I have only been consistently warning this above (no SM/CU without the extra ops capacity needed - on same trade throughput - for it) would be the case since 2016 😁... @philmoorhouse.bsky.social @nick1webb.bsky.social

Type of reporting BBC should be doing, from @philmoorhouse.bsky.social With caveat: there are now no British Standards for imports(enforcement of UKCA is abandoned, as is SPS control of TCA border); anything goes ...further disadvantaging UK business @nick1webb.bsky.social youtu.be/ktPmwcszJEg?...

Our latest episode is out now wherever you get your podcasts! Meddling Musk, mass produced meat, Labour leadership, Farage, Kruger, Polanski and... Penguins! share.transistor.fm/s/006f4892 @lizwebster.bsky.social @nick1webb.bsky.social @olifletcher.bsky.social

All true and all forewarned. Now happening. Tragic and reversible but it will take bold politicians and strong leadership. Anyone?!

They didn't write 'Want to be the sick man of Europe again?' on the side of a bus, did they? Would have been more informative than the NHS lie.

As tweeted so many times before, UK now an outsider to EU & every other country in the world...as more turn inwards & more protective .. EU etc can afford to do without UK goods; but UK cannot even afford to reciprocate its TCA border, never mind start any trade wars. share.google/8g4Orwxa8OJQ...

Episode 6 is now live! We're talking SPS support and what it means for food standards, Nathan Gill's Russia revelations, press pressure on politicians and the plausibility of Hugh Grant for PM! share.transistor.fm/s/d1b12d8f @lizwebster.bsky.social @nick1webb.bsky.social @olifletcher.bsky.social

Are we at the point now where Brexit is just accepted to cause problems in all the areas is was expected to by experts who were rubbished at the time of the vote? The economy, immigration, NI, British freedom (gone) in Europe- all now worse permanently because we left the SM. Who's going to fix it?

Ep 5 is out now wherever you get your podcasts! It's meaty and juicy but not lab grown, which is how we like our beef...

Is there a huge failure of politicians to communicate their message effectively across the board at the moment? @lizwebster.bsky.social @nick1webb.bsky.social @podfoodfighters.bsky.social

Ep 4 of our new podcast is out now! Please have a listen if you're interested in keeping high EU food standards in this country rather than the alternative of cheap, dangerous US imports.

Trump, Tice and Farage?

If you need a stat to help explain why we're fighting against a trade deal with the US that would significantly lower our food standards here in the UK... @lizwebster.bsky.social @olifletcher.bsky.social @nick1webb.bsky.social

Episode 3 of The Food Fighters is out now wherever you get your pods!

“Defra has no effective system of oversight for [biosecurity] border controls”, which is “not simply an operational concern but continues to present real threats to the health of UK animals and plants and therefore the viability of our sector” Sigh!! 🙄 committees.parliament.uk/committee/52...

Episode 3 is now live! We're talking protests, Mandelson, X, Yaxley-Lennon, Trump and lots more... Please enjoy, subscribe, like and share! open.spotify.com/episode/2Thh... @lizwebster.bsky.social @olifletcher.bsky.social @nick1webb.bsky.social

Is PM Starmer using Brexit deregulation and 'Henry VIII' powers to dodge parliamentary scrutiny and force through a US trade deal that will be bad for the health of our nation? It looks that way, and we're campaigning to stop it. @lizwebster.bsky.social @nick1webb.bsky.social ep2 available now!

Ep 2 is out now in all the normal places- please give us a listen, we're trying to stop a dangerous change to our diets that a US trade deal would bring while highlighting the need to return to EU standards before it's too late. We also give both barrels to Farage and the far right.

Farage's self serving tour of the States involved a reality check in Congress, but why didn't the the man who apparently cares so much about grooming gangs mention Epstein? Ep2 is in all the normal places now @lizwebster.bsky.social @nick1webb.bsky.social

Our new podcast is out now! Please share far and wide and help us save British food and farming! open.spotify.com/show/5E2m6K4...

@lizwebster.bsky.social @nick1webb.bsky.social

A pleasure to start a brand new podcast with @lizwebster.bsky.social and Oli Fletcher @podfoodfighters.bsky.social is in all the normal places. Please spread the word as we fight for Britain's food future.

If these facilities are ever used for what they were built for the UK will have border chaos with less choice and higher price of goods hitting businesses and public hard. If not used without joining SM we are an open border smugglers paradise. Both are awful options compared to SM/EU membership.

@bbclaurak.bsky.social @skynewsrss.bsky.social FYI might be worth a mention this morning?

Tick, tick, tick... archive.ph/2025.05.09-0...

Post Brexit deregulation (allowing lower standards for us plebs and even grander profit margins for the owning elite) is in full swing. It can be stopped or can get much worse. We have to let the public know where we could be headed and hold govt to account. It will affect us all if we do nothing.

Thanks for the share @peterstefanovic.bsky.social @stephenswan.bsky.social

Brexit referendum’s 10th anniversary: time to think again? With 10 years of the Brexit referendum on the horizon, should a second referendum be in our sights? @nick1webb.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk

Brexit referendum’s 10th anniversary: time to think again? With 10 years of the Brexit referendum on the horizon, should a second referendum be in our sights? @centralbylines.co.uk @nick1webb.bsky.social

📉 Brexit has left our country weaker and poorer. 🇬🇧 The UK is now "on the outside looking in on a market of 447 million consumers and 23 million companies, all of whom form a bloc of our closest geographical trading partners."

My latest for Bylines. Ten years on from the Brexit referendum is it time to settle the debate once and for all? Here's why I think now's the time and how to do it.

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas. 1 in 2 builders were born overseas. 1 in 6 nurses were born overseas. 1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas. 1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas. 1 in 5 university academics were born overseas. The UK would be screwed without them.

Why use the word 'jihad' here? Johnson is associating Macron with Islamic fundamentalism and suggesting he is recruiting migrants as troops for an attack against Brexit but also an invasion from France. This sort of language is deliberate and used to cause division and rage. @dailymail.co.uk 1/2

“Only 29% would back Brexit now — poll proves tables have turned” - @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Time to start preparing the framework for a second referendum. Focus needs to be on realistic options (EU/EFTA etc pre negotiated) and effective communication of accurate information in the campaigns. Misinformation must be called out. Huge task but vital for Britain's future.

If we sign a trade deal with the US that lowers standards of imported food we all suffer, apart from those who can afford to eat organic/home grown etc (v expensive). EU/SM standards are high. US standards are not. On this clip, a US farmer explains the difference v well. x.com/LizWebsterSB...

The EU is watching. And so is the world. You can’t promise alignment in Brussels while selling deregulation to Washington. That’s not strategy — that’s fraud.

This sort of information needs to be platformed properly. While we all continue to struggle to pay bills, rent or mortgages and keep ourselves afloat financially, part of the cause of all this is UK specific and solvable. No one wants to be poorer. Real world impacts of Brexit are increasingly 1/2

Tariffs are bad for both importer and exporter as they make things more expensive. As with most wars, a trade war has many more victims than beneficiaries. If Trump wanted to help US businesses he would be surely pushing for tariff free access.

Another example of the complete failure of the remain campaign to highlight and explain the huge positives of Freedom of Movement (of goods, services, people and capital). If what FOM is can be clarified, and untied from illegal migration from outside the EU, we will be in a different place IMO.

It's about time the British population had it explained to us what we have 'chosen' (although that was a detail free 'leave the EU'), and what our options are. Let's vote on the most popular Brexit option to get a majority on that and then have a second vote putting that option vs EU membership.

I suppose the question is- enough for who/what? If we put out the biggest fire first, we look at SM membership. Everything after that (CU etc) leaves us chasing what we had as an EU member state, which is IMO the best of the options. When the public have all options explained, what would we pick?

I wonder how many Brits realise that if they now travel from GB to EU27 or from EU27 back to GB with eg a food hamper &/or potted plants &/or highly valuable goods for others, without declaring them to an official at the border, they're now (since Brexit) committing a crime? 🤔

UK inflation is 3.6%. Eurozone inflation is 2.0% The Bank of England interest rate is 4.25%. The ECB rate is 2.0% Brexit is costing the government around £50bn a year. We are paying a massive cost for not being in the EU and the Eurozone - higher inflation, interest rates, and taxes.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ed-... If there was a willingness to properly expose both Farage and Brexit and pin one to the other, I believe both would fall apart. I wrote about it here: centralbylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... It must be time to start discussing how the next referendum works. This has to start with the realistic options properly explained resulting in informed decisions. The best people for this are unlikely to be politicians but experts from a variety of fields 1/2

Honest, accurate and bold from someone who should be viewed as a key ally. Europe needs alignment and solidarity more than in any period since 1945. We are a continent and should view our neighbours as friends and partners. The pros of EU membership vastly outweigh the negatives. Poor headline 1/2

I love these words about London from our Mayor. Sadly there are now members of parliament who also hate and encourage voters to hate what the 7/7 attackers hated that SK describes here.

Out of interest, what would happen to a crowd of protesters if they chanted what they chanted at Glastonbury from a food queue in Gaza to the IDF? I don't condone or agree with the chants at Glastonbury btw.