@dgbailey @johnclancy @BrumLabour @UKLabour @BhamCityCouncil Yes understand the logic . I know the current LD councillors . They are all excellent community politicians with administrative abilities.
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Tim Cotterill 🔸
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Tim Cotterill 🔸
@tim_cotterill
UK Businessman. Chairman of James Lister & Sons supplying West Midlands manufacturers since 1874. Liberal Democrat. All Views My Own.
West Bromwich, England Katılım Haziran 2017
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@tim_cotterill @johnclancy @BrumLabour @UKLabour @BhamCityCouncil Greens got the largest share of the vote so deserve a chance to try to form a coalition with others - ideally with LDs, Indies and Lab once the latter has a leader colonially appointed from London amidst the current turmoil.
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@brumlabour still waiting for @uklabour to colonially appoint its leader amidst the Westminster PM psychodrama. Farcical that other parties having to wait around for talks on a rainbow coalition for @bhamcitycouncil because of @UKLabour’s micro mis-management of the local party.
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@dgbailey @johnclancy @BrumLabour @UKLabour @BhamCityCouncil Oh is that the case… Didn’t know that… … Just concerned that some of The Green councillors were paper candidates and didn’t expect too win … There was one at the count that was “ in shock”… Perhaps there will be a few by elections soon ….
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@tim_cotterill @johnclancy @BrumLabour @UKLabour @BhamCityCouncil I recall both the capita service Birmingham fiasco and equal pay issue starting under the Tory-LD council so maybe some newcomers might be welcome?
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@dgbailey @johnclancy @BrumLabour @UKLabour @BhamCityCouncil Very inexperienced… LDs and Loval Conservatives have some excellent administrators in their ranks … But as a LibDem I am biased ….
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Reform UK says “there’s no point” in talking to the Conservatives about forming a coalition in Birmingham.
Yesterday, Tories accused Reform of “giving up” on their first day in the job, after the party admitted it had “no viable route” to forming an administration.
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@LewisJWarner Not again Jess. I have great respect for her but not this... But saying this I am not on the inside of government ...
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NEW: Jess Phillips QUITS the Government.
Beth Rigby@BethRigby
EXCLUSIVE: Jess Phillips, safeguarding minister, resigns from govt
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@Prosper_UK_ I respect you @DavidGauke @andy4wm @Prosper_UK_ but I am not going to be tempted back. The broad coalition should be built inside the @LibDems . Our business network is thriving @LDBusEntNet . Come over and join us.
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The Liberal Democrats are not making the progress they need to make.
The latest results do not show a national party on the march.
For the Conservatives, that matters. Many of those seats were once Conservative, and many of those voters could be tempted back.
The route back to Government is building a of broad coalition around the economy, competence and trust.
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@KateWilton1 Same, we were probably members around the same time. They're in a tough spot under FPTP, especially in a 4-5 party situation, because they're pretty much the most central on all axes, leading to them getting squeezed out from all sides.
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Just wondering where the Lib Dem’s are right now? I was a Lib Dem member for a bit when it seemed they were the only sane party, pro EU and some momentum. Like most people for the main I’m not tied to one party, I’m not especially pro Labour, I just want a sane, stable govt.
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@lewis_goodall @Frances_Coppola Good . Hang in there Starmer… For the good of UK Borrowing rates. Anything else will be far worse.
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Something people don’t understand about Starmer, partly because he appears so mild mannered, is that he has an iron clad self belief. Genuinely not impossible he does a Corbyn and tries to fight any contest with the membership.
Kevin Schofield@KevinASchofield
BREAKING: Starmer tells Cabinet he's going nowhere. “As I said yesterday, I take responsibility for these election results and I take responsibility for delivering the change we promised. “The past 48 hours have been destabilising for government and that has a real economic cost for our country and for families. “The Labour Party has a process for challenging a leader and that has not been triggered. “The country expects us to get on with governing. That is what I am doing and what we must do as a Cabinet.”
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@adam_stewart This is so UK… Birmingham is ahead of time. Policy makers get your think hats on …
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Good to see the proper breakdown here of the vote - Labour, Green and Reform all effectively got 20% of the vote creating different results.
PollCheck@poll_checker
Birmingham Full Result NoC, Reform largest party Green: 20.8% (+15.7) 19 seats (+17) Labour: 20.4% (-31.3) 17 seats (-48) Reform: 19.6% (new) 23 seats (+23) Con: 15.5% (-11.8) 16 seats (-10) LD: 11.2% (-3.6) 12 seats (=) Ind: 9.5% (+8.5) 13 seats (+13) WPB: 2.0% (new) 1 seat (+1) Others: 1.0% (+1.0) 0 seats Changes w/2022 (Reposted due to a mistake in the map)
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@RoryMaw @AntonSpisak @LizWebsterSBF @julianHjessop Yes . I am not advocating it’s All Brexit. We have a highly complex economy…. which in many ways is a good thing … but manufacturing areas of the UK like the West Midlands are becoming “left behind” and the workforce cannot easily be retrained when demand declines
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@tim_cotterill @AntonSpisak @LizWebsterSBF @julianHjessop Indeed. At least we have established it was not "all Brexit". Now when we compare the UK and Germany ...
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“Brexit was largely a macroeconomic non-event” ignores all the available evidence about the economic and fiscal costs of Brexit to the UK economy.
It is a statement that is both wrong and dangerously misleading.
Wolfgang Munchau@EuroBriefing
Rejoining the EU will not in and of itself increase economic growth in the UK, just as leaving the EU did not reduce it. Brexit was largely a macroeconomic non-event. This could be different if the UK were to rejoin the EU with a positive agenda for growth and deregulation, and about strengthening the EU’s role in the world. I am not holding my breath here. Remain was a scare campaign in 2016. What I have seen from Rejoin advocates so far is essentially a version of the same. eurointelligence.com
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@RoryMaw @AntonSpisak @LizWebsterSBF @julianHjessop Obviously yes a factor in the same way as losing frictionless trade with EU is also …
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@tim_cotterill @AntonSpisak @LizWebsterSBF @julianHjessop UK energy prices were already high relative to the G20 in 2021. They have got much higher, it is true, but would already have been a factor. They are now a (the?) dominant one.
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@RoryMaw @AntonSpisak @LizWebsterSBF @julianHjessop Btw. Do you run a manufacturing/industrial business ?
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@tim_cotterill @AntonSpisak @LizWebsterSBF @julianHjessop With the highest industrial energy prices in the developed world, is it surprising that manufacturers aren’t setting up in the UK to export to lower energy price economies? Come on, this is not hard!
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@DavidGauke Never thought Charles Moore was/is a centrist …
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It’s time to recover the centrist temperament, says Charles Moore. He’s not wrong. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/1…
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Starmer and Reeves are not kidding when they say this political uncertainty causes economic damage. The only “reset” being achieved at the moment is higher borrowing costs. Result? We’re all worse off. So deeply depressing.
Ed Conway@EdConwaySky
👀UK 10yr bond yields shoot up to 5.1% amid speculation about the fate of the PM. Here's the chart of the past three trading days 👇
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@AntonSpisak @LizWebsterSBF @RoryMaw @julianHjessop We benefited in the 1990s from EU SM entry when German,Japanese, other European and American firms came to the Midlands. They replaced many names like Goodyear,Dunlop, Delta etc . Some of these are now moving like Heller Machine Tools back to Germany ….
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@AntonSpisak @LizWebsterSBF @RoryMaw @julianHjessop So true @AntonSpisak . We are a distributor of industrial products to 100s of OEMs who will manufacturing and then exporting to the EU . There has been a gradual decline of Demand from them since we came out of EU SM… Also very few manufacturing companies setting up …
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@soclibforum Brilliantly summarised. Come on over @Prosper_UK_ . You will be welcomed in @LibDems and @LDBusEntNet . We have a thriving Business network. @andy4wm . Leave the culture warriors to it in what’s left of the Conservative party.
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FINE: a third and final ratio
At some point just give up and join the only progressive pro-business, pro-economy party that remains in the country
Prosper UK@Prosper_UK_
Farage said he would wipe the Conservatives out as a national force. He hasn’t. But the 2019 coalition has gone. Reform is not going away. Labour is losing ground, and the Lib Dems aren’t breaking through. Millions of centre and centre-right voters still feel unrepresented. The route back is a new coalition built around the economy, everyday priorities and serious government. prosperuk.com/to-get-the-cen…
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