My Fair London - a group of Londoners campaigning for a fairer city
London, England
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Come to our first on-line meeting of 2023, with Will Snell of the @fairnessfdn "Building a consensus - can we find a shared definition of fairness?" We need a fairer London, how do we get there? @justspace7 @centreforlondon @HighPayCentre eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-… @Eventbrite
Can democracy survive now the world’s richest man has it in his sights? | George Monbiot
Inequality closing in on destroying democracy. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Thanks for great thread @chrischirp
The determinant of health behind all the others is surely structural economic inequality itself?
It begins to feel that ‘climate crises’ doesn’t now capture the scale of the catastrophe facing the planet.
1. Capitalism has created the conditions for a rapid mass extinction which is 'destroying the conditions that make human life possible'.
'What happens in the next two decades will very likely define the future of biodiversity and H. sapiens.'
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Good to see a Labour MP writing a book with this title:
'The Inequality of Wealth: why it matters and how to fix it?' @liambyrnemp is speaking about his book at an on-line meeting this Wednesday, with the @fairnessfdn
On-line tickets still available. fairnessfoundation.com/posts…
@MileEndInst launch new report on Londoner’s well-being with @centreforlondon
Good to hear @CarolineRussell bring structural inequalities straight into the discussion. The report seems to look at correlations rather than causes, or better ‘the causes of the causes.’ #TaxTheRich
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@sadiqkhan on the London Conference stage: opens calling for solidarity across communities.
23,000 new social rented homes started; primary school free school meals: connects to cost of living crisis. Wants 3rd term to create a fairer, safer, greener city. #IsLondonInCrisis
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Business panel session @centreforlondon conference. Will any mention economic equality? To make London work for everyone, including business, we have to narrow income & wealth gaps. ‘Social mobility’ used to distract attention from the injustices of inequality. #IsLondonInCrisis
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@ZoeGarbett Green candidate for Mayor takes the stage @centreforlondon #IsLondonInCrisis
Talks about fairness in relation to housing, air quality, about community engagement … about personal commitment to public duty “to tackle inequality and injustice.” 👍#TaxTheRich
Great/depressing panel. #islondonincrisis
The hostile environment continues. Home Office policies now push people with granted refugee status into street homelessness. @EnverSol - language matters - politicians on the right intentionally fomenting discord. @centreforlondon
We're kicking off our first panel discussion of the day asking what New Londoners need.
We’re joined by @enversol, Victoria Chwa, Paulina Tamborrell Signoret, and Cllr Tom Bruce in a discussion chaired by @shadi_m_b.
Join in now:
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#IsLondonInCrisis
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Lib Dem candidate for Mayor of London Rob Blackie sets out his stall. claims Thames Tideway tunnel & Free School meals as LibDem ideas. Names housing & crime as key areas. What would @LondonLibDems do on inequality- which drives both these issues in London?
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Fiona Fletcher Smith , Chair of @centreforlondon answers yes. 1 in 23 kids in London spent last night in temp accommodation, a city the size of Oxford homeless in London. #TaxTheRich
Universal credit levels below the minimum needed to live. This makes people sick. And poor people in London are poorer than poor people in the rest of the UK. And the rest of the UK is poorer than Mississippi, the poorest US state. @londonsoc @MichaelMarmot
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@MichaelMarmot speaks to @londonsoc on health inequalities. The decade of austerity was a disaster for health inequalities & for our population. Austerity was an ideological punishment of poor people.
The evidence is clear that more equal societies are better for everyone. #TaxTheRich @PatMillsUK
Reducing inequality benefits everyone — so why isn’t it happening? nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
And the huge added value of a wealth tax is that it would start us towards shaping a fairer society, which would be better for everyone & have fewer social problems that we have to spend money on. #taxtherich #LabourParty
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Thanks @centreforlondon for rich analysis of interlocking nature of London’s housing crisis. Inequality in multiple dimensions defines London’s housing crisis. Any answers to our housing problems have to reduce inequality at the same time. #TaxTheRich
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And, sadly, people who live in more unequal societies seem more likely to believe in individualised, victim blaming explanations for economic inequalities that are the intended consequence of government policies, richly influenced by the rich & their representatives.
Bertrand Russell said in 1932: “The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.” That idea is alive and well. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Great idea. We need to get discussion of wealth taxes into the public discourse. #TaxTheRich
A modest proposal 💡
We've seen calls for a #WealthTax in the UK from many different organisations but maybe what's needed now is to scale up into a national coalition of organisations calling for one?
@PatMillsUK @equalitytrust @TaxJusticeUK #Max12to1 patrioticmillionaires.uk/lat…
@ProfKevinFenton how unequally Covid hit London’s people, but doesn’t mention social class differences, surely the dominant driving factor behind health inequalities- how resources are distributed between people us. We need to re-shape society to make a healthier society .
