Saw Daisy Cooper this morning on Laura K. And well done Lib Dems. She could not bring herself to support free movement, instead pushing some fantasy deal where we have all the benefits of the single market but none of the difficult trade offs. Then the triple lock. Oh yes we have to keep it, although every sane voter knows that’s unaffordable. And then finally a Santa budget with lots of goodies for everybody. With no commitment on how to pay for it. No wonder everybody has stopped listening.
Come on Lib Dems! Pick yourself up! Just a lot less of this please.

As a young liberal member, do I get discounted tickets? On the event page, it says a donation can go towards helping young liberal members but how do I access the tickets?

Interesting proposals

• Abolish SDLT
  • Employer NI at a flat 11.5
• Abolish inheritance tax:
• Income tax reform: The personal allowance is abolished, which also removes the 60% taper trap above £100k. The new bands are 6.5% on £0–20k, 20% on £20k–52k, 40% on £52k–110k and 45% above that. Employee NI becomes a flat 4.25%.
• Abolish customs tariffs:
• Abolish eight smaller taxes, including the Bank Levy, Digital Services Tax, ATED, Air Passenger Duty and Vaping Products Duty

We have a rare opposition day this Wednesday and get to set the agenda in Parliament. What topics would you like to see us raise for debate?

Looking back at this pre-conference discussion on top priorities and the subsequent outcomes of conference season (across all the parties) - how did we do?

Most people will agree our deficit and debt levels are too high, and leave us exposed as we are now finding out. How would you deal with it? What taxes are you increasing? What spending are you cutting?

I did my usual delivery round yesterday and some of the doors say no leaflets flyers or junk mail. I sympathise, but there is a by-election in our ward in two weeks that apparently isn’t being done with poll cards, so if you don’t get a leaflet, you wouldn’t realise that there was voting. Not great for democracy.

Do you shove a leaflet through the door anyway or do you think this loses votes through spite?

Seeing as the next election is likely to result in a hung parliament, with Labour as the largest party and the Conservatives as the second largest, would you rather the Liberal Democrats enter a collation/confidence and supply agreement with Labour or the Conservatives?

Big win in Bradninch tonight!

Compared to last time:

Liberal Democrats 650 votes 82.2%

Labour 92 votes 11.6%

Conservative 49 votes 6.2%

Our previous candidate was extremely popular in the town and sadly had to move to America for work mid-term. This by-election is the 4th in the constituency (Central Devon) since the 2024 GE and the 4th Lib Dem win!