Jack Elliott

Spend most of my time thinking about climate, the built environment and transport.

[Michael Dnes @MichaelDnes1]

I’ve unveiled a secret project today. One that we’ve been working on for the past year.

Something that can add a billion pounds a year to the economy of the north while making the environment better.

And we think we can deliver it at no cost to government.

Ambitious, right?

[Chris Ogilvie @OgilvieCJ]

@ThomasFTurrell The reason for LCY - 3hrs & 3 trains from LHR - has gone.
It's just 60min to LHR from Canary Wharf on Eliz Line.
🛩️ Save 800K T CO2
🛩️ Stop noise to 112k people
🛩️ 120,000 fewer flights

❌ Close LCY
🚊Get the train to LHR
🏫🏘️ Build 12,000 homes

[Chris Smith @renewablesmiffy]

The Conservatives

- Closed three of the last four refineries
- build out 47GW Renewables and approved another 20GW
- introduced most of our Renewables policy support
- Sold off our infrastructure
- sold British Steel for £1

Now they say this…….

[Paul Brannen 🇺🇦 @PaulBrannenNE]

London is the UK's largest city & hence it's where the largest number of tall buildings are built. Currently they are all built from concrete &/or steel both of which have massive carbon footprints. Building with low carbon timber above 18m is banned = rising C02 ☹️ @metecoban92

[Lewis Bergen ( == Rail == ) @railLKB]

It has arrived!

Moving Britain, by Design
a visual identity proposal for Great British Railways.

Read the full proposal here:
https://t.co/VlFOAoPmg3
or
https://t.co/JqGiD8Wvyc (Google Drive)

Let me show you some highlights - 🧵👇

[Rail Technology Magazine @thertmnews]

Rail could carry half of UK–Europe short-haul journeys by 2040 if the Channel Tunnel’s potential is fully used.

That shift could deliver £1bn a year for the UK economy and cut flights.

Read the full article 👉 https://t.co/GtC1qjj8o9

#InternationalRail #ChannelTunnel #RailTravel #UKRail @CBTransport

[Jonathan Hinder MP @Jonathan_Hinder]

Can a WEALTH TAX do all these things?

Be good for growth ✅
Cut bills for ordinary people ✅
Tackle regional inequality ✅
Scrap the hated stamp duty ✅
Command huge public support ✅

Yes. Watch👇

[Tobias Ikegbunam @HunterIkegbunam]

Remember what they took from you

[Michael Walker @michaeljswalker]

Some thoughts on current housing debate
- Attacking social housing due to "unproductive" tenants comes is cruel and will make it harder for YIMBYs to win consensus in the places they want to build.
- The discourse on left that says increased supply doesn't matter for prices is empirically wrong, and suggests a commitment to ideology over evidence.
- Cities with expanding populations need new housing for every class. If middle class professionals plus international students can't live in new high-rises, they will be competing for - and pushing up the price - of existing housing stock.
- Speculative development being the only game in town won't provide enough supply as it is pro-cyclical. Oligopolistic developers will only build on mass when prices are stable or rising.
- Public authorities need better funding to contribute to a mix of housing stock, especially in downturns. Status quo creates zero-sum game of chicken where private developers and council wrangle over how much "affordable" or social housing should be included, with the result often being that nothing gets built.
- Our needs based social housing system, plus massive waiting lists, means millions of people struggling with housing costs will never be able to acquire social housing. Simply saying "we need more social housing, and nothing else really matters" is not providing them with a solution to their legitimate housing grievances.

[Jack Elliott @ComradeChooChoo]

@TomWright165389 @Michael_J_Hil Structurally disinsetivised to build housing at the levels needed to improve affordability, so no I don't imagine that a libertarian approach to housing supply is going to cut it.

[Campaign for Better Transport @CBTransport]

Here’s our CEO’s op ed in @thertmnews

[Jack Elliott @ComradeChooChoo]

@Michael_J_Hil The state intervention in housing that might be able to garner cross party support is rather than building social housing, building a mixture of tenures, addressing need across the whole of society, helps with the paying for it question as it can be internally cross subsidising.

[Gareth Dennis @GarethDennis]

To understand why tomorrow's "aren't we great and sensible, we've reduced HS2's speed" story is the work of fools, spoon-fed by charlatans they've paid to tell them what they want to hear with no connection to actual engineering reality, see this thread:
https://t.co/ek4xQbwseq

[Jack Elliott @ComradeChooChoo]

@constructingldn So inevitably, 0% will be delivered as a result.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

NHS sees biggest improvement in waiting times in 16 years

https://t.co/CxLM0P4cHI

[Campaign for Better Transport @CBTransport]

The Channel Tunnel opened 32yrs ago today - the first fixed link between Britain & Europe since the last Ice Age! It's seen passenger numbers quadruple since then, but still operates at under 50% capacity. Find out what's needed to change that👇
https://t.co/9AFIH8NEiU

[Matthew Pennycook MP @mtpennycook]

Happy Renters’ Rights Day, England.

This Labour government is delivering for private renters.

[Jack Elliott @ComradeChooChoo]

@VictorCulpeppe9 @CarbonBrief @DrSimEvans

[Jack D 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @JackDunc1]

@Polymarket Quality of life however. But of course yanks are obsessed with numbers that don't benefit them.

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

Don’t risk Reform running your council from May. You can’t trust a word they say.