Where’s the accountability for the system in how it equips people into and to stay in work? Its the system that needs some tough love.

So frustrating that yet again the public debate around this is focusing on how much £ people get on benefits and not on how crap the country is at equipping people to get into & stay in work.

No one should be condemned to a lifestyle that involves being unable to afford food, pay the bills or keep up with the rent. Everyone should be able to afford essentials.

Sadly it's not what people believe.

The clamour for Labour to cut welfare is deafening. This won’t make us more secure, help people into work or make real savings. It’ll make people poorer and pile pressure onto services like the NHS - costing more in the long-run. Cuts won’t create jobs. They create poverty.

The gap between rates of Local Housing Allowance and prevailing private rents is close to a record high. Read how the government can fix it 👇️ buff.ly/tmfEAWh

Universal Credit doesn't know the price of a milk. Or heating. Or the bus. It doesn't cover the essentials, leaving millions with no option but to turn to a food bank. ✋ It's time we changed this. We're calling for Universal Credit to be set based on actual living costs.

3 things to note on all the current tax debates: 1. Raising the income tax Personal Allowance does *not* benefit those on the lowest incomes most. It's people in the richest half of the country who mostly benefit. (Although mainly middle earners rather than the very rich.)

For a country where food banks are still a thing, it’s a bit grim for #bbclaurak to push the tax complaints of a Monaco-based billionaire, concerns of high earners potentially being asked to pay slightly more tax & asking a journalist from a neoliberal publication to back her up

Jim Radcliffe grew up in a council house paid for by the state and went to a state school funded by public taxes. Now he seems to think others don’t deserve the support he got. Why does he want even more money and to stop others having the opportunity to make any?

Jim Ratcliffe has lost confidence in the world’s 3rd largest innovation economy with two fifths of Europes high growth young companies. Ignorant and ill-informed this tax exile deserves no air time bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm04…

The gaul of business people who backed Brexit thinking they have something valid to say about the UK economy.

🚨 Ratcliffe’s constant running down of Britain is actually a promotion of a political project. A class of mobile billionaires wants to transform Britain into a vast offshore platform: low taxes on wealth, weakened regulation, diminished public services, cheapened labour and national assets permanently open to global capital. They want a strong state to protect private property, enforce contracts and subsidise business, but a weak one when citizens need healthcare, housing, benefits or security. In effect, they want Britain run as a tax haven. The billionaires can move their money, factories and tax residence across borders. Everyone who cannot move is left financing the country they hollowed out. They get the tax haven and we get serfdom.

🤔 Maybe if people like Sir Jim Ratcliffe stayed in the UK to pay their taxes and didn’t back Brexit things would be a bit better.

And here's a table assessing all the recent tax cut proposals by their "bang for the buck": the £ of additional GDP we'll get for each £ deployed as a tax cut. Pretty depressing that the tax cuts that get the most airtime are also the worst at driving growth.

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Visitor levies are used in many great cities across the globe to improve the visitor offer. A modest levy here would give us more money to support our visitor economy, while helping our businesses and communities to benefit from its continued growth.

We're proud of the lifesaving work our volunteers do in the Channel – we make no apology for it. Those we rescue are vulnerable people in danger & distress. Each of them is someone’s father, mother, son or daughter - every life is precious. This is why we launch:

The images from Ratko Mladić’s funeral yesterday in Belgrade were shocking. Ratko Mladić was a convicted war criminal. He was responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. He died while serving a life sentence for the Srebrenica genocide and other crimes. The elements of official support and the presence of some senior Serbian officials at the funeral are deeply regrettable. They demonstrate a failure to confront a dark chapter in Europe’s recent history and contradict the values underpinning Serbia’s path towards the European Union. Our thoughts are with all the victims of the crimes committed in the countries of former Yugoslavia.

'If you don't have strong community organisations... then someone walks in to this void and says I speak for you' On #BBCBreakfast former Prime Minister Gordon Brown people feel 'nobody is on their side' and that has led to a rise in populism bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cp7r8v…