Jake Atkinson
@JacobLAtkinson
Health & wealth inequality. Campaigns Manager @TaxJusticeUK. Prev @STOPAIDS, @youth4tpnw SC. DMs open. Views own. RTs/likes ≠ I agree. He/him. & on BlueSky 🦋
Keep singing it: we should ALL be access to medicines advocates.
NEW: Merck is charging $200,000 for the life-saving cancer drug Keytruda. They’re making a fortune off it. But it was developed using tax-payer dollars. That means the federal government has the little-known power to lower the price by taking Merck’s patent and giving it away.
🚨@VertexPharma just hiked the price of its life-saving #cysticfibrosis drug Trikafta from $326,000 to $370,000 a year (a 7% increase). Whilst their execs will be counting dollars, the CF community will be counting lives slipping away. Vertex’s greed knows no bounds.
Kemi Badenoch has accused Keir Starmer of “flirting” with a #WealthTax. I say the Government should embrace it. 75% of people, across the political spectrum, are supportive. It’s just one policy that could unify the UK by tackling inequality & investing in public services.
With everyone talking about wealth taxes, the pressure is ramping up on the government. Our Campaign Manager, Jake Atkinson, went on LBC News to explain why the Prime Minister should embrace taxing wealth.
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague
i have received some version of this notification everyday for the last several months. what are we doing
People are so great.
families may have been divided but the world is united
Trump is coming to the UK… but guess who won’t be satisfied until he gets to address our parliament as well? 👀🤢
Hope in dark times from @GNDRising! Extreme inequality is fuelling climate collapse. If you want a liveable planet for future generations - we have to fix our tax system. #WealthTax #TaxTheSuperRich theguardian.com/environment/20…
Millionaires are not leaving the UK, it has not happened @CharlotteHawkns @GMB @TaxJusticeNet and @TaxJusticeUK have debunked the ‘exodus’ myth: theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
.@garyseconomics: "Its difficult to tax the rich... they're extremely powerful... they will tell you if they tax us we will leave.. it turns out that what rich people do is they own your country. We can tax them on their assets if we choose to" #GMB
I will believe this man is working to make our country fairer the day he takes action on billionaires and spiralling wealth inequality.
I'm working day and night to secure our borders, smash the gangs and make Britain a fairer, more secure country.
We're so back (the 1500s)
A resident of northern Arizona has died from pneumonic plague, health officials said Friday. abcnews.link/8TyLKgL
Trump's UK state visit was just announced for 17 September. 💥💥💥 JOIN THE PROTEST! Let's make it absolutely massive. stoptrump.org.uk
‘What more evidence do we need?’ Labour’s @AndyMcDonaldMP is ‘sick and tired’ of frontbenchers not having a view on ‘genocide and apartheid happening under our noses’.
Killing 6 children at a water collection point can now be classed as a “technical error” if you’re Israel. For everyone else - it’s child murder.
Israel Defense Forces admits technical error after Israeli missile killed 10 people, including six children at a water collecting point in Gaza For more on this and other news visit trib.al/Rx0iR33
The UK is in a dire state. This is how we stop things from falling apart
Our democracy is not perfect, but this authoritarian who runs the US Government as an oligarchy should not address our democratic parliament. Starmer knows MPs would protest it; he shouldn't have invited him. Let's flood the streets. Pledge to march: stoptrump.org.uk
🚨 Donald Trump will not be given the honour of addressing Parliament during his state visit as Emmanuel Macron did this week, The Telegraph understands
MILLIONAIRES ARE NOT ON THE MOVE! Briefing in the @guardian lays out how dodgy research, and even dodgier reporting created a myth and mass panic of an "exodus". The truth: the super rich are staying put with their families, businesses, communities here. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
Elon Musk spent $270m to get Trump elected, but the UK is also becoming a US-style oligarchy where billionaires are increasingly influence our elections. The Elections Bill must keep Big Money out of UK politics. @FairElectionsUK @UKStopTrump stoptrump.org.uk/mp-big-money-o…
Fair play to Zoe, debating a walking, talking dog whistle this morning. Literally everything he said was unevidenced, right wing codswallop. ‘I set up a scheme for Ukrainians… everyone else should be deported because we don’t know who they are’.
Last year, over 100,000 people applied for asylum in the UK, but this is much lower than the rates in other European countries such as Germany, Spain, Italy and France. Is the UK too attractive to migrants?
Zoe Gardener explains how to end the small boats crisis But Richard Madeley and former Conservative advisor Charlie Rowley prefer division, lies and populism instead Dishonesty from politicians and advisors Shameless stirring of the pot from presenters Will never solve a…
Disabled people in poverty should not be footing the bill of successive Governments' failure to tax big corporations. The decision to target Disabled people already marginalised by state policies is a political choice, not an imperative. Our response👇 disabilityrightsuk.org/news/governmen…