Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

UK Businessman. Chairman of James Lister & Sons supplying West Midlands manufacturers since 1874. Liberal Democrat. All Views My Own. lister.co.uk West Bromwich, England Joined June 2017

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

8 hours ago

@julianHjessop UK goods traders and UK manufacturers would then be able to sell and transport goods from Birmingham to Budapest/Berlin/Bordeaux as easily and as frictionlessly as they can from Birmingham to Bradford …. Bring it on …@libdemdaisy

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

a day ago

@SamCoatesSky It's Birmingham all over again. I hope for the same outcome . A @LibDems leading the council there and in 2029 a @LibDems leading the country. @rogerbhx @EdwardJDavey @libdemdaisy

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

3 days ago

@Tzenh Certainly not been a success for the “left behind” areas of Britain …..

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

6 days ago

@GavinBarwell Quite an important response to a question…. Perhaps someone can ask Kemi Badenoch again to clarify ? @LibDems @Prosper_UK_

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

a week ago

@julianHjessop Who cares about these stats anymore... Please tell us how the UK's current trading arrangements are going to make it easier for Manufacturing SMEs like ours and our partner UK manufacturers to trade round the world in bigger volumes.

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

a week ago

@meirionj Yes. With a LibDem PM in 2029 forming a Coalition of the Sensible.

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Prof David Bailey @dgbailey

a week ago

Always great to talk to the legendary @EdJames @bbcwm, on the new make of @BhamCityCouncil, sorting the bin strike, cutting pension fund overpayments, sorting pot holes and getting the commissioners out of Brum.

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

a week ago

@MrJCrouch Absolutely…. It’s the future… LibDem PM in 2029 😉

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

2 weeks ago

@JaneRockHouse @x_brum @MathewHulbert @LDBusEntNet @rogerbhx Fair comment. Wishing them all the best.

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

2 weeks ago

@JaneRockHouse @x_brum @MathewHulbert I would never say Lib Dems are “left-wing” . I am in the thriving LibDem Business Network @LDBusEntNet . We are business leaders who are socially responsible. We congratulate @rogerbhx and wish him all the best in delivering for our great city and people.

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

2 weeks ago

@MathewHulbert Onward and Upward

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BBC Midlands @bbcmtd

2 weeks ago

The authority had been without leadership for almost four weeks following the 7 May election, which left no party with enough seats to take control. On Friday evening, the leader of Birmingham's Liberal Democrats was voted into office.

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

2 weeks ago

@martinibrooks @BhamCityCouncil @rogerbhx Well done Martin . As a local business leader I would be delighted to offer any help that I can to you , @rogerbhx and the new administration . Birmingham is a great city, with great people and a great future.

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

2 weeks ago

@johnsweeneyroar @LibDems Coalition of the sensible . A template for the future of the UK also John ?

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Nicholas Drummond @nicholadrummond

2 weeks ago

I find this article by @LiamHalligan deliberately misleading and unhelpful. I have no interest in reigniting the Brexit debate. The question is not whether the UK economy collapsed after leaving the EU. It didn’t. The real question is whether Britain is now a more attractive place for European companies to invest, manufacture and export from. Working with a major European defence company, I see the practical impact every day. Brexit did not stop investment in the UK. It increased the cost and complexity of doing business here. • Customs friction • Rules of origin requirements • Regulatory divergence • Labour mobility constraints • Supply-chain complexity These factors all make the UK a less competitive manufacturing base than it was before. The fundamental question is simple: why would any country voluntarily make trade with its largest and closest market more difficult? This matters because @JohnHealey_MP rightly wants overseas firms to create UK jobs and build equipment in Britain. The problem is that Brexit weakens the long-term business case for maintaining those investments once UK contracts have been delivered. If we are serious about growth, exports, defence industrial resilience and attracting inward investment, we have no choice but to focus on reducing trade barriers with our largest market. That means pursuing much closer economic alignment with Europe, whether through the EEA, the Single Market, or another arrangement that restores frictionless trade. This isn’t about reversing Brexit. It’s about making Britain the most competitive place in Europe to invest and manufacture.

Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan

2 weeks ago

Conventional wisdom says that leaving the European Union has harmed the British economy. Listen to almost any Brexit debate – over the airwaves or on the professional conference circuit – and it’s invariably taken for granted being outside the EU has done serious economic

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

2 weeks ago

@julianHjessop @julianHjessop Any "real tangible" Brexit benefits for our company and employees ?

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

2 weeks ago

@julianHjessop You could look at it another way. What Brexit "real tangible" benefits have there been for a SME goods manufacturer/distributor employing 100 people in the West Mids have there been /will be ... we very much rely on supply chains running easily and smoothly and our OEM cutomers.

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

2 weeks ago

@Prosper_UK_ But where are @Prosper_UK_ on Brexit, UK-EU relations, Rejoining SM and CU, or full Rejoin…. Genuinely looking forward to a clear response.

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Tim Cotterill 🔸 @tim_cotterill

2 weeks ago

@DavidHenigUK Absolutely spot on .As an SME manufacturer/distributor based in the West Midlands with 1000s of OEM/industrial customers who need "frictionless" trade Brexit has hit us hard. The damage has been done . It is a long way back to "easier" business with our biggest and closest market