Andrew Brook
@anbrook.bsky.social
Senior programme manager at Power2 @power2org.bsky.social.
Doctoral researcher @mmudecentwork.bsky.social, interested in the relationship between housing and job quality.
Ex-teacher and current special school governor.
Views mine alone.
Doctoral researcher @mmudecentwork.bsky.social, interested in the relationship between housing and job quality.
Ex-teacher and current special school governor.
Views mine alone.
Reposted by Andrew Brook
If people become insecure, we find they’re three times more likely to desert Labour than if they become more concerned about immigration. Around one-third of Britons felt economically insecure as of April 2025.
Focusing on immigration is a ‘red herring’ when financial security is so foundational.
Focusing on immigration is a ‘red herring’ when financial security is so foundational.
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
If people become insecure, we find they’re three times more likely to desert Labour than if they become more concerned about immigration. Around one-third of Britons felt economically insecure as of April 2025.
Focusing on immigration is a ‘red herring’ when financial security is so foundational.
Focusing on immigration is a ‘red herring’ when financial security is so foundational.
Can you highlight where other leading soft-lefties fall on this woke/non-woke divide? Considering, as you say, the non-woke stuff is creating vast problems downstream, in an upcoming leadership election the woke/non-woke divide is as consequential as the soft-left/liberal/labourist divide, no?
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Can you highlight where other leading soft-lefties fall on this woke/non-woke divide? Considering, as you say, the non-woke stuff is creating vast problems downstream, in an upcoming leadership election the woke/non-woke divide is as consequential as the soft-left/liberal/labourist divide, no?
Interesting vibes/reality mismatch. The YIMBY camp feels urgent when housing/infrastructure take time to bite. Relational politics could deliver soon w/ proper local government funding and a social care fix.
Ultimately the two agendas require each other. Social connection needs secure foundations.
Ultimately the two agendas require each other. Social connection needs secure foundations.
October 15, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Interesting vibes/reality mismatch. The YIMBY camp feels urgent when housing/infrastructure take time to bite. Relational politics could deliver soon w/ proper local government funding and a social care fix.
Ultimately the two agendas require each other. Social connection needs secure foundations.
Ultimately the two agendas require each other. Social connection needs secure foundations.
Reposted by Andrew Brook
Granting leave to people who will either end up getting it or who can’t be removed anyway would free up enough capacity to close the hotels in around 6 months. Granting leave to people from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iran, Sudan and Syria would do it www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/stay-informe...
Ending the use of hotels to house people seeking asylum - Refugee Council
New analysis outlines how the UK can responsibly end the use of asylum hotels within a year through a secure, practical solution.
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October 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Granting leave to people who will either end up getting it or who can’t be removed anyway would free up enough capacity to close the hotels in around 6 months. Granting leave to people from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iran, Sudan and Syria would do it www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/stay-informe...
For more on how forcing everyone to gamble on what might pay off - from education to unpaid volunteering - has created an 'age of anxiety', read @will-davies.bsky.social's fascinating paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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September 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
For more on how forcing everyone to gamble on what might pay off - from education to unpaid volunteering - has created an 'age of anxiety', read @will-davies.bsky.social's fascinating paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....