https://chuffed.org/project/take-back-power

Britain is broken.

Britain is broken because the super-rich are pocketing billions, whilst most of us struggle to get by. Hungry kids, freezing pensioners and unemployed youth is not what we voted for. The UK is the sixth richest nation on earth – if we can’t fix our crumbling hospitals, sky-high rents and shit filled rivers, then something has gone very wrong. 

We need to tax the rich.

The super-rich are not paying their fair share because the tax system is rigged. Since 2008, the wealth of the super-rich has increased four times faster than average household wealth, while more than a third of us now earn less than needed to make ends meet. The scales need balancing. We need to tax the rich.

Politics doesn’t work for us.

Everyone agrees we need to tax the rich. But when the rich have captured our democracy, we cannot vote our way out of this mess. For the 99% to get 99% of a say, we need to put ordinary people in charge through permanent citizen assemblies. People like us—your mum, your neighbour, nurses, teachers, posties—should set the agenda, not the leader of a political party in secret deals with powerful companies and the super-rich.

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Take Back Power.

This week we launched, delivering an ultimatum letter to our Prime Minister. We demand that he instate a permanent House of the People with powers to tax the rich. And until we get more than just shit for Christmas we will keep engaging in non-violent action to take back our wealth and our democracy from the rich. 

We are demanding a House of the People with powers to decide how to tax the rich. The House of the People is a permanent, powerful chamber made up of ordinary people selected by a democratic lottery.

It’s simple. Everyone wants to tax the rich, but the politicians are not doing it. We will be mobilising people to take radical action and resist growing inequality in the UK. No one should have to put their kids to bed hungry while the super-rich are pocketing billions. Period.

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https://chuffed.org/project/take-back-power