Liz Webster SBF

05/09/2024

Great to catch up with to discuss and petition to urge the new Labour Government to crack on and get Britain back in the Erasmus Scheme.

We Must Push Starmer Off The Brexit Fence

Mike Galsworthy, Chair of European Movement, joined me to discuss and their petition to urge the new Labour Government to crack on and get Britain ba...

03/09/2024

Jonathan Portes provides the truth about immigration.

He is SO right that it’s not a problem that people want to come to the UK – it gives us a major competitive advantage.

It’s not a problem that people want to come to the UK – it’s a major competitive advantage

27/08/2024

Great reporting from Tim Walker on avoidable costly legal cases of Liberal Democrat’s

“Mark Pack, LibDems president, is facing questions about his judgment after the party threw in the towel following a three-and-a-half-year legal battle with a parliamentary candidate who was barred from standing for wearing a T-shirt bearing the words: “Woman: Adult, Human, Female.”

“Mark has been presiding over an illiberal management culture where we are too quick to litigate and too slow to listen,” one party worker tells Mandrake. “We’ve taken almost £3m in donations from people who would be aghast by the proportion of it we are now paying out in court cases that should never have been fought.”

Natalie Bird, the candidate in Wakefield prior to her deselection in 2019, sought legal redress after concluding that the party’s complaints procedures left her nowhere else to go. She expects to receive substantial damages after the T-shirt row, which, with costs, is expected to set the Lib Dems back by up to £500,000.

I disclosed in July how the party had officially set aside £257,000 for what was coyly described as “provisions for liabilities – regulatory matters and claims”, which seemed at the time optimistic given the number of legal tussles the party was involved in.

These include cases brought by Jo Hayes, a barrister ousted from the Lib Dems’ federal board and seeking an injunction to get herself reinstated; David Campanale, demanding redress after being sacked as a candidate in Sutton and Cheam; and Avril Coelho, once the chair of its Disability Association, who has already accepted a substantial undisclosed sum after successfully arguing that she was victimised by party officials.

Pack was named as a representative of the party – in addition to Alison Rouse, its chair – in the case that Bird brought, where she had successfully argued breach of contract and direct discrimination because of gender-critical beliefs. The party finally admitted all of Bird’s claims at the pre-trial review hearing on July 22.

Bird said when she wore her T-shirt a senior party official had asked her if she was an approved candidate and when she said she was, the woman had replied: “Well, we’ll see about that.” Judgment on damages is not expected until December.”

theneweuropean.co.uk/lib-dems-throw…

17/08/2024

Was Boris Johnson the most corrupt PM?

Labour Govt Has Power To Decide

To make Britain great again, we need to deal with errors of the past. Corruption and inequality has been building in British politics since Thatcher. This La...

11/08/2024

GB News viewers are upset by the King's recent contribution to debate about the recent rioting which broke out last week across Britain. They feel he has tak...

06/08/2024

I Told LBC That Brexit Liars Are To Blame for

Brexit opened up a toxic cocktail which led to the murder of a young female MP. Brexit lifted the rock under which the racists and xenophobes hid and validat...

03/07/2024

The endless stunts of Ed Davey have ensured the Libdems have evaded scrutiny and hope that the forthcoming legal challenges and EHRC investigation expose what is going on.

Is the Liberal Democrat party really all that liberal? Mr S isn’t quite so sure – after speaking to an ex-Lib Dem staffer who is taking legal action against the party for ‘discrimination, harassment and victimisation’. The former caseworker, who is using the pseudonym Amelia Sparrow, was di...

01/07/2024

🥔 The UK no longer has any small or medium farms growing new potatoes.

🥔 Guy Singh-Watson founder of said this is the first year it has been impossible to source British early potatoes for his boxes. He called it part of a wider “tragedy” of smaller UK fruit and vegetable growers quitting in the face of low returns, post-Brexit labour shortages and extreme weather.

🥔 A Riverford survey found that 49% of horticulture companies fear imminently going out of business.

“Indeed, they are going out of business. Around the south and southwest, there were lots of small family farms, who grew 10 to 100 acres of potatoes. They just all got fed up with the returns and the work and they have given up. The last one who grew down on the ‘Golden Mile’ down near Penzance gave up last year and we haven’t been able to find [any],” said Singh-Watson.
A large number of the farmers who brought tractors to a protest in London in March are in the horticulture sector, and fruit and vegetable shortages in supermarkets last year were linked to declines in the sector.

Smaller new potato farmers have tended to be on the coast because they are frost-free and can harvest early. “These early [new] potatoes have traditionally been grown on family farms, originally dragging seaweed off the beach to fertilise the farms. Those are the ones that are particularly suffering. The whole middle of horticulture has been hollowed out,” said Singh-Watson.
Jersey Royal potatoes continue to be produced from the self-governing crown dependency. But in the UK, production appears now to be left to larger growers with thousands of acres in east and central England, Singh-Waton said.

Gerard Croft at the British Potato Trade Association said even bigger players had few new potatoes this year because the ground was so waterlogged in spring after months of rain.

“The southwest has been the worst hit, it’s had a torrid time. A lot of the crop went in very late. Supplies have been very, very hand to mouth: supply is tight,” said Mark Taylor from the industry group GB Potatoes

28/06/2024

Oh look another legal case because of the LibDems discriminating, how many is it now?

A 24-year-old woman standing up for freedom of speech, diversity and tolerance in the Liberal Democrat Party and UK Parliament, for the benefit of our liberal democracy.

08/06/2024

From Private Eye journalist in 2019.

A must read on the history of the

As a pro EU social democrat, I now realise I should never have joined this party. They are trying to deliver the opposite of what I believe in, libertarianism.

This reality of this kind of ideology is particularly damaging for British farming and food security.

Brexit is giving the Lib Dems the opportunity to rebrand as a reforming, progressive party. But they're still a force for privilege and austerity. New leader Jo Swinson will only make matters worse.

06/06/2024

06/06/2024

Former BBC journalist David Campanale’s cause against the Lib Dems is being supported by the bishops of Wi******er and Guildford - two target seats for the party

29/05/2024

Latest polling for our South Cotswolds constituency from The Economist. The momentum is with us!

→https://www.economist.com/interactive/uk-general-election/forecast/

28/05/2024

Edwina Currie was Agriculture Minister years ago who has flip flopped on more times than most of us have had hot dinners! She was a remainer who ba...

25/05/2024

22/05/2024

Larry wonders If Britain’s Revolving Door of Tory PMs About To End?

Sunak was pushed to call an election today on 4th July, Independence Day may now have more meaning to the Britain if we are finally released from Conservativ...