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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Truly vile. At a public event, Mike Graham mocked Andy Burnham’s father for having Alzheimer’s, less than three weeks after Roy Burnham died and apparently on the day of his funeral. Just the lowest of the low.

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Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

322 votes now with 69% in favour of rejoining EU. Take the poll, folks

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Should the U.K. look to rejoin the EU? Only 71 votes so far …. In @manchestereveningnews.co.uk www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Canada-style “associate membership” does not yet exist, so treating it as the only route is another fantasy. The first steps are the single market and customs union. Rejoining would probably entail an eventual euro commitment, but adoption requires convergence and ERM II not joining it on day one.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

• The £1,000/household figure is invented. No rejoining terms exist, so nobody can calculate the contribution. Britain’s previous average net contribution was £7–7.5bn a year; OBR estimates Brexit will leave UK productivity 4% lower.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

• Inside the EU, Britain would have votes, MEPs, a commissioner and influence over its direction. Outside, we increasingly follow decisions we did not help make. • The far right is rising in Britain too. Brexit empowered Farage, it didn’t protect us from him.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🧵 Andrew Neil listed Europe’s problems while ignoring what Brexit has done to Britain. This 👇 isn’t an argument. It is 6 slogans. • FoM is reciprocal mobility, not open borders • Brexit made Britain’s growth problem worse. UK GDP/head grew by 4.4% from 2016-2024, compared with 9% in eurozone.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Six slogans, not an argument. Free movement isn’t “open borders”. Britain would regain a vote over EU rules instead of following them from outside. The far right is rising here too. And the £1,000 claim is invented: no re-entry terms exist. Brexit itself made Britain poorer.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is an argument for democratic countries organising together not for 🇬🇧 retreat into isolation. The threat is transnational. Our response must be too. Britain can either help democratic Europe resist/reform or stand outside, affected by its decisions but increasingly powerless to shape them.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Blair’s intervention actually helps persuade centre right voters. He’s still popular with some voters.

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Talk TV on migrants: 'culturally, I'm an ancient Roman; culturally, these people are barbarians' 😖 Truly grim. No one should be advertising on this toxic channel. What are IKEA thinking? Sign the petition: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik... #migrants #mediahate #ikea #stopfundinghate

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Andrew Neil is full of Brexit guff. Trump, Putin and the far right are precisely why Britain needs to help shape Europe, not sit outside it, poorer and powerless. The Europe of 2026 is different. So is the world. That is the argument for rejoining.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

France’s system will see the majority block le Penn. AfD is not polling higher than Germany’s Social Democrats and Christian Democrats combined.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If diesel reaches £3 a litre, you can thank Nigel’s friend Donald Trump. inews.co.uk/news/uk-driv...

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We punish legitimate farmers, processors and exporters while leaving gaps for smugglers. That risks unsafe food, catastrophic animal-disease outbreaks and the destruction of British livestock farming. This isn’t taking back control. It is surrendering our food security and biosecurity.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The sheer stupidity of Brexit: We made it harder and more expensive for high quality, fully traceable British food to reach our largest market, while creating a porous border through which illegal, rancid and potentially diseased meat can enter Britain. meatmanagement.com/opinion/brex...

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Brexit’s veterinary border theatre: when control becomes the risk

There comes a point when regulation ceases to protect the consumer and becomes an industry in its own right. Post-Brexit veterinary border controls risk crossing that line, says AIMS's Jason Aldiss.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Should the U.K. rejoin the EU and reverse Brexit? Get voting! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There’s more than one way of skinning a cat. That’s what I’ve learnt.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Come on BlueSky There’s a huge mega challenge you have to win! Just hold your nose and vote.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The best thing I did in the last decade was leave the @libdems.org.uk No point being a member of a party unless you’re happy to be a robot.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”

Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You responded to a woman’s political criticism by calling her “a woman scorned”, then tried to belittle rewriting her electoral history. That’s gendered dismissal. Denying it doesn’t make it disappear. Criticising a party I belonged to is legitimate. Membership is not a lifetime vow of silence.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You’re clearly just another weirdo stalker, it was four years ago the vote and I left in 2024.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t give a damn about unpaid role demanding three days’ work every week. Only 14% of membership voted, and just 200 votes 2/3. Trying to rewrite why I left, rather than confronting the poisonous misogyny which plainly continues just looks desperate. And I don’t even know who the fuck you are.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And I still have evidence of the absolute poisonous abuse I can share.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The results were close despite Pack as incumbent with advantage of email list. I entered at last minute urged on by people to change approach to Europe. Losing close 3 way contest is not being rejected I left 18 months later bc of misogyny and vileness which you are now illustrating rather well.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I haven’t twisted anything. You posted a tired misogynistic cliché about a “woman scorned” because a woman expressed a political opinion you disliked. If that isn’t what you meant, tell us plainly what you did mean.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Blokes like you make me very happy I left. Nothing exposes the limits of someone’s liberalism quite like a woman expressing an opinion he dislikes.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How v Gladstonian of you eh Steve: when a woman offers political analysis, ignore substance and reduce her to wounded emotion. I left LibDems bc I disagreed with political direction not bc I was scorned If you think my analysis is wrong, rebut it. “Woman scorned” is misogyny masquerading as wit.

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Political X @politicalx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Why Does Nigel Farage admire Putin so much? @lizwebster.bsky.social @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social I think we can all have a guess as to why... Be sure to put your thoughts below...

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Political X @politicalx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thank you to @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social for coming on this weeks Sunday Roast, and showing why Farage is not John's biggest fan... @lizwebster.bsky.social

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Macmillan had lived through empire, two world wars, the 1929 crash and Suez. His conclusion was not nostalgic nationalism. It was cooperation, European power, active leadership and shared prosperity. Britain should listen to him now. Please watch and share. End.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Macmillan foresaw the choice now presented by AI. We can share its productivity through stronger public services, security and freedom from drudgery. Or allow its owners to escape taxation while governments go broke and ordinary people lose their work, assets and power. 10/11

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Two years later, Macmillan completed the thought: “If wealth can be produced by machines, it must be distributed” so that everyone could enjoy greater leisure. Technology should liberate humanity, not create a tiny class of technological sovereigns above everyone else. 9/11

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Macmillan then looked further ahead: “Imagine a world in which the machines did almost everything… It’s fascinating. It’s H. G. Wells but it’s coming.” This was 1982, one year after the BBC Micro launched and as Acorn began the journey that would produce ARM. 8/11

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Outside Europe, Britain is more exposed to American power, not less: US tariffs. US food demands. US technology. US defence policy. US financial markets. And now the energy consequences of Trump’s war. That is dependency dressed up as sovereignty. 7/11

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Then came his starkest warning. If Britain ceased making a meaningful strategic contribution, Macmillan said: “She becomes a purely client state of America.” Forty-four years later, Brexit Britain is discovering exactly what that means. 6/11

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Britain once projected power through its empire, colonies and the Indian Army, he explained. That world had gone. What remained were Britain’s “brain”, goodwill and traditions. But a country of 60 million could no longer command the world by itself. 5/11

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Macmillan understood what Brexit’s architects still refuse to admit: Sovereignty is not the theoretical freedom to stand alone. It is the practical power to shape events. “If we’d gone in at the beginning, we could have created, we could have shaped it.” 4/11

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Asked whether Britain could end the recession on its own, Macmillan replied: “No. No. No, nobody can. It’s just like Europe.” He called opposition to joining Europe “the whole fallacy” and added: “Look what we’ve suffered.” 3/10

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Europe gives it the power to shape events. Without that power it becomes America’s client. Technology can liberate humanity, but only if political leadership ensures that the wealth it creates is shared. 2/11

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🚨 WATCH: This remarkable political intervention ‼️ On 19 October 1982, aged 88, former Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan explained Britain’s future 👉 with startling accuracy. His message is extraordinarily current: Britain cannot solve global economic problems alone… 🧵 1/11

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