Not to excuse this, & it’s a while since I presented anything on the BBC, but I do recall noting an almost subconscious desire to disprove bogus allegations of bias by being particularly tough on Labour & Lib Dems (Ed Davey once complained!) This is another victory for right wing media gaslighting.

Birmingham needs Lib, Lab, Love, Bab* *and a little Independence [credit/blame for the coalition name idea @supergm.bsky.social ]

The Nick Clegg Theory of Everything: since 1970, the delicate stable state of British politics has hinged on the Lib Dems or their previous iterations being the repository of protest votes and doing absolutely nothing with them; once they entered government, all the wheels came off.

The Lib-Dems are political prostitutes and sell themselves cheap for the illusion of power and influence and not fussed who it is as long as it's not the SNP

NEW: Lib Dems are the first party to make a public bid for “like-minded” parties and independents to work together at Birmingham City Council after elections left no overall control. Roger Harmer says groups should unite around a six-point plan, including ending the bin dispute.

BBC declared Birmingham a Reform gain. Cunts have 22 seats, Greens have 19 seats. Tories and Labour 17 each. The rest a good mix of Lib Dems and Independents.

It makes ZERO sense that the few remaining moral Labour MPs haven’t flocked to Green, along with the shambles of Your Party, progressive Independents, even Lib-Dems. Polanski needs to throw the doors open to form an all-new official UK Anti-Fascist Coalition while there’s still time to save the NHS.

Both Labour and the Tories are finished. More likely some sort of coalition with the SNP, Plaid, and Lib Dems.

And there will be places up and down the country where Lib Dems are going to have to work with us “extremists”.

Birmingham, for example is going to be an ungovernable mess. Labour, Lib Dems, Greens, Tories, Reform and Muslim community independent candidates all took chunks of the council and there's no governing majority which is bad because Birmingham is bankrupt. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Add the lib-dems, & it's pretty clear that there is a pro-union grouping all happy to work with each other to do whatever they can to put a kybosh on whatever the progressive parties come up with. They can't create, can only destroy, no matter the harm it does to those they claim to support.

Birmingham Council will face a major challenge working out who is governing & who is the Opposition. With 2 seats left to count: Reform 22, Green 19, Labour 17, Conservatives 16, Independents 13, Lib Dems 12 @kevinbonham

Geography probably. The Lib Dems have a very limited geographical base - not in areas with sizeable Jewish populations

The Lib Dems aren't saying to rejoin. And if the Greens did get in we wouldn't be rejoining anyway. The EU wouldn't have us until we have broad consensus.

Reform made inroads in Newcastle, but Greens and Lib Dems did a bit better…but Labour got a pummelling.