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Darren Fower
@darrenfower.bsky.social
✊🏼 Campaigner, 🖥️ blogger and 📊 political analysts/commentator ........ Based in #Peterborough 🇬🇧
299,100 households: Faced acute homelessness in 2024 (rough sleeping, sofas, tents) - up 21% since 2022 and 45% since 2012!
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
One of the rules in Denmark states Refugees who live in housing estates designated as 'parallel societies' - where more than 50% of residents are from what the Danish government considers to be 'non-Western' backgrounds - will not be eligible for family reunion at all.
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
£3.5 billion annually: Est total public cost of the small boats crisis, covering accommodation, processing, and enforcement!
£400,000 per migrant: Lifetime cost to the UK taxpayer for each small boat arrival, factoring in housing, benefits, & services over decades!
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
-> 948,000 young people (12.5% of 16-24s) were NEET in Q2 2025, up from prior quarters!
-> Over 25% of NEET youth now cite long-term sickness/disability as the barrier (vs. just 12% in 2013/14)!
-> 25.9% of unemployed youth job-hunting for over a year without success!
November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
BBC's Annual Licence Fee Haul: £3.8 Billion – That's the public's hard-earned funding pot (65% of BBC's total income), making Trump's $1B threat (~£760M) a potential 20% gut-punch to operations.
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
23,500 - Number of child benefit payments suspended due to travel data mismatches, many for holidays under 8 weeks!
£350m - Projected savings over 5 years from expanded crackdown on overseas child benefit claims!
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
1.64 million hours lost: Ambulance crews wasted this on handover delays in early 2025, potentially harming 1,000 patients daily!
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
15% surge in A&E visits June-July 2025 saw 2.9 million attendances – highest in a decade, fueling trolley chaos!
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
-> 948,000 aged 16-24 out of education/work in Apr-Jun, with levels stubbornly high into the year!
-> Of NEETs, 365,000 actively jobless (up 10k YoY), but most (543k for 18-24s) are economically sidelined - not even seeking work.
November 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM