Dr Caroline Gooch 🐤 🔶 🐪🐫 Lib Dems
@carogucc
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Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate for Bristol North West. Councillor - Westbury-on-Trym & Henleaze. PhD Neurophysiology, Medical Affairs consultant. Views my own
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Published and promoted by C. Allard on behalf of C. Gooch (Liberal Democrat), both at 26 Chantry Rd, Bristol, BS8 2QD
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@christopherhope
@JamesCrisp6
Hadn’t even noticed it had gone. You know what I do miss though? Cheap, plentiful food, lots of choice, freedom of movement, freedom to love and live across Europe. Crops being picked, British exporters being able to export. Fish&chips not costing the Earth. Bin lorry drivers.
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Delighted to finally be able to say publicly that I have been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Bristol Mayor. Our main focus is of course to
#ScrapTheMayor
as it is undemocratic, expensive and unnecessary.
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Labour are currently enjoying blaming the coalition for everything. Their 13 years before, and Tories 6 years since don’t count. It’s all the Lib Dems fault, apparently. So... austerity cuts during 2010-15 coalition, actual versus 2010 manifesto pledges. Notice anything?
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Thank you to everyone who voted for me for Mayor and to those of you that voted for me to be a councillor in Westbury-on-Trym and Henleaze ward. I’m sorry I came 4th in both races. I was 224 votes short of a council seat. Time now to tidy my house, get some sleep & then reassess
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Sad to read about the dead fish in the pond at Canford Park. Water gone stagnant because the council turned off the pump as a cost saving measure. Entire pond ecosystem now gone belly up. Literally. Solar powered pumps exist and work very well when most needed in the summer
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Why is all Bristol’s proposed architecture so ….. meh? Do Bristol’s architects not get out much? Or do Brustol developers skip the architect completely and go with the pre-school plain square box idea as standard?
Flattering artist impression of proposed blocks of flats in historic
@BristolZoo
gardens in Clifton Conservation Area, involving loss of 80 healthy trees, to go to
@BristolCouncil
Wed 26 at 2pm. How could this be considered appropriate?
#Unsustainable
#Unattractive
#Unacceptable
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Dear
@BBCPolitics
@bbclaurak
why no mention of
@LibDems
Conference on today’s Sunday with LK program? We didn’t get coverage of Autumn conference like other parties as cancelled due to death of the Queen, so surely only fair to cover this conference?
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Results for the count at Westbury on Trym and Henleaze. Thanks to the Labour and Green supporters who lent us their vote.
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From 2008-2012 when Bristol City Council was led by Lib Dem
@Barbara_Janke
, the city built more affordable homes than George or Marvin. In fact under Lib Dem leadership the worst year for affordable homes was better than the Mayors’ best years. After the 2008 financial crisis too
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I am running for Mayor of Bristol. Here are my priorities:
❌ Scrap the Mayor
✏️ Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) provision
🏠 Housing
🌳 Make our city greener
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Disappointing that the Mayor talked about believing that SEVs contribute to the objectification of women. The best thing to do to tackle the objectification of women is not to blame and take away jobs from working, tax-paying women, but to talk to your sons!!
@BristolSWC
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Cripes. So Labour selected without checking and the council passed her as beiing eligible. What a waste of tax payer’s money
🚨 By-election klaxon! 🚨 Just over two weeks since the local elections, it turns out there will soon be a by-election held in Horfield after one newly elected Labour councillor was disqualified
Deborah Vittori is a teacher in a council-owned school, so cannot be a councillor
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@sxybio
@artemis0801
@lewis_goodall
But at least everyone pays that, not just the ones that don’t have rich parents
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I am proud to have signed the
@UBILabNetwork
mayoral pledge. If I am elected Mayor of Bristol, I will support trials of Universal Basic Income
The Liberal Democrats support a UBI as a way to create a kinder, fairer, and more caring society
#PledgeForUBI
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Here are three reasons why I am opposed to the proposed nil cap on sexual entertainment venues (SEVs) in Bristol
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No
@MarvinJRees
I’m not politicking on SEVs, I just think you’re wrong. Women get abused everywhere whether there are SEVs nearby or not.
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As a liberal, I support women's rights to choose the work they do, and where they perform. I'm also concerned that the proposed nil cap could drive clubs underground. Sign the petition by
@BristolSWC
to reject a nil cap on SEVs in Bristol:
A protest by strippers took place on College Green this afternoon. They say that around 100 jobs are at risk if the city council bans sexual entertainment venues from the city.
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How do I complain about this??!!
@BBCPolitics
@BBCNews
@BBCBristol
@bbcpointswest
@BBCPoliticsWest
@BeebJournalist
#NoPlatforming
#WomenInPolitics
Bristol mayor: Candidate list 2021
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The thing I like about the committee system is that it encourages people to work cross party. I’m always impressed by how well cross party Parliamentary committees work compared to the childish main chamber. Cooperation is the future. Together we cover a wider range of ideas
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Like this tweet if you want to be involved in a campaign to bring a fresh, new and more democratic political system to Bristol that prioritises cooperative cross-party working, scrutinises decisions effectively and, most importantly, listens to and works for communities.
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@LabourBristol
It’s not a coalition. Your voters voted for you to take an active part in the city administration and you decided to put two fingers up to that instruction
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@DanicaPriest
@EllieFreemanBS3
OMG!!!!! Never stick your fingers through a letterbox. They are lethal, even without vicious dogs behind. How’s it going, reattached and recuperating? Get well soon xx
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Really p*****d off at Cabot Circus landlords forcing Showcase out. Loads of shops were forced out of Quakers Friars a few years ago for the same reason. It’s killing the city centre.
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.
@BristolCouncil
Build council houses. Family homes with gardens, gentle density, townhouses and low rise flats around garden squares. Make it human scale and liveable, bike, child and disabled friendly
Give us your ideas and views by 7 January on emerging concept ideas for the Mead Street regeneration. Your input will inform planning principles that guide future development in the area
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@beardedjourno
Surely being knocked unconscious counts as GBH? Brain injury can increase the chance of getting Alzheimer’s. This could have long term consequences for the victim
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Can the UK Government get any more absurd?
Hotel Carpeting Company Awarded Contract to Supply COVID-19 Tests
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Would be lovely to have this in Bristol
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@LabourBristol
@bristolgreen
You have vice chair of public health and communities, responsible for parks. Therefore you are in the administration. Apart from the fact that you set the mowing schedule and all we are getting at the moment is reports and no committees have been able to reset anything yet
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@darrenpjones
But councillors ARE elected. Committees are all proportional. What we have now is a one party city where the rainbow values of the city are ignored, and unelected elites have the mayors ear rather than elected representatives
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I just suggested on a Lib Dem chat group that we ask the government to start a massive insulation retrofit project. Helps with Cost of Living Crisis, Energy Crisis, Gas price issue etc. Start with poorest households first. Absolute emergency
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If you haven’t seen the BBC documentary series Big Oil v the World, I urge you to look it up on iPlayer. Truly shocking that Exxon worked a campaign of disinformation at odds with what its own scientists were telling them, in order to prevent action on CO2 emissions for decades
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Rebuild the Dutch House!!!!!
Back to that first view, this was where Bristol’s famous Dutch House stood before it was destroyed in the Blitz
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Indeed, much of the delay in getting these positions sorted has been entirely BECAUSE Labour refused to take up their allocation of Policy Chairs, forcing the Lib Dems to take an extra policy seat and give up a regulatory chair. They purposely kyboshed a traffic light system
It's a matter of regret that Labour have opted not to take any Committee Chair roles - let's be clear, there were no backroom deals: nobody squeezed Labour out, they chose not to take their share.
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I’m so fed up of all the disinformation. My hairdresser told me yesterday that we only got vaccine early because of Brexit. Well no, we have always had our own regulator as well as EMA, you don’t HAVE to follow centralised procedure. And procurement is free choice too
We looked it up. This drug is licensed for use in the EU. It's been available to EU countries since 2016.
This is a new low.
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Disabled rights are often forgotten and it has concerned me for a while that Bristol seems anti disability rights. We must ensure that during this consultation the message comes over loud and clear that it is not acceptable to force people from their homes purely to save money
More news in the shocking 'fair and affordable' scandal happening in Bristol currently.
'Disabled people in Bristol could be moved to care homes to save council money'
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@LabourBristol
You are not supposed to be politicising planning committee. Heritage England, the Conservation Advisory Panel and
@BristolCouncil
‘s own City Design Group all had issues with the design. Lib Dems and Greens agreed with them. You should demand better
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Big up
@JaneyisLittle
- future Lib Dem MP and leader - on her way to
@UniofOxford
with SIX A-levels. Love this girl
3 A*s!!!! Combined with the A Levels I got last year, I'm leaving school with A*A*A*A*A*A 😭😭😭😭
#GoingtoOxford
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I don’t understand how a ‘Labour’ mayor can be so deeply conservative and so thoughtless. The skaters there put cones out and skate in lanes for goodness sake. And it’s a trip hazard. Though of course no one gets to question Marvin. There are no checks and balances
Dozens of new ���stoppers’ have been installed to prevent skateboarding
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Why does mayor
@MarvinJRees
need to spend £36,000 a year of our money scanning Twitter? It’s not a representative sample of the population anyway. And isn’t it a bit weird?
£36,000 a year of tax payers money goes towards reporting to the mayor what residents wrote about him on Twitter.
This compares to £40,000 that is spent in the Quality of Life survey, which is a methodologically robust survey of people’s views.
The mayor renewed it.
#OPM
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If Bristol vote to move to a committee system next month, we will be following Sheffield who voted to do so last year. Some useful bits from their council website:
Moving to a modern Committee System of governance
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@DanicaPriest
Oh no!!! Sorry to read that. Noone should be maimed using a letterbox. If people have bitey dogs they should have a letterbox cage or external letterbox.
Personally I always pack these bad boys when delivering. And plenty of admiration for posties
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So, under the cap for health and social care, if your hone is worth £90k you lose all of it. If your home is with £600k you keep most of it. And the funding for this is coming from NI rises of workers which also disproportionately tax the poorest.
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Polling day today! Remember to use your vote
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Whilst I’m at it. Why doesn’t Bristol have a tram system? Manchester got one. Sheffield got one. Croydon and Merton got one. Then HM Government got the willies, decided trams were too expensive and Bristol’s plans canned. Who did this? Alistair Darling, Blair’s Government.
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@egwfraser
@BBCNews
@Ofcom
Greens and SNP omitted in favour of owner of private company with only 2 councillors in whole country and 1 MP elected for another party.
@Ofcom
do something about this ridiculous over promotion of Farage. It’s been going on for years. 37 appearances on
@bbcquestiontime
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I am campaigning for a referendum on the position of Mayor
Even if Bristol votes to Scrap the Mayor, the next Mayor will hold the position until 2024. I will:
🔸 Devolve power
🔸 End the secrecy
🔸 Work side-by-side with our neighbours.
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my joint statement on police and crime bill and ongoing protests with
@StephenRW01
and
@Heather4PCC
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It's time to Scrap the Mayor
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The
@BristolLibDems
are bringing a motion to full council on 16th March to give the people of Bristol the choice to Scrap the Mayor
Let's empower the people of Bristol to decide what form of governance they want in the city
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It was a pleasure and honour to be able to give my first speech at Lib Dem Conference today in support of the
@YoungLiberalsUK
amendment to retain an overall housing target of 380k homes/year in addition to our policy to build 150,000 social housing homes/year.
#win
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It started so peacefully. Look, I’m no fan of the latest draconian Police and Crime, but this will only make Priti Patel double down. Violence only ever makes it worse
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@edwardlamb
Remember when we used to laugh at those massive cars Americans used to drive? Now we’re all driving them. Our streets weren’t built for monster trucks
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I am committed to standing up for children and young people with SEND and their families, and I have proudly signed the Bristol SEND Community Alliance manifesto
Here is my piece about the SEND crisis in Bristol 👇
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Bristol deserves better than any old crap planners put forward. This is how we ended up with the eyesore that is Castle View. High quality design shouldn’t be a nice to have, it should be an expectation, including for affordable housing.
@LabourBristol
You are not supposed to be politicising planning committee. Heritage England, the Conservation Advisory Panel and
@BristolCouncil
‘s own City Design Group all had issues with the design. Lib Dems and Greens agreed with them. You should demand better
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@MarvinJRees
@Keir_Starmer
In your best year you built fewer affordable homes (312) than the Lib Dems did in their worst year (369). And we did that in directly after the 2008 financial crisis. You’ve only done slightly better than George Ferguson, and way below your targets
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We need more proportional voting, not less. The Supplementary Vote is little better than FPTP. We are the least democratic country in Europe
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Here's what I had to say on SEVs in Bristol
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"In 2015, the Conservative government put the brakes on renewable power. The Lib Dems in coalition almost quadrupled renewable power. Energy bills would be billions of pounds lower today if they'd carried on with our policy" - Ed Davey on Times Radio
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@bristol_pip
It’s bollox, sorry. Crap public transport entrenches car ownership. The only place o felt I could live without a car was London, because I didn’t need one
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All I was asking was that he make it clear his promotion of
@MarvinJRees
was his own view, not that of the various boards of charities and public bodies on which he sits which feature in his Twitter bio. In accordance with electoral law. He’s electoral agent. He knows the rules
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People asked me about running for councillor and for mayor, it was an accident and I was highly unlikely to win either, let alone both. But if I had, I would have stood down and triggered a by-election. This chap, none of it, two full jobs two salaries.
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We must tackle the housing crisis in Bristol
If I am elected Mayor of Bristol, I will build more homes, particularly affordable homes, and ensure that housing in our city is climate-friendly
Find out more about me at:
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I guess I need to change my twitter handle 🐫🐪❤️
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I was just asked on
@itvwestcountry
about housing ambitions and I didn’t have the numbers to hand. On average
@MarvinJRees
built 1696 homes a year between 2016-20, 240 affordable. Lib Dem led council 2008-12 averaged 2062 a year, 466 affordable
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Poor Brenda. She’ll only just be recovering from the local election
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Calling attention to story of
@geo_manolas
-struggling to bring his wife home to Bristol -in Serbia to attend father’s funeral, she lost her UK residence card. Tho card now found it’s been cancelled as reported lost, so mum now separated from young kids
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Been round at my Dad’s, he has Alzheimer’s. It’s been a few months since I saw him. He has taken to carrying my graduation picture round with him and kissing it and telling it how beautiful it is. He wouldn’t believe I was the same girl 😢
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I’ve always been afraid that at some point the far right will rise in Britain and fight against science and intellectualism. The ongoing anti vaccine, anti lockdown movement, violent infiltration of peaceful protest by agitators, and mob mentality is really worrying
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Imagine if instead of a massive roundabout we had the Frome running there with Amsterdam style bridges
#FreeTheFrome
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@stillawake
And
@johndarvall
didn’t press that point with Marvin Rees. If the buck stops with the Mayor then WHY hasn’t the council done it’s legal duty and put out a booklet?
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If you wish to donate to my campaign you can do so here:
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I'll be on
@BCfmRadio
tomorrow at 8:35am talking about my campaign and my plans for the city. Tune in!
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Hitting the nail on the head. The Mayoral system allows one person to only listen to his private network, and circumvent democracy
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Lovely to have help in Westbury and Henleaze ward from the leader of South Glos council
@ClaireforTAY
. Thank you Claire!
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@ACORN_Bristol
@MarvinJRees
@DonaldGraham78
I have a spare room, Selma and her son can come and stay with me until her house is ready.
@ACORN_Bristol
serious offer, PM me
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"The more you look into it, the worse it gets"
I spoke to
@CleanupSend
about the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) crisis in Bristol. We must put an end to this crisis and stand up for children and young people with SEND
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Managing parks, leisure centres and recreation facilities is part of the bread and butter of the council. So why is
@MarvinJRees
putting Netham into private hands? The community are terrified of losing their valuable only green space
@BristolCouncil
decided to handover this beautiful green space at the heart of one of the poorest area of UK to ‘charitable’ or partially private organisations who are now going to bid to managing it.
This is one of the biggest mistakes this administration is doing. Why Netham?
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Delighted to announce that I am endorsed by the Green Liberal Democrats. Dedicated to implementing our environmental strategies of clean air, low carbon energy and green jobs, sustainable housing, protecting nature, green farming and cutting waste
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I think Susie must have been speaking to Marvin Rees
Word of the day is ‘circumbendibus’ (17th century): an answer or argument so convoluted and evasive that it isn’t really an answer at all.
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Sad news about Prince Phillip, one of the very few WW2 veterans we had left. The Queen’s rock for 70 years, sometimes a controversial figure but certainly never dull. The Duke of Edinburgh Awards introduced me, like so many others to the outdoors, service and sport
It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.
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I don’t think I’ve ever been so troubled by the details coming out of a murder trial as those that came out about
#SarahEverard
. Maybe it’s because I walked around SW london at night for years, and I remember taking part of the route she took once. Could have been any of us
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The motion the
@BristolLibDems
are bringing to full council proposes to have a referendum on whether to keep the Mayor or change to the more democratic Leader and Cabinet model
A council leader is accountable to the council and cannot overrule a majority council decision
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@TOrynski
Sometimes this country disgusts me. But I am heartened that friends and neighbours helped you. Our problem is our right wing press peddling lies designed to anger. How much better our country would be without the Barclay brothers, Lord Rothermere, Murdoch and co.
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Best thread today
What if I told you there was a single intervention we could deliver in our cities that would cool them during heatwaves, reduce flooding, scrub pollutants from the air, boost biodiversity, improve public health, and even reduce crime? You wouldn't believe me. But it's true.
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Why can’t we build developments around trees. Sure someone would love to have this in their garden. We lose a mature ecosystem every time we fell a tree. The only reason not to design around them is 💵. We should value what money can’t buy.
Oh my god, this is just horrible. It seems only young kids seem capable of seeing what we’re actually doing to the world around us, their screams are of pure despair
@SaveEnniskerry
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How about we confiscate all the houses owned by offshore shell companies and use them to house refugees and homeless people?
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If Jackie Weaver has gotten you into local politics recently, I'd encourage you to watch the Extraordinary Full Council meeting about Bristol Energy tomorrow at 5pm.
I've submitted questions and a statement.
Here's a timeline on what happened:
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Anyone got a pantomime dromedary suit for the count?
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More and more people realise the value of a proportional voting system for national elections.If we look at local level, at what we have in Bristol, we see that all of the power is held by a party with 1/3 seats, because of the mayoral model.
@Tom_jam
Yes, below from Wikipedia. The reds have almost all the decision-making power, that’s how extreme “strong leadership” works (or not). The vast majority of Bristolians are unrepresented in local decision-making.
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Just done my first radio interview as Lib Dem Bristol Mayoral candidate. Time for a 6 o’clock Bristol gin
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This petition against the police and crime bill has nearly a quarter of a million signatures already. - PLEASE SIGN - Petition: Do not restrict our rights to peaceful protest.
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I've just come out of a fantastic conversation with
@AllianceWalking
, covering accessibility issues, how walking is often taken for granted, and how it is the little things that can have a huge impact. There is a need to have a real focus on walking in the city
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Bristol Lib Dems have been calling for bus franchising for years now.
@MarvinJRees
refused to support it.
@StephenRW01
as our Metro mayor would bring this in, and I in Bristol fully behind bus franchising
Has
@MarvinJRees
@KyeDudd
@WestofEnglandCA
got any game changing PT announcements like
@AndyBurnhamGM
? What do other candidates think?
@sandyhruthven
@votedannorris
@BristolYMayors
@ScrapTheMayorLD
@Samuel4WECA
@alistairwatson5
@StephenRW01
@bristoljerome
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Watching De Pfeffel
#Johnson
being interviewed on
#channel4news
is so frustrating and anger making. Wish he’d just stop fibbing. He has no plan, he could have been training lorry drivers and raising pay for the last 5 years
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