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Part two in my series of escape missions After breaking out of prison and defeating the guards you make your way out of the keep and find yourself in a market place. To support the Guardian order your copy at . Take the intelligence, kill the RED's and win the game 2Fort is a capture the flag map, with the flag (intel) being in the basement. Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too by Matthew Brown and Rhian E Jones is published by Repeater (£10.99). Carry this book around with you and be reminded of what’s possible. As Brown and Jones state convincingly, that is what democratic government is for. It also shows how local authorities, within the constraints of austerity and wider economic forces, can make choices that benefit citizens rather than companies. By 2020, Preston had achieved its highest employment rate and lowest levels of economic inactivity for more than 15 years, and in 2018 it was voted the UK’s most improved city to live and work in. It’s not just the right thing to do: it works. Now the council plans to establish a mutual bank, replacing lost branches and aiming to put loan sharks out of business.
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As more revenue stayed in the city, Preston incubated small businesses and became the north of England’s first living wage employer. The council started small by procuring its services from local companies, then it invited the city’s other public employers to do the same. When services are outsourced costs go up, workers’ wages go down, and the difference is pocketed by global companies that have grown grotesquely rich by repeating this formula in every city in the world. The first principle of the Preston model is that privatised services cost more and give nothing back, a dogma that “wastes billions to subsidise the extraction of profit”. The reduced costs of “in-housing” these services directly enabled the creation of 5,000 jobs and a 15% pay rise for employees. The city authority replaced multinationals such as the French service-sector giant Sodexho, which had contracts at the city’s hospitals and university, with “purposely created worker co-ops” to supply laundry, catering and other services. With this book Preston city council leader Matthew Brown and writer Rhian E Jones make a compelling case for that alternative, blending a concise and unexpectedly gripping account of Preston’s experiment in “community wealth building” with a guide to the grassroots activism that underpins it.Ĭommunity wealth building was first developed in Cleveland, Ohio – another city beset by industrial decline and low wages – in the mid-2000s.