35Β°C in late May. Records broken. The country woefully unprepared.
@EarlRussellLD, Lib Dem Energy and Net Zero spokesperson in the Lords, on why this country cannot afford to wait any longer.
Olly Grender
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London
Joined March 2009
- The Greens are very expensive with all these by-electionsA 6th newly elected London Green councillor has quit overnight. Joanna Eaves resigned from Lambeth Council due to ill health. A by-election will be called in Clapham Park. It follows candidates that won in Camden, Haringey, Ealing, Hackney and Lambeth also stepping down
- Olly Grender reposted250,000 miscarriages happen in the UK every year, but you have to suffer three or more before you get any extra support. @CarolinePidgeon is pushing the government to act earlier.
00:00 - Olly Grender repostedElection Result: Clapham Common and Abbeville Elected: Simon Robert Cordon - Liberal Democrats Chris Nicholson - Liberal Democrats Full results: moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/mgElectionArea⦠#LocalElections2026
- Olly Grender repostedGreat to be out supporting Chris Nicholson and Simon Cordon in Clapham Common today with @OllyGrender Alison Suttie and @MikeTuffrey πΈπΈπΈ
- Olly Grender repostedCoastal towns. Rural villages. Left out of the Government's Devolution Bill. Baroness Cathy Bakewell and Lib Dem peers wouldn't accept it. We pushed until ministers backed down. Coastal & rural communities are now written into the Bill.
00:00 - Olly Grender repostedThis story has been shared a lot this weekend. There *is* a very real chance Labour will lose control of Lambeth Council in local elections on May 7th. But it is *much* less likely that there will be an overall Green majority in Lambeth Town Hall. @brixtonbuzz @heartstreathamThere is one London borough that will be particularly painful to lose to the Greens for generations of politicians around Sir Keir Starmer This is how Labour's βLambeth mafiaβ are bracing for defeat to the left twenty years on from a much-mythologised win
- Olly Grender repostedπΆ LIB DEM WIN - CUTTING YOUR BILLS βοΈ The Government has finally listened to Ed Davey and announced they will break the link between gas prices and electricity prices. Electricity from solar or wind is now much cheaper than gas. But people arenβt seeing the benefit of cheap
- Olly Grender reposted@TheGreenParty realising they canβt just talk about green policies, they have to carry out green policies once elected
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00:39Lib Dems: 8 of the top 10 for recycling in England. Greens: Their only majority council ranks 162nd Talk is cheap. Recycling rates aren't. - Olly Grender repostedLib Dems: 8 of the top 10 for recycling in England. Greens: Their only majority council ranks 162nd Talk is cheap. Recycling rates aren't.
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- Olly Grender reposted.@GBNEWS claims itβs the home of free speech, but they do lean heavily to the right. Will they commit to allowing a Liberal Democrat to host a show next year to balance out Farage, Rees-Mogg and Anderson? I challenged @christopherhope to set an ambitious goal for 2026.
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