Specialist in strategies for grassroots campaigns | Chief Strategy Officer, Our Common Home | Co-founded @right_hereUK
London, UK
Joined February 2010
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This campaign has been brewing for a long time, and it’s finally here.
Now is the moment for community power. Be part of it at right-here.org.
We're Right Here: the campaign for community power starts now.
We’re calling for a major new law to ensure people have the power to shape the places where they live.
Will you join us? right-here.org #RightHere
Will Brett retweeted
“Building the foundations of national renewal on a deep respect for the contribution each person can make sat at the heart of the PM’s speech – and is what we’ve helped set out in Ordinary Hope”.
@mds49 for @realbritainros on ’ordinary hope’ with @jrf_uk. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/b…
Delighted to sign this important letter:
Over the past week we've seen how much power lies in the coming together of communities in response to riots.
Our letter in the @guardian presents this surge in community spirit as the beginning of a shared endeavour of national renewal and an opportunity not to be missed.
Will Brett retweeted
“To give no trust is to get no trust”
💡💡💡💡💡💡💡
Want to know how the Taiwanese government drew on ancient wisdom to increase trust levels from below 10% in 2015 to nearly 70% this year?
TLDR: they chose actively to trust - and therefore INVOLVE - the Taiwanese people.
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So proud of everyone involved in @right_hereUK. There's work to do (isn't there always) but today is a good day.
Credit to @peoplesbiz @localitynews @CoopParty @Plunkett_UK and many many others.
We’re so pleased to see the Government include our ask of a Community Right to Buy in their new English Devolution Bill.
This could be genuinely transformative. We’re looking forward to working with the Government and MPs to make sure this genuinely empowers local people who want more control over the things that matter to them.
Will Brett retweeted
We’re so pleased to see the Government include our ask of a Community Right to Buy in their new English Devolution Bill.
This could be genuinely transformative. We’re looking forward to working with the Government and MPs to make sure this genuinely empowers local people who want more control over the things that matter to them.
Will Brett retweeted
Quick off the blocks analysis by @Moreincommon_ @UCLPolicyLab of the U.K. General Election shows the public have clear priorities for change - NHS, cost of living, immigration.
Delivery really matters but needs to be matched with politics and story of respect
“As the report shows, the new government will need both delivery and connection in order to succeed”.
Our Director @mds49 joins @lewis_goodall @LukeTryl @claire_ainsley and @greenmiranda on the panel.
Will Brett retweeted
“As the report shows, the new government will need both delivery and connection in order to succeed”.
Our Director @mds49 joins @lewis_goodall @LukeTryl @claire_ainsley and @greenmiranda on the panel.
Will Brett retweeted
Why “respect” matters more than ever in leadership. Andrew Grice @Independent draws on @uclpolicylab and @moreincommon_ research to examine the strengths and challenges facing Keir Starmer and Gareth Southgate.
#EURO2024 #KeirStarmer
independent.co.uk/voices/kei…
Will Brett retweeted
Lisa Nandy to DCMS staff:
“For too long, for too many people, the story we tell ourselves, about ourselves as a nation has not reflected them, their communities or their lives.
This is how polarisation, division and isolation thrives.
In recent years we’ve found multiple ways to divide ourselves from one another.
And lost that sense of a self-confident, outward looking country which values its own people in every part of the UK.
Changing that is the mission of this department.
*The era of culture wars is over.*”
This is really significant – after years and years of talk about prevention, this suggests actual money will be reprioritised towards primary and community care. @RebuildGP theguardian.com/society/arti…
It will take a lot to get beyond 'deliverism'. But it's absolutely essential to do so – not just to defeat populists, but to achieve the government's mission of national renewal.
Here are three ideas for starters... 🧵
thetimes.com/article/b082962…
2. Hanging Baskets 2.0
Do things that people can see + feel in their lives. Find out what these are by talking to them (see 1). There was a strand of 'levelling up' that understood this (but failed to execute). It needs to run throughout the growth plan.
politico.eu/article/boris-jo…
3. Help people connect.
Far too many people feel sad, lonely and isolated. That is just as much a driver of distrust and support for populists as economic discontent. It's time to take connection more seriously as a policy priority (see @togethercoalit for ideas).
Progressives: be more like the cloth mother and less like the wire mother.
(Better still, don't be a 'parent' at all... be a partner to people.)
Taken from this: democracyjournal.org/argumen…
Fascinating. If you look down on people, disrespect them or ignore them, eventually they will give up on you. This is fixable but it is going to be hard.
