🔶 Bridget Kendrick
@bkendrick.bsky.social
LibDem councillor for Leatherhead South, Leader of Mole Valley District Councillor and marketeer by profession. Fulham FC fan.
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Promises made, promises wrecked.
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Promises made, promises wrecked.
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Excl: The driver of the train who made the emergency stop in Huntingdon, Andrew Johnson, told ITV News tonight that he was “just doing my job”.
But he surely saved lives.
He says the member of LNER staff still in hospital with life-threatening injuries “was the brave one”.
But he surely saved lives.
He says the member of LNER staff still in hospital with life-threatening injuries “was the brave one”.
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Excl: The driver of the train who made the emergency stop in Huntingdon, Andrew Johnson, told ITV News tonight that he was “just doing my job”.
But he surely saved lives.
He says the member of LNER staff still in hospital with life-threatening injuries “was the brave one”.
But he surely saved lives.
He says the member of LNER staff still in hospital with life-threatening injuries “was the brave one”.
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Eating disorder cases are skyrocketing.
Despite being among the most serious and life-threatening mental illnesses - treatment for eating disorders remains underfunded, misunderstood, and neglected.
Today, I'm leading a debate in Parliament to highlight the scale of this devastating crisis 👇
Despite being among the most serious and life-threatening mental illnesses - treatment for eating disorders remains underfunded, misunderstood, and neglected.
Today, I'm leading a debate in Parliament to highlight the scale of this devastating crisis 👇
Wera Hobhouse: ‘We are failing eating disorder patients’ - Politics.co.uk
Eating disorders are among the most serious and life-threatening mental illnesses, yet their treatment remains underfunded, misunderstood, and neglected by our healthcare system. Throughout my six ye...
www.politics.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Eating disorder cases are skyrocketing.
Despite being among the most serious and life-threatening mental illnesses - treatment for eating disorders remains underfunded, misunderstood, and neglected.
Today, I'm leading a debate in Parliament to highlight the scale of this devastating crisis 👇
Despite being among the most serious and life-threatening mental illnesses - treatment for eating disorders remains underfunded, misunderstood, and neglected.
Today, I'm leading a debate in Parliament to highlight the scale of this devastating crisis 👇
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Yesterday, I visited Appeer in #Woking, who support autistic girls and young women and their parents. I helped them get funding from Surrey County Council to start-up 5 years ago, and delighted they have recently secured funding from the National Lottery.
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Yesterday, I visited Appeer in #Woking, who support autistic girls and young women and their parents. I helped them get funding from Surrey County Council to start-up 5 years ago, and delighted they have recently secured funding from the National Lottery.
Highlight of Spring Conference,Jennie no
March 23, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Highlight of Spring Conference,Jennie no
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For anyone who missed this very important news, Jennie the guide dog crossed the floor of the House of Commons yesterday to be stroked by Labour MPs
She was then summoned by the Lib Dem Chief Whip for a very stern word
She was then summoned by the Lib Dem Chief Whip for a very stern word
March 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
For anyone who missed this very important news, Jennie the guide dog crossed the floor of the House of Commons yesterday to be stroked by Labour MPs
She was then summoned by the Lib Dem Chief Whip for a very stern word
She was then summoned by the Lib Dem Chief Whip for a very stern word
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I came down to West Hill in Epsom where Thames Water engineers continue to tackle the burst mains water pipe.
A number of houses have been affected, with St Joseph's having to close.
If you live in the KT18 & KT19 area, please follow Thames Water's red incident banner for updates: buff.ly/tcwjQhC
A number of houses have been affected, with St Joseph's having to close.
If you live in the KT18 & KT19 area, please follow Thames Water's red incident banner for updates: buff.ly/tcwjQhC
March 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I came down to West Hill in Epsom where Thames Water engineers continue to tackle the burst mains water pipe.
A number of houses have been affected, with St Joseph's having to close.
If you live in the KT18 & KT19 area, please follow Thames Water's red incident banner for updates: buff.ly/tcwjQhC
A number of houses have been affected, with St Joseph's having to close.
If you live in the KT18 & KT19 area, please follow Thames Water's red incident banner for updates: buff.ly/tcwjQhC
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My team will put out the video of my PMQs soon - but I am extremely alarmed the PM dodged my question about cutting disabled people’s benefits. Very worrying.
March 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
My team will put out the video of my PMQs soon - but I am extremely alarmed the PM dodged my question about cutting disabled people’s benefits. Very worrying.
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Planning process for new homes expected to be speeded up with resuced role for planning committees
An end to local planning committees as we know them ? As councillors will simply input to the plan-led process in advance to decide sites and policies - the Times reports ahead of publication of the…
An end to local planning committees as we know them ? As councillors will simply input to the plan-led process in advance to decide sites and policies - the Times reports ahead of publication of the…
Planning process for new homes expected to be speeded up with resuced role for planning committees
An end to local planning committees as we know them ? As councillors will simply input to the plan-led process in advance to decide sites and policies - the Times reports ahead of publication of the Government’s Infrastructure Bill next week - article to be updated during the week “Councillors will be stripped of powers to block all but the biggest and most contentious building schemes under plans to turbocharge development.
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March 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Planning process for new homes expected to be speeded up with resuced role for planning committees
An end to local planning committees as we know them ? As councillors will simply input to the plan-led process in advance to decide sites and policies - the Times reports ahead of publication of the…
An end to local planning committees as we know them ? As councillors will simply input to the plan-led process in advance to decide sites and policies - the Times reports ahead of publication of the…
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🔥LIBDEMS WILL WIN HERE
Today we launched @olihenman.bsky.social ‘s
campaign to be the next Mayor of West of England to an exceptional turnout!
The message was clear,
🏡for more housing with greenery
🚎for better transport
💼and job opportunities
WECA needs a LibDem mayor!
(🧶👇🏻)
#Oli4WECA
Today we launched @olihenman.bsky.social ‘s
campaign to be the next Mayor of West of England to an exceptional turnout!
The message was clear,
🏡for more housing with greenery
🚎for better transport
💼and job opportunities
WECA needs a LibDem mayor!
(🧶👇🏻)
#Oli4WECA
March 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🔥LIBDEMS WILL WIN HERE
Today we launched @olihenman.bsky.social ‘s
campaign to be the next Mayor of West of England to an exceptional turnout!
The message was clear,
🏡for more housing with greenery
🚎for better transport
💼and job opportunities
WECA needs a LibDem mayor!
(🧶👇🏻)
#Oli4WECA
Today we launched @olihenman.bsky.social ‘s
campaign to be the next Mayor of West of England to an exceptional turnout!
The message was clear,
🏡for more housing with greenery
🚎for better transport
💼and job opportunities
WECA needs a LibDem mayor!
(🧶👇🏻)
#Oli4WECA
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I was in #Ukraine as part of a parliamentary delegation with U.K. Friends of Ukraine recently. Honoured to take part in a ceremony in Freedom Square to mark the third anniversary of the invasion, meet soldiers, unload aid from the UK and visit Parliament.
March 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I was in #Ukraine as part of a parliamentary delegation with U.K. Friends of Ukraine recently. Honoured to take part in a ceremony in Freedom Square to mark the third anniversary of the invasion, meet soldiers, unload aid from the UK and visit Parliament.
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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I used to think no people on this planet had committed a greater act of self-harm in recent history than the ones who voted for Brexit. Then the Americans had to outdo us and voted (a second time) for Trump.
March 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I used to think no people on this planet had committed a greater act of self-harm in recent history than the ones who voted for Brexit. Then the Americans had to outdo us and voted (a second time) for Trump.
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Anyway, all the commentators, presenters, hacks & politicians who bigged up austerity, Brexit, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Donald Trump etc will be back at work tomorrow, making massive new mistakes without a thought for the damage they do or the misery they facilitate.
Someone should write a book…
Someone should write a book…
March 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Anyway, all the commentators, presenters, hacks & politicians who bigged up austerity, Brexit, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Donald Trump etc will be back at work tomorrow, making massive new mistakes without a thought for the damage they do or the misery they facilitate.
Someone should write a book…
Someone should write a book…
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Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
March 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro
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It is moments like this that really bring home how unutterably awful it was to allow events* to create a national mood in which Boris Johnson & Liz Truss could become Prime Minister. Imagine they were in the post right now…
*Brexit
*Brexit
March 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It is moments like this that really bring home how unutterably awful it was to allow events* to create a national mood in which Boris Johnson & Liz Truss could become Prime Minister. Imagine they were in the post right now…
*Brexit
*Brexit
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The Conservatives are infighting again - this time over whether to cancel elections. Tories running #Surrey County Council recently succeeded in getting the Government to stop May’s elections, but now the party nationally want the elections to go ahead!
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t.co
February 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Conservatives are infighting again - this time over whether to cancel elections. Tories running #Surrey County Council recently succeeded in getting the Government to stop May’s elections, but now the party nationally want the elections to go ahead!
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A great day out at Paignton Pier: arcades, crazy golf and even won a few prizes (team effort with Steve Darling and Jennie).
Local businesses like these are the beating heart of our communities. The Liberal Democrats will always be their champions.
Local businesses like these are the beating heart of our communities. The Liberal Democrats will always be their champions.
February 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A great day out at Paignton Pier: arcades, crazy golf and even won a few prizes (team effort with Steve Darling and Jennie).
Local businesses like these are the beating heart of our communities. The Liberal Democrats will always be their champions.
Local businesses like these are the beating heart of our communities. The Liberal Democrats will always be their champions.
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Next steps on Council reorganisation in Surrey – 21 March initial deadline
Surrey is now confirmed to be moving to a structure of unitary councils in 2027/28 and to enable that the Government agrees to postpone elections to a soon to be abolished County Council. The next steps are set out in a…
Surrey is now confirmed to be moving to a structure of unitary councils in 2027/28 and to enable that the Government agrees to postpone elections to a soon to be abolished County Council. The next steps are set out in a…
Next steps on Council reorganisation in Surrey – 21 March initial deadline
Surrey is now confirmed to be moving to a structure of unitary councils in 2027/28 and to enable that the Government agrees to postpone elections to a soon to be abolished County Council. The next steps are set out in a letter from the Minister to all council leaders The MVDC Leader Cllr Stephen Cooksey commented Friday: “On Wednesday this week, the Minister of State for Local Government and English Devolution announced that Surrey would be on the fast track programme towards local government reorganisation, which would involve creating unitary Councils and the devolution of powers to new authorities…..
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February 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Next steps on Council reorganisation in Surrey – 21 March initial deadline
Surrey is now confirmed to be moving to a structure of unitary councils in 2027/28 and to enable that the Government agrees to postpone elections to a soon to be abolished County Council. The next steps are set out in a…
Surrey is now confirmed to be moving to a structure of unitary councils in 2027/28 and to enable that the Government agrees to postpone elections to a soon to be abolished County Council. The next steps are set out in a…
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”Ruthless pragmatism" - really? Then act in the national interest: do what it takes to protect British business and jobs.
That means a new UK-EU customs union to cut costs for importers and exporters.
Fewer barriers, more growth.
That means a new UK-EU customs union to cut costs for importers and exporters.
Fewer barriers, more growth.
February 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
”Ruthless pragmatism" - really? Then act in the national interest: do what it takes to protect British business and jobs.
That means a new UK-EU customs union to cut costs for importers and exporters.
Fewer barriers, more growth.
That means a new UK-EU customs union to cut costs for importers and exporters.
Fewer barriers, more growth.
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I don’t buy the idea that the Gaza comments are designed to distract us from the coup. Because not long ago the same people said that the coup comments were designed to distract us from something else. He is chaotic *and* corrupt. There is no pattern or plan. Nothing is impossible.
February 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I don’t buy the idea that the Gaza comments are designed to distract us from the coup. Because not long ago the same people said that the coup comments were designed to distract us from something else. He is chaotic *and* corrupt. There is no pattern or plan. Nothing is impossible.
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Lucy Manzano, head of the Dover Port Health Authority: "Defra have continually stated that there are robust controls in place. There are not. They don't exist."
The previous Tory government had 4 years to sort this out. The system they set up is shoddy at best. #Brexit
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The previous Tory government had 4 years to sort this out. The system they set up is shoddy at best. #Brexit
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Illegal meat on most UK High Streets, official says
Post-Brexit checks are undermining efforts to keep out potentially disease-ridden meat, official says.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Lucy Manzano, head of the Dover Port Health Authority: "Defra have continually stated that there are robust controls in place. There are not. They don't exist."
The previous Tory government had 4 years to sort this out. The system they set up is shoddy at best. #Brexit
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The previous Tory government had 4 years to sort this out. The system they set up is shoddy at best. #Brexit
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Did you see the BBC's shocking Countryfile report on how post-Brexit food and plant checks at our border are driving up prices for everyday Brits? 👇
February 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Did you see the BBC's shocking Countryfile report on how post-Brexit food and plant checks at our border are driving up prices for everyday Brits? 👇
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Donald Trump’s attempts to bully Denmark over Greenland, threatening a NATO ally with military force, are unacceptable and wrong.
Keir Starmer should make clear our total solidarity when he meets with his Danish counterpart today.
Keir Starmer should make clear our total solidarity when he meets with his Danish counterpart today.
February 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Donald Trump’s attempts to bully Denmark over Greenland, threatening a NATO ally with military force, are unacceptable and wrong.
Keir Starmer should make clear our total solidarity when he meets with his Danish counterpart today.
Keir Starmer should make clear our total solidarity when he meets with his Danish counterpart today.
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YES!
The UK mustn’t let Donald Trump bully us or our ally Canada.
We need to work with our allies in Europe and around the world to stand up to him. The Prime Minister should invite Commonwealth leaders to London to discuss a joint response to Trump’s global trade war.
We need to work with our allies in Europe and around the world to stand up to him. The Prime Minister should invite Commonwealth leaders to London to discuss a joint response to Trump’s global trade war.
February 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
YES!