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@ChrisMayLA6 Absolutely. The left, specifically including as you say the UK Labour Party, just luuurve squabbling amongst themselves, it's just *so* much more fun than fighting the right (which would be actual hard work).

One Trot faction / meeting in a hall
One Trot faction / meeting in a hall
And if one Trot faction / should have a nasty squall
There'll be two Trot factions / meeting in a hall.

And as you're counting up rather than down (as per the original Ten Green Bottles) there's no natural end to the song, so you can keep going forever. Or at least until the beer runs out.

#LDConf #Glee

Weird dream last night. Having a passionate disagreement with @[email protected] in the bar at #LDConf. Got to the point where we worked out our differences and shook hands, turned round and everybody else in the bar was properly fighting: punching, slapping, pulling hair, etc.

Post a photo from 2019 @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected] in the pub at Spring #LDConf Not sure what Gareth is looking so perturbed about...

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New profile pic, taken by @[email protected] at #LDConf, in which i look suitably mischievous

I have a #LDConf joke but somebody moved next business on it

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My sole #LDConf skeet: The Venue for Not The Leader's Speech is the beer garden of The Mason's Arms

Guess who has worked out that mummy is Going Away to #LDConf today, and is applying the full guilt trip?

Like, I have /written speeches/ for #LDConf and everything! I normally just get up there with some hastily scribbled bullet points and wing it...

Yes, it is the run up to #LDConf. Yes, someone had done something which has made my Really Quite Angry. No, I can't tell you who or how or why (it's nobody on FCC though)

@wood5y Reminds one of "Ten Trot Factions Meeting In A Hall" (LibDem Glee song to, obviously the tune of Ten Green Bottles - like most #ldconf #glee songs it's not that easy to find the lyrics online).

@ReggieHere "A version of the lyrics sung regularly at the Liberal Democrats' Glee Club, also dated to the mid-1960s, is:

The people's flag is palest pink,
It's not as red as most folk think.
We must not let the people know
What socialists thought long ago.
Don't let the scarlet banner float;
We want the middle classes' vote.
Let our old fashioned comrades sneer,
We'll stay in power for many a year."

#ldconf #glee

Still sad that @nickdacosta.bsky.social wouldn't let me introduce the space motion at #LDConf with a quote from this :(

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Just because I'm on my way home from #LDConf: imagine if all the neurodivergent queers who sit on the various lib dem committees got a living wage for it and could devote all the time they wanted to it? Apart from anything else conference would SPARKLE.

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Not The Leader's Speech going well #LDConf

I'm chairing a debate on Tuesday morning. Yes, the morning after Glee. And we haven't yet had huge numbers of cards in for it. Because it's the morning after Glee and we all anticipate epic hangovers. But it's about space! It's item F42! It's called A New Hope! Surely there's scifi geeks at #LDConf?

Finishing off tonight with the best event of #LDConf: @amcarmichaelmp.bsky.social's whisky tasting

Now at @libdemwomen.bsky.social cocktails and mocktails which is v busy #LDConf

Snuck out of #LDConf for a swim

See how you can tell I'm old? I've done all my #LDConf duties for the day and instead of hanging round in the bar I've gone back to my hotel room to watch the Sewing Bee final that I missed on Tuesday

Oh, one last thing before I sign off: the venue for Not The Leader's Speech has been chosen. If the last thing YOU want to do on Tuesday at #LDConf is listen to Ed, contact me by any of the usual methods and I'll let you know.

I'm probably not going to be around much the next few days. I'm travelling down to Bournemouth today for #LDConf, and as usual at conference time I'm going to be a fly with an azure posterior, so... Look after yourselves, and I'll see you next Tuesday. Probably. Unless the stress actually kills me.

If you've seen the story in today's Daily Heil about #LDConf, you'll probably want to read this

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ENG vs FRA next weekend then. While I'm at bloody #LDConf.

Are you a queer? Are you going to #LDconf? Drop me a message if you want to be added to a Signal group to either ask for or offer help to fellow queers who might need help quickly (either in the "when is this motion?" sense or the "I am feeling unsafe" sense)

But when we join forces we're unstoppable. And if you want to see that in action, come along to the How To Survive Conference training session with @hannahk-ld.bsky.social (Type A queen) and me (Type B monster) at 9.30am in The Westbourne Suite at the BIC #LDConf

Of course this makes the bonkers accusation that we in the party who support trans rights are all in the pay of S'onewall that was made at Spring #LDconf even funnier.

Genuinely starting to consider going down a day early for #LDconf in Bournemouth in September so I can stop off at @romanpalace.bsky.social on the way, and get some merch to bring back up to Yorkshire for their besties @merchantshallyork.org Museum bluesky radicalisation is real.

Crikey the room full of folks in yellow jackets giving me flashbacks to the stewards' lounge at #LDConf

I regret to inform you all that I've come down with #LDConf Conference Lurgy. Started at about 4am this morning with a sore throat, and now the tsunami of snot has made nosefall.

This skeet brought to you by having met and chatted with lots of lovely fellow queer Lib dems over the weekend at #LDConf