Take Back Power ‘takes over’ the playgrounds of the super-rich

Take Back Power supporters have been ‘taking over’ the playgrounds of the super-rich on the morning of 30 April. Take Back Power is a nonviolent campaign, demanding a tax on extreme wealth, to be decided by a ‘House of the People’.

At around 10am, 22 Take Back Power supporters occupied a Ferrari dealership in Berkeley Square. They chanted “WE DEMAND EQUALITY!” and “THE BILLIONAIRES HAVE GOT TO GO!”. By around 10.30am the group left the store.

At around 11.30am the group reconvened at Burlington Arcade, the world’s first modern shopping mall. It positions itself as an ‘elegant and exclusive upmarket shopping venue’. The group held signs which read “HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE” and “4 MILLION KIDS IN POVERTY”. Door staff quickly seized the placards.

By around 12.20pm the group had moved on to the food hall at luxury department store Harrod’s. Security was much more reactive, dragging Take Back Power supporters from the building.

A Take Back Power spokesperson said:

This country is in crisis and everyone knows it! The people to blame are the corporations and super-rich who are extracting every last penny from working people, and then using their ownership of the media to distract people into blaming the poor and migrants.

Nothing short of a massive transfer of wealth and power away from the 1% and back to working people can hope to fix Britain.

One of those taking action today is Robert Pembroke, 43, a builder and dad from Devon. He said:

It’s time ordinary people take back our power from the super-rich. Inequality is spiralling out of control, 50 families in the UK hold more wealth than 50% of the country. Around the world, it’s even worse with eight men holding more wealth than 50% of the world’s population!

It is obscene to allow this, people are dying. We need ordinary people, taking part in a permanent citizens’ assembly – a House of the People – deciding how to tackle this.

Also taking action today is Ana Heyatawin, 63, a grandmother from Somerset. She said:

Inequality, which is being imposed on ordinary people by big business, billionaires and the politicians who work for them, is killing people right now. More than a third of people in the UK now don’t earn enough to buy life’s essentials.

We need ordinary people at the heart of deciding how to tax extreme wealth to begin fixing this mess. This is why we are calling for a permanent citizen’s assembly, with the power to tax extreme wealth – a House of the People.

Take Back Power is demanding that the UK government establishes a permanent House of the People – a citizen’s assembly chosen by democratic lottery, that has the power to tax extreme wealth and fix Britain.

Until the government makes a meaningful statement in response to this demand, the group says it will undertake nonviolent action to resist the super-rich, who are driving us towards social collapse. Donate or sign up to take action at TakeBackPower.net.

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