When politicians say that things are going to get worse – that's a choice they've made. We can say no to austerity, cuts, and underinvestment with one simple, popular choice: tax the rich. Please. Just tax the rich.

Thank you, The Equality Trust & Tax Justice UK. Shame on you, Keir Starmer The Labour Party. Say no to "worse before it's better".

Not content with just slowing their own central bank's progress on a just transition, US bank lobbyists are now trying to slow progress in Europe. Yet more reason to get bank lobbyists and their money away from public policymaking. Their best interests aren't ours.

There was massive support for Universal Basic Income and Universal Basic Services among our supporters, but UBI was preferred. UBS remains much less known than UBI. This week, we're asking about making work fairer: equalitytrust.org.uk/weekly-poll/

Privatised water companies are on a PR blitz, telling anyone who'll listen that they need to hike our bills. Don't listen. They're trying to protect the model that has let them load utilities with debt and take £85.2bn in dividends since privatisation. Nationalise them now.

📢New report from IPPR & IPPR North Working peoples incomes are taxed more heavily than incomes from wealth benefiting richer areas particularly the South The tax system is accelerating regional inequalities, at the very least we can take our foot off the accelerator A 🧵...

National Wealth what? Watch and share. x.com/PositiveMoneyU…

🙋‍♀️66.97 million people are in the queue see The Labour Party commence the socio-economic duty & help make austerity unlawful. ✍️ Sign our petition today to back the demand for an urgent commission: bit.ly/MakeEqualityRe… #MakeEqualityReal #AntiAusterity

⚡ NEW ⚡️ Our latest research finds that the National Wealth Fund could be empowered to use its recent £7.3 billion funding boost to mobilise £180 billion for public investment by the end of this Parliament. Kalyeena Makortoff covers in The Guardian 👇 theguardian.com/business/artic…

A great Tax Justice Network @TaxJusticeNet.bsky.social infographic by my colleague Mark on how the extreme wealth of the super-rich is undermining our economies and how our governments can implement wealth taxes to fix the problem taxjustice.net/2024/08/19/inf…

MPs don't need to worry about sudden evictions, falling behind on rent, or mould – but their tenants do. 85 MPs declare incomes of at least £10,000 from rent, nearly 1 in 7 – rising to 1 in 4 Scottish MPs.

Horror stories about people living in unsafe homes owned by MPs are possible because MPs have stripped protections from renters over the last 40 years and profited from that inequality.

Proud to be an author of this hard hitting report

Landlords are the 3rd-biggest group in parliament with 85 MPs, but the the number and proportion of landlord MPs is has fallen since 2017. However, Labour more than doubled their landlord MP numbers in 2024 and bucked the trend by increasing their landlord percentage.

Our response to today's publication of the Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2 Report

🚨 Grenfell Inquiry report 🚨 - "Complacent" govt "well aware" of risk of cladding disaster but failed to act - "Systematic dishonesty" by product manufacturers "very significant reason" for fire - "Chronic and systemic" fire safety failures by tower's social landlords

It's back to school week for our children 🎒 As a result of austerity 600,000 more of them are in 'deep poverty', according to Child Poverty Action Group. It's time to help make austerity unlawful. Sign our petition to commence the socio-economic duty: bit.ly/MakeEqualityRe… #MakeEqualityReal

⚖️ As co-leads of the #1forEquality campaign with The Equality Trust, we continue to push for the enactment and effective implementation of the socio-economic duty, which the new UK Government has committed to. 🧵 A mini thread of our work so far... justfair.org.uk/campaigns-2/1f…