Former Senior Civil Servant. Checked in my political impartiality on retirement. Fellow @theRSAorg. Member @UKLabour, @thefabians. May mention Dr Who.
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Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
Serbian people made their voices heard. First results show a convincing majority for change. Their democratic will deserves full respect.
Now is the time for the rule of law, genuine reforms & institutions that serve all citizens.
This is the path towards the European Union.
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
🇷🇸 Congratulations to the Student List on winning Serbia’s elections, igniting a democratic rebirth across the Balkan nation.
🪧 From the streets to the ballot box, students, young people, and citizens have demanded accountability, justice, and change. In a record-turnout election, the newly formed anti-Vučić coalition secured a full majority in the country’s parliament despite serious concerns of corruption and voter intimidation.
🗳️ As PES President Stefan Löfven said: “Democracy is not simply inherited. It is defended, renewed and carried forward by every generation.”
🇪🇺 Today, their determination marks a hopeful new chapter for Serbia. Together with our sister parties, the Democratic Party (DS) and the Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP), we stand for a fairer, democratic, and European future.
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
Wearing a poppy doesn’t give you the right to ride on the shoulders of those who fought and died for this country.
Wetherspoon actively supports the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal.
So before demanding a boycott, perhaps explain what REALLY happened at the door.
Remembrance isn’t a prop for manufactured outrage.
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
Brexit has been catastrophic. It's time to rejoin the EU.
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Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
Old MAGA white lady says I should “go back to my own country” if I don’t like Donald Trump’s America.
So, I parked my buffalo in her driveway, set up my teepee on her front yard and said “I’m home, what’s for dinner?”
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
The people who seem to be really angry about the fact that HMRC will be able to directly recover debts from bank accounts ,are the same people who were positively ecstatic when the same policy only applied to the DWP. Just an observation
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
Elon Musk
Just what an incredible fall from grace…
From innovative, eco-conscious, cool nerd…
To depraved, entitled, evil, war-mongering, self-radicalised fuckwit.
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
Ukraine is not yours to bargain away! Don’t betray Ukraine. #stoptrump #stopputin
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Hundreds of us came together outside the US Embassy in London to stand against deals with Putin and demand unwavering support for Ukraine.
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London, October 16, 2026
#StandWithUkraine
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
President Putin is a murderer.
His soldiers use rape as a weapon.
He has launched wars costing thousands of lives.
His agents have stolen children and destroyed families.
Russia today is what President Reagan correctly called it: the evil empire.
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
When 🇺🇸 Witkoff calls 🇷🇺 Putin "a humanitarian", he's spitting on the graves of all the victims of Bucha, Mariupol and Izium.
He's spitting on the graves of all those hundreds and hudreds of Ukrainian children that Russia killed in this war - and in the faces of their parents.
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
Just to be clear @elonmusk’s disabling of starlink/starshield helps Putin target civilians rather than Ukrainian forces. By hampering air defences, he’s not just helping Russia’s military. He’s helping it commit war crimes
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
Tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of Ukrainian children have been forced into Russia and this boot-licking spiv rolls out the tongue once more for “humanitarian” Putin. Infamy
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
I’ll stipulate that Trump is an agent of Putin.
Go down the checklist.
1. Destroyed the Western alliance? Putin wanted that.
2. Threatened a NATO ally over Greenland? Putin wanted that.
3. Pulled out of the intermediate nuclear pact? Putin wanted that.
4. Withdrawing 25-40,000 troops from Western Europe while Russian bellicosity is rising? Putin wanted that.
5. Russian satellites giving coordinates to Iranians killing our soldiers, and his response is “they kill us, we kill them”? What American president says that?
I think he’s been compromised.
The election of Donald Trump may be the greatest foreign policy success in post-Czarist Russian history.
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
Happy Birthday, Colin Jeavons, 97 today! He played Lestrade in the Sherlock Homes series that starred Jeremy Brett!
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
President Zelensky refusing to surrender 20% of his country to Russia is not an “obstacle.”
Russia demanding 20% of Ukraine is.
You’re welcome. And #SlavaUkraïni
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
Yesterday at 6pm we had just under 8,000 followers. Now approaching 10,000. Let's get there tonight!
Simon Lydiard FRSA 🇪🇺🇮🇪 retweeted
Much punchier accusations from Sir Malcolm Rifkind - a former defence and foreign secretary:
"I choose my words very carefully. I think this week Donald Trump has shown himself as a person to be repulsive; as a President of the United States to be a disgrace to his own people as well as to his international responsibilities.
"We all know his actual reasons for this are a grubby attempt to win a few more votes in the midterms by trying to get oil prices down.
"In order to achieve that, he has not only betrayed Ukraine in the middle of a war, fighting for its very existence, but he is also directly - not indirectly - directly responsible for the deaths of many Ukrainians who will not now be protected by the attempts that have been successfully made using intelligence provided indirectly by the United States."
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