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Cllr Martin Horwood 🇺🇦

2 months

Finally! The brilliant @mpmwilko is elected the tenth MP for Cheltenham in the Liberal tradition which started in 1832 with the very first MP for Cheltenham. His acceptance speech was a model of generosity to his defeated opponent Alex Chalk who served the town for 9 years.

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@CheltenhamBC

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MP elected for #Cheltenham : Max Wilkinson, Lib Dem, with 25,076 of 50,528 votes. #CheltElections #GeneralElection2024

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Cllr Martin Horwood 🇺🇦

@MartinChelt

5 years

Let’s put that flag back where it belongs, shall we?! #StopBrexit

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@MartinChelt

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Suella Braverman on #bbcqt appalled by the creation of a border down the middle of our country, fears it might spell the end of the union. A border her government put there with the Brexit deal & N Ireland Protocol they celebrated, themselves creating the threat to the union.

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@MartinChelt

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Pleased to have just addressed the European Parliament. Spoke up for Brits who won’t turn our backs on Europe, thanked Council Pres Tusk for his patience with our hapless government, asked him to ask his successor to continue policy of patience as opinion shifts against Brexit.

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@MartinChelt

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Here’s the clip of my intervention today in the European Parliament, #StopBrexit ⁦ @LibDemMEPs ⁩

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@MartinChelt

3 years

The time has come to identify Tory MPs who have benefitted from Russian donations. @LibDems @UKLabour @theSNP @TheGreenParty @EdwardJDavey @LaylaMoran @lisanandy @CarolineLucas @mpmwilko

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@MartinChelt

4 years

And while the world is distracted by Covid19, China tries again to stamp on rights in Hong Kong BBC News - China proposes controversial Hong Kong security law

China proposes controversial Hong Kong security law

The law could ban what Beijing defines as subversion and sedition, and may spark new social unrest.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@MartinChelt

5 years

In case you think Europe is run by unelected Eurocrats, I’m just voting for President of the European Commission on behalf of the 385k people who voted for me & @libdems , & all 5m in SWest & Gibraltar. More influence than I recall in my 1st 3wks as a UK MP! ⁦ @LibDemMEPs ⁩

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@MartinChelt

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How can we have ended up with mad fringe right-wingers like Peter Bone speaking on behalf of the British government on @BBCNewsnight ?! He was a joke extremist not that long ago. 😱

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@MartinChelt

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Last espresso in Strasbourg before train home. This week we defended EU27 & UK citizens rights, debated path to Mid East peace, passed a key biodiversity resolution & detailed climate change policy (European Green Deal). UK voice on all this will now be lost ⁦ @LibDemMEPs ⁩

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@MartinChelt

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EP Brexit lead @guyverhofstadt confirms he’s still pushing for associate individual European citizenship for Brits who don’t want to lose European citizens rights. Also makes clear EU will take tough line in coming Brexit talks to defend the single market. @BBCr4today @LibDemMEPs

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@MartinChelt

4 years

@AndrewRosindell Andrew, I saw communism for real. It wasn’t a joke. Biden’s no more leftwing than moderates you recently drove out of your own party. Trump damaged a raft of international bodies, NATO included, you purport to support & is now attacking democratic counting of votes. Shame on you.

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@MartinChelt

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And that’s it folks. The United Kingdom’s voice in the European Union now falls silent. What a sad, stupid thing our leaders have done. I look to the next generation to undo this harm one day. ⁦ @LibDemMEPs ⁩

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@MartinChelt

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Really alarming case. The Chinese government’s assault on freedom of thought continues. @federley @AbirAlsahlani @KarinKarlsbro

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

5 years

Gui Minhai given 10-year sentence by Chinese court—Gui, who has Swedish citizenship, was one of five booksellers arrested in 2015 for selling books critical of the Chinese government. Read more:

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@MartinChelt

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Andrea Leadsom misleading the public on @BBCr4today : Brexit WON’T deliver certainty for business. It will usher in decades of negotiation as we struggle to do a final deal with the EU and recreate the network of international trading relationships we have now. @libdem @LibDemMEPs

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@MartinChelt

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So @libdems , Greens & ChangeUK beat Brexit Party & UKIP in the popular vote across the South West. Not such a Leave region now, eh?

Britain Elects

@BritainElects

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South West, vote share: Brex: 36.7% (+36.7) LDem: 23.1% (+12.4) Grn: 18.1% (+7.0) Con: 8.7% (-20.2) Lab: 6.5% (-7.2) UKIP: 3.2% (-29.1) ChUK: 2.8% (+2.8)

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@MartinChelt

4 years

At the outset they threatened journalists and medics who tried to warn us about the virus. Now Chinese authorities are suppressing victim chat groups who might criticise their response.. BBC News - Coronavirus: Wuhan emerges from the harshest of lockdowns

Coronavirus: Wuhan emerges from the harshest of lockdowns

As Wuhan lifts its severe lockdown, there is anger, relief and even defiance from some residents.

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@MartinChelt

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International community needs to express solidarity with India over this violent incursion by Chinese forces in #Ladakh , which is looking more and more serious, and especially if it is actually a precursor to more actual annexation of Indian territory.

NDTV

@ndtv

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Watch | "They came in numbers that were unprecedented": Ajai Shukla, Defence Analyst on #IndiaChinaStandOff

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@MartinChelt

5 years

@Michael_Heaver I asked the chair to slow down a touch for us newbies. What’s so strange about that? It’s still a lot more efficient than Westminster where that many votes would have taken about three hours. If you want any of us @LibDemMEPs to come over & explain how it works, do ask!

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@MartinChelt

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@rossum87 @Gerashchenko_en NATO hasn’t ‘moved east’. It accepted eastern members who made their own free decisions to join, perhaps because Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechia & Slovakia, Hungary and Romania have all been invaded by Russia. Ukraine’s experience touches a lot of nerves..

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@MartinChelt

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And just this once, I agree with the Daily Express. @LibDemMPs #turninguptowork Lib Dems EU takeover: Remainers take top Brussels jobs - Brexit Party left empty-handed | UK | News |

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@MartinChelt

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Brilliant. Nice one, Julian. #Cheltenham should be proud of you. BBC News - Brexit vote campaign gets £1m from Superdry co-founder

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@MartinChelt

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And for the Commission, Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič responded that they would be sorry to see the UK leave, that he hoped we wouldn’t leave and that he wouldn’t take any lessons in leadership from the Brexit Party.

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@MartinChelt

4 years

Not sure this is the safest way to do protest right now but quite an impressive act of organised social distancing by anti-Netanyahu protesters in Israel..

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@MartinChelt

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Today’s most shocking vote in ⁦⁦ @Europarl_EN ⁩. Pleased the proposal passed all the same with ⁦ @LibDemMEPs ⁩ and ⁦ @RenewEurope ⁩ support. >Brexit party MEPs vote against plans to tackle Russian propaganda | World news | The Guardian

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@MartinChelt

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@PabloPerezA In 2007 the EU gave Gloucestershire & other flood-hit areas €160million+ from the Solidarity Fund. Why won’t Johnson ask for help for the North now? Too embarrassed to ask, scared this will show we get help back as well as pay in? @LibDemMEPs @shaffaqmohd @LibDems @BBCPolitics

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@MartinChelt

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This is complicated but here’s the nub of it: Boris Johnson did NOT vote against the automatic release of prisoners on ‘extended sentences’ under which London Bridge attacker Usman Khan was let out. So he has lied, again, by claiming he did. #pantsonfire

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@MartinChelt

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@1stCoastCrypto @SashaIngber @Euan_MacDonald @NATO If the Russians are teaching us anything it is that you shouldn’t commit your military to a campaign you haven’t thought through. NATO should not do the same. And starting World War 3 would not help anyone in Ukraine whose plight would quickly become a sideshow in that event.

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@MartinChelt

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@MollyMEP @MikeArmiger It was a very short slot so few backbench MEPs got to speak. But I got to mention tje large new UK contingent of Lib Dems, Greens and others opposed to Brexit in the new Parliament

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@MartinChelt

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Thank you Leckhampton ❤️. My majority slightly more than 13 this time! I put it down to my record on renewables & zero carbon homes, on trying make our streets safer and our ward & town fairer with @cheltlibdems . And a bit of Boris. Time for him to go. @libdems @GreenLibDems

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@MartinChelt

3 years

Appalling attempt by CCP government to bully a democratically elected assembly just for championing human rights. I hope @FCDOGovUK will condemn this immediately and strongly. @libdems @LibDemMEPs

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@EP_HumanRights

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"MEPs continue to firmly condemn human rights abuses in China 🇨🇳." Full statement by @davidmcallister , @Mariearenaps , @rglucks1 and @bueti , following the announced Chinese sanctions against Members of @Europarl_EN and @EP_HumanRights . 🇪🇺 👇

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@MartinChelt

5 years

Here are the seats of the Brexit Party in the European Parliament this morning as we voted on the new President who may have a big influence on future Brexit scenarios. The rest of the Parliament was full. Seems the Brexiteers clocked off early unlike @LibDemMEPs . #parttimers

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@MartinChelt

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Extraordinary. So very far from saving money, Brexit is already going to cost us billions, including £100m on pro-Brexit propaganda ACROSS EUROPE!!! Just as well the NHS, youth services, the Army, schools etc don't need the money. @libdems @libdemMEPs

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@MartinChelt

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Sentencing tomorrow of seven distinguished Hong Kong democrats, incl Martin Lee, 82, @HKDemocrats co-founder, winner of 1st direct elections in 1991, & backer of young democrats from Tiananmen Sq to HK now @LibDems @liberalinternat @ALDEParty @RenewEurope

7 Democracy Activists Just Got Convicted. What Was Really on Trial?

Many observers worry that China is shutting the door to free speech in this rambunctious city, for good.

www.politico.com

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Key #HK Court Date: 16 April Sentencing of 7 pro-democracy leaders for ‘unlawful assembly’: Martin Lee, 82; Jimmy Lai, 72; Margaret Ng, 73; Lee Cheuk-yan, 64; Albert Ho, 69; Leung Kwok-hung, 65; and Cyd Ho, 66. They were found guilty on 1 April.

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@MartinChelt

4 years

Meanwhile in Tibet, Chinese government goes all out to win the Most Complete Authoritarian Dictatorship in the World Award..

Free Tibet

@freetibetorg

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News just out of Tibet of yet another forced re-education of Tibetan monks on CCP ideology.

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@MartinChelt

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Boris now slams MPs for not wanting election he said only days ago HE didn’t want! Still, he promised not to prorogue, backed May backstop he now can’t accept, lied about NHS £350m, was fired by Times and Tory leader for lying & must have lied to wife during affairs. Just habit?!

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@MartinChelt

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@JJ71408383 @NasimiShabnam @javerias It isn’t ‘their’ country. None of the country’s democratic elections ever elected the Taliban. They seized power by violent force. They have no legitimate right to enforce this cruel misogynistic policy.

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@MartinChelt

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@ALYona100444 @KyivIndependent That’s why it’ll be pretty hard to persuade a remotely free Ukraine to accept any kind of deal in which they forego NATO membership. Budapest and Minsk didn’t keep Ukraine safe. Only NATO membership is keeping Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia & Hungary safe.

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@MartinChelt

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@tania_reut @tunkuv Lovely news amongst the doom & gloom. And in school so quickly! I fear if they’d been trying to get to the UK they might still be tired & confused and Yana might not have even reached here yet let alone be going to school. Thank you Ireland for setting us such a positive example.

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@MartinChelt

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I'm delighted to have been elected as the Vice-Chair of the @Europarl_EN ’s Iran Delegation today. Deeply honoured to be representing Britain as an MEP taking part in the European Union as a real peace project - not just for peace within our own borders, but around the world.

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@MartinChelt

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The liberal ⁦ @RenewEurope ⁩ group give British ⁦ @LibDemMEPs ⁩ a standing ovation in Strasbourg this evening. We were in the frontline of the battle to defend the idea of a Europe united in tolerance, openness & respect for the rule of law but it isn’t our battle alone.

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@MartinChelt

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Not only have @LibDems overtaken the Tories in the South West, @comres are 99% confident (literally, statistically) that we are the strongest Remain party in the region too.

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@ComRes EU poll: SW Region: Brex 30; Lab 19; @LibDems 17; Con 16; Cuk 9; Grn 6 @MartinChelt #Brexitshambles #libdems

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@Gerashchenko_en Er… Russia had already occupied and annexed Crimea before the 2022 invasion. Didn’t seem to completely satisfy Mr Putin…

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@MartinChelt

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Brave people. Supprt them. >Editorial: With your support, we will persevere｜Apple Daily Hong Kong

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@MartinChelt

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Just in case you thought the European Union was run by unelected bureaucrats, this is the moment your directly elected MEPs elected the new European Commission after a long drawn-out commissioner-by-commissioner process of democratic scrutiny. ⁦ @LibDems ⁩ ⁦ @LibDemMEPs ⁩

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@MartinChelt

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... but yobbos from Brexit Party still couldn’t stop themselves heckling her.

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@MartinChelt

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Impressively eloquent performance in three languages from @vonderleyen in @Europarl_EN this morning, setting out ambitions for European climate neutrality and carbon border tax, support for small & medium sized businesses within single market, sustainable development goals..

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@MartinChelt

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Pleased to hear @LibDems call for no Trump state visit if he pulls US out of Paris climate change agreement. Deafening silence from No10.

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@MartinChelt

3 years

But well done the US and EU consulates for honouring the dead of Tienanmen Square and their dream of democracy in China in a public way increasingly difficult for Hongkongers themselves to do. I hope the @FCDOGovUK mission did likewise. @FCDOHumanRights @LaylaMoran @DominicRaab

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@MartinChelt

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Dominic Raab asked on @BBCr4today whether UK will stick to the @libdems law that we give 0.7% of national income in aid. ‘No’. So we’re going to be the only G7 country to drastically cut aid in response to an unprecedented global crisis. This is the opposite of global leadership.

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@MartinChelt

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⁦ @bbclaurak ⁩ asked on ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩ who won tonight’s leaders’ debate. Altogether now.. SHE’S BEHIND YOU!! 😂⁦ @LibDems ⁩ ⁦ @joswinson ⁩

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@MartinChelt

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@Liveuamap @visionergeo Interesting. Is Russia now seriously militarily overstretched? Might Georgians, Moldovans, Azeris etc now gently suggest having all those bits of their countries back that have been turned into Russian puppet states over the years? Or for Syrians to try to get their country back?

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@MartinChelt

5 years

Brilliant defence of liberal values in Europe by my @LibDemMEPs colleague @LuisaPorritt : Opinion: The Lib Dem ‘Stop Brexit’ campaign will actually work – so what if it ruffled feathers?

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@MartinChelt

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@benrileysmith Well we’ve run out of lorry drivers, police officers, nurses, consultants, care staff, building trades.. why not add civil servants to the list a few years’ down the line? This government is quite incapable of thinking long-term. Same story on everything from energy to Brexit.

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@MartinChelt

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I’d be happier about a Starmer landslide if I thought he’d use it as well as “CB” in 1906. Liberals crushed the Tories then brought in old age pensions, free school meals, crime of child neglect, probation as alternative to prison and lots more social, health & education reforms.

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@MartinChelt

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I won’t often retweet Andrew Adonis quoting Mrs Thatcher but this does show what a warped nationalist version of itself the Conservative Party has become..

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@MartinChelt

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Cheltenham MP Alex Chalk squirming over free school holiday meals on @BBCGlos - says “optics” & “comms” bad. No, what’s bad is that @CheltenhamBC & other councils, charities & businesses have had to scramble to fill the gap so vulnerable kids don’t go hungry. @cheltlibdems

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@MartinChelt

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I'm in Romania meeting with liberal democrats, friends and partners in the European Parliament from across Europe, and their message is clear: Prime Ministers have to obey the law like everyone else. @RenewEurope @LibDemMEPs

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@MartinChelt

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Wonder why @LibDemMEPs took to yellow T-shirts in @Europarl_EN ? Ask @BBCNews & @itvnews . Make first speech by anti-Brexit MEP since election without turning your back or calling people slave-owning colonialists and you get zip coverage. But ta for the half million views, Twitter!

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@LibDemMEPs

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Ann Widdecombe of the Brexit Party "does not represent the views of everyone in Britain" @MartinChelt tells the European Parliament. #Brexit is not inevitable! 👇👇👇🇬🇧🇪🇺 RT if you agree!

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And this is the man who just condemned Harvey Weinstein...

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Unearthed footage shows Trump squeezing & kissing a woman while talking about offering a job to a beautiful teenager

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So let me get headline Tory policy on nursing straight: restore nursing bursaries they cut in the first place, restore nurse numbers lost on their watch & poach nurses from abroad using NHS Visa no European would need anyway if they weren’t pursuing Brexit. Brilliant. @libdems

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@MartinChelt

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I’m intrigued @WHO @PHE_uk @CDCgov @GlobalHealthBMJ Do we really believe data from China? Where the virus began before it was identified, before we knew how to treat it, let alone vaccinate against it, but only 4600 deaths - less than Latvia or Costa Rica - in a country of 1.4bn?

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@MartinChelt

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As Russia bombs the Ukrainian Eurovision artists’ home city of Ternopil, the whole of the rest of Europe tells Ukraine You’ll Never Walk Alone 🇺🇦 #Eurovision2023 🇪🇺 #slavaukraina 🇺🇦

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There's so much love at this year's #Eurovision2023

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Extraordinary courage of the Myanmar protesters is really humbling. Very sad that the UN Responsibility to Protect cannot be used with China certain to block it at every turn..

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We verified more than 50 videos from the ongoing #MyanmarCoup crackdown. The international community must act to halt violations and hold perpetrators accountable. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

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Proud to have taken my seat at the heart of European democracy in the European Parliament today, alongside fellow South West MEP @CarolineVoaden @LibDemMEPs and more than 100 @RenewEurope MEPs. Thank you to all who voted, supported us and who helped make the elections happen.

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@MartinChelt

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BBC: Demand Jo Swinson is included in TV debates in the run up to the General Election - Sign the Petition! via @UKChange @LibDemMEPs @LibDems

Sign the Petition

Demand Jo Swinson is included in TV debates in the run up to the General Election

www.change.org

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@MartinChelt

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Terrible news from Hong Kong. Xi regime’s project to erase the proud history of Chinese democratic protest continues..

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The brilliant ⁦ @Femi_Sorry ⁩ addressing Cheltenham punters at the ⁦ @peoplesvote_uk ⁩ rally here today. Now positively sweltering in the hall 🥵 but everyone listening to him forensically dismantling arguments against #PeoplesVote .

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Express thinks ⁦ @LibDemMEPs ⁩ have recruited Barnier & Macron to ‘Remain crusade’. Who knew we had such power?! Slight overclaim maybe but our campaign to #StopBrexit did make progress EU-side this week REVEALED | UK | News |

Lib Dems recruit Barnier and Macron in fight to STOP Brexit

PRO-Brussels Liberal Democrats have recruited Michel Barnier and Emmanuel Macron in their effort to stop Brexit, Express.co.uk can today reveal.

www.express.co.uk

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@MartinChelt

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Just attended the raising of the colours at ⁦ @Europarl_EN ⁩ in Strasbourg, preliminary to opening ceremony tomorrow along with other ⁦ @LibDemMEPs ⁩ & ⁦ @RenewEurope ⁩ MEPs. Very very proud to see Union Jack flying proud amongst European colours. Long may it do so.

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Future GCSE politics question: Compare these two front page ‘newspaper’ stories from July 2019. Which new party leader do you think made the best start? #OhNoBoJo @joswinson @LibDems @LibDemMEPs

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from @Europarl_EN . If Brexit is now inevitable, that new year must see a real effort to defend citizens’ rights, including the LGBTQI community. @LibDemMEPs are speaking out ⬇️ @PinkNews @the3million

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@vonderleyen @mikegalsworthy So even non-EU members are going to be ahead of young Britons in their freedom to live, work, study, make their homes and even retire in Europe. Smart vote by the Swiss.

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Two shocking charts on onshore wind from tonight’s C4 #ClimateFight segment by ⁦ @HughFW ⁩: 1 Spot the moment when a Tory replaced @libdems ⁦ @EdwardJDavey ⁩ as energy secretary when the coalition ended. 2 Resulting failure in new onshore wind (vs France, Germany)

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Storming result from @cheltlibdems ! Top the poll with Brexit Party second, Greens third, Tories fourth. Thank you #Cheltenham !

BCP Council

@BCPCouncil

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. @CheltenhamBC #EUelections2019 results: TOTAL: 37,583 Change UK: 1,127 Con: 3,521 English Democrats: 138 Green: 6,332 Lab: 1,642 Lib Dems: 13,631 Brexit: 10,099 UKIP: 769 Maxey (Ind): 32 Rahman (Ind): 17 Seed (Ind): 67 Rejected: 208

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@elonmusk Sorry Elon. I have no plan to pay you money to tell people I am who I am and not someone imitating me. That’s your platform’s job. Paying for a blue tick isn’t verification, it’s just advertising.

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Brexit lead for @Europarl_EN @guyverhofstadt says he won’t miss Brexit MEPs who make lots of noise for party that won 0 seats in #GE2019 . Asks UK to be open to EU associate citizenship for Brits who want it & final Brexit deal should be conditional on citizens rights. @LibDemMEPs

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Westminster MPs recessed, then prorogued, now dissolved altogether. Don’t worry, your Members of the European Parliament are still hard at work! #StopBrexit #SaveThePlanet #SolomonIslands @LibDemMEPs

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@MartinChelt

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We’re stuffed. No deal is coming. Good luck if your business imports parts or goods. Good luck to us all. The Conservatives have no mandate for this & I hope no-one ever elects them to positions of responsibility again for what they’re about to do to us.

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@MartinChelt

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This week in the @Europarl_EN , MEPs have been taking part in #EPhearings2019 to scrutinise proposed new members of the @EU_Commission . I’d love to bring a system like this back to Westminster. Maybe if we #StopBrexit we can learn how to make British democracy even better ⬇️

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@MartinChelt

3 years

This is why its sometimes hard to believe Chinese data. This is what happens when you question the official line in a totalitarian state.

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@AFP

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China has jailed a popular blogger for "defaming martyrs" after he suggested the death toll of the China-India border clash last year was higher than the official count of four. Qiu Ziming was sentenced to eight months in prison

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3 things you missed in #Budget2021 : 1️⃣ How Tories will keep 0.7% aid promise to save those dying today in Yemen & elsewhere 2️⃣ How they’ll keep Leave promise to give +£350m pw to the NHS 3️⃣ How they’ll keep Boris pledge to fix ‘crisis in social care’. BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T THERE!

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@MartinChelt

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Latest big poll in South West again puts @libdems in clear second place. Problem is Brexiteers aren’t splitting their vote so under d’Hondt system they’ll get 4/6 seats. But we’re less than a percentage point from starting to take down Brexit Party seats. #StopBrexit #StopFarage

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@MartinChelt

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BREAKING NEWS: Tories to stand down at next election! 🌼

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@MartinChelt

5 years

If you're worried about pedestrianisation, traffic congestion and public transport, take a look at how one European city has tackled them - and the #ClimateEmergency ⬇️ @LibDemMEPs @LibDems

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@MartinChelt

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Thanks for the tens of thousands of RTs & likes in response to this exchange.. we're finding our voice in the European Parliament and back home. Via @GlosLiveOnline . Ann Widdecombe compares the EU to 'slave owners'

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@MartinChelt

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@nameshiv Priceless. Evergreen Marine, of Suez fame, is the same company that cheered up the world (if not the environment) in 1992 by losing 28,800 ‘floatee’ bath toys - red beavers, green frogs, blue turtles & yellow rubber ducks - into the planet’s oceans. 🤣 ⚓️

The great escape: the bath toys that swam the Pacific

When 28,800 bath toys fell off a cargo ship in the Pacific 20 years ago, they began an incredible journey.Here, in an excerpt from his new book, Donovan Hohn follows the fantastic voyage

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@MartinChelt

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With fellow @libdemMEPs ⁦ @CarolineVoaden ⁩ ready to take our seats tomorrow and speak up & work hard for the people of the South West & Gibraltar. Quite an emotional moment..

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@MartinChelt

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Impressively eloquent performance in three languages from @vonderleyen in @Europarl_EN this morning, setting out ambitions for European climate neutrality and carbon border tax, support for small & medium sized businesses within single market, sustainable development goals..

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@MartinChelt

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Good to see @LibDemMEPs & friends outside Westminster protesting at the eroding of parliamentary democracy. Join us if you agree it’s an outrage to suspend parliament at a time of huge political and economic - and now constitutional - crisis. . @LibDems

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@MartinChelt

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Every Conservative councillor voted against #PeoplesVote at @CheltenhamBC tonight. But vote carried 34 to 7. Well done @CheltForEurope @mpmwilko @cheltlibdems .

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@MartinChelt

7 years

Amazing fact I just learnt: TEN THOUSAND people have joined @libdems since Tuesday's announcement!! Join the party:

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@MartinChelt

5 years

Are you sickened by these comments like ⁦ @LibDemMEPs ⁩ ⁦ @ChrisDaviesLD ? Brexit Party call for foreign fishermen to be killed.. ⁩ Brexit party MEP called for EU fishing vessels to be 'sunk like Belgrano' | Brexit party | The Guardian

Brexit party MEP called for EU fishing vessels to be 'sunk like Belgrano'

Robert Rowland’s tweet about foreign fishermen ‘evil’, says Lib Dem committee chair

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@MartinChelt

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Speaking up for citizens’ rights in ⁦ @Europarl_EN ⁩ this week, paying tribute to ⁦ @guyverhofstadt ⁩ for his focus on EU27 citizens’ rights in the UK & Brits’ rights in the EU. Plus a surprising model for EU associate individual citizenship ⁦ @LibDemMEPs ⁩ ⁦

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@MartinChelt

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@TheEconomist It’s about time we dumped the medieval idea that the mind (= soul) and body are two separate things. Mental health services will never achieve parity otherwise, mental health patients will never overcome stigma or the default assumption that causes & cures are all psychological.

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@MartinChelt

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Naughtier than bad cycling? Cheating on wife; helping to get journalist assaulted; Illegal prorogation; making NazaninZR case worse; "letterboxes" "hot totty" "piccaninnies" "bumboys" "dead bodies"(Libya) & "spaffed"(abuse inquiry); NHS lie to Leavers; NI lie to Unionists..

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@MartinChelt

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Tremendous support for ⁦ @HelenCBelcher ⁩ on the streets of Corsham! Great to meet up with @libdems & ⁦ @unitetoremain ⁩ candidate Helen and the ⁦ @WiltsLibDems ⁩ team for Chippenham constituency. #GE2019 #libdemswinninghere

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@MartinChelt

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No Farage on #bbcqt for once. Its my south west ⁦ @LibDemMEPs ⁩ teamie ⁦ @CarolineVoaden ⁩, explaining why the best deal isn’t Boris’s deal but the deal we have now in the EU. (Odd how keen Tories are for 3rd election in 5yrs but not a #PeoplesVote on their #Brexit deal)

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@MartinChelt

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One day, perhaps all leadership contests will be like this! Great to see @EdwardJDavey and @joswinson showing Tories how you can compete for the top job without trying to rubbish & take chunks out of your colleagues. Even answered one question in unison!!! #BBCLibDemDebate

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@MartinChelt

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@DerbysPolice What IS it with @DerbysPolice ? Exercise is good & healthy. Walking your dog is safe. Outside space is safer than being indoors. Sharing a car with someone from your own house is almost as safe as being at home. For god’s sake focus on behaviour that’s really killing thousands.

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@MartinChelt

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@5Pillarsuk What was the offending message? Unless it was actually racist or promoted violence, why should they leave politics at the door? I’ve visited dozens of schools to debate politics with students, even primaries (demonstrated fair trade with a huge chocolate bar). Part of education.

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