Thanks LGBT+ Lib Dems for providing the transcript.
I always want videos like this to be subtitled, but they so rarely are – when it benefits both people with hearing issues and those who don’t have speakers on their computer (or are watching in a situation where maybe they’d rather not have the sound on, like at work!) Transcripts aren’t quite as good as subtitles but are the next best thing, and much more googleable.
To be clear it’s far from being an issue just with Lib Dem videos – one of the places that never puts subtitles on its youtube content to my astonishment is the Govt Equalities Office. If anywhere should be doing accessiblity surely it’s them!
David Blake I agree with much of what Richard Cripps says - and I've been a member for 54 years. If I wasn't already a member I'm not sure that what the party has become w...
Richard Dickson Thanks for this. Kindness - to people, businesses, whole communities, our environment and to nature, to our past, present and future - requires us also to be br...
Richard Cripps I've been a Lib/Lib Dem voter for 50 years. However, I'm finding it more and more difficult to justify this to friends and family (snd sometimes even myself) as...
Steve Trevethan P. S. Here is an article from the current edition of "Counterpunch" which may be of relevance and/or interest.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/23/france...
Steve Trevethan Thank you for a most incisive article which, so precisely, presents the cruelty and greed of Neolibealim.
Would that the L.D Party renounced and denounced Ne...
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There’s a transcript of this statement on the LGBT+ Lib Dems website.
Thanks LGBT+ Lib Dems for providing the transcript.
I always want videos like this to be subtitled, but they so rarely are – when it benefits both people with hearing issues and those who don’t have speakers on their computer (or are watching in a situation where maybe they’d rather not have the sound on, like at work!) Transcripts aren’t quite as good as subtitles but are the next best thing, and much more googleable.
To be clear it’s far from being an issue just with Lib Dem videos – one of the places that never puts subtitles on its youtube content to my astonishment is the Govt Equalities Office. If anywhere should be doing accessiblity surely it’s them!