If you're yet to hear Ed Davey's Christmas song with Bath Philharmonia Young Carers' Choir, I promise you won't regret listening!🎵

Young carers often don't get the recognition they deserve - so it's wonderful to see them put in the spotlight this Christmas🎄

I'm glad the Leader of the House agrees👇

Frampton Cotterell (South Gloucestershire) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 49.3% (-2.4)
🌳 CON: 41.7% (+8.1)
🌍 GRN: 6.0% (-3.0)
🌹 LAB: 3.0% (-2.7)

Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2023.

Why are the Govt burying their heads in the sand?

🛫 The EU has said it would welcome a new Youth Mobility Scheme with the UK - no need to reopen Brexit deals and no return to freedom of movement. So why delay?

🧑‍🔧 Young people and our economy deserve better.

Watch my Q to the Minister:

We heard the same unsubstantiated arguments. UK Assisted Dying Bill is similar to Victoria's. Ours is also conservative but still helps 100's of people. There's been no slippery slope of relaxed regs nor people being pressured (the opp actually) #dyingwithdignity
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

There seems to be a perception that Labour and the Greens are the parties of young people - it is true they got most of the 18-25 vote - but we certainly aren’t offering a bad deal for students in the Lib Dems either. You could even say it’s a pretty ‘fair’ deal 😅

Wessex Water dumped sewage 41,453 times, or 372,341 hours in 2023 in Bristol’s rivers, inc. the Avon, Frome, Malago, Trym, & Brislington Brook, which are all at risk of increased sewage discharges. Our Bristol Lib Dem motion aims to do something about it: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/news-op...

Happy to have represented the party at Bristol Uni politics society’s Question Time event! Our dream of fairer, greener and more prosperous Britain is exactly what students want.

Youth and Student Living
Greens:
🥦Would rather taxpaying working people pay for universities than the people who choose to attend them
Labour:
🌹Would 'agree with what the Lib Dems said' on tuition fees 🤫

Youth and Student Living
Lib Dems:
🔶Will reintroduce maintenance grants for disadvantaged students
🔶Will give higher education institutions a statutory duty of care to students
🔶Will work to expand the Youth Mobility Scheme

Housing
Lib Dems:
🔶Are focussed on building more homes, including social homes (Largely due to the efforts of @YoungLiberalsUK)
🔶Would give local authorities the power to end Right to Buy in their area
Greens:
🥦Would 'force people economically' through rent controls

The Economy
Labour:
🌹Broken manifesto pledges
🌹Reduced wage growth
🌹A backward Bus Fare Tax
🌹Family Farm Tax
Greens:
🥦Radical increase in taxation
🥦Would likely shrink the size of the British economy

The Economy
Lib Dems:
🔶Shift the tax burden away from hardworking people
🔶Scrap the tax cuts for big banks
🔶A one-off windfall tax on the super profits of the oil and gas industry
🔶Stop Labour's Bus Tax
🔶Axe the Family Farm Tax
🔶Fix Britain's relationship with the EU

Drug Law Reform
Lib Dems:
🔶 Freedom of choice
🔶 Harm focussed approach to drugs
🔶 Regulated cannabis market
Labour:
🌹 Everything banned from smoking to disposable vapes
🌹 No meaningful action on black market cannabis drug trade

Democracy and Electoral Reform
Lib Dems:
🔶Will scrap anti-democratic voter-ID rules
🔶Will continue the fight for electoral reform
🔶Would Introduce PR for electing MPs and local councillors
Labour:
🌹The same old broken system

Defence
Greens:
🥦Weak on defence
🥦Now (finally) supports UK NATO membership
🥦Would phase out Britain's nuclear deterrent
🥦Wants a 'regime of soft power'
Labour simply said they would:
🌹'echo what the Lib Dems said'...🥱

Defence
Lib Dems:
🔶Increase in defence spending to at least 2.5% of GDP
🔶Commitment to Britain's nuclear deterrent
🔶 because ' We have a responsibility to Ukraine and our NATO allies in an increasingly insecure world’ 🇺🇦

This week the University of Bristol Liberal Democrats took part in a mock Question Time event with @bristol_yg and @BrisUniLabour hosted by the UoB Politics Society.
Take a look through our thread to see what we learnt 👇