Color Scheme
Liz Webster
13, June #StarmerCrisis

Liz Webster: Polly Mackenzie nails it on Newsnight…

✅ Polly Mackenzie nails it on Newsnight: If you want to give Starmer’s failing government a bloody nose, vote for @AndyBurnhamGM in Makerfield. “Vote Labour, get rid of Starmer because the point is actually Andy Burnham can get rid of Keir Starmer by September rather than Nigel Farage, who's gonna take years to do it.” “I don't understand why he's not campaigning on that, to be honest, because to me it's the slam dunk victory in Makerfield.” #AndyForMakerfield #SaveBritishFarming
Liz Webster: Polly Mackenzie nails it on Newsnight…
https://x.com/LizWebsterSBF/status/2065865382523494501?s=20
#StarmerCrisis
Liz Webster
12, June #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: Britain’s decision to Brexit…

Britain’s decision to Brexit has already imposed a significant economic and practical cost for far fewer gains than were promised. But Brexit isn’t done hurting us. In a world of trade wars, energy shocks and geopolitical instability, choosing to erect barriers with our largest market has made Britain more exposed, less resilient and less able to absorb global shocks. The cruel irony is that Brexit was sold as a route to prosperity and control. Instead, it has left Britain facing the very thing economists fear most: stagflation - higher prices, weaker growth and falling living standards.
#BrokenSystem
Liz Webster
12, June #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: Newsnight @gilliantett…

🚨 Newsnight @gilliantett cut to the chase: “This clearly is a mess of Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves’ making, bc they should’ve seen it.” She said Healey and Cairns have “played a masterstroke” by detonating a political landmine. But while Westminster fights internal battles and obsesses over fiscal rules and defence budgets, British 🇬🇧 farming is being allowed to decline. This government came in treating farming as an industry it could afford to neglect, repeating the mistake of treating a strategic sector as expendable. 🔥 Food is not just another industry. 🔥 Food is part of defence. The 1947 Agriculture Act understood this lesson after WW2: a country that cannot feed itself is vulnerable to war, blockades, climate shocks and hostile powers controlling supply chains. Food production is as fundamental to national resilience as energy, infrastructure and defence capability. We need to restore the principles of the 1947 Agriculture Act: treating food production as a public good and a national security priority. Food security is national security.
#BrokenSystem
Liz Webster
11, June #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: Brexit was sold as “taking back control”…

🚨 Brexit was sold as “taking back control” of our borders. Instead, it delivered the opposite. By leaving the EU, Britain lost key cooperation tools (like the Dublin Regulation for returns) while raising public expectations it couldn’t meet. Result? Record small boat crossings across the Channel, over 200,000 since 2018, turning what was once a defensive moat (Dunkirk 1940) into a smuggling superhighway.
#BrokenSystem
Liz Webster
11, June #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: Nigel Farage’s promises deliver the opposite…

⚠️ Nigel Farage’s promises deliver the opposite: He swore leaving the EU would “take back control” of migration. Instead we got record small boat crossings, lost EU cooperation tools, and a border more porous than ever. Now he claims leaving the ECHR will fix it. Same dodgy salesman, same false promises. Voting Farage consistently delivers the exact opposite of what he sells: fewer rights, weaker security, a poorer country for most, while crypto billionaires and a tiny elite get richer.
#BrokenSystem
Liz Webster
10, June #StarmerCrisis

Liz Webster: Keir Starmer tied himself…

🔥 Keir Starmer tied himself in knots by sticking to unworkable Brexit red lines that only 30% of Britons support 👉 and those are mostly Tory and Reform voters. The public has moved on. A clear majority now regrets Brexit and wants closer ties or full rejoin. By defending the status quo that only hard Leavers still back, Starmer is handing ammunition to his critics and alienating the growing rejoin majority. That’s why he’s in trouble.
#StarmerCrisis
Liz Webster
09, June #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: The British 🇬🇧 people know Brexit…

The British 🇬🇧 people know Brexit has bound Britain up in expensive red tape while delivering none of the benefits that were promised. Instead we face: 🔥 more paperwork and trade friction 🔥 higher food costs 🔥 weaker growth and investment 🔥 reduced freedom to live, work and travel across Europe 🔥 labour shortages across key sectors 🔥 endless renegotiation with our largest market Brexit was sold as less bureaucracy and more prosperity. Instead, Britain has spent a decade managing the consequences. And increasingly people are waking up to the truth that Brexit has made life worse for the majority of British people.
#BrokenSystem
Liz Webster
06, June #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: Voters see Brexit as a “big disappointment”…

🚨 Voters see Brexit as a “big disappointment” and “not worth it” resulting in a rise in support for rejoining the EU. The decision to leave the EU has “not withstood the test of time” and is blamed for making immigration and the economy worse, says Professor Sir John Curtice. Prof Curtice says: “The 2016 referendum has failed to resolve the debate about whether Britain should be inside or outside the EU. The country now finds itself outside an institution of which a modest majority at least would like to be a member. “For the time being at least, a significant body of voters have decided that being outside the EU is not worth it.”
#BrokenSystem
Liz Webster
05, June #StarmerCrisis

Liz Webster: his gives real confidence that @AndyBurnhamGM…

🔴 This gives real confidence that @AndyBurnhamGM means a genuine break from Starmer’s decline. Cutting business rates by 20% for pubs & music venues and scrapping them entirely for small high street shops, cafes & hairdressers, funded by taxing big tech warehouses instead. For farming communities, this is huge: thriving village pubs, shops and rural services are lifelines that support our way of life and local economies. Finally, someone standing up for real businesses and places rather than just piling costs onto them. This is the practical, place-first politics we need. #AndyForMakerfield
#StarmerCrisis
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.
#BrokenSystem
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.
#BrokenSystem
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.
#BrokenSystem
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
#StarmerCrisis
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
#BrokenSystem
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. 🎧 👇
#BrokenSystem
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.
#CostOfLiving
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.
#BrokenSystem
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
#BrokenSystem
Read more