TheOpenChef

lets make a change

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

Exactly.

Henry Nowak was 18. He was stabbed. He told police he was the victim. He died in handcuffs.

Today his case dominated Prime Minister's Questions. Every party used it to make a political argument. The chamber erupted.

Nobody in that building asked the public what they think should happen to the policing and justice system that failed Henry.

House of The People exists because the public deserves to be part of that conversation.

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

Henry Nowak was 18 years old. He was stabbed. He told police he was the victim and he died in handcuffs.

Today his case dominated Prime Minister's Questions. Every party used it to make a political argument. The chamber erupted.

Nobody in that building asked the public what they think should happen to the policing and justice system that failed Henry.

House of The People exists because the public deserves to be part of that conversation.

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

@europa Today Henry Nowak's case dominated Prime Minister’s Questions. Every party used it to make a political argument.

Nobody in that building asked the public what they think should happen to the policing and justice system that failed Henry.

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

@Keir_Starmer Henry Nowak was 18 years old. He was stabbed. He told police he was the victim and he died in handcuffs.

Every party used it to make a political argument.

Nobody in that building asked the public what they think should happen to the policing and justice system.

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

@Haggis_UK Henry Nowak was 18 years old. He was stabbed. He told police he was the victim and he died in handcuffs.

Every party used it to make a political argument.

Nobody in that building asked the public what they think should happen to the policing and justice system.

[TheOpenChef @TheOpenChef]

@HoTPOfficial the people deserve to have a say on what comes next.

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

Today Henry Nowak's case dominated Prime Minister’s Questions. Every party used it to make a political argument. The chamber erupted. Fingers were pointed. Voices were raised.

Nobody in that building asked the public what they think should happen to the policing and justice system that failed Henry.

Nobody consulted the people who will live under whatever policy comes next. The debate about what this case means and what should change is happening entirely among the people whose system produced the outcome in the first place.

House of The People exists because the public deserves to be part of that conversation.

[TheOpenChef @TheOpenChef]

@HoTPOfficial save our NHS!

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

Yesterday Parliament passed the second reading of the Health Bill, the legislation that will abolish NHS England and reshape how your healthcare is governed for years to come.

This morning Parliament opened a call for written evidence from the public on the bill.

You have a narrow window to submit written comments to a committee that may or may not act on them, before a deadline set by the same people who wrote the bill in the first place.

This is the extent of your formal say in one of the most significant pieces of NHS legislation in a decade.

We built House of The People so that every person in this country has a direct vote on the laws being passed in their name, not just once in a narrow window but every time Parliament votes.

https://t.co/WVi7iKrI6t

[TheOpenChef @TheOpenChef]

@HoTPOfficial the people deserve a say

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

Parliament returned from recess this afternoon. The first item on the agenda is the second reading of the Health Bill, a piece of legislation that would abolish NHS England entirely and reshape how your healthcare is governed for years to come.

The bill was introduced on 14 May - it was  written, briefed and brought to Parliament without a single public vote on whether it should exist. Today MPs debate its general principles. The public watch from the outside.

The Armed Forces Bill, the Railways Bill, the Social Housing Bill and the Civil Aviation Bill are also on the agenda this week.  Five pieces of legislation covering your NHS, your military, your railways, your housing and your right to fly. All being debated and voted on this week, none of them with any direct public input.

We built House of The People to give every citizen in this country a direct say in the laws that govern their lives, not just once every five years but every time Parliament votes.

https://t.co/WVi7iKrI6t

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

Parliament returns from recess tomorrow. The first major item on the agenda is the second reading of the Health Bill, a piece of legislation that will reshape how your NHS operates for years to come.

It will be debated and voted on by MPs who were elected on a manifesto written before the bill existed, in a chamber where the Prime Minister is fighting for his political survival.

The public will be watching from the outside with no direct input on any of it.

We built House of The People because the technology to give every citizen a direct say in the decisions that shape their life has existed for years, and nobody had built it yet.

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

Did you know that a former Prime Minister published an essay on Tuesday accusing the current Labour government of prioritising internal politics over competent governance?

Prediction markets currently give a 50% chance of a Labour leadership contest by the end of June. The public has no formal say in whether that happens, who stands, or who wins.

Tony Blair, Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer are debating who should lead this country entirely within the walls of Westminster and the pages of political newspapers. Nobody is asking you.

House of The People was built for everyone who just read that and thought: why is nobody asking us?

[TheOpenChef @TheOpenChef]

@HoTPOfficial 600million?!!

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

The Treasury is currently making a surplus of over £600 million from student loans taken out by young people who were told the terms when they signed, and then had those terms changed afterwards.

52,000 of them told a parliamentary committee this week exactly how they feel about it. The committee chair said the message had landed. What happens next will be decided entirely within Westminster. The 52,000 people who responded have no direct input on the outcome.

This is what passes for public engagement in the current system: a survey whose results are noted, filed, and acted upon or ignored entirely at the discretion of the people who caused the problem in the first place.

If people are products of their system, the answer is to build a better system.

https://t.co/WVi7iKrI6t

[TheOpenChef @TheOpenChef]

@HoTPOfficial crazy that the votes of a small town may influence who leads the entire country

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

On 18 June, a by-election will be held in Makerfield, a constituency in Wigan. The result will determine whether Andy Burnham can enter Parliament and stand in a Labour leadership contest that would determine who leads this country.

The rest of the country will have no vote in it.

It is the first time since 1965 that a by-election has been triggered specifically to provide a seat for a figure not currently in Parliament. The most consequential political decision in Britain right now is being made through a process almost nobody was asked about and almost nobody can participate in.

House of The People was built for everyone who just read that and thought: when did anybody ask us?

[TheOpenChef @TheOpenChef]

@HoTPOfficial where did the money go ?

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

The Public Accounts Committee released a report last week that found government departments wrote off around £6.6 billion during the 2024-25 financial year. That figure covers spending that failed to deliver its intended purpose or produced no value for taxpayers whatsoever.

The public can read about it. They can be angry about it. But there is no formal mechanism for them to hold anyone accountable for it, to demand a different outcome, or to have any direct say in how public money gets spent in the first place.

House of The People was built for everyone who just read that and thought: who exactly is accountable to us for losing it?

[TheOpenChef @TheOpenChef]

@HoTPOfficial our voices need to be heard.