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Sun 27th11:01 Davey missteps at the first opportunity Nowadays, every new political leader feels obliged to find their own equivalent of Tony Blair's Clause Four moment, when he signalled a break from the party's past. The problem is that, whereas Blair genuinely believed that his party needed to make that change, others create an artificial break with the past, that neither reflects the current mood of their party nor the direction they should be travelling. A good examnple of that is Ed Davey's rather hamfisted and ill-advised attempt to break with his own past as Jo Swinson's right-hand man by seeking to remove any commitment the Liberal Democrats ... Posted by Peter Black on Peter Black | Mute Sun 27th11:00 My tweets Sat, 12:56: Best tweet of another good thread from @pmdfoster . https://t.co/pmNhFl0I7p Sat, 14:48: How Police Unions Fight Reform https://t.co/he8AhLIvUQ Long but thorough. Sat, 15:41: Superman (1978) https://t.co/CoE29WkFeD Sat, 16:05: Mad but true: @CJCHowarth blocked me after we had this exchange. What a snowflake! https://t.co/HzeWPFkXpO Sat, 17:02: RT @namwalien: I won the @ClarkeAward within an hour of hearing that the cops who killed Breonna Taylor weren't charged. To honor Breonna a... Sat, 20:13: RT @sethspeirs: @nwbrux It has rather exposed SFs two headed approach. The increasingly crazy approach down South is not helping either. Th... Sat, 20:13: RT @LeeReynoldsDUP: @CJCHowarth ... Posted on From the Heart of Europe | Mute Sun 27th10:30 Ed's first Q and A as leader On Lib Dem Voice: Reportage | Contribute On the official party website: Conference home Ed did his first Leader's Q and A yesterday afternoon. Under normal circumstances, he would be wandering around the stage, addressing a packed hall. He was at the podium in LDHQ taking questions from menbers in a way that you don't often find from other party leaders. We allow supplementaries to pre-submitted questions which mean that he can be faced with just about anything, from the random to the policy to the personal. You can watch it here from around 5 hours in. Here are some ... Posted by Caron Lindsay on Liberal Democrat Voice | Mute Sun 27th09:15 Labour's dilemma Class based V Progressive Politics Labour is trying to pull back into its fold the right wing white working class voters who voted Tory at the last General Election. This despite the fact that these voters can often hold views which would embarrass a truly progressive party This is summed up by Jim Hancock who says this in one of his recent blog pieces (Hancock's Half Page):- 'Sir Keir's statement that "we love our country" was really important. For Labour to have any hope of regaining its northern strength, it must recognise the deep patriotism of the working class.' To me that deep patriotism ... Posted by Cllr. Tony Robertson on Sefton Focus | Mute Sun 27th08:59 Observations of an ex pat: Shifting goalposts If evidence was required of shifting global goalposts then diplomatic observers didn't need to look any further than the start of this year's UN General Assembly. For a start, the General Assembly Hall was sparsely populated with socially distanced diplomats. Coronavirus has kept away the heads of state, government and foreign ministers who normally gather in the UN building on the west bank of New York's East River. Instead, the speeches have been pre-recorded and displayed on the giant screen. No politicos means no chance for the usual annual flurry of bilaterals where the real diplomatic business is done. It ... Posted by Tom Arms on Liberal Democrat Voice | Mute Sun 27th08:30 Whoniversaries 27 September i) births and deaths 27 September 1911: Birth of John Harvey, who played Professor Brett in The War Machines (First Doctor, 1966) and Officia in The Macra Terror (Second Doctor, 1967) 27 September 1921: birth of Milton Subotsky, who produced and wrote Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD (1966), the two cinema films starring Peter Cushing as Doctor Who. 27 September 1939: birth of Garrick Hagon, who played revolutionary/evolutionary leader Ky in The Mutants (Third Doctor, 1972), and the undertaker A Town Called Mercy (Eleventh Doctor, 2012). 27 September 2000: death of Daphne ... Posted on From the Heart of Europe | Mute Sat 26th21:51 Does a policy of meaningful federalism offer a credible option to the nations? I don't oppose Scottish independence, assuming that that's what the Scottish people want. And, given that the options available to them were independence or, under a Conservative Government, a creeping clawback of powers from Edinburgh to Westminster, you could see why the debate is going the way it has - increasingly polarised. The thing about freedom is that... it isn't actually free. Freedom always comes with a cost, the question being, are you willing to pay it? I tend to the view, having seen some of the financial projections out there, that independence would be costly in terms of GDP, ... Posted by Mark Valladares on Liberal Bureaucracy | Mute Sat 26th20:15 Speeches of #ldconf: Layla Moran's first as Foreign Affairs Spokesperson On Lib Dem Voice: Reportage | Contribute On the official party website: Conference home Layla Moran made her first keynote speech since taking over the Foreign Affairs spokesperson and showed that she has mastered her brief very quickly. She was as passionate and compassionate as you would expect and called out the Government on its failure to do enough to support human rights around the world. "We want the UK to take a leading role globally in standing up to repression, genocide and hatred wherever it appears." @LaylaMoran #LDconf [IMG: ⬇] [IMG:

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