Andy Croy
@andycroy.bsky.social
Labour councillor for Norreys East ward of Wokingham Town Council. Chair, Wokingham CLP.
Trying to follow real people and institutions, not ProleoftheNorth type accounts.
Trying to follow real people and institutions, not ProleoftheNorth type accounts.
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Russian imperialist violence. Trade unionists who are determined to fight for a fairer, more equal Ukraine. Socialists who want equality. And all of them know that cannot happen when Russia is occupying Ukraine with its genocidal agenda.
But their voices are so rarely heard. Instead, the Western
But their voices are so rarely heard. Instead, the Western
December 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Russian imperialist violence. Trade unionists who are determined to fight for a fairer, more equal Ukraine. Socialists who want equality. And all of them know that cannot happen when Russia is occupying Ukraine with its genocidal agenda.
But their voices are so rarely heard. Instead, the Western
But their voices are so rarely heard. Instead, the Western
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It's also important to hear these voices when Ishchenko says that Western media prioritises middle-class liberal Ukrainians who aren't fighting. We don't: here are left wing, working class Ukrainians talking about their experience of the full-scale invasion and their future hopes.
left platforms Ischenko (and fine, he deserves to be heard) while ignoring the leftists who disagree with the STW line.
Don't ignore them. This isn't about me pushing my article, but about ensuring Ukrainian left wing voices are listened to, not spoken over.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/from-fron...
Don't ignore them. This isn't about me pushing my article, but about ensuring Ukrainian left wing voices are listened to, not spoken over.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/from-fron...
How trade unions are fighting for Ukraine's future
On the bombed roof of a college in Kharkiv, we saw how trade unions support their members in times of war
www.opendemocracy.net
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
It's also important to hear these voices when Ishchenko says that Western media prioritises middle-class liberal Ukrainians who aren't fighting. We don't: here are left wing, working class Ukrainians talking about their experience of the full-scale invasion and their future hopes.
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This is vile and so so wrong. GB News is the TV version of X.
Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’
It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.
Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’
It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is vile and so so wrong. GB News is the TV version of X.
Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’
It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.
Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’
It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.
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That is a lot of tweets. If you got this far you deserve a prize. Reasonable people will debate this growth strategy. But claiming there isn’t one is lazy nonsense. Higher growth matters because rising living standards are the goal, and higher investment is a key tool.
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
That is a lot of tweets. If you got this far you deserve a prize. Reasonable people will debate this growth strategy. But claiming there isn’t one is lazy nonsense. Higher growth matters because rising living standards are the goal, and higher investment is a key tool.
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But the actual reason taxes are up is 1) higher debt interest (because Tories doubled national debt and rates then rose) 2) higher public service spending (ie ending austerity)
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
But the actual reason taxes are up is 1) higher debt interest (because Tories doubled national debt and rates then rose) 2) higher public service spending (ie ending austerity)
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Totally absymal reporting on the budget from Sky.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Totally absymal reporting on the budget from Sky.
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"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
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"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"having changed my mind about the OBR, my internship there has begun smoothly"
I would like to thank the OBR for advance sight of the Chancellor's budget.
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I would like to thank the OBR for advance sight of the Chancellor's budget.
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Having a great first day as the OBR's website manager. Got all of the content queued up as a scheduled post, ready for a big day, but all of the work is done now.
Now before I put my feet up, time to take a big gulp of water and check the latest news.
Now before I put my feet up, time to take a big gulp of water and check the latest news.
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Having a great first day as the OBR's website manager. Got all of the content queued up as a scheduled post, ready for a big day, but all of the work is done now.
Now before I put my feet up, time to take a big gulp of water and check the latest news.
Now before I put my feet up, time to take a big gulp of water and check the latest news.
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So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
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Trump's peace plan for Ukraine in full:
1) Ukraine concedes to all Russian demands.
2) That's it.
1) Ukraine concedes to all Russian demands.
2) That's it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Trump's peace plan for Ukraine in full:
1) Ukraine concedes to all Russian demands.
2) That's it.
1) Ukraine concedes to all Russian demands.
2) That's it.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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From an article in today's Financial Times. Such an obvious statement of fact. It's hard to understand why direct public investment in social rent housing - so successful for decades - is now unthinkable.
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
From an article in today's Financial Times. Such an obvious statement of fact. It's hard to understand why direct public investment in social rent housing - so successful for decades - is now unthinkable.
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There is abundant evidence in the social science literature that (a) social norms matter (b) political elites play an important role in setting and reinforcing social norms (c) that 'unexpected' rhetoric behaviour (e.g. centre left sounding intolerant) has more powerful corrosive effect on norms.
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
There is abundant evidence in the social science literature that (a) social norms matter (b) political elites play an important role in setting and reinforcing social norms (c) that 'unexpected' rhetoric behaviour (e.g. centre left sounding intolerant) has more powerful corrosive effect on norms.
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The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
You don't fight the forces of darkness by being dark but differently dark.
November 17, 2025 at 2:48 PM
You don't fight the forces of darkness by being dark but differently dark.
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👮 More than a dozen Labour MPs have expressed criticism of the government’s radical reforms to Britain’s asylum system.
labourlist.org/2025/11/asyl...
labourlist.org/2025/11/asyl...
Asylum reform: Full list of MPs opposing government’s immigration proposals – LabourList
More than a dozen Labour MPs have expressed criticism of the government's radical reforms to Britain's asylum system. Shabana Mahmood has proposed sweeping new reforms…
labourlist.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
👮 More than a dozen Labour MPs have expressed criticism of the government’s radical reforms to Britain’s asylum system.
labourlist.org/2025/11/asyl...
labourlist.org/2025/11/asyl...
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We absolutely need immigration controls. And where those controls decide to grant asylum, we should welcome and integrate, not create perpetual limbo and alienation.
The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities.
The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities.
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We absolutely need immigration controls. And where those controls decide to grant asylum, we should welcome and integrate, not create perpetual limbo and alienation.
The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities.
The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities.
It is certainly a bold strategy to put this record to put in front of members in any future leadership bid.
Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It is certainly a bold strategy to put this record to put in front of members in any future leadership bid.