#lib dems

[libdeminomenon]

Ed Davey on Elon Musk

[in4newz]

[nando161mando]

Just Dems casually trivialising genocide.

[siaradwast]

uk political parties: Okay we're starting our election campaigns, let's have a look at what people are concerned about so we can make appropriate policies to deal with this & appeal to voters

uk public: we're really concerned about the rising cost of living

rishi sunak: HAVE COMPULSORY HALF-THOUGHT OUT NATIONAL SERVICE

uk public: No we said we're concerned about the cost of-

conservatives and labour: you want us to fight over who can have the most unethical immigration policies??

uk public: we want to be able to afford groceries and heating

conservatives: ohhh i get it you want us to make benefits even more inaccessible and new policies to target disabled people??

uk public: can we at least get some good environmental policies so our energy is sustainable and prices aren't consistently rising??

uk political parties: TIKTOK MEME WAR

uk public: No!! coherent, realistic, helpful policies to reduce the costs of living!!

the lib dems for some reason: we have a massive yellow bus and Ed Davey fell off a paddleboard

[heyguys-itsnicole]

Here's something I'm sure you find infuriating;

"I'm not into politics. I don't really know, I'm just not a political person."

We know that this IS being political! It means you condone everything - you don't think anything is worth fighting for, you're fine with the status quo as long as it benefits you vaguely. It's the mindset of someone so aggressively individualist, that the suffering of others is simply not a concern - since the system can't be broken, if they're alright. The kind of people to vote for a fascist if it'll mean that their taxes are lower next year. To stand by and watch oppression is insidious. Not even watch - to Celebrate oppression as long as it's against the "savages" and "beasts." Mass mistreatment still exists beyond the gulf surrounding apathetic suburbia.

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[jangillman]

[lucky-joyous]

Best take I’ve seen all night

[amorphousblobqueen]

Something that I wish more people understood is that this election is no longer about who forms a government. That is a forgone conclusion at this point unless shit really hits the fan. This election is about who leads the opposition.

If the conservatives are allowed to get away with second place, they will still have the platform to poison our politics and rebuild to come back down the line.

If the lib dems get to finish second instead, they will get to set the narrative, the media will be forced to platform them more and the conservatives less, and we actually stand a chance at having the labour government held to account. Polls show that this is on the cards.

We are so close to a seismic shift in politics in this country.

But to do it, we need to vote tactically. We need to the number of lib dem seats where possible, but realistically they have a ceiling of support at around 70-75 seats. So the other half of the equation is to reduce the number of conservative seats as far below 70 as we can. There is no such thing as a safe tory seat this election, with enough tactical voting they can all be wiped out.

To that end, here are two resources that can help:

^^The most reliable tactical voting site with the greatest track record, proven to be legit unlike some of the fake ones that the tories have set up, and the only one that I know of purely focused on getting the tories out of power and out of the opposition.

^^An initiative to try to beat the tory and reform uk bot farms at their own game.

Together we can reach net zero tories

[libdeminomenon]

Ed Davey on Trump, Vance and Zelensky

[ceevee5]

[cavegirlpoems]

listen I know it's fun to shitpost about the lib dems, because let's be fair "Ed Davies is spending the election doing fun activities" is very funny. But in purely practical terms, they're the only party on offer - in England at least - who aren't wildly racist and transphobic, and think that the british people should have things like human rights and civil liberties. It is an extremely low bar, I know. Fuck, they're the only party with an actively pro-palestinian position. But like, seriously. Fuck the tories, but also fuck starmer's labour. Obviously vote to hurt the tories as much as possible, but if you get to choose between the two other parties, there's an obvious better party.

[q4os-tde-official]

oh btw reminder that self-identification will never happen under Labour in the UK

and that the Labour government will maintain the diagnosis requirement

this, alongside Labour upholding the ban on puberty blockers, shows that they do not (no matter how much they claim otherwise) care about trans people

meanwhile the Lib Dems (a party further to the left) appear to be much better, they even have a whole website specifically about their stance on LGBTQIA+ rights (even specifically mentioning that they support the right to self-ID, the legal recongnition of nonbinary identities, removal of the spousal veto, and a ban on conversion therapy)

the website btw is https://lgbt.libdems.org.uk/

[in4newz]

Here's what the dems did recently..

[asexplainedbyttoi]

What a night!

Tories wiped out in Wales

Jacob Rees-Mogg lost his seat

Nigel Farage got a seat (and Donald Trump congratulated him on it as though he’d won the election)

Jeremy Corbyn kept his seat

Liz Truss lost her seat

13 ministers lost their seats

The Lib Dems got 71 seats

Sinn Fein got more seats than ever

And we have a new PM with, as of now, 412 seats in less votes than Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour got in 2019 (people just liked Boris, and now they really hate the Tories)