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Mary Marshall (UK green) @greenmarykm.bsky.social · 14h

No wonder things feel so bad😢

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

Farage never entered No.10 but his politics did.

From Cameron to Starmer, every leader since 2015 has copied his playbook.

Britain didn’t take back control.
It handed it to corporate power.

How Farage Won Without Ever Becoming Prime Minister
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How Farage Won Without Ever Becoming Prime Minister

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 21h

🇵🇱 My @thetimes column: Poland’s economic miracle

12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain

When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20h

since we're talking about The Other Place, one now pointless gripe I still have is that actually it could have remained a fair bit more pleasant and usable and useful if more people just used the non-algorithmic timeline and I'll never understand why they didn't just do it

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

Nathan Gill isn’t an outlier but a node in a sophisticated 🇷🇺 network blending ideology (anti-NATO/Soros) with cash, echoing Sass/Voloshyn’s ops.

UK’s wilful blindness per 2020 contrasts U.S. probes. With Senedd elections looming and 🇷🇺 cyber threats rising (MI5 warning) we need public inquiry.

David Bale @dcb00.bsky.social · 20h

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The contact of Reform UK’s Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why, even now, is no one asking questions?

Gill, former leader in Wales of Nigel Farage's party, admits taking bribes to help Putin. And his Russian connection - the Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn - in turn has links to a key figure wante...

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 21h

Exactly so. It’s time to hold him to account.

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

Farage never entered No.10 but his politics did.

From Cameron to Starmer, every leader since 2015 has copied his playbook.

Britain didn’t take back control.
It handed it to corporate power.

How Farage Won Without Ever Becoming Prime Minister
youtu.be/xywxTSeUk6g

How Farage Won Without Ever Becoming Prime Minister

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

youtu.be

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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

The entire framing of this poll totally forgets to appreciate a youth mobility scheme gives our young freedoms to work and travel in European countries.

www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2120...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

The least surprising news ever. But also thank you to @robevansgdn.bsky.social & @direthoughts.com for shining a light on how two Silicon Valley lobbyists have joined forces to advance their billionaire-funded techno-accelerationist agenda into the heart of UK govt.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed. The former prime minister, who is a champion of the tech industry, held the dinner in an upmarket London hotel in his capacity as the head of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) political consultancy. Continue reading...

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

Farage never entered No.10 but his politics did.

From Cameron to Starmer, every leader since 2015 has copied his playbook.

Britain didn’t take back control.
It handed it to corporate power.

How Farage Won Without Ever Becoming Prime Minister
youtu.be/xywxTSeUk6g

How Farage Won Without Ever Becoming Prime Minister

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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

Starmer and his cunning advisor manufactured the collective belief farage could be PM.

It’s another concoction to stop rejoin.

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

Starmer is in power, he can undo Brexit.

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

Parliament voted for an act which gave the PM permission to notify a decision the Supreme Court said Parliament had to make.

This then saw PM make the decision when she signed the notification letter.

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

Cumbria Mine exposes how Brexit sovereignty has been outsourced to offshore corporate courts.

ISDS provisions expose contradictions of Brexit reality and breach treaty obligations of TCA/Windsor Framework by undermining regulatory autonomy and level playing field.
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 1d

Reform have billions behind them and the right wing press barons behind them. In GE with polls as they are it will culminate in tactical voting to stop garage.

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

Starmer is forging ahead with Brexit, harnessing sovereign powers to force through India trade deal. He’s boiling us up to serve to the corporations and neo feudalism.

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

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.

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

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 · 1d

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

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

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.

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

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 · 1d

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

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

🔴 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 · 1d

🔴 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 · 1d

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 · 1d

🚨 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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