jedmarson.bsky.social
@jedmarson.bsky.social
@GreenLibDems VC Campaigns; Former🔶LibDems Parliamentary Candidate for Tamworth 🔶For a Fair Deal🔶 Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 1 Vincent Square SW1P 2PN
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Writing up notes from a public engagement event I worked on, and it is *interesting* how few people were confident about:
(a) what a public service is
(b) who it is for
(c) how it is paid for
Some thought a supermarket or an airline might be a public service because they are publicly available
(a) what a public service is
(b) who it is for
(c) how it is paid for
Some thought a supermarket or an airline might be a public service because they are publicly available
Soon to be ex-Tory voter unsure who to vote for on 1st of May?
Here's why I harp on about education.
Civic studies should join critical thinking our kids now start at 8.
Reform tax cuts = no public services
@libdems.org.uk For a Fair Deal and efficient working public services.
Here's why I harp on about education.
Civic studies should join critical thinking our kids now start at 8.
Reform tax cuts = no public services
@libdems.org.uk For a Fair Deal and efficient working public services.
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“It feels like Brexit déjà vu, the same hollow promises of taking back control, the same disregard for facts, the same blindness to consequence.”
Paul Kohler speaks out as Reform and the Conservatives push to scrap the ECHR.
@paulkohlersw19.bsky.social
Paul Kohler speaks out as Reform and the Conservatives push to scrap the ECHR.
@paulkohlersw19.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“It feels like Brexit déjà vu, the same hollow promises of taking back control, the same disregard for facts, the same blindness to consequence.”
Paul Kohler speaks out as Reform and the Conservatives push to scrap the ECHR.
@paulkohlersw19.bsky.social
Paul Kohler speaks out as Reform and the Conservatives push to scrap the ECHR.
@paulkohlersw19.bsky.social
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Looks like LAB and CON voters tactically voting to oust RFM.
Good on them 👏👏
Good on them 👏👏
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Looks like LAB and CON voters tactically voting to oust RFM.
Good on them 👏👏
Good on them 👏👏
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Bromsgrove South (Worcestershire) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
October 31, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Bromsgrove South (Worcestershire) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
🔶 LDM: 51.9% (+20.3)
➡️ RFM: 33.4% (-1.5)
🌳 CON: 11.3% (-5.8)
🌹 LAB: 3.4% (-4.1)
No GRN (-5.5) or Ind (-3.4) as previous.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform.
Changes w/ 2025.
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Her eyes.
I love many of his paintings,
but this one
has become my favorite.
🇺🇦 Viktor Zaretskyi
Portrait of Iryna Zaslavska,
1970s
I love many of his paintings,
but this one
has become my favorite.
🇺🇦 Viktor Zaretskyi
Portrait of Iryna Zaslavska,
1970s
October 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Her eyes.
I love many of his paintings,
but this one
has become my favorite.
🇺🇦 Viktor Zaretskyi
Portrait of Iryna Zaslavska,
1970s
I love many of his paintings,
but this one
has become my favorite.
🇺🇦 Viktor Zaretskyi
Portrait of Iryna Zaslavska,
1970s
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Hey, they responded a mere 72 hours later!
*that was after a focus group or two & seeing if there were any way of triangulating with the tories 🤪
*that was after a focus group or two & seeing if there were any way of triangulating with the tories 🤪
October 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hey, they responded a mere 72 hours later!
*that was after a focus group or two & seeing if there were any way of triangulating with the tories 🤪
*that was after a focus group or two & seeing if there were any way of triangulating with the tories 🤪
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The Silence from Labour on this is so telling I cant think of an easier win than to call this out as its a double hit on both Tory ineptitude and Reform otherism - I just dont get it mate.
October 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The Silence from Labour on this is so telling I cant think of an easier win than to call this out as its a double hit on both Tory ineptitude and Reform otherism - I just dont get it mate.
Interesting
@thetimes.com @washingtonpost.com @financialtimes.com @nytimes.com @theipaper.com
I'll settle for ads.
@thetimes.com @washingtonpost.com @financialtimes.com @nytimes.com @theipaper.com
I'll settle for ads.
October 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Interesting
@thetimes.com @washingtonpost.com @financialtimes.com @nytimes.com @theipaper.com
I'll settle for ads.
@thetimes.com @washingtonpost.com @financialtimes.com @nytimes.com @theipaper.com
I'll settle for ads.
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Remember that the long-term objective of the Libdems is to Rejoin the EU 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 and this was explicit in the 2024 Libdem Manifesto.
Without exception, every member of the Libdems I hear from or speak to, at every level of the party, holds the objective of #RejoinEU very dear.
🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 #Libdems 🔶️🔶️🔶️
Without exception, every member of the Libdems I hear from or speak to, at every level of the party, holds the objective of #RejoinEU very dear.
🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺 #Libdems 🔶️🔶️🔶️
October 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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To read more: www.reuters.com/world/russia...
Russia's Kirishi refinery halts largest unit after drone attack, sources say
The Kirishi oil refinery, one of Russia's largest, has halted a crude distillation unit, CDU-6, its most productive unit, following a drone attack and subsequent fire on October 4, with its recovery expected to take about a month, two industry sources said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
To read more: www.reuters.com/world/russia...
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We have entered the “Papers, please” era, except ICE is not asking politely. Agents are pulling people out of their beds, zip-tying them and leaving them to prove their immigration status. All this while ICE has access to technology that tracks our social media posts and our location at all times.
The Most Dangerous Thing Happening Right This Minute
We have entered the "Papers. Please" era
open.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
We have entered the “Papers, please” era, except ICE is not asking politely. Agents are pulling people out of their beds, zip-tying them and leaving them to prove their immigration status. All this while ICE has access to technology that tracks our social media posts and our location at all times.
Here's Farage admired Putin showing true colours.
The joke's on us. Brexit isolated UK. We struggle to fund arms we give Ukraine, they'll join EU the second Putin is kicked out.
Wouldn't you want to visit Ukraine to mourn as a member state, as we did 27 other countries before 2016 instead?
The joke's on us. Brexit isolated UK. We struggle to fund arms we give Ukraine, they'll join EU the second Putin is kicked out.
Wouldn't you want to visit Ukraine to mourn as a member state, as we did 27 other countries before 2016 instead?
It was cold and wet.
I walked quickly to get to the hotel
and saw them.
Wherever I go in Ukraine, I meet them.
Tributes to fallen heroes.
Vinnytsia has its own, too.
I walked quickly to get to the hotel
and saw them.
Wherever I go in Ukraine, I meet them.
Tributes to fallen heroes.
Vinnytsia has its own, too.
October 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Here's Farage admired Putin showing true colours.
The joke's on us. Brexit isolated UK. We struggle to fund arms we give Ukraine, they'll join EU the second Putin is kicked out.
Wouldn't you want to visit Ukraine to mourn as a member state, as we did 27 other countries before 2016 instead?
The joke's on us. Brexit isolated UK. We struggle to fund arms we give Ukraine, they'll join EU the second Putin is kicked out.
Wouldn't you want to visit Ukraine to mourn as a member state, as we did 27 other countries before 2016 instead?
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"If we Europeans do not wake up and say, ‘We want to take back control of our democracies,’ I can tell you this: within 10 years [...] we will be a continent, like many others, of conspiracy theorists, extremists, noise and fury."
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.
defenddemocracy.eu
October 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
"If we Europeans do not wake up and say, ‘We want to take back control of our democracies,’ I can tell you this: within 10 years [...] we will be a continent, like many others, of conspiracy theorists, extremists, noise and fury."
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
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Who’d have guessed? Nigel’s ‘honest, decent, honourable man’ has admitted taking Russian-linked bribes💰
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Who’d have guessed? Nigel’s ‘honest, decent, honourable man’ has admitted taking Russian-linked bribes💰
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The BBC must balance their political news so it doesn’t boost Nigel Farage’s dangerous, divisive politics.
September 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The BBC must balance their political news so it doesn’t boost Nigel Farage’s dangerous, divisive politics.
Then this
Calm is over.
I am in the metro station,
waiting for the all-clear
to cross the bridge and get home.
Meanwhile, in Donetsk Oblast,
an air bomb struck people
waiting in a queue for pension.
24 killed.
19 injured.
💔
I am in the metro station,
waiting for the all-clear
to cross the bridge and get home.
Meanwhile, in Donetsk Oblast,
an air bomb struck people
waiting in a queue for pension.
24 killed.
19 injured.
💔
September 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Then this
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Kyiv today.
Gorgeous in the rain.
I want the world to see it
not only through the lens of war.
Gorgeous in the rain.
I want the world to see it
not only through the lens of war.
September 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Kyiv today.
Gorgeous in the rain.
I want the world to see it
not only through the lens of war.
Gorgeous in the rain.
I want the world to see it
not only through the lens of war.
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ACTION - not just talk from GLD in Bournemouth - JOIN GLD before conference and get involved www.greenlibdems.org.uk to join - do it NOW ... @jonworcesterman.bsky.social @jedmarson.bsky.social @grahamjneale.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
ACTION - not just talk from GLD in Bournemouth - JOIN GLD before conference and get involved www.greenlibdems.org.uk to join - do it NOW ... @jonworcesterman.bsky.social @jedmarson.bsky.social @grahamjneale.bsky.social
No baby should die from whooping cough. Not one. We eradicated these childhood diseases with vaccinations for herd immunity, not dead children.
Don't but repackaged American doubting-science crap, please don't.
Get your kids vaccinated,it's the sensible British thing to do.
@libdems.org.uk
Don't but repackaged American doubting-science crap, please don't.
Get your kids vaccinated,it's the sensible British thing to do.
@libdems.org.uk
An unnecessary and preventable death. This is not the future we want for our children.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
British baby dies from whooping cough as vaccination rates fall
Infant’s mother had not been vaccinated against the highly infectious disease, which affects the lungs and airways
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
No baby should die from whooping cough. Not one. We eradicated these childhood diseases with vaccinations for herd immunity, not dead children.
Don't but repackaged American doubting-science crap, please don't.
Get your kids vaccinated,it's the sensible British thing to do.
@libdems.org.uk
Don't but repackaged American doubting-science crap, please don't.
Get your kids vaccinated,it's the sensible British thing to do.
@libdems.org.uk
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Lib Dem Foreign Affairs Spokesperson @calummillerld.bsky.social has written to the Foreign Secretary to call for the Government to pressure Qatar to take action to force Hamas to release the hostages they still hold.
September 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Lib Dem Foreign Affairs Spokesperson @calummillerld.bsky.social has written to the Foreign Secretary to call for the Government to pressure Qatar to take action to force Hamas to release the hostages they still hold.
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I have written to Nigel Farage in response to his visit to my constituency of Bicester and Woodstock today.
August 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I have written to Nigel Farage in response to his visit to my constituency of Bicester and Woodstock today.
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Ahead of Zelensky’s trilateral with Putin, the UK and European leaders need to step up.
For Starmer that means making a commitment to providing British typhoons to the Ukrainian air force, seizing the frozen Russian assets and showing Putin that we will continue to back Ukraine.
For Starmer that means making a commitment to providing British typhoons to the Ukrainian air force, seizing the frozen Russian assets and showing Putin that we will continue to back Ukraine.
August 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Ahead of Zelensky’s trilateral with Putin, the UK and European leaders need to step up.
For Starmer that means making a commitment to providing British typhoons to the Ukrainian air force, seizing the frozen Russian assets and showing Putin that we will continue to back Ukraine.
For Starmer that means making a commitment to providing British typhoons to the Ukrainian air force, seizing the frozen Russian assets and showing Putin that we will continue to back Ukraine.
The extent of the 'look over there' here, beggars belief, to distract from divergence difficulties many people in MAGA are abusing power to engage in, to hide from their own difficulties in relationships of every type. Our way of life is easier when we get along. By marriage 4 help is needed.
The woman petitioning SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality in the name of the sanctity of marriage is on her fourth husband.
August 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The extent of the 'look over there' here, beggars belief, to distract from divergence difficulties many people in MAGA are abusing power to engage in, to hide from their own difficulties in relationships of every type. Our way of life is easier when we get along. By marriage 4 help is needed.
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Stifling heat is deadly - especially for elderly and vulnerable people.
The Government must upgrade our health settings.
The Government must upgrade our health settings.
August 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Stifling heat is deadly - especially for elderly and vulnerable people.
The Government must upgrade our health settings.
The Government must upgrade our health settings.
What are we going to do about this? 👇
@LibDems
@LibDems
The Great Free Zone Swindle: How Parliament Was Bypassed and the Public Kept in the Dark
Parliament didn’t debate it, the media didn’t cover it. The public has no idea what’s being done to their councils, their services, and their futures
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Parliament didn’t debate it, the media didn’t cover it. The public has no idea what’s being done to their councils, their services, and their futures
open.substack.com/pub/european...
August 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
What are we going to do about this? 👇
@LibDems
@LibDems