BREAKING

Henry VIII powers in the UK Data Use and Access Bill could threaten electoral integrity.

ORG's joint letter, signed by civil society groups and academics, warns that a government could change how Political Parties use the public’s data WITHOUT passing a new law.

Find out more

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/01/data-privacy-campaigners-warn-of-henry-viii-powers

#Introduction again, as I've just moved servers.

I'm Tim. I worked in #Software for 37 years at PAFEC, CA, Mediasurface, Sun & twice for Software AG.

My interests include #RetroComputing, #LibDem #Politics,  #Psychology, #Renewables #Gardening & Gnu, my #Caterham7.
 
I write three blogs.

One on #RetroComputing - https://z80.timholyoake.uk/

A second on living with #BloodCancer, #MCL - https://mcl.timholyoake.uk/

And a third documenting my fundraising for Lymphoma Action - https://railwaywalks.timholyoake.uk/

Be seeing you

I always get a feeling the people that make TLDR News are a bunch of Lib Dem voters and charts like this one also solidify that belief too.

#LibDem #election #candidate is #proud to be ‘a #mum, a #woman and #intersex’

The #UK #generalelection was nothing if not a #watershedmoment for #LGBTQ+ #representation in modern #politics in the #UK.

#Women #Intersex #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Politics

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/07/intersex-political-candidate-uk-general-election/

Ed Davey has basically ditched campaigning and is just completing his Bucket List isn't he.

A week to go until the UK General Election.

Are you brave enough to find out which party’s vision actually aligns best with your own ideals?

Take a blind test to find out: The Vote For Policies tool will tell you which parties agree with you on the issues that matter most: https://voteforpolicies.org.uk/

Go on then, let’s run a poll and see which results are most common.

#UK folk... Who will you vote for in the next General Election?

The #UK government has no evidence to back up its attack line that Labour and Lib Dem councils are using traffic calming measures to “police people’s lives” or planning “inappropriate blanket use” of 20mph speed limits, documents have revealed.

The debunked claims were contained in the Plan for Drivers, launched last month amid a row over the scrapping of the northern leg of the HS2 railway project.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/plan-for-drivers-15-minute-cities-20mph-oxford-wales-no-evidence-department-transport/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=no_evidence_15min_cities

Poland defeated their lying, homophobic nationalist government by having the Opposition work together.
The idea is always floated around the UK, usually by the Public, and always ignored by the Westminster parties who then blame us for when the Tories get in, despite them being incredibly unpopular.

You've got two small 'c' conservative leaders in Opposition who are terrified of doing anything new, progressive or in the interests of the British public.

#Introduction

I'm Tim. I worked in #Software for 37 years at PAFEC, CA, Mediasurface, Sun & twice for Software AG.

My interests include #RetroComputing, #LibDem #Politics, #Psychology, #Renewables #Gardening & Gnu, my #Caterham7.

I write three blogs.

One on #RetroComputing - https://z80.timholyoake.uk/

A second on living with #BloodCancer, #MCL - https://mcl.timholyoake.uk/

And a third documenting my fundraising for Lymphoma Action - https://railwaywalks.timholyoake.uk/

Be seeing you

#Hateful #Bigot #RishiSunak accused of ‘#demonising’ trans #women as he’s #filmed making ‘#joke’ about #penises

#Tory #PM is also heard criticising #LibDem #leader’s #support for #transrights in leaked #video #footage

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Tories #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #MoralPanic #HateSpeech #StochasticTerrorism #Hatecrimes #TERFIsland

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-trans-women-penises-b2360128.html

#Edinburgh #Labour councillors voted in favour of the #LibDem budget THEY HADN’T EVEN READ.

The #Green #SNP budget met all of the Labour manifesto policies and then some; but out of sheer British Nationalist fuelled red Tory spite, they backed the #LibDem budget which contained the only “red lines” the party promised to not cross.

Labour have attacked women on the regulatory committee with the Tories; now playing with folk’s lives

I cannot stand how rancid Labour have become

#intro post time

I'm a 47yo professional creative & graphic designer, in advertising for ~20 years

#LibDem activist, political pragmatist. Firmly liberal left, pro-European, woke, pro LGB with the T

The tories have gone. Rejoice! #Harris2024

#Atheist #Skeptic

New music (all sorts), video games, #bass player, #DIY/house renovator, #2000AD, PT #Masters #GraphicDesign student, occasional runner and martial artist (TCMA)

2 children (f), 1 wife (f), 1 spaniel (m)

He/Him

There will be #swears

Got to say it
#LibDem. #LibDems member (Chelmsford) #generalelectionnow #proportionalrepresentation #brexitdisaster #brexitchaos

Enough, enough, enough! Time for change #tacticalvoting???