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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 6m

It is true that part of Starmer’s deception was to lull people into false sense of security with Brexit reset.

We must blame those responsible and quietly wake people up to the con. It’s important we stay united.

Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 20m

It’s a two-horse race under FPTP.
Smaller parties don’t shape the outcome, they just help decide which of the two establishment leaders wins.

That’s how the system keeps power rotating between faces, not ideas.
Real change means breaking the race itself, not cheering one of the horses. We need PR.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 23m

Corbyn provided cover for the fact that parliament didn’t vote to trigger A50.

Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 25m

Starmer delivers what Farage agenda always meant, selling Britain off cheap to 🌍 corporations.

Brexit reset, India/US deals, IHT changes 👉dispossession.

Democracy on life support.
Cumbrian mine ISDS case 👉foreign investors suing 🇬🇧 for protecting its own environment, workers or farms.

Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 53m

They have - for now - diffused opposition from soft left. Pro EU MPs need to find a leader.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 54m

Rhetoric on rejoin EU needs amplifying over the confected immigration panic.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1h

🔴 Britain’s use of SIs (Henry VIII powers) and special zones is viewed internationally as state distortion.

🔴Politically, it shows that Starmer has burned trust on both sides, Brussels no longer believes in partnership, while Washington and Delhi are simply exploiting Brexit Britain’s desperation.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1h

🔴 Starmer’s govt is acting like Truss in a suit, he’s dressing up divergence and deregulation as pragmatism.

🔴 The Brexit reset is a deception, masking deeper U.S./India alignment and regulatory betrayal.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1h

And he’s fighting Farage by imitating him. We don’t need another Farage, we need the truth.

#Brexit #Budget2025 #Starmer #Farage #RejoinEU #TheGreatUntruth

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1h

🚨 Starmer’s New Spin:

Starmer will blame Farage and Brexit for looming tax hikes and hopes people won’t notice that he hasn’t spent a year doubling down on the same failed Brexit economics.

Starmer is merely repeating Brexit lies, trying to make Brexit work by selling Britain off cheap.
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 14h

LBC caller: “Brexit gave me freedom because I can choose my own government.”

Also LBC caller: “The EU is to blame for immigration and ID cards.”

You couldn’t make it up.
#Brexit #SaveBritishFarming

Caller, “Brexit Let Me Choose My Own Govt”… Then Blames EU for Everything!
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Caller, “Brexit Let Me Choose My Own Govt”… Then Blames EU for Everything!

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1d

🇪🇺 Brexit reset: tokenistic pockets of sanity that do nothing to fix systemic barriers.

🇬🇧 Chemical exports ⤵️35-40%, goods exports ⤵️ 27%

🇪🇺 61% Brexit as failure; only 13% success.

🇬🇧 We need cross-party forum to begin formal re-association with the EU and to prepare political ground for reentry.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1d

👏 Simon Jenkins gives first major mainstream call for parliamentary leadership to reverse Brexit, not just reset it.

🇪🇺Steel collapse immediate trigger: 80% 🇬🇧 steel 👉EU, now face 50% tariffs - terminal.

🇬🇧 The cause: thank you Brexit

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1d

‘Frankly, the deception of Brexit has exposed Britain as a lonely person sitting outside the conference table.’

Lord #Heseltine: one of last true statesmen reminding us what Europe built - peace, power, and purpose. Only Europe gives us strength to stand our ground against global powers.
#Heseltine

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1d

Britain can’t compete alone against the scale of China, America, and India. The economics and the next generation will take us back to Europe 🇪🇺

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1d

‘Brexit is a tragedy and it will be reversed.’ 💥

#Heseltine is the best political communicator by a long way.

His emphatic call for rejoining the EU cuts through the noise, grounded in truth, while the counterarguments cling to a dwindling minority of Brexit believers.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Trump pressure to hike UK drug prices could cost NHS billions.

Corporate profits will increase. NHS budget will buy less. People to pay higher taxes or face public service cuts.

To avoid bullying UK Govt must produce cheaper generic drugs.

Who governs UK - Govt, Trump, Corporations?

Trump pressure to hike UK drug prices could cost NHS billions, experts warn

Anew deal will only trigger further increased price demands and make healthcare in the UK more expensive, say experts

www.independent.co.uk

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 2d

Amid the madness, one voice rose above the rest.

Heseltine: principled, pro-EU, and unafraid to speak truth.

“The tide is turning. Most people now believe it was a mistake to leave Europe”.

Lord Heseltine: The Voice of Reason in an Age of Madness 2025
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Lord Heseltine: The Voice of Reason in an Age of Madness 2025

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 2d

They broke Britain!

Farage, Trump, Brexit… and 50% tariffs on our steel. Workers pay the price while the guilty play the hero.

Has Britain gone mad? 👇
#Brexit #SteelCrisis #Farage

The Great British BETRAYAL: How Farage’s Brexit Sold Out Britain
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The Great British BETRAYAL: How Farage’s Brexit Sold Out Britain

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 4d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 5d

It’s just not true that everyone on there is far right. The far right need to be countered by moderates.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 5d

Opinions are decided on Twitter, the left needs to be part of it.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 5d

Confused by what’s going on under a Labour govt which seems at odds with social democracy?

Watch 👀 this video by @OliFletcher to get to the nub of our issues here in Uk 🇬🇧

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Has Labour been captured by Neo-Feudal ideology?

YouTube video by Farming Explained

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 5d

“Government should serve the people, not corporations.” – Hugh Grant 💥

He’s right. Britain was mis-sold Brexit, and we’re all paying the price.

🎥 Watch new video: Hugh Grant EXPOSES the Truth
#Brexit #KeirStarmer

Hugh Grant EXPOSES the Truth About Who Really Runs Britain 🇬🇧
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Hugh Grant EXPOSES the Truth About Who Really Runs Britain 🇬🇧

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 6d

The American food and health system is what Nige wants.

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