Andrew Fisher

"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
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"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
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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

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

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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.

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)

"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

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.

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.

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.

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,…

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

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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,…

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

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

100%

Maintenance grants to return for some students The support will be available to those on

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
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Blair Says Forget The People Of Ukraine, Let's Side With Putin And Fight Radical Islam Blair Says Forget The People Of Ukraine, Let's Side With Putin And Fight Radical Islam

Blair had the same line in 2014. Two truly awful people
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Andy Burnham is right about a culture of fear in the Labour Party Given how badly Labour is doing, some introspection might be helpful

Burnham’s diagnosis is that the policy agenda is missing because of “a climate of fear within our party and [because of] the way the party is being run”

That message strikes a chord with Labour MPs and members alike

My latest column for @theipaper.com #Lab25
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Yes, I think so - not least because I and others were pushing that point in advance of the election.

But Labour's manifesto was utterly dishonest (or if not delusional) about the scale of the challenge

The Tories salted the earth, but Labour did nothing to prepare the ground.

Andy Burnham is right about a culture of fear in the Labour Party Given how badly Labour is doing, some introspection might be helpful

Burnham’s diagnosis is that the policy agenda is missing because of “a climate of fear within our party and [because of] the way the party is being run”

That message strikes a chord with Labour MPs and members alike

My latest column for @theipaper.com #Lab25
inews.co.uk/opinion/andy...

Why double time to qualify for ILR from five to ten years?

Just makes people put their lives on hold for longer - and will discourage skilled people from putting down roots.

Can't see how that's good for integration or for the economy ...

Safe and Secure Routes for Refugees On 25 March 2025, PCS and Care4Calais launched a new report to lobby politicians to provide a humanitarian alternative to small boats crossings.

Read more about the case for safe and secure routes from @pcsunion.bsky.social and @care4calais.org
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Child dies while reportedly trying to reach UK in small boat Body of teenager found on beach in northern France after three other people die in Channel crossings on Saturday

This is why we need to open safe and secure routes.

The perversity of a system, in which refugees have to cross the Channel in this way just to seek asylum, must end.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Perhaps slightly premature to announce a policy if there are no details yet ...

Now signed by over 2 million people
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

Over 1 million people have signed the petition against ID cards

Add your name here:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Cash for access.

What was it Keir Starmer said in his speech today?

Ah yes, that the far right "wants to draw a dividing line between the ‘elites’ and the ‘people’.”

Scotched that myth then ...

Will be on @bbc5live.bsky.social shortly discussing Government proposals for ID cards ...

Tune in if you can

Put the funding into more Trading standards officials, HMRC investigators, police - not ID cards.

To what? Having a smaller shadow economy than comparable European nations?

It's a problem that we have a smaller shadow economy than comparable European nations?

Unless you think the shadow economy can be totally eradicated ..?

Illegal working is facilitated by dodgy bosses.

Dodgy bosses don't check for an NI number now, they're not going to check for an ID card ...

ID cards are a solution in search of a problem

Estimates of the size of the "shadow economy"

France 7%
Germany 7%
Italy 8%
..even Estonia 7%

UK: 5%

Idea that ID cards are some kind of panacea...

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