Roy Pounsford 🔶
roypounsford.bsky.social
Roy Pounsford 🔶
@roypounsford.bsky.social
Fulham Town By-election Candidate for the Liberal Democrats. Very keen for us to rejoin the EU. Turn Thames Water into a Public Benefit Company. Reopen the Hammersmith bridge to vehicles. Winter fuel cut to put 50,000 pensioners into relative poverty.
New Epstein Messages Show Interesting Links:Jeffrey Epstein to Steven Bannon & them to Nigel Farage?
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New Epstein Messages Show Interesting Links
YouTube video by A Different Bias
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November 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Reform councils make a pig's ear of governing... is this what a Reform government would look like?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3mE...
reform councils make a pig's ear of governing... is this what a reform government woud look like?
YouTube video by Professor Tim Wilson
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November 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
🌟 The Lib Dem run of by-election wins in constituencies won by the party at the 2024 general election continues: www.markpack.org.uk/175886/lib-d...
Lib Dems hold another council seat in constituency gained in 2024
The Lib Dem run of by-election wins in constituencies won by the party at the 2024 general election continues.
www.markpack.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
➡️ Max Wilkinson Lib Dem MP: “Matt Goodwin’s racist rhetoric is a disgrace. It is both abhorrent and entirely predictable that Nigel Farage has chosen Goodwin to poison the minds of young people with his party’s vitriol" - www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK accused of embracing racism over its pick for head of student organisation
Matthew Goodwin argued people from minority ethnic backgrounds born and raised in UK were not always British
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
🍝 Daisy Cooper Lib Dem MP: “People are working with their nose to the grindstone all month and have next to nothing left over after sky-high bills and spiralling food prices" - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lib Dems call for 5% VAT cut for pubs and restaurants
The party also wants to axe the renewables levy from bills, funded by a windfall tax on big banks.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
📰 The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey
The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
🗳️ Ed Davey calls on Keir Starmer to remember his previous support for electoral reform - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ed Davey wants to 'work with government' on electoral reform
The Liberal Democrat leader backs replacing first-past-the-post with proportional representation.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🎙️ Some Sunday listening: "I like it when people underestimate me" - Ed Davey on Nick Robinson's podcast www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Political Thinking with Nick Robinson - 'I like it when people underestimate me': Lib Dem leader Ed Davey - BBC Sounds
Ed Davey warns Starmer against handing Reform UK 'the keys into 10 Downing Street'.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
🏫 Munira Wilson Lib Dems MP: “Without a costed plan and proper workforce strategy, these reforms will stretch teachers even further and fail our children" - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ed Sheeran praises reform to arts education in schools
Ministers are making changes to the curriculum in England after a review of what is taught in schools.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🎉🎉🎉 Yet another Lib Dem council by-election gain in Mel Stride’s seat, this time from the Greens: www.markpack.org.uk/175835/lib-d...
Yet another Lib Dem gain in Mel Stride's seat, this time from the Greens
For the third time in recent months, the Lib Dems gain a seat in a council by-election in Conservative MP Mel Stride's constituency.
www.markpack.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Public transport often treats bikes as a luxury—or worse a competitor—but without them leaves revenue on the table.

For 25 years, the Dutch have extended the reach of their railways through investments in (300,000) parking spaces and (25,000) shared bikes. The result? A doubling of train ridership.
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Lewis is absolutely right here
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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One additional point - the reason they use "the last five years" of Tory rule is that it includes the pandemic, during which violent crime fell by over a third. So, even that claim is nonsense. ~AA
All morning, Philp has toured studios spouting this guff. Look at his shock when @sophyridge.bsky.social challenges him.

"No, I'm not having this. Remind me, how long have the Conservatives been in power? I haven't got my history that wrong."

High hopes for the new Sky Ridge/Frost pairing. ~AA
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
💷 Daisy Cooper: "It’s right to look to see if there are ways to overhaul the system and make it fairer, but so far Labour’s aim with taxes has just been to try and grab more cash in the short-term, rather than properly reform them for the future" - www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Mansion tax wouldn’t fill Budget black hole, economists warn Reeves
Former IFS director Paul Johnson says a mansion tax ‘wouldn’t raise anywhere near enough to fill a significant hole’ in the public finances
www.independent.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
👏 Short but to the point from Lib Dem Steve Darling in Parliament this week - bsky.app/profile/mark...
Short but to the point from @stevedarlingmp.bsky.social in Parliament this week.
November 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
➡️ Monica Harding Lib Dem MP: “The civil war in Sudan is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world. Millions are on the brink of starvation and experiencing unimaginable suffering" - www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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www.telegraph.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🎉🎉🎉 Lib Dems gain seat off Reform in council by-election - and once again no Green surge in actual elections: www.markpack.org.uk/175826/broms...
Lib Dems gain seat off Reform in council by-election
Reform loses seat to Liberal Democrats in Bromsgrove South council by-election for Worcestershire Council.
www.markpack.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
October 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
📰 Max Wilkinson Lib Dems MP: “Nigel Farage keeps insisting that racism has no place in his party. Now is his chance to prove it" - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform MP Sarah Pochin's comments about adverts were 'racist', Wes Streeting says
Sarah Pochin apologises for saying
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
🪖 Liz Jarvis: "I'm calling on the government to look at these cases and maybe rethink whether it's fair that somebody who has served their country for over 20 years and has then decided to volunteer or work abroad, is then penalised for that" - www.itv.com/news/meridia...
www.itv.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
October 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
➡️ Max Wilkinson Lib Dems MP: “Kemi Badenoch has well and truly been hoist by her own petard" - www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Tories blasted for 'faux outrage' on China spy case as key decision emerges
The Conservatives have repeatedly criticised Labour over the collapse of the case against Christopher Berry and Christopher Cash - but a key decision was made on their watch
www.mirror.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM