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Oct 31 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
It was a real honour and privilege to serve on this panel alongside colleagues @HarryBeag of @FailteFeirste, @DAVIDHU92870388 of @socentni, Brendan Murtagh of @QUBelfast, and Sarah McKinley of @DemocracyCollab. We aimed to produce recommendations commensurate with the challenges.
There are a number of people to thank as part of this process, not least the supportive officials at @CommunitiesNI, including @SRJFleming and @L1Gallagher, and the Secretariat who supported our work, including @Sean_Byers84 of @TrademarkBF and Paul Roberts of @devtrustsni.
But a special thanks has to go to @DeirdreHargey, who clearly commands great respect from Northern Ireland communities and officials alike. The panel and the report literally wouldn’t exist if it hadn’t been for her commitment and visionary leadership in calling them into being.
There is a great deal of #CommunityWealthBuilding work already underway, and much to build upon, not least the scale of the public sector in Northern Ireland. But the real work now lies ahead in building a democratic economy truly capable of serving people, place, and planet!

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Oct 31
On October 27, the Independent Advisory Panel on Community Wealth Building to the Minister for Communities @CommunitiesNI delivered its report, ‘Recommendations to Advance Community Wealth Building in Northern Ireland’. communities-ni.gov.uk/news/hargey-we…
The report sets out a comprehensive framework for advancing #CommunityWealthBuilding and building a more democratic, just, inclusive, and sustainable economy for all communities in Northern Ireland, on the basis of a whole-of-government approach. There are 26 key recommendations:
Plural Ownership:
1. Adopt, deliver, and resource a social economy strategy for Northern Ireland
2. Establish a CWB/social enterprise fund
3. Review and realign existing financial levers to support the social economy
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Sep 27
Watched Starmer’s speech in Liverpool and I’m glad I did. First, this is the best speech I’ve heard him give as leader. The dullard of last year is gone, the ambition of his leadership campaign back. Lots to disagree with, of course; but the tonality is what matters. #LabourParty
It’s important to watch the pivot he’s making now. He’s shown himself to be an epic political conman in the past, and now that Starmer is back. The trick with three paper cups he played on the Labour membership—where’s the real Starmer?—he’s now attempting to play on the country.
And so we are again being promised a watered-down version of some of the elements of the economic transformation programme we need: public ownership, industrial strategy, investment in public services. A version of the siren song of his leadership campaign.
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Feb 26
The intertwining of the British Conservative Party and Russian oligarchy is neither accidental nor incidental.
Privatisation, together with Big Bang deregulation, created the City of London as we know it today. It’s the world’s biggest offshore tax haven. Privatisation in Russia also created the oligarchs, as they looted the Soviet state. And they needed somewhere to put their money.
Privatisation made the City of London and made the Russian oligarchy, two malignant twins. Strike at one and you strike at the other, which is why it won’t happen. And that’s why Russian kleptocrats bankrolled the Tories to stop a Corbyn government. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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Feb 9
These are difficult times; we need to have each other’s backs. We also need to support those who remain steadfast in doing the hard work of change. If you’re on the UK left and are able to, please consider supporting @NAyrshireLab. I’ll tell you why! 🧵👇🏼 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/north-ayrshi…
North Ayrshire isn’t your average local council; they are different. Beginning a few years ago under @jcullinane86’s leadership they set out on a journey—to transform their region and build local wealth in their communities after decades of economic decline and political neglect.
They became Scotland’s first Community Wealth Building council, embarking on an across-the-board effort to break with the status quo of decline management and use all the tools at their disposal to deliver for people, place and planet in Ayrshire. It’s been impressive to behold!
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Oct 15, 2021
Periodic reminder that the ‘municipal protectionism’ critique of Community Wealth Building is a load of lazy bollocks, demonstrably so, in both theory and practice. (For further reading, see Chapter 2 of @CommWealthBldng.)
The contracts localised by @prestoncouncil have not been poached from Blackburn or Burnley but redirected away from large corporations in the South East or offshore whose relationship to the regional economy was extractive. Not just Preston but Lancashire and the North West wins.
In Cleveland, when Evergreen won a large contract away from Sodexo they hired the former Sodexo workers, immediately raised them to a living wage, and put them on fast track to worker ownership. No jobs were lost; all that was squeezed out was extractive Sodexo shareholder value.
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Mar 21, 2021
This has obviously been a challenging year in many ways. But for @UKLabour under Starmer it’s worse than a wasted year, it’s been a year of going backwards—in terms of policy, political strategy, polling. The only thing he has done is prosecute a factional war against the left.
Meanwhile, Covid has torn back the curtain on many of the deep structural problems of the UK economy while also revealing that many things previously dismissed as impossible are not only possible but already being done. A huge missed opportunity to reframe. Instead we got flags.
Even the right-wing media are bemused at the total lack of opposition being offered by Starmer. spectator.co.uk/article/unoppo…
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