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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 17h

This is UK data, not US

Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 19h

Unemployment has risen to 1,737,000. That's up 64,000 in the last 3 months and up 230,000 in the last year

On the wider measure of underemployment, there are now over 5 million underemployed - up by nearly 500,000 on a year ago.

There are now 6.9 people seeking work for every vacancy

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 1d

This review by Richard Sanders for @declassifieduk.org is also well worth a read:
www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...

How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate

Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 1d

The Fraud: how Reed's Labour spied on Croydon councillors insidecroydon.com/2025/10/13/t... #Croydon #TheFraud @left-foot-forward.bsky.social @labourlist.bsky.social

The Fraud: how Reed’s Labour spied on Croydon councillors

Three years ago, Al Jazeera broadcast a series of films, called The Labour Files, based on information gleaned from one of the biggest data leaks in history. One episode was devoted to events that …

insidecroydon.com

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 2d

My review of The Fraud, Paul Holden's explosive new book

"Holden’s book shows the contempt with which senior Labour figures around Keir Starmer hold not just the left, but also truth, decency and the law."

insidecroydon.com/2025/10/12/w...

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 2d

My review of The Fraud, Paul Holden's explosive new book

"Holden’s book shows the contempt with which senior Labour figures around Keir Starmer hold not just the left, but also truth, decency and the law."

insidecroydon.com/2025/10/12/w...

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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 3d

Coming up on Inside Croydon: exclusive coverage of The Fraud, the book that has shaken Downing Street. Don't miss our book review by former Labour insider @fisherandrew79.bsky.social, plus an extract from the book on how the party spied on its councillors in Croydon. #Croydon #TheFraud #Journalism

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 4d

The testimony of Dr Nick Maynard is chilling ...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5d

"It sent 110,000 bullets last month to Israeli snipers who we know have been using Palestinian children as target practice at times"

On #PoliticsLive @fisherandrew79.bsky.social mentioning the complicity of our government.

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 5d

Asking people to pay for goods would kill the shoplifting industry ...

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 6d

Will be on Sky News #PoliticsHub from 7pm discussing the big political stories of the day.

Tune in if you can ...

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 7d

Me for @theipaper.com on the importation of an alien culture to Britain: Trumpism

inews.co.uk/opinion/robe...

Jenrick 'not seeing white people' is straight out of the Trump playbook

Communities up and down Britain show we have integrated successfully - now that is under assault from politicians on the right

inews.co.uk

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Andy McDonald MP @andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social · 6d

You have heard it from @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social at #CPC25.

If elected, Conservatives will:

✅ attack your employment rights
✅ cut public sector jobs
✅ cut social security

The Conservatives: a threat to your living standards.

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 7d

"We are an incredibly successful multicultural society that has integrated and welcomed people from diverse backgrounds
"What we should fear is the importation of the Trumpian politics of fear and division. That, Mr Jenrick, is distinctly unBritish"

Me for @theipaper.com
inews.co.uk/opinion/robe...

inews.co.uk

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 7d

"We are an incredibly successful multicultural society that has integrated and welcomed people from diverse backgrounds
"What we should fear is the importation of the Trumpian politics of fear and division. That, Mr Jenrick, is distinctly unBritish"

Me for @theipaper.com
inews.co.uk/opinion/robe...

inews.co.uk

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 7d

Me for @theipaper.com on the importation of an alien culture to Britain: Trumpism

inews.co.uk/opinion/robe...

Jenrick 'not seeing white people' is straight out of the Trump playbook

Communities up and down Britain show we have integrated successfully - now that is under assault from politicians on the right

inews.co.uk

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 9d

But please TV and radio producers take a hard line:

Don't book people again who come on your programmes and tell lies.

Protect honest debate.

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 9d

No wonder Mordaunt lost her seat at the last election.

1) Lies that teachers and social workers need to be a member of a union to work (the 'closed shop' ended c.40 years ago!)
2) Then says those unions are openly anti-semitic (by which I suspect she means back the rights of Palestinians)

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 9d

On #bbclaurak Penny Mordaunt claims some Trade Unions are "openly antisemitic"

And what a pathetic response from Labour MP Lucy Powell: "its not something that I recognise".

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10d

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage

Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 11d

Being pro-Palestinian is not being anti-Jewish.

Just as being pro-Jewish is not being anti-Palestinian.

Irresponsible language and framing from the Home Secretary.

It is perfectly right that people both protest the Gaza genocide and mourn the Manchester attack.

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 11d

Being pro-Palestinian is not being anti-Jewish.

Just as being pro-Jewish is not being anti-Palestinian.

Irresponsible language and framing from the Home Secretary.

It is perfectly right that people both protest the Gaza genocide and mourn the Manchester attack.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 15d

My family came here 50 years ago. They've worked, paid taxes, raised families, been good citizens.

My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same.

It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 15d

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 13d

My #Lab25 conference diary for @insidecroydon.com...

insidecroydon.com/2025/10/01/m...

MP Reed caps off his high-profile week with a flood of protest

CONFERENCE NOTEBOOK: Bringing Croydon’s trains back into public ownership and putting more emphasis on apprenticeships are among some of the announcements made by Labour figures in Liverpool,…

insidecroydon.com

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 13d

My #Lab25 conference diary for @insidecroydon.com...

insidecroydon.com/2025/10/01/m...

MP Reed caps off his high-profile week with a flood of protest

CONFERENCE NOTEBOOK: Bringing Croydon’s trains back into public ownership and putting more emphasis on apprenticeships are among some of the announcements made by Labour figures in Liverpool,…

insidecroydon.com

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 14d

100%

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 14d

Bringing back maintenance grants for working class students is a good policy

But to announce it with no detail of eligibility thresholds, the level of the grant, or even implementation date is poor

And levying foreign students while reducing numbers sounds risky
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Maintenance grants to return for some students

The support will be available to those on

www.bbc.co.uk

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