Ash Cartman
@Ashley_Cartman
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North Somerset Councillor, Long Ashton resident, father, husband, dog owner, liberal. North Somerset general election candidate 2019 and 2024.
Long Ashton, England
Joined August 2015
‘No turning back’ - view of UK public of Brexit. As someone who voted remain this is my view too. We’ve made our bed we need to lie in it. Until we see significant EU reform I cannot see public opinion changing.
I do genuinely believe that the government is misreading the public view about Brexit. Yes, there is high dissatisfaction with Brexit. In some cases people say they are happy to see more co-operation with the EU. But (and it's an important but)...
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“I find it very hard not to despair.” Ben Elton, though he disagrees with most of Thatcher’s policies, says she was at least “a woman of principle”, as “all honour is gone” in politics today. @StigAbell | #TimesRadio
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At last! Are the #LibDems finally ready to take on Reform? Let’s reclaim our past and identity 🇬🇧 🏴 Farage’s nationalism feeds on hate and division. My patriotism is inclusive, has pride in our history, and is without hatred or bitterness for others
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The Lib Dems are urged to stop being squeamish about national pride, at their annual conference.
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Everyone, from big business CEOs to small business owners to highly paid professionals and lowly paid service staff, has urged the Chancellor to tax someone else. From the new Private Eye, out now.
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I miss moderate centrists, who don’t claim to have all the answers, who don’t ascribe to either extreme ideologies or supposedly god-given rules to try and control other people, and who try to work together to settle problems aware of their own limitations. Where have they gone?
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Why do so many people believe either…. 1. they can have better services by getting the ‘rich’ (ie some else to pay), or 2. public services can be maintained whilst they receive tax cuts. Politicians who tell you this are either lying or don’t understand basic economics.
Big similarity between now & 1976 is so many refuse to accept reality. In 1976 part of Cabinet and much of Labour Party. Today much of parliament, and insurgent new parties of left and right peddling moonshine. IMF helped shift approach in '76. What is today's political solution?
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📽️Is Britain REALLY facing a 1970s-style fiscal crisis? Why are investors so freaked out about UK debt? Is this REALLY worse than under Liz Truss? Who's to blame? Rachel Reeves? The Bank of England? And would a bit of productivity really solve everything? 📈 Your 6 min primer👇
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To me Polanski ‘has totally unacceptable views’, is it ‘proportionate to arrest him’? Of course not. Polanski strikes me as an old style socialist with all the intolerance and arrogance that goes with it. Where is liberal Britain? 🇬🇧 😢
"These are totally unacceptable tweets... I think it was proportionate to arrest him" Zack Polanski, Green Party Leader, on the arrest of comedy writer Graham Linehan at Heathrow airport on Monday. #Newsnight
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Agreed I’ve always been cynical of the ‘threat to UK free speech’ but this is unacceptable. You may not like what he says, you may find it offensive, but we should all defend his right to say it.
This is ridiculous and a complete waste of police time. The police only respond to 1 in 5 reported shoplifting offences, but deployed 5 armed officers to arrest a comedian over three tweets. We desperately need to end this nonsense and go after actual criminals.
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What the fuck has the UK become? This is totalitarianism. Utterly deplorable.
When @Glinner landed at Heathrow, he was met by five armed police officers, and immediately arrested. His ‘crime’? Three gender-critical tweets. As Graham says in his Substack: “In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women
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How very LibDem. And also how utterly virtuesignallingly pathetic.
I'm boycotting the state banquet to send a message to both Donald Trump and Keir Starmer that they cannot close their eyes and wish away the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Donald Trump can stop this catastrophe in Gaza and get the hostages released.
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We will not tolerate aggressive, abusive or threatening behaviour… From the new Private Eye, out now.
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A government with rebellious, financially illiterate, backbenchers addicted to spending other peoples money is never going to end well…..
"Inflation rise takes the UK closer to debt-crisis cliff edge" – my latest @Telegraph column Britain is heading for a very serious fiscal crisis – not unlike the 1976 fiasco which saw this country go "cap in hand" to the International Monetary Fund for a bail-out. Government
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I despair for the UK. No country has better fundamentals to profit from the current global mess, so why is Oxbridge not a rival to Silicon Valley? Every one of its problems—from Heathrow to housing, from small boats to the deficit, from the NHS to the explosion in welfare—is
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Obviously, it would be capital-intensive, but how difficult would it be to build a new train manufacturing company from scratch? We should have beautiful, high-tech trains built in England again. We should also be prioritising automation R&D.
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Attached is the latest official data on overseas holdings of US sovereign debt, US Treasury bonds and bills. A few other points are worth making. First, that huge holdings registered to Luxembourg, Cayman and Belgium are probably ultimately owned by other states, such as China.
We just learned that the world’s most powerful person, Donald Trump, has a boss: the bond market. He may not have acknowledged this to himself, yet, but the global financial tumult he caused - and has temporarily eased - has locked him in a fiscal prison. Because, as I have
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The British people are ready to stand up to Donald Trump 🇬🇧
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