#FollowTheMoney 🧵 81/n From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver
This is an incredible, moving personal perspective on this system that we are all entangled in, that shifts money to the few away from the rest of us at accelerating rate.
Having also experienced #Redundancy not too long ago and still very much in the doldrums of short term, part time jobs, this resonates deeply. So many are going through this, we need to help each other. #Precarity
#FollowTheMoney 🧵 82/n In the UK, the best thing you can do to try and mobilise against rising inequality is to join the Green Party!
This new campaign video by #ZackPolanski is brilliant. This too, reaonated deeply - this is me right now. We need to find ways to collectively stop running and pause!
#FollowTheMoney 🧵 83/n Linking nicely to #GreenParty ad i shared yesterday (⬆️ do watch! it’s great!) - here an interesting discussion on Novara Media on the relationship between low growth (and ordinary people not benefiting from growth even where there is some) and the decline of liberal democracy. A lot to unpack and do agree with discussants that more complex, but good to centre economic stagnation and rising inequality in decline of political trust and #Democracy
#FollowTheMoney 🧵 84/n Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis show
“People want to feel like the country is turning a corner. That means taking action on record levels of deep poverty so everyone can afford the essentials. It means making people feel supported rather than being one redundancy or bout of ill health away from failing to make ends meet.”
