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Politics Gita Bapat

Why is it so easy to throw us under a bus?

I emailed my (now Labour) MP this morning. Here is the body of my message: Dear Liam, I hope you’re well. I was on our LibDem stand in Beckenham yesterday and at one point found myself standing up for you as our MP when a visitor to our stall
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You have to develop resilience when you're canvassing

I've just come in from a quick canvassing session, where we attempted to survey local residents on their priorities and worries for the local area. If you don't know about people's concerns, you can't address them, right? One door was opened by
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Goodbye Meta (well, as much as possible)

In the end I went with my gut instinct. You'll know how I switched from Twitter to Bluesky fairly early but kept my Twitter account because of friends I'd made there and because I was running my Samaritans Branch Twitter feed and because my LibDem candidacies
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