Newham Fabian Society

🚨Our 'Broken Britain Index' out today exposes Government failures to deliver on 2019 promises. Whilst Tory MP’s are grappling with their inability to get a grip on immigration our data shows their problems run much deeper than Britain’s borders.🚨

⚡️INERTIA⚡️ The magic ingredient at the heart of our power systems. It's also one of the obstacles to replacing fossil fuels with renewables. In short, a REALLY big deal! But most folks have never heard of it. It's widely considered too complex. So. Here's your idiot's guide 🧵

The Conservatives crashed the economy last year, add this to their 13 years of failure before the crash, and you get an economy unable to withstand shocks, a population earning less than 15 years ago, and a bigger inflation and interest rate shock here than elsewhere.

Come join Newham Fabians on the 27th April as we welcome former member @mike_reader to dicuss how a future Labour government an rebuild Britain. Email newhamfabians@gmail.com for further details and RSVP.

Newham Labour Group are proud to pass Cllr @James_Beckles emergency motion condemning plans by the Home Secretary to renege on implementing Wendy Williams' Windrush Lessons Learned Review

Delighted to welcome @MsLadyPhyll to our Full Council this evening. Co-founder and Executive Director of @ukblackpride and Executive Director of @Kaleidoscope_T, Lady Phyll is one of the UK's leading voices on race, gender and sexuality. 📺Watch live: youtu.be/VInF7fh-Ptg

Newham Labour Group welcomes @MsLadyPhyll, the co-founder and Exec Director of @ukblackpride. All Councillors joined her in a minute's silence in recognition of the struggle of our Trans and Non-Binary siblings ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

Two more huge thank yous for all those who helped make our launch such a success. A massive shoutout to @Alice_Russell13 and the whole team at @SeahorseEnv for providing such great event and comms support.

Let’s start with the most striking: the astonishingly clear association between the governing party, health spending and the functioning of the NHS. Waiting lists swelled under Major, shrunk under Labour as health funding soared, before climbing again under Tory austerity.

Real wages in the UK are today lower than 18 years ago (!), and workers have seen substantial real wages losses since austerity started under the Tories in 2010.

When a new power cable between the UK & Norway was switched on last year the assumption was that, in the short run at least, the vast majority of power would run in one direction: to the UK. New data shows the opposite just happened. Here's why it matters edmundconway.com/typically-brit…

Who wouldn't want to visit Bologna. I think most would agree it's a beautiful place. But might places like this also be our greatest weapon in the fight against climate change? Here's why I think they are. A 🧵

🚨NEW FABIAN REPORT: BREACHING THE SEA WALL NEW: @UKLabour has a 6-point lead in the 'sea wall' - usually dominated by the Conservatives. @BenCooper1995 analysis of the new Fabian-@YouGov poll 🧵 fabians.org.uk/publication/br…

Read the full report here: fabians.org.uk/publication/br…

I asked #ChatGPT to write a poem about @thefabians. It didn't disappoint.

Read the report in full here: #NewEconomy centreforcities.org/publication/at…

To support the UK's new economy more generally, the Government should: 🎯 Increase R&D funding targets ↩️ Reverse historic cuts to public skills spending 💳 Expand R&D tax credits 💡 Extend the Strength in Places Fund #NewEconomy

This growth package should: ✳️ Allocate £1bn of the promised £7bn R&D uplift to leading universities in #Glasgow, #Birmingham and #Manchester. ✳️ Make a £500m investment in each of the 3️⃣ cities to make their city centres more attractive to #NewEconomy businesses.

📢 In order to kickstart the new economy, this report calls on the Government to create a place-based £14.5bn growth package to build innovation districts in: 📍 Birmingham 📍 Glasgow 📍 Manchester #NewEconomy