Lewis Ryder-Jones

Better rules, less inequality & more kindness = a nicer future.

[Lewis Ryder-Jones @lewisryderjones]

My time @OxfamScotland is coming to an end😲, which means this brilliant role is now up for grabs....

Work on tax, climate & gender justice, tackling poverty, and join pure amazin' wee team!

Details here👉https://t.co/lM6kbJJJyv

Apply by 7 Sept!

[Oxfam Scotland @OxfamScotland]

📢Big opportunity alert! 📢

Join Oxfam Scotland as our new Advocacy Advisor and help build a fairer Scotland.

If you know the Scottish political landscape and want to drive lasting change on poverty & inequality, this is your chance.

Apply by 7 Sept https://t.co/6oOn2yc4jm

[Oxfam Scotland @OxfamScotland]

After a blizzard of financial forecasts, strategies and plans in Scotland, one thing’s clear: tax justice must play a bigger role to deliver a fairer, greener country.

Baby steps won’t fund a fairer future for all of us.

Blog ➡️ https://t.co/PekZFK79gj

#TaxJusticeScotland

[Oxfam Scotland @OxfamScotland]

Missed our Advocacy Adviser @lewisryderjones talking all sorts of common sense on @BBCRadioScot about why we need to tax pollution-spewing private jets?

We've calculated it could raise millions to invest in green initiatives, like making public transport cheaper.

Listen ⬇️

[Oxfam Scotland @OxfamScotland]

🚨 A 32% surge in private jet flights at Glasgow Prestwick, a Scottish Government-owned airport.

While the super-rich fly in for golf + luxury, emissions climb and the climate cost falls on everyone else.

Time for @ScotGovFM to land a Private Jet Tax and raise £29m💸

[Tax Justice Network Bsky: @taxjustice.net @TaxJusticeNet]

"I mean it's worse than spin, isn't it? It's just incorrect."
@LBC's @IanpayneLBC reacting to our research today showing that the widely reported "millionaire exodus" did not happen.
#BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich @alexcobham
https://t.co/VAQaLDnGkQ

[Oxfam Scotland @OxfamScotland]

Council Tax was never fair.

When the richest have households in Scotland have 217 times more wealth than the poorest, we need a system that helps close that gap, not one that helps lock it in. It's past time for a modern replacement.

👉 Read more: https://t.co/7GKYZoskgJ

[Oxfam @oxfamgb]

✊ It's time to stand up, speak out, and do what it takes to end this catastrophe.
This week we told the UK: stop fuelling the crisis in Gaza. But it’s not over — the call for justice must grow louder. We won’t be the generation that stayed silent while Palestine suffered.

[Oxfam Scotland @OxfamScotland]

The Scottish Government has just announced it's chucking cold water on its clean heat bill.

Decarbonising buildings is essential to meeting Scotland’s 2045 climate target.

We can get this done in a way that's fair and affordable.

Read how: ➡️ https://t.co/eQEa5BF6qT

[Oxfam @oxfamgb]

The UK government has chosen to cut support for millions of people already facing hardship. A 2% tax on wealth over £10 million could raise £24 billion every year – money that could transform lives.
Find out more ➡️ https://t.co/n9ngbJleLm

[Oxfam Scotland @OxfamScotland]

Public services slashed. The rich getting richer. And now, life expectancy falling for those on the lowest incomes. Profs Gerry McCartney & David Walsh show why austerity is a choice - and Scotland can choose differently.

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/kBXFciRg0z #TaxJusticeScotland

[Tax Justice UK @TaxJusticeUK]

A united front at the UN is needed to forge a global tax system not dictated by Washington’s whims
– Guardian editorial yesterday

https://t.co/TAq4lelJSN

[Oxfam Scotland @OxfamScotland]

'The Prime Minister claims he had no choice but that simply isn’t true. He has chosen to balance the books on the backs of the world’s poorest while shielding the super-rich from fair taxation'

@JamiePolitics on @GOVUK aid cuts ⬇️

Act now ➡️ https://t.co/0EH6E0i7Ru

[Oxfam Scotland @OxfamScotland]

More military spending alone won’t make us safer if we ignore the root causes of instability: poverty, inequality/climate breakdown.

@GOVUK has chosen to balance the books on the backs of the world’s poorest while shielding the super-rich from fair taxation.

A false economy.

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

Know your history.

[Jamie Livingstone @JamiePolitics]

'Starmer is putting missiles before medicine and it won't serve UK's interests' says @Halima_Begum @oxfamgb.

https://t.co/J9sm2ub5EI

[Oxfam Scotland @OxfamScotland]

'Billionaire wealth surged by over $300 billion in the first month of this year'

Just in case anyone tells you there isn't enough money in the world to fix the big issues facing us all #TaxJustice

[Lewis Ryder-Jones @lewisryderjones]

💡 Taxing the super-rich isn’t just common sense—it’s the only way to end extreme inequality and raise trillions to tackle poverty and the climate crisis. 🌍 Join the movement for a fairer greener future. Act now: https://t.co/nRVbq7ALmS #TaxTheSuperRich

[Oxfam Scotland @OxfamScotland]

Great to be with partners in the new #TaxJusticeScotland campaign @ScottishLabour conf.

@SWBG @CPAGScotland @TaxJusticeUK

Fairer tax is a key, but underused lever to help tackle the #ClimateCrisis, #poverty, #inequalities and undervalued #care.

[Oxfam Scotland @OxfamScotland]

Care is at the heart of our lives yet carers of all kinds are systematically undervalued/under-rewarded; forcing many into poverty.

We explain why a new National Outcome on Care is important/why @scotgov putting the brakes on it is a slap in the face to carers #ScotlandCares ⬇️

[Oxfam Scotland @OxfamScotland]

Only 5.7 litres per person available now in North Gaza and Rafah governorates. That's less than 7% of pre-conflict water levels:
🚽It’s barely enough for a toilet flush
🚿It’s less than 1 minute of showering
🚰It’s less than 2 minutes of a tap running
More https://t.co/vG8ErRLcXS