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Liz Webster
30, May #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: Brexit has damaged UK investment…

🚨 Brexit has damaged UK investment, growth, trade and productivity. The UK used to comfortably outperform France, Germany and Italy. That advantage has gone. GDP per head has lagged behind major EU peers since 2016. The post-Brexit immigration surge has masked some of the weakness in underlying performance. Public opinion has shifted dramatically. A majority now believe Brexit was a mistake, with polls suggesting a rejoin referendum could pass by a big margin. The current “reset” under Starmer is delivering very little, just 0.3% of GDP over 15 years according to some estimates.
Liz Webster: Brexit has damaged UK investment…
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Liz Webster
01, June #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: The UK can’t reliably power or feed itself…

The UK can’t reliably power or feed itself. Global corporations own and run much of our energy, water, transport, and key industries. Brexit didn’t restore sovereignty, it just swapped EU rules for corporate dominance and greater US influence, while weakening our leverage. Real sovereignty in the 21st century means working with our closest neighbours. Rejoining the EU is the only credible route to regaining meaningful control.
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Liz Webster
31, May #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: @Frencheconomics in The Times…

🚨 @Frencheconomics in The Times: “Yes, Brexit was a mistake… but not facing underlying issues was worse.” He is right that Britain has deep underlying problems of low investment, housing shortages, productivity failures. But this is like focusing on rising damp while Brexit is burning the house down. We can’t fix the chronic issues while the self-inflicted Brexit fire: trade barriers, lost investment, weaker growth, higher costs continues to rage.
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Liz Webster
30, May #StarmerCrisis

Liz Webster: This Starmer graphic is woefully misleading…

This Starmer graphic is woefully misleading. Shrinkflation won’t continue to help skew inflation as it is set to soar again bc of the Hormuz crisis. Claiming “inflation is down” and “growth is returning” while households face another wave of pain from energy bills is exactly the kind of holiday from reality that’s lost Labour so much trust. The double standards on immigration are glaring - Govt talks tough on small boats for headlines and political cover to continue Tory extraction of public funds to billionaires. This is chaos dressed up as toughness, feeds populism, and leaves the public angry and services under strain. We need honest leadership that fixes the cost-of-living crisis, not more of the same Tory oligarchy. That’s why the momentum is with @AndyBurnhamGM . #AndyForMakerfield
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Liz Webster
28, May #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: The Times Starmer’s govt is...

🚨 The Times: Starmer’s govt is politicising the justice system Former DPP Sir Max Hill warning that the handling of Palestine Action cases risks breaking public trust in the judiciary. 🔥 Uneven approach: heavy crackdowns on left/pro-Palestine activism while appearing softer on right-wing extremism. 🔥 Rise in “perverse verdicts” as juries act on conscience against perceived unfair prosecutions. 🔥 Proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group seen as overly broad and politically driven. This is seriously dangerous territory. When governments selectively weaponise terrorism laws and override jury independence to pursue political goals, they erode the independence and legitimacy of the justice system. @KarlTurnerMP @labourlewis @mainstreamlbr
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Liz Webster
27, May #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: Janan Ganesh is right that Brexit Britain…

🇬🇧 Janan Ganesh is right that Brexit Britain has become more fragmented, distrustful and interventionist. BUT he misses the central reason. It’s not bc Britons are secretly French-style statists who finally discovered their inner Europeanness. It’s because the public were sold contradictions/lies in Brexit. Voters were promised: • Lower immigration • Stronger public services (£350m for the NHS) • More sovereignty • Less bureaucracy • Greater prosperity • With no trade-offs At the same time, libertarian Brexit ideologues imagined “Singapore-on-Thames” while millions of voters actually wanted protection, security and national renewal. Those visions were never aligned. 🎧 👇
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Liz Webster
25, May #CostOfLiving

Liz Webster: Farms, transport and hospitality are all now operating…

🆘 🚩🔥 Farms, transport and hospitality are all now operating in survival mode bc Brexit Britain depends on permanently cheap energy, stable imports and just-in-time logistics. The moment global instability hits, the entire chain starts seizing up simultaneously. Farmers are considering selling fertiliser rather than planting crops bc it’s more profitable/less risky. This should terrify policymakers but they’re too busy offering freebies for kids in summer holidays. Meanwhile the EU is delivering significant emergency package for farmers, fishing businesses and road hauliers to protect food system. Who will feed Brexit Britain? Food shortages don’t begin with empty supermarket shelves. They begin when producers quietly decide planting no longer makes economic sense. Britain has spent years weakening domestic resilience while becoming more dependent on volatile global markets. We are now discovering the cost of that strategy as collapse looms.
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Liz Webster
23, May #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: Daniel Hannan accidentally gives…

🤡 Daniel Hannan accidentally gives the game away here. He admits: 👉 Brexit imposed major costs and disruption 👉 Britain still hasn’t settled into a workable relationship with Europe 👉 the debate is frozen in a permanent culture war 👉 and many practical UK-EU arrangements now work worse because everything is viewed through ideological lenses But then insists rejoin is impossible bc changing course would involve disruption 🤡 “We’ve already paid such a high price for this decision that we must keep paying it forever.” And the irony? Even Hannan ends up describing some form of closer economic European framework as the logical long-term solution. Bc geography, trade and interdependence didn’t disappear in 2016.
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Liz Webster
23, May #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: David Miliband is spot on…

✅ David Miliband is spot on. Starmer’s current UK-EU reset is doomed to fail! We need a much bolder approach, starting with a single market for goods and building from there. Brexit has cost us economically and the government must now find ways to fix it without pretending otherwise. Time for realism on need for Europe🇪🇺 https://theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/23/uk-eu-european-union-reset-david-miliband-single-market-goods
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Liz Webster
17, May #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: @Lord_Sugar in Sun Times…

🚨 @Lord_Sugar in Sun Times “Leaving Europe is the worst thing I have experienced in my whole time in business.” “Johnson and Gove should be in jail. As a chairman I am obliged to tell the truth to my shareholders.” “If I lie it’s a criminal offence. Politicians lie to the public — their shareholders — and get away with it.” “All that bullshit about the 350 million quid going to the NHS after Brexit.” #rejoinEU
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Liz Webster
15, May #StarmerCrisis

Liz Webster: Keir Starmer is the architect of his own political crisis…

🔴 Keir Starmer is the architect of his own political crisis. He entered Downing Street declaring he would do unpopular things. That was the fatal mistake. A huge 2024 majority built largely on anti-Tory tactical voting was treated like a personal mandate for pain instead of a warning to rebuild trust. Winter Fuel cuts. Farm tax on family holdings. Welfare tightening. Brexit trade politics stitched together through executive power while Parliament was sidelined. All delivered by a leader the country never truly knew or emotionally connected with. Starmer governed as if voters owed Labour loyalty simply for not being the Conservatives. 🔥 Now the consequences have arrived with @AndyBurnhamGM as a unifying alternative. Britain wants a different political direction: • end austerity • less Westminster managerialism • end Brexit denial • and less attachment to the post-2010 economic model Starmer hasn’t lost public trust, he never won it in the first place! He mistook relief for enthusiasm and that is why the civil war has begun. #Burnham4PM
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Liz Webster
14, May #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: MSNBC today…

🆘 ⚠️ MSNBC today: “Why the Strait of Hormuz closure could trigger a global food crisis” Fertiliser supplies choked 🔥 skyrocketing prices 🔥 farmers worldwide cutting back on planting. This is exactly what I’ve been warning about! In Britain we’re especially exposed post-Brexit: self-sufficiency plummeting, no domestic fertiliser, farmers skipping sowing, farm gate prices falling. We desperately need 1947 Agriculture Act principles restored - food as a public good. Food security is national security. #FoodCrisis #Hormuz #BritishFarming @GordonBrown @ProfSteveKeen
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Liz Webster
14, May #StarmerCrisis

Liz Webster: Wes Streeting finally does…

🚨 Wes Streeting finally does the darstedly deed and calls for Starmer to go. The civil war is now out in the open. But let’s be clear: this is still the same Westminster bubble fighting over who gets to manage decline. The candidate Labour members and Red Wall voters actually want is @AndyBurnhamGM who is still locked out because he’s not an MP yet. No more games. Open the path for Burnham now. This party needs real change, not another centrist reshuffle
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Liz Webster
13, May #StarmerCrisis

Liz Webster: @b_judah confirms it!…

✅ @b_judah confirms it! “The gap between what No 10 is saying and what is actually happening has grown too large… on Brexit.” Starmer talks “at the heart of Europe” while clinging to red lines that make real alignment impossible. And he’s used Henry VIII powers to push through bad USA deals which are incompatible with the EU. Even pro-rejoin voices now see the reset as deceptive. The public is ahead, 59% want to rejoin.
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Liz Webster
12, May #TrendShock

Liz Webster: Trump asked on whether Keir Starmer…

🚨 Trump asked on whether Keir Starmer should remain PM says Starmer is “getting killed” over energy and immigration policy and again demands Britain expand North Sea oil and gas drilling. Asked again whether Keir Starmer should remain PM: “That’s up to him.” The irony is striking: Brexit was sold as taking back control. Now a US president is publicly telling Britain how to run its economy, energy system and borders.
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Liz Webster
11, May #StarmerCrisis

Liz Webster: INCREDIBLE!!! Hard man Brexit @SteveBakerFRSA exposes…

😮 INCREDIBLE!!! Hard man Brexit @SteveBakerFRSA exposes the truth about Starmer’s rejoin deception: “Honestly, it’s such nonsense because he’s not changing his red lines. Even if you were on his side, you’d have to admit that’s never going to work. The EU won’t give us the access we want to the single market without free movement, and Starmer isn’t going to commit to free movement. This is the problem. People keep failing to understand it’s just basic incompetence. What is the EU about? It’s about political integration, free movement of people, and a single currency. Keeping the pound was always an exemption. Yet our PMs keep negotiating with the EU as if it were something completely different. The stupidity of this speech …… saying Britain will be ‘at the heart of Europe’ but not actually at the heart of Europe… The EU will hear it and they will guffaw at him straight out of the blocks.”
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Liz Webster
11, May #StarmerCrisis

Liz Webster: Starmer and Streeting’s technofeudalism has no limits…

‼️ Starmer and Streeting’s technofeudalism has no limits. The audacity is staggering. NHS England has quietly granted Palantir contractors unlimited access to identifiable patient data on its £330 million Federated Data Platform. An internal briefing warned of the “risk of loss of public confidence” but approved it anyway because repeated checks were “too inconvenient”. This is a dangerous surrender of our most sensitive health data to a controversial US tech giant. #NHS #Palantir #DataSurrender
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Liz Webster
11, May #StarmerCrisis

Liz Webster: @PickardJE of @FT…

🚨 @PickardJE of @FT gets to the heart of Starmer’s Brexit deceit: “Are you ruling out single market or customs union membership at the next election? Because without either, our economy is very much not at the heart of Europe.” Starmer’s answer: more vague waffle about a “big leap forward” at the summit, turning our back on past arguments, and “looking forward together.” You can’t be meaningfully “at the heart of Europe” while refusing the economic structures that define that relationship.
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