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Amanda Jeyaretnam (she/her)
Amanda Jeyaretnam (she/her)
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Pathetic - according to Right Wing Media. Or… Woke, Progressive, social democrat Liberal. Fighting fake democracies. Mentor/Ally Singapore/UK #NeverTrump. #ReformOut 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇪🇺 Resist!
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Bobby Dean MP speaking up for Hong Kongers in the UK. The BN(O) visa was a Liberal Democrat initiative originating with Paddy Ashdown. The LibDems continue to campaign for the community mainly via the AO @cesea-libdems.bsky.social
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“Alongside fellow MPs, I have received reports of applications being refused because of convictions linked to the 2019-2020 pro-democracy protests”, writes @bobbywdean.bsky.social 🗣️ Britain cannot shut the door on Hongkongers persecuted for defending democracy www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/brit...
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🌊 Stand up for our lifesavers & put Reform on the spot. 🛟 Following Portsmouth Lib Dems' lead, our new template council motion backs the RNLI, condemns abuse of volunteer crews, and forces Reform councillors to show where they truly stand. Get the motion 🔗 www.aldc.org/2026/10/counci...
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Such good advice
I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.
I avoid Oxford St not due to traffic but due to pedestrian behaviour and crowded tube. I can find those big name stores elsewhere. I doubt Oxford St is where teenagers go for 1st shopping trip. More likely the Westfields & Brent Cross or Portobello market. Puma isn’t going to bring in tourists 🤷🏽♀️
If hosts can’t make money from STRs they may sell-up adding more housing stock in tourist areas but the biggest bounce will be for traditional hotels. Airbnb won’t go out of business because it’s already shifting its business from individual hosts to hotels.
If #airbnb went out of business it would probably double the amount of properties available for long-term rentals. How can that be a bad thing? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
Freedom of movement could work better because post-Brexit migration let all those non-white people in. Innit?
Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he wants a more 'honest conversation' about freedom of movement, suggesting it could work better than post-Brexit immigration has. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Britons should use money we haven't got to buy food the country doesn't grow, store it in homes that don't exist, in spare rooms that got taxed away, so we can survive when reservoirs nobody built run dry because of a climate the govt won't protect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Controversial “Musk” @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films www.showbiz411.com/2026/10/23/c...
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We the Liberal Democrat’s have outlined our plans on how to tackle the threats from Russia. We need to expand UK shipbuilding, with six new Royal Navy frigates and four new British shipyards to face down these threats. @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social
This is the point. The government is proactively placing the responsibility on the individual citizen to avoid blame later. In London, when Thames water fails, we’ve seen how long it takes to get bottled water deliveries. Clearly the gov also doesn’t have a storage or distribution network.
Sure, we should, if we can (many cannot). But as I keep pointing out, the government itself is making no provision at all. No stockpiles, no back-up, no alternative sources. It's individuating the response to a collective problem, and that never ends well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hi Bonnie, I was threatened and then got cut off by my parents. I wasn’t there as I had run away from home at age 17, but a brother told me the family was assembled in the library and like a scene from a gothic movie the family solicitor removed my name from the will. I never looked back.
The real mystery is why steps haven’t been taken to ban tall people from sitting in the front at cinemas. I don’t have a car, use public transport, so parking OK, but it’s a mystery why the 218 is allowed to hide behind the 306 and then pull out and drive off without stopping. Also child poverty.
Things like that cracking down on aggressive parking charges or people playing loud music on a train are just… good steps. The real mystery is why no government has taken these steps before.
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If the Paris riots are just the start then I fear for the long term prospects of the French Royal family.
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Jail for people on large shared tables taking up all the chairs with their bags and coats - who give you the evil eye and mutter rudely when you politely ask if “those chairs” are taken.
Jail time for people who stand on the left on tube escalators. Public stoning for people who walk at you looking at their phone. Stay tuned for more mad, unenforceable policy ideas aimed at minor daily irritations.
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And he could do just the same here in the UK - unless the Representation of the People Bill is both strengthened and passed.
One widely loathed, ketamine-addicted, white-supremacist billionaire can single-handedly keep a failing political party afloat, through the brute force of money. Excellent system we've set up here.
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I’ve been telling you who John Cleese is for years. 9 years in fact. He voted Leave, then before GE 2017 he announced he wouldn’t be going to the polls as his vote was “worthless” in Kensington, a *Tory stronghold. *After 3 recounts Labour overturned the Tory incumbent by 20 votes.
Wrote about this a couple of months ago.
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Ed Davey said: "This is chilling. I feel for anyone watching this tonight who is frightened to see such racism and hatred festering in their community." buff.ly/Fv2Dib0