BREAKING ⚠️ Shell has posted profits of £6.1 BILLION for the first three months of 2024 💷

This is obscene!

We NEED a government that puts ordinary people's interests before the energy industry's profits, by investing in permanent solutions to the energy crisis.

According to our supporters Oxfam, shareholder payouts grew 14 times faster than wages over past three years.

This can't be right.

It's time to end excess profits and boost incomes in order to #StopTheSqueeze

theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Heartwrenching figures are everywhere, but this one truly floored us.

8 million people currently live in 3.7 million dangerous homes that are cold, in need of repair or have serious hazards ⚠️

Fixing our leaky, mouldy and life-endangering homes must be a top priority 🚨

Important report from Resolution Foundation on future energy costs.

We need public investment in cheaper, cleaner energy to keep costs down long term. We also need a stronger social security system and action on energy pricing to protect the most vulnerable.

resolutionfoundation.org/publications/e…

Energy bill exit fees have surged 345% since 2021, according to the latest Warm This Winter Tariff Watch report.

76% of fixed tariffs are more expensive than the Ofgem price cap.

Exit fees mean customers with poor customer service can't leave a supplier.

endfuelpoverty.org.uk/surge-in-energ…

The cost of living crisis is only deepening for renters. Rents are increasing 3x faster than CPI inflation and food insecurity is much worse for renters than home owners.
Our housing crisis drives inequality, and is made worse by our terrible inequality of wealth and power.

🚨Today’s inflation figures show food price inflation increased by 30% compared to April 2021, when prices started to accelerate. 📈

While the main rate of inflation has come down, essentials like food and energy still cost much more. 🍞💷

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Interesting way of visualising how little revenue we actually get from taxes on wealth.

The price of food is still much higher than pre-crisis levels.

But while families feel the squeeze, supermarkets are making bumper profits.

We need to see action on excess profits and a real plan for an affordable Britain.

bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

There are 55 billionaires in the UK.

A 1% wealth tax on them and the very richest could raise £22bn a year.

Enough to pay 276,000 nurses AND double dental funding in England, with change to spare.

Our exec diector Robert Palmer in the Guardian.

theguardian.com/news/2024/apr/…

My letter to Guardian letters “Why would we waste further time and effort creating yet another temporary sticking-plaster response to destitution based on charity and surplus?” ⁦Now is surely the time to focus 100% on long-term #CashFirst solutions theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

The number of super wealthy people is growing, but so is the number of families who can't afford essentials.

The answer? Reform the tax system so that those who own and earn the most pay their proper share. 75% of millionaires agree!

theguardian.com/business/2024/…