Chris Brown

@luketryl.bsky.social - We are the country that CAN on decarbonisation. Emissions have halved. The world didn't end. We can do this and it's great.

@pollybillington.bsky.social 'bats and newts are not the enemy'. The planning system isn't working for nature or affordable decent housing supply.

@elpinchbeck.bsky.social sums it up. The most important things you can do are, when you replace your boiler or your car, go electric. It's cheaper and better. @octopus.energy @nigelbanksoeg.bsky.social

@nigelbanksoeg.bsky.social Now doing gigs in front of 3000 people. Following warm up act @michaelshanksmp.co.uk and @octopus.energy CEO Greg Jackson. 😊

We want to make sure Rachel Reeves MP sees some important % and ££s:
🇬🇧 80% of UK millionaires support a 2% tax on wealth over £10m
🇬🇧 81% think it’s patriotic to pay their fair share
We’re proud to pay and here to stay
#taxthesuperrich #taxwealthnotwork

Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals - Tax Justice Network The number of millionaires widely reported in the news to be leaving countries in "exodus" represented near-0% of all millionaires.

The UK govt softened tax reforms on the superrich because of a widely reported “exodus” of millionaires fleeing the UK.

Our new study w/ @patmillsuk.bsky.social & @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social shows that the "exodus" was a complete fiction.

#BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich
taxjustice.net/press/millio...

Chris Brown: Nobody's listening - OnLondon Despite having the ear of local politicians, members of a community in Bermondsey undergoing rapid change feel that their voices go unheard

New comment piece for OnLondon by Chris Brown. Despite having the ear of local #Labour politicians, a group of long-established residents in Bermondsey feel their voices go unheard amid rapid local development activity: www.onlondon.co.uk/chris-brown-.... #London #bermondsey #planning

One of my local heroes (and his dad!). 😊

What happens when landowners and developers don't listen.

This scheme could, and should, be so much better. #PeopleBeforeProfit

This is important. @southwarkls.bsky.social (Cycleway 14 closure) @treesforbermondsey.bsky.social (chopping down one of Ada Salter's trees of heaven & more), @snsprimary.bsky.social (thousands of polluting HGVs going past the school), @gstt-nhs.bsky.social (demolition of hospital patient car park)

I know the feeling! 😔🤔

We❤️Snowsfields is warning that the planning application for 350,000 sq… | We❤️Snowsfields We❤️Snowsfields is warning that the planning application for 350,000 sq. ft. of offices next to Guy’s Hospital could endanger vulnerable patients. We want the Snowsfields Quarter development to be t...

@se1.news Worrying #SE1 planning situation? www.linkedin.com/posts/welove...

@treesforbermondsey.bsky.social Can you help save this beautiful healthy historic mature TPO protected Snowsfields SE1 Plane tree from the Guinness Partnership axe? @snsprimary.bsky.social planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-appli...

Brilliant film

beavertrust.org/our-work/bal...

There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.

Lots of love to Great Yarmouth! 😊

YouTube video by Ads of Brands DESNZ: Feel All Warm and Fuzzy Inside

youtu.be/1pxFjrGMVew?...

Great thread...

@patmillsuk.bsky.social

Labour’s tax plans trigger exodus of millionaires from UK Since the general election was called one dollar millionaire has left Britain every 45 minutes

The Times/Sunday Times often do vg data journalism. This front-page story is an example of just deciding not to do that, so lots of voices, but so little attention to what the number in the headline means

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

White Stork. They nest in UK as well now but winter closer to where you are - Spain, Morocco. Amazing sight. Imagine them in Eryri! 😂

It was a great, and timely piece. Two days earlier, at the Oxford Farming Conference, I'd asked the Met Office science lead on food security - What will be the impact on UK farming of a collapse in the Gulf Stream? His answer was based on ten year old science. Hope he read your article!

I'd forgotten the lyrics of this 1969 environmental song.

It all feels so relevant apart from the dates. They should be starting at 2025 and finishing 'one hundred years' from now to align with what's happened in the last 55 years.

In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) g.co/kgs/Gc2WVjA

Great thread. Solutions do exist for London's terraced homes. If local authorities choose to take them. Office for Zero Emission Vehicles advice to local authorities on cross pavement charging can't come quick enough. And needs to be effective. Radical Modernisation
www.linkedin.com/pulse/radica...

@richardjmurphy.bsky.social finishes this article with "The other is a wholly new approach to economics. I see very little in between these two positions.

The old narratives are dead. We are waiting for the new to be born."

The new narrative is already here. doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughn...

This will be particularly interesting to spatial planners.

Doughnut Economics - providing society's needs within the planet's limits - should b the purpose of the English National Planning Policy Framework.

It isn't. Successive UK Governments have promoted GDP growth that fails on both objectives.

Great to listen to Emily Hickson on @cop29.bsky.social and the Government's approach to Climate @teamlondonbridge.bsky.social Christmas, Climate & Cake! @southwarklabour.bsky.social

I was pleased to give evidence on behalf of @se1solar.bsky.social for Southwark Council's climate emergency motion. SE1solar is working with Southwark to generate energy and improve efficiency of council estates. Motion: moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/ieListDocume...

A great example of applying #DoughnutEconomics at city scale.