Annette Brooke

Lib Dem MP, Mid Dorset & N Poole, 2001-2015, v busy in retirement- dementia project, Dorset Equality Group, and much more!

[The Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social @equalitytrust]

Ending new social housing and selling off council house stocks was a massive transfer of wealth from the public to landlords.

[The Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social @equalitytrust]

The richest 10% are responsible for two thirds of all of the warming we've experienced – and if we all emitted as much as the richest 0.1%, we'd have already have 12.2C of warming. The richest are pushing us all towards collapse for their profits – we need to take control back.

[The Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social @equalitytrust]

NEW: UK’s billionaire wealth has become hugely extractive over the last 35 years. More and more billionaires and their wealth come from sources that contribute nearly nothing to the economy – like the over 1 in 4 billionaires who now get their wealth from property & inheritance.

[The Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social @equalitytrust]

The median pay for a FTSE 100 CEO has risen to £4.22 million according to @HighPayCentre. That's 113 times the median UK salary – in fact, they've already been paid the yearly median salary as of noon today. This level of inequality is unsustainable.

[The Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social @equalitytrust]

The richest 1% emit as much pollution as the poorest 2/3 of humanity, and they're making enormous profits off it. We need to start taxing the private jets and polluting investments of the ultra rich, and start investing in the rest of us.

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

The BBC political editor (260K pa) thinks it's
a story that the Downing Street chief of staff (170K pa) earns more than the PM (167Kpa).
Welcome to political journalism!

PS Laura Kuenssberg is on 325K, Nick Robinson 340K and Fiona Bruce even more.

https://t.co/cRKLTcLbki

[Annette Brooke @Annette4MDNP]

@Westy_FTI Suggest that you check the name of your current MP. I retired 9 years ago.

[Westy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @Westy_FTI]

@RupertLowe10 FYI.

Any comments from these big football names that were duped along with users?
@QPR
@NFFC
@FulhamFC
@talkSPORT
@GuillemBalague

@Annette4MDNP you are my MP and I'd like to discuss the #footballindex #Scandal with you. Victims need justice.

[The Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social @equalitytrust]

Forcing us to, once again, tap the sign

[English Grammar @englishwithck]

Difference between equality and equity 👇

[The Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social @equalitytrust]

Since 1990, billionaire wealth in the UK has exploded by over 1100%. In the last few years, we've seen record-breaking profits & shareholder payouts for banks, oil & gas, & more – we paid for those profits with painful bills, rents, & mortgages.
Tax the rich and invest in us.

[The Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social @equalitytrust]

Inequality is at the root of our escalating health, social, and environmental crises.
Find the updated and expanded Spirit Level at 15 reports, graphs, and event recording:
https://t.co/V2F64rE7EB

[Dorset Community Foundation @DorsetComFnd]

Surviving Winter 2023/24:
Working with @CitAdviceEDP
💰 £52,017.56 raised
👥 170 donors
👴👵🏻423 people supported
Our full impact report is out now and available to download here: 👉https://t.co/aIkWKUTvol

[Oxfam News Team @oxfamgbpress]

PRESS RELEASE: UK Public want an end to divisions to help tackle key issues such as poverty and climate change - poll

https://t.co/yDjQidFOBO

[Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social @Max12to1]

📢 IF YOU DO ONE THING, PLEASE READ THIS ⬇️ Essential new research from @ProfKEPickett and @ProfRGWilkinson (via @equalitytrust) updating their groundbreaking book #TheSpiritLevel. #Inequality harms us all - even the rich - let's end it. ✊ @Max12to1
https://t.co/teZ0gY7Fb8

[Sharen Green @sharen_eappi]

Millions of children across the UK are in poverty, going to bed cold and waking up hungry. But scrapping the cruel two child benefit cap could help change that. Sign the petition now and call on Keir Starmer to lift this cap to make the UK a kinder place: https://t.co/R8jwee4X2e

[Ben Williams 🇺🇦🇬🇪 @bpwilliams72]

The first #BBCQT since the General Election. The @LibDems secure the best showing for a third party in a hundred years. Do the BBC platform them? No. Let's stick the Greens on instead. Absolutely predictably pathetic.

[Annette Brooke @Annette4MDNP]

I recall having to be quite assertive to be in that position, I was the Chair of the LD H of C Parliamentary Party. Much better balance in 2024 intake!!

[Vikki Slade MP 🔶💙 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @VikkiSlade72]

@Annette4MDNP in prime position in that pic …

[Annette Brooke @Annette4MDNP]

Congratulations Caroline,
and separately! Congratulations to Ed for leading such an amazingly successful campaign!

[Caroline Pidgeon @CarolinePidgeon]

And wonderful to celebrate with the man who has led our amazing campaign @EdwardJDavey 🔸🔸🔸Thank you Ed 👏👏👏

[Annette Brooke @Annette4MDNP]

@ALDC @tessamunt Congratulations Tessa! So pleased for you and the Lib Dem’s

[Edward Morello MP @EdwardMorelloWD]

Still plenty of time to vote, come on West Dorset!