[slilley]

As is often the case in election campaigns as the Liber Democrats get more air time than usual their poll rating rises. This we are starting to see here. They are being very careful this time to really target their campaign at specific seats, and I would not be suprised if they picked up perhaps three maybe four times the number of seats they had in the last Parliament.

Davey's campaign is a canny one as it is attracting attention enabling him to then get onto the issues he wants to.

[Bones McCoy]

You can't build here!!

[Abernathy]

You know what? I'd be inclined to vote for this bugger if he wasn't Ed Davey.

[Philip Marlow]

As the yanks are wont to say, Christ what an asshole.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He's pretty shameless. Build up his profile by overegging the Salmond affair.

[slilley]

As is often the case in election campaigns as the Liber Democrats get more air time than usual their poll rating rises. This we are starting to see here. They are being very careful this time to really target their campaign at specific seats, and I would not be suprised if they picked up perhaps three maybe four times the number of seats they had in the last Parliament.

Davey's campaign is a canny one as it is attracting attention enabling him to then get onto the issues he wants to.

Clearly I underestimated their ability to win seats.

[Bones McCoy]

Monster rents are pretty normal for the Edinburgh Fringe.

But I'm told they're a steal compared to the cost of a camp bed in a shed anywhere close to Wimbledon.

[Arrowhead]

A good little mini-thread on how the Lib Dems could scupper Tory hopes at the next GE:

[Youngian]

LDs have far more troops to deploy but we’ll have to see what calibre they are. The LD who replaced Lucy Frazer is a right drip by all accounts.

[Bones McCoy]

LDs have far more troops to deploy but we’ll have to see what calibre they are. The LD who replaced Lucy Frazer is a right drip by all accounts.

You only need a few good talkers.
The rest can sit and / or troop through the voting gates.

[Youngian]

Punching above your weight and getting the fuck of the century can fry a man's brains when dumped but move on FFS

[The Weeping Angel]

Why do so many former Lib Dem MPs turn out to be such oddballs.

[Abernathy]

They don’t turn out to be oddballs, they are oddballs.

[Youngian]

Meta global affairs chief Nick Clegg to be replaced by Republican Joel Kaplan https://bsky.app/profile/financialtimes ... rsqh42si2s

Which reactionary arseholes will Clegg be providing cover for next?
But having made over £100m from Meta, he could be Lord Clegg soon with his own foundation.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cost of borrowing rises, let's cancel tax rises. I think they won't the IHT changes and VAT on private schools cancelled too.

What's their favoured "we'd just do this" tax these days? Share buy backs?

Lib Dems say chancellor should stay and make emergency fiscal statement and also cancel planned national insurance hike

[The Weeping Angel]

Yeah they've been banging on about it especially that sanctimonious bible basher farron. Surprised to see them go out to bat for private schools

[Oboogie]

Surprised to see them go out to bat for private schools

They know they need to keep the former Tory voters they gained in July.

[Killer Whale]

It's the 'Liberal' bit of Liberal Democrats, I'd guess. It's up to them to decide whether giving tax breaks to private schools unfairly impinges on the liberal freedoms of people who don't or can't use them.
I'd also factor in something I've noticed amongst my (albeit small sample) experience of local Lib Dems: Their usage of minor public schools like Christ's in Brecon or Llandovery College is greater than one might consider random.

[The Weeping Angel]

Cost of borrowing rises, let's cancel tax rises. I think they won't the IHT changes and VAT on private schools cancelled too.

What's their favoured "we'd just do this" tax these days? Share buy backs?

Lib Dems say chancellor should stay and make emergency fiscal statement and also cancel planned national insurance hike

Davey wants Reeves to cancel the jobs tax and not go to China.

[Youngian]

Haven't seen much talent emerging from the new parliamentary intake but LD's Mike Martin is a serious MP for serious times to watch.
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