Sean Benstead

Funnily enough, the current minister responsible for making these cuts (which will undoubtedly make life harder for millions of vulnerable people) also wrote about how we need wealth taxes to fund and support a robust and social democratic welfare state only a few years ago! https://t.co/0yRPRumQlX

RT @premnsikka: 1% of the UK population has wealth of £2.8 trillion, compared to £2.4trn by 70% of the population combined. FOUR Britons…

RT @garyseconomics: I've seen the tsunami coming https://t.co/sDsqxK9YAl

We need to be proactive and creative with the levers we have available, like S106. But that requires resources - council planning teams' resource have been cut in half since the onset of austerity This problem has been so obviously foreseeable! https://t.co/kEex4jhAOc

This was such a a fascinating project to work on! How do we use public procurement to transform the food system to be healthier, more sustainable and more local? From the low hanging fruit to the big policy pieces - there's a real appetite for radical change in this space! 👀

(CLES) Centre for Local Economic Strategies @CLESthinkdo

🚨 New Report 🚨 What would happen if school, hospital and university food was sourced locally? 📢 Feeding the Future explores how public procurement can transform Sheffield’s food system. 📖 Read more: https://t.co/krTM8JoRsF https://t.co/A71uIREdyG

RT @CoopParty: Commonhold by default is coming. The Government's new white paper marks the beginning of the end for our current feudal le…

I wrote for the Municipal Journal on SEZs: The Labour Government look like they may look to continue to pursue efforts to coax private investment through geographically focussed incentives - what are the risks & opportunities for communities and workers? https://t.co/nr5pWjp0c2

GDP has roughly doubled between 1980s and 2020s... But so has the number of billionaires and the wealth they have accumulated. Meanwhile, income inequality and health outcomes have significantly worsened. We need to ask, time and time again, "growth" for who?

Dan Tomlinson MP @Dan4Barnet

The problem isn't that "you're stupid because line go up", it's that the lines have been flat for almost two decades. The de-growthers won! It's time to end their experiment with the UK economy. Growth is the route to higher living standards. There's no other way.

RT @Cmmonwealth: 🏘️NEW: UK property market is now the NUMBER ONE choice for overseas investment in real estate. 📰 Our new report with @ada…

Because the UK's economy is so dominated by the likes of this, all the proceeds of "growth" will be mopped up by foreign investors. The gov can't "fix the foundations" of the economy without tackling the wealth extractors... https://t.co/mRje6ZyDyL

RT @Cmmonwealth: Dan is right — when energy was in public hands, Britain built big and ambitiously. Energy investment as a share of GDP wa…

RT @Ed_Miliband: Most people would agree that if you pay your rent, you deserve to live in a warm, safe home. This Labour government is fi…

The unfettered market will always choose profit margins over people's lives. Putting our faith in the market to resolve existential threats like Climate Crisis is systemic insanity. BBC News - BP set to scale back green investments as profits drop sharply https://t.co/D8TrnWZhsx

The gov favours a "growth" model that tries to coax large multinationals rather than supporting small, medium enterprise and socially trading orgs Guess which has greater, more positive impact on your local economies? (Spoilers: it's not the one often owned by private equity!)

Sacha Lord @Sacha_Lord

The UK could lose up to 9000 pubs. From April, pubs with a rateable value of £100,000, will see business rates jump by £19,000 per year. They will need to sell an additional: 60,000 pints a year. Thats 1200 pints a week. Thats 170 extra pints a day. Thats before rising energy

RT @meadwaj: Absolute disaster. One notable thing about this Lab govt (in common with others) is its gigantism - it favours big corps, bi…

RT @AaronBastani: Street cleanliness, elderly care, children with special needs. Same story. There is so much profiteering and rent-seekin…

RT @InvisibleMapper: Important work from @Cmmonwealth on gentrification in Manchester with much wider significance... Join them tonight, a…