Josh
@joshwoolcott.bsky.social
Occasional incoherent ramblings
Sometimes Lib Dem 🔶️, sometimes sporty 🏏⚽️, from Brighton 📌
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Sometimes Lib Dem 🔶️, sometimes sporty 🏏⚽️, from Brighton 📌
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"Its taken us 18 months to remember we have morals" is quite the flex
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"Its taken us 18 months to remember we have morals" is quite the flex
We should be announcing the Party & its MPs are leaving the platform! Call on the government to do the same! Force journalists to look on other platforms if they want to hear what we say (they do)!
Be bold, be interesting. Have the courage of our convictions. Saying this and doing nothing is shit
Be bold, be interesting. Have the courage of our convictions. Saying this and doing nothing is shit
Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We should be announcing the Party & its MPs are leaving the platform! Call on the government to do the same! Force journalists to look on other platforms if they want to hear what we say (they do)!
Be bold, be interesting. Have the courage of our convictions. Saying this and doing nothing is shit
Be bold, be interesting. Have the courage of our convictions. Saying this and doing nothing is shit
Tax on shit Lettings Agencies just trebled in the next Budget
New - Harvey & Wheeler, the estate agents used by Rachel Reeves to rent out her property have apologised for an "oversight" after they did not apply for a licence on her behalf, having offered to do so.
October 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Tax on shit Lettings Agencies just trebled in the next Budget
The lack of political leadership from the party on this has been shameful.
If this is the law as the party understands it, we should argue (loudly) to change the law.
If this is the law as the party understands it, we should argue (loudly) to change the law.
LGBT+ Liberal Democrats condemn our party's decision to base internal gender quotas on sex assigmed at birth.
This trans-exclusionary decision is an attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society.
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This trans-exclusionary decision is an attack on one of the most vulnerable groups in our society.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The lack of political leadership from the party on this has been shameful.
If this is the law as the party understands it, we should argue (loudly) to change the law.
If this is the law as the party understands it, we should argue (loudly) to change the law.
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Quite an unfortunate place to drift off into an ellipsis.
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Quite an unfortunate place to drift off into an ellipsis.
Good to see this is all going very well and isn't at all (inevitably) being reduced to political point-scoring...
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Good to see this is all going very well and isn't at all (inevitably) being reduced to political point-scoring...
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This week’s NIMBY Watch is on the problems of brownfield development, despite everyone claiming it’s supposedly what they want – and a rare rebuke for a council blocking development. capx.co/nimby-watch-...
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Fewer affordable homes is a price worth paying to get more built
capx.co
October 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This week’s NIMBY Watch is on the problems of brownfield development, despite everyone claiming it’s supposedly what they want – and a rare rebuke for a council blocking development. capx.co/nimby-watch-...
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I can see a world where abolishing stamp duty is a vote winning policy.
I don't see that world being one where the person proposing it is also continually hammering the government for being fiscally irresponsible.
I don't see that world being one where the person proposing it is also continually hammering the government for being fiscally irresponsible.
October 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I can see a world where abolishing stamp duty is a vote winning policy.
I don't see that world being one where the person proposing it is also continually hammering the government for being fiscally irresponsible.
I don't see that world being one where the person proposing it is also continually hammering the government for being fiscally irresponsible.
Genuinely fascinated at this mindset. If the Tory Party of the last few years has left you as it swung wildly right, but Reform is a more attractive proposition, what on earth sort of journey have you been on?
October 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Genuinely fascinated at this mindset. If the Tory Party of the last few years has left you as it swung wildly right, but Reform is a more attractive proposition, what on earth sort of journey have you been on?
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I think this could be a key line moving forwards - people will notice it
Keir Starmer: "When was the last time you heard Nigel Farage saying anything positive about Britain’s future? He doesn’t like Britain.”
September 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I think this could be a key line moving forwards - people will notice it
Peter Kyle does have a growing habit of saying some weird things...
Peter Kyle, business secretary, tells a Labour fringe event that when he accused Farage of siding with foreign billionaires over the online safety legislation, the Reform UK leader started “shaking like a shitting dog”
So, it’s … getting spicy here in Liverpool
So, it’s … getting spicy here in Liverpool
September 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Peter Kyle does have a growing habit of saying some weird things...
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Think this is absolutely true - so much is written about boys and Andrew Tate - Tate is more popular with grown men than boys!
We worry about Very Online Kids much more than their Very Online Parents, and I'm not sure that's wise
September 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Think this is absolutely true - so much is written about boys and Andrew Tate - Tate is more popular with grown men than boys!
A case for ID cards framed around making access to services easier is viable.
Easier for older people who don't have passports/driving licenses, easier for young people who don't have utility bills as proof of address, ensuring another Windrush can never happen again etc
Easier for older people who don't have passports/driving licenses, easier for young people who don't have utility bills as proof of address, ensuring another Windrush can never happen again etc
September 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
A case for ID cards framed around making access to services easier is viable.
Easier for older people who don't have passports/driving licenses, easier for young people who don't have utility bills as proof of address, ensuring another Windrush can never happen again etc
Easier for older people who don't have passports/driving licenses, easier for young people who don't have utility bills as proof of address, ensuring another Windrush can never happen again etc
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The Express asked us about awarding the Patsy Carlton Prize to Cllr Chris Northwood. We responded:
"This prize acknowledged an exceptional woman in Cllr Chris Northwood. The message it sends to women members and voters is that the Liberal Democrats honour and value all of our women members."
"This prize acknowledged an exceptional woman in Cllr Chris Northwood. The message it sends to women members and voters is that the Liberal Democrats honour and value all of our women members."
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The Express asked us about awarding the Patsy Carlton Prize to Cllr Chris Northwood. We responded:
"This prize acknowledged an exceptional woman in Cllr Chris Northwood. The message it sends to women members and voters is that the Liberal Democrats honour and value all of our women members."
"This prize acknowledged an exceptional woman in Cllr Chris Northwood. The message it sends to women members and voters is that the Liberal Democrats honour and value all of our women members."
Proud of the way Lib Dems stood firm at Conference this year and made clear that bigots have no place in our party.
The Express asked us about awarding the Patsy Carlton Prize to Cllr Chris Northwood. We responded:
"This prize acknowledged an exceptional woman in Cllr Chris Northwood. The message it sends to women members and voters is that the Liberal Democrats honour and value all of our women members."
"This prize acknowledged an exceptional woman in Cllr Chris Northwood. The message it sends to women members and voters is that the Liberal Democrats honour and value all of our women members."
September 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Proud of the way Lib Dems stood firm at Conference this year and made clear that bigots have no place in our party.
I regret to inform you that it appears Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have fallen out *again*
September 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I regret to inform you that it appears Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have fallen out *again*
This reads an awful lot like 'yeah we've made it up'
September 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This reads an awful lot like 'yeah we've made it up'
Building a real collection of absolutely none of the talents
Breaking : Danny Kruger defects to Reform Uk from the conservatives
September 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Building a real collection of absolutely none of the talents
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I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
September 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.
Fucking *finally*
EXC - Keir Starmer condemns far right racism and violence at yesterday's march
Says there will be "no surrender" of British flag to those who promote hate
Our story here - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Says there will be "no surrender" of British flag to those who promote hate
Our story here - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Britain will ‘never surrender flag’ to far-right protesters, Starmer says
PM condemns attacks against police, racist intimidation of minorities and use of flag to instil fear
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Fucking *finally*
Polanski is very much one of those people that the more the public hears and sees him, the less they'll like him
This interview with Zack Polanski is fascinating - not because he says anything clever, but because he seems to manage to almost effortlessly antagonise an interviewer whom I assume would have started off quite sympathetic towards him.
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September 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Polanski is very much one of those people that the more the public hears and sees him, the less they'll like him
The US is about to get very fucked, very fast. This is not good.
Trump youth leader Charlie Kirk has been shot at an incident in Utah. www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09...
Charlie Kirk shot at Utah event
www.deseret.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The US is about to get very fucked, very fast. This is not good.
Shabana Mahmood being made Home Secretary, given her pretty abysmal record on LGBT issues, does not fill me with a huge amount of confidence...
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Shabana Mahmood being made Home Secretary, given her pretty abysmal record on LGBT issues, does not fill me with a huge amount of confidence...