Farage says “just label it.”

But Brexit already changed food labelling 👇

🇬🇧 We now have more complex, weaker systems
📦 Imported food can be repackaged as “UK”
🔍 Labels don’t show how food is produced
💷 Price- not labels - drives choices

Labelling doesn’t protect farmers.
It just hides the problem.

🏷️ What Brexit Actually Changed on Food Labelling

🧵 Explainer 👇

https://x.com/LizWebsterSBF/status/2033435084016005284

1. 🇬🇧 UK ≠ EU anymore (two systems)

Before Brexit:
🔵 One set of EU rules 👉labels worked across 27 countries

After Brexit:
🇬🇧 UK created its own labelling regime
Businesses often need:
🇬🇧 UK labels (not for EU)
🇪🇺 EU labels
🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Sometimes both on one product

👉 Result: more cost, more complexity, more red tape

Let’s begin at the beginning @DavidGHFrost

Once upon a time Britain 🇬🇧 was not only energy secure, it was an energy exporter.

Coal powered the country and the discovery of N Sea oil and gas in 1970s gave Britain 🇬🇧 one of the largest new energy windfalls in the world.

🧨 Then came the political choices.

🧵 👇 In 1980s the coal industry was dismantled and the North Sea was opened up to private oil majors rather than managed as a national strategic asset.

Instead of treating North Sea oil as a national inheritance, Britain sold licences cheaply and used the revenues to fund day-to-day spending.

1. Britain over-invested in Trump (misled by Maurice Glasman’s Vance love-in)

No other European country went as far as the UK in courting Trump personally. That means:
🙈 More embarrassment now
🔥 More domestic backlash
🪤Less room to pivot

Starmer can’t plausibly claim principled distance 👉he visibly chased proximity.

🧵 2. The EU isn’t waiting for Britain

While Starmer talks about “resetting” relations with Europe, the EU is:
👉Focused on Mercosur
👉Managing its own Trump exposure
👉Not prioritising UK realignment

Britain is caught between blocs without leverage.

⏰ A serious, unsettling piece and one of the most important FT columns of the year

Ganesh is able to analyse Trump and revise core liberal assumption about capitalism and democracy.

🧵 Here’s what he’s really saying, and why it matters so much for the UK and Europe. 1. The real reason Trump tilts toward Russia 🇷🇺

Ganesh dismisses the usual explanations:
•Christian nationalism? Too abstract for Trump.
•Peeling Russia away from China? Trump isn’t consistently anti-China.
•Geopolitics? Not his language.

Instead, Ganesh identifies something more basic and more dangerous:

Trump is a commercial animal.

He views the world through deals, upside, costs, returns.

From that mindset:
•Ukraine is a cost centre
•Russia is a future investment opportunity
•War is irrational noise that should be “fixed” by a deal

This explains why Trump instinctively pressures Ukraine rather than Russia:
Russia costs him nothing; Ukraine costs money.

⭐ 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.

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

📌 🧵 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.

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 👺

🧵 1/4

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.

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.

Thread 1/4
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.”

🧵 @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? 👇

🧵THREAD: The Brexit “reset” is a lie.
New EU–UK trade progress is being quietly sabotaged by the UK–US Prosperity Deal — and the EU knows it.
Here’s what they’re not telling you: 👇 The UK government claims it wants a reset with the EU:
✅ Sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) deal
✅ Fewer checks
✅ Easier trade

But behind the scenes, it’s signing a deregulation pact with the US — using Henry VIII powers to bypass Parliament and rip up food standards.

gmfus.org/news/us-uk-eco…

🧵 THREAD: Why the UK–US Prosperity Deal is likely unlawful — and how it’s deregulating your food behind Parliament’s back. This isn’t just a dodgy trade deal.
The UK–US Prosperity Deal was signed without a vote in Parliament.

Ministers say it’s just a non-binding agreement.

So why is it quietly being used to rewrite UK law?

Here’s what’s really going on. 👇

🧵 THREAD: Why is food so expensive in Britain and who’s to blame?

A breakdown of food inflation, post-Brexit chaos, and political betrayal 👇

1️⃣ According to The Sunday Times, food prices in the UK have risen 36% since 2020.

That’s more than France 🇫🇷(23%), Germany (25%), and US 🇺🇸(34%).

So much for “cheaper food after Brexit.”
Source: The Times, July 2025 2️⃣ What’s getting hit hardest?

🫒 Olive oil: +115%
🍫 Chocolate: +49%
🥚 Eggs: +50%
🥛 Milk: +42%
🧂 Sugar: +65%

Your food shop is shrinking — and your wages aren’t catching up.

🧵✅ Recent regulatory changes open the door to hormone-treated beef and chlorinated chicken.

Even if ministers deny it publicly, here’s how it works:

⚖️ 1. Post-Brexit UK regulation is no longer tied to EU food safety standards (SPS rules)

•The Retained EU Law Act gave ministers sweeping powers to rewrite or scrap food regulations via Statutory Instruments (SIs) — without full parliamentary debate.

•These changes weaken bans on things like hormone beef, chlorinated chicken, or pesticide limits without public oversight. 🤝 2. Trade deals create pressure to lower standards

•The UK–US trade deal has long demanded access for US meat and dairy, which is often produced using hormone growth promoters and chlorine washes.

•The UK–India deal involves pressure to accept pesticide residues and additives banned under EU law.

•The CPTPP allows imports from countries that do not follow EU-style SPS rules — making it harder for the UK to maintain higher standards.

🧵 Starmer’s “Change”: Same Gruel, Shinier Bowl

Keir Starmer promised change.
He promised decency, justice, and a break from the chaos.
But what did we get?

The same old gruel — just served in a shinier bowl.

Thread 🧵 🎩 The Promise:

– “End of factionalism”
– “Stronger social safety net”
– “Green prosperity”
– “Closer EU ties”
– “Public ownership”
– “Integrity in politics”

People say the UK can’t be like Norway 🇳🇴 because of “population size.”

The truth is, Britain’s real problem isn’t size.

It’s obedience.
🧵 Norway 🇳🇴 used its oil wealth to build a $1.5 TRILLION sovereign wealth fund.

The UK used its oil wealth to fund tax cuts and deregulation.

One chose long-term planning.
The other chose short-term greed.

Nigel Farage says a migrant deal with @EmmanuelMacron is wrong because “this is Brexit Britain—we voted to take back control, not to accept a deal from a French president.”

But here’s the thing:

This is Brexit Britain. And it means a permanent migrant crisis we can’t fix. 🧵 Farage is right—this is what Brexit Britain looks like:
•We left the Dublin Regulation, so we can’t return asylum seekers to the first EU country they entered.
•We scrapped freedom of movement, but kept labour shortages that drive exploitation.
•We burned bridges, then begged for lifeboats.

🧵1. Britain is heading for a food crisis.

Grain shortages in Russia and Syria.

UK farms hit by drought & floods.
Morocco in historic drought — and we’re still importing their last tomatoes.

Meanwhile, British farmers are paid not to grow food 👇

reuters.com/markets/commod… 2. Russia — the world’s biggest wheat exporter — has slashed export taxes to zero.
Why? To stop bread prices rising at home.
Their harvest is down ~14% due to hail, frost, and drought.
A global grain shock is already underway. 🌾🌍

🧵 1. Rachel Reeves cried in PMQs. The markets wobbled. And BlackRock stepped in.

What just happened wasn’t compassion. It was a moment of rupture in a govt stitched together by executive overreach, narrative control — and global finance. A thread. 👇
bbc.com/news/articles/… 2. Reeves broke down during PMQs last week.

On the surface, it looked human - even relatable. But markets saw something else: instability. And they blinked.

newstatesman.com/politics/econo…

🧵 Steve Coogan has dropped a political truth bomb.

He says Starmer’s Labour has abandoned its principles and is paving the way for the “racist clowns” of Reform UK.

But there’s a deeper story here — about Maurice Glasman, Blue Labour, and a dangerous ideological drift. 👇 Coogan’s points to a hollowed-out Labour Party — one that talks like the Tories, governs from the centre-right, and ignores the social decay fuelling Farage.

“It’s all gesture politics… They’ve abandoned working-class people.”

That’s not accidental.

🧵 Last night on @Channel4News, Lord Maurice Glasman (who claims that McSweeney is one of theirs) said the quiet part out loud:

Brexit was just the beginning.

What comes next? A radical border regime, slashed welfare, and a purge of “progressive” politics — under Labour. 👇 Glasman called Brexit “a great move by the British people”. For him, it wasn’t about sovereignty — it was about rebuilding the nation on harder, harsher terms: national service, closed borders, and an end to liberal rights.