From Revd Paul Nicolson of Taxpayers Against Poverty
Civil disobedience led by Dr Gail Bradbrook Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett join the www.compassionate-revolution.net
THE COMPASSIONATE REVOLUTION - LETTER IN THE GUARIDAN THIS MORNING
I have signed this letter published
in The Guardian this morning and will continue to refuse to pay my
council tax, and with my appeal to the Appeal Court, on the grounds that
it has been irrational since April 2013 for councils to tax the incomes
provided by central government for survival and shelter, in a housing
market creating ever more unaffordable rents, and then enforce the tax
by adding the councils costs to the inevitable arrears of their poorest residents.
Solidarity – Paul Nicolson
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Link to the video to post on social media, e.g. I’m joining the Golden
Rule Tax Disobedience #taxdisobey because I want real democracy in the
UK – join me! –https://goo.gl/U5RrbQ
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Pledge address – it’s essential for as many folk as possible to pledge
on the CR website, because we now have to get to 5,000 people! – this
is where to pledge: https://www.compassionate-revolution.net/
THIS LETTER WAS PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN THIS MORNING
from the Reverend Paul Nicolson
Taxpayers Against Poverty
No citizen without an affordable home and an
adequate income in work or unemployment.
93 Campbell Road, Tottenham, London N17 0BF, 0208 3765455, 07961 177889,
www.z2k.org, www.prohousingalliance.com
"Wilkinson and Pickett's description of unequal societies as' dysfunctional' suggests implicit criticism of the approach taken by Britain's 'happiness tsar' Richard Layard, who recommended that the poor mental health of many Britons be 'fixed' or improved by making cognitive behavioural therapy more easily available. Consumerism, isolation, alienation, social estrangement and anxiety all follow from inequality, they argue, and so cannot rightly be made a matter of individual management."
Dude Swheatie of Kwug adds: Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett co-wrote 'The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger'. Those who advocate compulsory 'treatment' or loss of benefits for people with mental health probllems should note this extract from the linked review:
"Wilkinson and Pickett's description of unequal societies as' dysfunctional' suggests implicit criticism of the approach taken by Britain's 'happiness tsar' Richard Layard, who recommended that the poor mental health of many Britons be 'fixed' or improved by making cognitive behavioural therapy more easily available. Consumerism, isolation, alienation, social estrangement and anxiety all follow from inequality, they argue, and so cannot rightly be made a matter of individual management."
