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Darren Fower
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✊🏼 Campaigner, 🖥️ blogger and 📊 political analysts/commentator ........ Based in #Peterborough 🇬🇧
68.6% of knife offenders were first-time in year ending March 2025!
SOURCE: gov.uk
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
28% of private renters hit food insecurity in 2024 (44% for social housing tenants), as rent hikes outpace wages and drive more to food banks .... Politicians don't seem to care about those private renting?
December 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
14.1 million adults (nearly 1 in 5 UK people) faced food insecurity in 2024, unable to afford basics - fueling the winter parcel boom!
-> Imagine what it is this year!?
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
-> Nearly 1 million A&E patients were shunted into corridors or "temporary" spots last year alone, per HSJ analysis of NHS data!
-> 80% of doctors now treat patients in unsafe spaces like corridors (45% of cases), confirming a year-round crisis, says the Royal College of Physicians.
December 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
-> 33% of UK voters now prefer Farage as PM over #KeirStarmer's 30%, the FIRST time Farage leads in head-to-head PM favourability (YouGov, October 2025).
-> #ReformUK now commands 27% national vote intention, leading Labour (19%) and #Tories (17%) in the latest tracker!
December 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Arrests vs. Scans Mismatch: Nearly 2 million Londoners scanned since 2020, yielding just 804 arrests - a mere 0.04% hit rate!
(Ouch—efficiency or overreach?)
December 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
About 250,000 babies were born to unauthorised immigrant parents in the US in 2016 - by 2022, the latest year that data is available, there were 1.2 million US citizens born to unauthorised immigrant parents!
December 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
800 primary schools at risk of closure by 2029 due to plummeting birthrates, as primary pupil numbers crater 4% (162,000 fewer kids) in just the next five years!
December 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM