative majority. The result likely accelerated the downfall of Margaret Thatcher, who just six days previously likened the Lib Dems to a “dead parrot” politics.co.uk/history/liber…
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The full report from ITV News at Ten Exposing the racist and sexist behaviour of Reform UK councillors and a candidate to be MP I don't want to type out the racist, sexist language. Click play, but be warned, it's uncensored. The full expose will be broadcast on October 18th at 10:20pm My view: The comments are awful and disgusting. But what’s almost as disturbing is how familiar they sound. This kind of racism and sexism is not confined to private chats or fringe political circles; people encounter it every day on social media. When it’s said in person and broadcast on television, the reaction is immediate: shock, condemnation and demands for answers. But when people face the same abuse online, the response is often far quieter. Non-white Labour MPs have repeatedly described the racist abuse directed at them on social media. Their experiences should prompt more than a statement of support after each new case. Successive Conservative governments, and now Labour, have had years to confront the way online platforms enable this behaviour. Legislation exists, but people are still left to deal with torrents of abuse while platforms profit from engagement and enforcement remains inadequate. Why should racism and sexism be treated as intolerable when a camera captures it in a room, yet accepted as part of everyday life when it appears on a screen? If these comments are shocking on television, they should be shocking wherever they are made. Keir Starmer wasted two years not making online a safer space, will Andy Burnham continue his legacy, or show some leadership and take action?
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Good to see @a_adeyemo absolutely wiping the floor with George Finch. Proud to see a local and dedicated Liberal Democrat councillor put this larping politician muppet in his place.
Watch Reform Council Leader George Finch being called out for whataboutery on Politics Midlands after reeling off a list of other parties' past indiscretions. He is then handed his arse on a plate by the Lib Dem panellist for claiming swift action was taken against those featured in the ITV undercover documentary. His facial expressions say it all.
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Watch Reform Council Leader George Finch being called out for whataboutery on Politics Midlands after reeling off a list of other parties' past indiscretions. He is then handed his arse on a plate by the Lib Dem panellist for claiming swift action was taken against those featured in the ITV undercover documentary. His facial expressions say it all.
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🚨 WATCH: Reform UK board member Gawain Towler admits he was "racist every single day" at school in undercover ITV footage
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🚨 WATCH: Undercover ITV footage appears to show Nigel Farage joking about allegations of racist and antisemitic behaviour when he was at Dulwich College
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"Zelensky is bombing oil factories to harm republicans in the midterms"
Zelensky is bombing oil factories to harm republicans in the midterms
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Ukraine has long struck Russian oil refineries to disrupt war funding and respond to Russian attacks on its energy grid, per Zelensky. He has offered to halt if Russia does the same. No evidence indicates a motive to affect US midterms. abcnews.com/Politics/presi… washingtonpost.com/investigations… euromaidanpress.com/2026/10/12/zel
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Another week, another Reform Party scandal. I spoke to LBC about how they're rotten from top to bottom.
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Unfortunately, there are no direct flights back to Eastbourne District General Hospital. I am campaigning for a local hospital shuttle bus though - fancy signing my petition?
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