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They're still fully behind the farmers. Not even in a Dan Neidle "here's a better design that will hit the bigger tax avoiders" way, as far as I can tell.

Obviously he's talking primarily about Farage and Kemi, but I find this stuff a bit irritating. There's a pretty heavy tax to be paid for telling Trump to fuck off. On current form, rich landowners and public school parents won't be required by Ed to pay it.

Not another fucking bar chart.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue Mar 25, 2025 8:20 pm Obviously he's talking primarily about Farage and Kemi, but I find this stuff a bit irritating. There's a pretty heavy tax to be paid for telling Trump to fuck off. On current form, rich landowners and public school parents won't be required by Ed to pay it.

How's he going to stand up to Trump? Is he going to challenge him to a dance off on tiktok?

Are the LibDems going to be governing 'the south', then? Where even is that? The south of England, presumably, but does it Include London? Bedfordshire and or Dorset? Who knows?*

*Who cares?

Home counties mainly.

Since the last election the South West is now largely LibDem territory again as it was prior to the Coalition.

Going by old ITV regions, the South is Hampshire, IOW, Sussex, and the Thames Valley from Lechlade to Henley.

Here in Surrey we're the BBC.

Killer Whale wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 7:52 am Are the LibDems going to be governing 'the south', then? Where even is that? The south of England, presumably, but does it Include London? Bedfordshire and or Dorset? Who knows?*

*Who cares?

It won't include London, where lots of people live who won't be voting Lib Dem. No way they top a poll including London.

So assume it's home counties, Hants, and the SW, with maybe be Oxfordshire and Wiltshire too. Can see the Lib Dems leading this area.

Also believe the YG tracker is self selecting.

Today, this party of action men are calling for a Cobra meeting to discuss Trump's tariffs. Or, you know, the Chancellor and Business Secretary could pop into No.10.

Mercifully, they've given up on calling in the Commonwealth, it seems.

Their plan is to slap tariffs on teslas.

I'm not even sure Musk cares about that any more. Has he changed tack at all over all the declining everywhere? Not obviously.

Action Man Ed Davey straight out of the blocks again. The Government should launch a Buy British campaign.

Should France launch a Buy French campaign, Ed?

Davey's going to sing this isn't he?

Ed's found something else that Starmer should be doing- meeting the Governor of the Falkland Islands. This is of course a genuine priority (as opposed to a phone call) and not something Ed's calling for because it has nostalgic patriotic resonance.

43rd anniversary of the invasion. One of the big milestone anniversaries.

I know opposition leaves you with no power to do much but talk, but I'm finding hard to square this gobshite Ed Davey with the one who pushed through a (by all accounts) respectable climate bill as a minister.

Responding to the Prime Minister’s speech on supporting UK businesses following Trump’s tariffs, Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey said:
“Donald Trump has launched an assault on the global economy which threatens thousands of British jobs and family finances with another pasting in the midst of a cost of living crisis.
“The Government needs to break from its policy of cowering in the corner and stand tall with our Commonwealth and European allies against Trump’s tariffs through a new economic coalition of the willing.
“The strategy of hoping Donald Trump will be nice to us has not survived contact with reality. Now is the time to show the White House we have alternatives and end this trade war through strength not timidity.”

Again, shut up about the fucking Commonwealth. Pakistan doesn't care about tariffs on Canada. There's no sort of infrastructure in the organisation to form a collective tariff response.

"End this trade war through strength" though. What's the policy, Ed? No shortage of economic experts who don't want tariffs imposed in return.