Please get your MP to attend the event below #NHS @99organisation.bsky.social 99-percent.org/get-your-mp-...

This week’s letter to 99% members looks at two issues all MPs really should understand: 1. Are the fiscal rules compatible with delivering national renewal? 2. Is the 10-year plan for health good for the NHS? sh1.sendinblue.com/3g6g0si2bglp...

Re-Wiring for Progress by @99organisation.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/the99per...

This week’s letter to 99% members looks at two issues all MPs really should understand: 1. Are the fiscal rules compatible with delivering national renewal? 2. Is the 10-year plan for health good for the NHS? sh1.sendinblue.com/3g6g0si2bglp...

“The whole world isn’t going down the right-wing plug hole and Starmer, if he opened his eyes, would find ­inspiration to confront and beat Farage’s divisive, fear-based politics with fairness and decency in Britain" www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Yes, Johnson started to turn the UK into a Plunderstate. Trump has almost finished the job in the US. 99-percent.org/malice-in-pl...

@owenjones.bsky.social The UK has a fiat currency so we don’t need a wealth tax to invest in public services. Taxes are to: control inflation, incentivise/disincentivise goods/bads and, especially the role of wealth taxes, for redistribution to tackle the obscene inequality from which we all suffer.

"So, in practice, the fiscal rules have not worked, in principle it is hard to see how they could work, and the forecasts they would need, even if in principle they might work, are completely unreliable." Please read - this is vital stuff.

It was a great pleasure to take part in this event with @neilduncanjordan.bsky.social @annpettifor.bsky.social and @vincegomez.bsky.social We had a very good discussion with the MPs and Peers, and other guests.

This week’s letter to 99% members describes the launch in Parliament of the Progressive Economics Working Group – something the UK badly needs right now. sh1.sendinblue.com/3g6bt362bglp...

It was a great pleasure to join @neilduncanjordan.bsky.social @annpettifor.bsky.social and @vincegomez.bsky.social at the first meeting of this important initiative.

Last week saw the inaugural meeting in Parliament of the working group on Progressive Economics. Here is a rough transcript of what the group discussed. 99-percent.org/fiscal-rules...

👍you focussed on the obscenty of inequality which blights everyone! 🙏also for attending the @99organisation.bsky.social pre- budget briefing. @vincegomez.bsky.social gave a really good presentation to B&R GP recently. Vital understanding that Govt spends into the economy & taxes back, not vice versa

Here @ukparliament.parliament.uk for @99organisation.bsky.social #FiscalRules event hosted by @neilduncanjordan.bsky.social If Attlee had been constrained by Reeves’ fiscal rules we would not have the NHS. @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social @annpettifor.bsky.social 99-percent.org/wp-content/u...

"It suits a small number of extremely wealthy people for us to continue to believe the fallacies."

@markthomasinfo.bsky.social @99organisation.bsky.social has a briefing for MPs on Monday on the real choices for our economy ahead of the Budget. Hope one of @elliechowns.bsky.social, @adrianramsay.bsky.social @sianberry.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social can attend!

This week’s letter to 99% members looks at the fallacies holding back national renewal and why we continue to believe them, despite the evidence of our own eyes. sh1.sendinblue.com/3g67ldu2bglp...

Why it is time to trust our own lived experience -- and when to ignore the media. 99-percent.org/trust-your-l...

What Should the Chancellor Do in November? @99organisation.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/the99per...

Division➡️ Democracy Fear ➡️ Fairness From democratic renewal to fair growth, @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social outlines 5 practical steps to rebuild trust and prosperity in the UK 📈🌱 Read more 👇 www.radixbigtent.org.uk/news-comment... @99organisation.bsky.social #FutureofBritain #ResilientDemocracy

As the Budget draws near, we focus on the question: What positive steps could the Chancellor take in November? sh1.sendinblue.com/3g63doi2bglp...

'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

As the political landscape evolves, @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social of @99organisation.bsky.social makes the case to establish a transparent definition of 'far-right', in order to strengthen democratic safeguards #ResilientDemocracy Read the latest blog 👇 www.radixbigtent.org.uk/news-comment...

Agreed. And while the 'small target strategy' was an excellent one for winning when not it office (and everything could be blamed on the Tories), it has predictably been a very poor strategy for governing. 99-percent.org/when-to-chan...

I think it is both. 99-percent.org/two-futures-...

Yes, he really is. bsky.app/profile/mrma...

Yes. We are playing Russian roulette with our democracy. 99-percent.org/defensive-co...

The 10 Year Health Plan will embed privatisation: my letter to The Guardian www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

UK billionaire wealth has more than doubled since 2010. Workers’ wages have barely risen since 2008. On Newsnight, I called for a tax on extreme wealth - that's the fairer alternative to cuts we need.

Add your name to this petition & call for a wealth tax, not disability cuts.

In our latest blog, @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social examines whether the US shows signs of democratic backsliding under #Project2025 and why the UK must strengthen their own democratic resilience Read more 👇 www.radixbigtent.org.uk/news-comment... #ResilientDemocracy @99organisation.bsky.social

#Pinks #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited

A Labour MP has blamed Brexit for Rachel Reeves’ tax-hiking Budget last October. Andrew Lewin said leaving the EU has left Britain £40bn poorer per year, adding that “were we still members… there would not have been a single tax rise” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

For France, which does not have its own central bank, there is no choice. For us there is. Look at how the furlough scheme was financed, without recourse to the bond markets. www.ft.com/content/664c...

He is of course quite right on that. 99-percent.org/twaddle-and-...

Yes. Which is why defensive constitutional reform is such a priority. 99-percent.org/defensive-co...

Yes, and we need to tackle it urgently . 99-percent.org/defensive-co...

Please repost if you agree that British TV News is betraying our democracy by giving Farage what looks like more coverage than all the other opposition parties combined.

Yes, a great article by @annpettifor.bsky.social Here is a bit more on how it could all work. 99-percent.org/re-wiring-fo...

#BoE @BankofEngland uses its “independence” to protect and bail out private global financial markets. Its current policy of QT undermines the Govt’s #fiscal policy, chart @annpettifor.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And with NHS digitisation there is a similar risk -- what will happen to those who are not digitally connected or who are functionally illiterate or both?

And it is no better in Britain. The picture today is, if anything, worse than in 2022. 99-percent.org/the-real-bat...

(2/2) ... And new media like The New European, @bylinetimes.bsky.social and its off-shoots, etc can give alternative perspectives.

(1/2) The BBC is also very far from unbiased -- eg the disproportionate coverage of Reform vs all other parties -- I do not use them as a news source. Of Newspapers, @financialtimes.com and @theguardian.com are generally OK. ... 99-percent.org/the-bbc-bala...

The cleverest thing about this new policy is that they don't have to change the initials.

Bessent’s Bizarre Bailout Today on TAP: Argentina will get U.S. help despite its perverse economic policies, only because fellow economic pervert Trump and Argentina’s Milei are soulmates. It won’t work. prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

No. Most are still in place. 99-percent.org/the-bbc-bala...

The Tories packed the BBC leadership with their people. Has Starmer done anything to remedy that political bias?

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.” Bowing down to a bully never works. And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.