- Reform DOGE unit in Kent a “spectacular failure” for which Yusuf must “personally apologise”
- Lib Dems: Thames Water’s data protection “as leaky as its infrastructure” as party calls for company to be placed under special administration
- Ed Davey statement marking Oct 7 anniversary: “We stand in solidarity”
Reform DOGE unit in Kent a “spectacular failure” for which Yusuf must “personally apologise”
Responding to reports that Reform’s DOGE unit in Kent has found no savings and is set to hike council tax, Daisy Cooper MP, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, said:
Reform’s pledge to slash millions from Kent Council’s budget has turned out to be nothing but smoke and mirrors.
Just like his idol Elon Musk, Zia Yusuf has spectacularly failed to deliver what DOGE promised. It turns out cribbing the notes of dodgy American tech billionaires is no way to run a council.
Zia Yusuf should personally apologise to the people of Kent for misleading them.
Lib Dems: Thames Water’s data protection “as leaky as its infrastructure” as party calls for company to be placed under special administration
Responding to reporting by BBC Radio 4 that Thames Water have been giving out customer information over the phone without completing adequate identity checks, Liberal Democrat MP for Witney and Thames Water campaigner Charlie Maynard said:
Thames Water’s data protection appears to be as leaky as its infrastructure. The ever-growing list of Thames Water’s failures continues – from raking in billions of pounds of debt, destroying our precious waterways to now reportedly handing out private customer data. The company needs to address these failures to ensure criminals are not given a free pass at extracting customer data.
The Government must finally pull their finger out, place Thames Water into special administration and appoint a new water regulator to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of catastrophes.
Ed Davey statement marking Oct 7 anniversary: “We stand in solidarity”
On the second anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attack, Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey said:
Two years ago, we watched in horror those appalling scenes of Hamas’s evil terrorist attack on Israel. 1,200 innocent people brutally slain, including hundreds of young people at a music festival. Others raped, sexually assaulted and mutilated. 251 people taken hostage, ripped away from their families.
Those terror attacks also triggered a shocking rise in antisemitism here in the UK – a terrible scourge that took the lives of Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz at their synagogue last week.
We stand in solidarity with British Jews, the people of Israel and Jewish communities around the world against terrorism and against antisemitism in all its forms.
This cycle of violence has gone on for far too long, caused far too much suffering and claimed far too many innocent lives.
With new peace talks under way, we desperately hope that they will finally see the hostages returned home to their families, a lasting bilateral ceasefire, Hamas out of power in Gaza for good – and set us on the path to a two-state solution that offers both Israelis and Palestinians the peace and security they deserve.
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“ Two years ago, we watched in horror those appalling scenes of Hamas’s evil terrorist attack on Israel.‘
And in those two years Netanyahu has demonstrated the total inhumanity of his government… which along without government’s lame response has so obviously encouraged the rise of violence against Jewish people.
Whilst I also stand against the violence meted out to Jews living in Britain, we and they need to be stronger in our condemnation of Netanyahu and his evil actions (supported by Trump’s administration) against the Palestinian people.
I hope Ed asks if Netanyahu’s plane on route to and from the UN in New York traversed UK and/or European airspace and if so why was the plane not forced to land, just as thenUS forced diplomatic planes to land in their pursuit of Edward Snowden…
It’s interesting to read from Mark’s extract that “we” stand in solidarity with Israel. Quite a few people in this country, including many Liberal Democrats, definitely do not stand in solidarity with the Israel which is carrying out what is probably genocide. As I have said before, I sympathise with those who have been led to believe in the delusional world of Benjamin Netanyahu and his extreme right-wing coalition, but I think the time to stand in solidarity with Israel is when Israelis have acknowledged their tragic mistake and are involved in the healing process.
Hi Andy,
I can’t see anything to justify your comment where you state that you read from Mark’s extract (from Ed’s statement) that “we” stand in solidarity with Israel. I fear you may have inadvertently created a straw man to then knock down and make your otherwise very sound and pertinent points.
The only place where Ed mentions the word solidarity is where he says “We stand in solidarity with British Jews, the people of Israel and Jewish communities around the world against terrorism and against antisemitism in all its forms.” A clear mention of standing us being with people against terrorism and antisemitism, but absolutely nothing about standing with the state of Israel. Can you explain where you think there is anything in that which you disagree with or where you perceive Ed says he stands with Israel in what it is doing now?
I do worry that in your perfectly valid desire to condemn what the Israeli government and its armed forces are doing in Gaza you are in grave danger of attacking your own side for things it hasn’t said. That is never a good look.
Thanks,
David
Question :
Besides ourselves on this site who in the general voting public knows about the statements?
Why not call a press conference to make these statements, dare I say it, like Reform.
I suggest it would be far more politically effective.
The one thing I would add to Daisy’s comment on reform in Kent would be to add to “Zia Yusuf should personally apologise to the people of Kent for misleading them,” the two words “… and resign”.