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Liz Webster

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Dec 6

⭐ The American 🇺🇸 far-right isn’t angry at Europe because of migration or free speech.

They’re angry because Europe disproves their worldview.

🇪🇺 Europe is the proof that civilisation doesn’t need cruelty to survive.
Europe became the living proof that right-wing culture panic is nonsense.

Europe -especially EU - commits the cardinal sin in MAGA world:

👉 It shows you can have
🇪🇺welfare states
🇪🇺 public healthcare
🇪🇺workers’ rights
🇪🇺strong regulations
🇪🇺climate protections
🇪🇺secularism
and still have higher life expectancy, lower crime, fewer guns, better schools, and more stable societies.

This embarrasses the US Right.

It exposes the lie at the heart of MAGA ideology: that social democracy = decline.

So they must manufacture a myth of “civilisational collapse” to defend American exceptionalism.
🧵

Europe refused to become America’s cultural colony.

The FT piece is correct:
“Woke” is American and Europe mostly resists it.

But from the far-right US perspective, the real crime is this:

👉 Europe did not join their Kulturkampf.

Europe didn’t ban books, ban abortion, ban drag queens, or turn culture wars into national identity.

Europe said:
“Thanks, but we’re actually fine.”

MAGA takes this as betrayal.

Modern Europe proves that diversity doesn’t destroy nations.

The MAGA worldview depends on the belief that:

Migration = chaos
Diversity = decay
Muslims = civilisational doom.

If Europe remains stable, wealthy, and functional despite large Muslim populations, the entire MAGA narrative collapses.

So they invent a fantasy Europe that is:
•collapsing
•burning
•invaded
•dying

Propaganda every night on Fox News.

It’s not analysis 👉it’s psychological self-preservation.

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Liz Webster

@LizWebsterSBF

Nov 27

THIS IS *GARGANTUAN* 💥

One of the Chief Priests of Economists for Brexit has now publicly admitted:

🟥 Brexit made Britain poorer
🟥 Business investment collapsed
🟥 Productivity weakened
🟥 EU-facing firms cut jobs & spending
🟥 New trade barriers drag the economy down
🟥 Brexit deepened the fiscal crisis
🟥 There are no meaningful upsides
🟥 The damage is undeniable in the data

This is the economic equivalent of a senior Vatican priest admitting the Pope is wrong about God.

Even the architects of Brexit are confessing the truth 👉while Farage still lies.

🧵 full article next tweet

⭐ The pro-Brexit intellectual class is breaking ranks

He writes:

“We Brexiteers must acknowledge the costs.”

This is the first mass-market admission of guilt from one of the architects of the economic case for Leave.

This instantly:
•legitimises criticism of Brexit on the Right
•destroys the “it’s too soon to tell” excuse
•undermines the “we just need to do Brexit harder” argument
•contradicts Farage’s entire £1m Budget video campaign
•cracks the intellectual foundation of UK sovereign populism

⭐ He admits the economic damage is real, measurable, and Brexit-specific

He refers to:

📉 UK GDP 5–8% lower
📉 Business investment down 15%
📉 Firm-level productivity 3–4% weaker
📉 High-trade firms slashing capital spending
📉 Brexit acting as a “strong headwind” all decade

A Brexiteer economist just validated data they normally try to gaslight.

This destroys the “anti-Brexit propaganda” smear.

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Liz Webster

@LizWebsterSBF

Nov 20

📌 🧵 Why Britons Are Leaving — And Why It Matters More Than Ever

Every few months, another piece drops about Britons leaving the UK in record numbers.
Today’s Independent article is the clearest yet:

People aren’t leaving because they “hate Britain”.

They’re leaving because Britain has stopped working.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

What’s striking is how similar the stories are:

– No affordable housing
– NHS collapsing
– Underpaid, overmanaged professions
– High taxes but nothing to show for them
– Brexit bureaucracy
– Rising racism
– A political class that serves itself, not the public

This is a pattern, not coincidence.

And the harshest line?

People who left decades ago say they no longer recognise the country they used to love.

That’s the point:

You don’t need to be young, left-wing, or struggling to notice the rot.

It’s everywhere.

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Liz Webster

@LizWebsterSBF

Nov 20

https://x.com/LizWebsterSBF/status/1991192883882271022

This is the bit the UK 🇬🇧 establishment still pretends not to see.

Nina Jankowicz lays it out plainly:
Farage’s messaging overlaps Russian 🇷🇺 state narratives ….. and bot networks are amplifying it right into UK politics.

And
Still no Russia 🇷🇺 Report inquiry.
Still no protections.
Still wide open 👺

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https://x.com/LizWebsterSBF/status/1991192883882271022

➕Add this to the newly released Bannon–Epstein emails, where Farage appears in the very conversations about building a US–European far-right network.

Russian amplification + US far-right strategy + domestic political vacuum.

This is not coincidence, it is a vulnerability.

🐶This is how Britain became the easiest country in Europe to manipulate:

• No investigation into 2016
• No checks on foreign funding
• No regulation of political bot networks
• No media scrutiny of Farage
• A govt terrified of the truth

We didn’t move on. We left the door open.

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Liz Webster

@LizWebsterSBF

Oct 22

Why did Labour decide to start telling the Truth about brexit?

1️⃣ Timing of Brexit blame-game:
Labour denied Brexit’s damage for years. Now that denial is untenable 👉 the economy’s stalling (Reeves’s budget accelerated the crisis), the OBR’s data is public, and global investors know the truth, they’ve decided to admit it only to shift blame and manage expectations before the next Budget.

It’s not a confession; it’s a pre-emptive excuse.

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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

2️⃣ This isn’t a change of policy, only tone. Behr’s opening line says it all:

“A new Brexit stance, not to be mistaken for a change in policy.”

They’ll sound contrite - but they still refuse to rejoin the Single Market or Customs Union, or even align meaningfully with EU standards.

So the UK stays locked into the same corporate-led deregulation path, only now dressed up in the language of “truth” and “growth.”

3️⃣ The ‘Farage scapegoat’ strategy:

They’re now using Brexit’s admitted failures as a political weapon: Blame Farage, not us.

But Labour MPs voted for Johnson’s deal. They endorsed the fire, now they’re blaming the arsonist while refusing to rebuild the house.

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Liz Webster

@LizWebsterSBF

Jul 24

🧵 @GeorgeMonbiot is right to warn of toxic chemical Brexit deregulation 👏

But there’s a deeper, quieter agenda unfolding — one that risks far more than our water and soil.

It’s time to look at what’s not being said. 🧪🇺🇸🇬🇧
@carolecadwalla

In a buried consultation, @UKLabour plans to let foreign countries approve toxic chemicals for UK use.

No UK 🇬🇧 testing. No expiry dates.
No public database.
No scrutiny.

George called this a “chemical bonfire.” And he’s right. It’s a total loss of control.

But what about food? 👇

The same mechanism is being used to open the door to unsafe food imports.

•SIs (Statutory Instruments)
•“Trusted jurisdictions”
•Quiet convergence with USA 🇺🇸 regulatory frameworks under the Prosperity Deal

It’s deregulation by stealth.

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