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Darren Fower
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✊🏼 Campaigner, 🖥️ blogger and 📊 political analysts/commentator ........ Based in #Peterborough 🇬🇧
Ipsos (Dec 2025): Starmer recorded a net dissatisfaction rating of –66%. The lowest rating recorded for any British #PrimeMinister since Ipsos began tracking the figures in 1977, surpassing previous lows set by #JohnMajor & #JeremyCorbyn!
#KeirStarmer #UKLabour #ByeByeKeir
December 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
#TrussellTrust reveals stark escalation in child food insecurity in UK, driven by economic pressures i.e. #CostofLivingCrisis!
-. Winter 2024 = #FoodBanks distributed over 266k parcels specifically for children - equating to 1/3 of all parcels issued - a 29% increase from 2023!
December 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Labour promises 1.5m new homes but ignores the facts: the construction workforce is down 15% since pre-Covid. We are short 200k+ skilled tradespeople needed right now to make this happen!

#HousingCrisis #KeirStarmer #UKLabour
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Given all the recent chat RE: Labour changes to the Employment Rights Bill, it's a touch ironic that Keir is clear, he's not interested in talking about how future proofed his own PM role is!? :) #UKLabour
December 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
UK's youth job crisis surges: 702K aged 16-24 unemployed in Q3 2025, hitting 15.3% - a brutal non-COVID high not seen since 2015!
-> Alarm bells for the economy's future!
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
All the time peeps are talking about #AsylumSeekers and #Immigrants .... They're NOT talking about Labour's failure to enact policy promises .... Plus, they can blame a lot on the #Tories!

#MigrationCrisis #Immigration #KeitStarmer #UKLabour #SmokeAndMirrors #KeirStarmer
December 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
UK police launch a fierce winter crackdown on knife crime, with Labour's #SarahJonesMP vowing "relentless" action and fresh Home Office tactics to reclaim streets from blade-wielding threats!
-> Who believes they'll make a difference?
December 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
UK food banks dished out 740,000 emergency parcels last winter - a brutal 40% jump from pre-COVID norms - exposing a hunger epidemic gripping the UK nation!
December 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Housebuilders have warned the government will miss its target, after the number of new homes started fell from 207,000 to 139,000 after Labour took office - the lowest since the Covid-19 pandemic!

#UKhousingCrisis #AffordableHomesCrisis #UKLabour #KeirStarmer #Housing
December 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
UK Media Reports: #LabourTogether, the influential think tank that ran #KeirStarmer's leadership campaign, is now canvassing #LabourParty members on potential candidates to replace him!
-> Participants are also being offered entry into a £500 cash draw for their responses!
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Labour's #WesStreetingMP vows to banish NHS "corridor care" by next election - so ANOTHER 4 years then, eh?
-> Nursing union's declare dire alert!
-> England's hospital bed demand has skyrocketed 90-fold in six years!
-> Community services packing A&Es with desperate patients!
December 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
A MAJOR political battle taking place right now amongst the UK's ELITE!
-> Those who want #NigelFarage as the next #PrimeMinister and those who do not!
December 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🇺🇦 #DonaldTrumpshtag/DonaldTrumpJr%C2%A0claims" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#DonaldTrumpJr claims President #DonaldTrump “may walk away” from #UkraineWar!
😯 Argues there's “no reason” for Kyiv to pursue peace while US money keeps flowing!
🛫 Says #Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled, leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight!?
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
UK police crank up controversial AI face cams on Labour's orders - yet crooks in masks laugh last!
-> Will Big Brother beat the balaclavas?

#FacialRecognition #UKCrime #AIPolice #SurveillanceState
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🏗️ UK's construction sector experiences its most severe contraction in over 5 years in November, with the S&P Global Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) plummeting to 39.4 from 44.1 the previous month❗
⚠️ A reading below 50 signals ongoing shrinkage in the house building sector❗
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
💷 #Covidf="/hashtag/Covid19" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#Covid19 support programmes cost taxpayers nearly £11bn through fraud and error❗
🤧 #Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner #TomHayhoe claims fraudsters exploited a "golden opportunity" due to a lack of 🤫 anti-fraud controls under #BorisJohnson's government⁉️
December 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
🔎 #NHS watchdog survey finds "one in seven people" has their GP 👨🏻‍⚕️ referral "lost, rejected, or delayed"❗
🕳️ The "referrals black hole" reportedly leads to many patients suffering "harm to their physical or mental health"⁉️
December 8, 2025 at 6:21 AM
📝 A new survey shows only "1 in 4 are confident they'd receive good treatment from the health service if diagnosed" with #Dementia!
😰 Findings show "many Britons are living in fear they could be neglected in a failing hospital or care home."
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
👨🏻‍⚖️ Bosses will be legally obliged to tell staff about their right to join a union" under a new "overhaul of workers' rights"!
-> Shadow Business Secretary #AndrewGriffithMP tells the paper "it'll be Christmas every day for trade unions if this proposal became law"! 🎄
December 8, 2025 at 5:10 AM
RE: UK #GroomingGangsCrisis -> New claims a "loophole" means "children needing urgent protection could be placed directly into the hands of predators"!! 🤦🏻‍♂️
December 8, 2025 at 5:06 AM
#BitWeirdEh? China earned approximately $78.3 billion from personal protective equipment (PPE) exports in 2020 alone!
#EasyMoney #Covid19 #China #CovidCrisis #ThinkAboutIt
December 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether some children born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship!
-> On his first day in office, President #DonaldTrump signed an order to end birthright citizenship for those born to parents in the country illegally!
December 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
UK's kid crisis: 800K fewer children by 2035 (7% drop!) = school closures & teacher layoffs since '80s levels?
-> Institute for Fiscal Studies warns - time to rethink education!

#UKEducationCrisis #SchoolClosures #DemographicDecline
December 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Labour locks in £3 bus fare cap till March 2027 and rams through Bus Services Act in October to shield key routes - but critics blast the post-2027 funding black hole as a ticking time bomb for commuters!
-> Around 3.4 million people in England rely on buses daily!
December 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
#KeirStarmerMP's "moral mission" against child poverty sounds noble - but with 4.5M kids suffering, Labour's 500K rescue by 2030 ignores 89% of British kids living in relative poverty!
-> Rhetoric vs. reality?
#ChildPovertyCrisis #LabourHypocrisy #UKPolitics
December 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM