In this episode, Michael Taylor and William Clouston discuss the recent proposal to trial UBI in England.
Thirty residents of Jarrow in South Tyneside and East Finchley in London will be given £1,600 a month for two years and monitored to see how it affects their wellbeing.
Advocates believe that UBI can provide economic security to everyone, simplifying the welfare system and relieving worries about the cost of living.
William and Michael argue that paying people to do nothing will reduce the incentive to work and cause inflation, making everyone poorer. Worse, it infantilises people and diverts attention from tackling the true causes of poverty – family breakdown and de-industrialisation.
They agree that poverty can only be solved through strong, coherent policies on industry, education, housing, tax and welfare that put the family at the heart of national life.
All under a supposed Conservative Government both parties are indistinguishable from one another at least in the 1980s and 90s there were Margaret Thatcher then Tony Blair now there is Starmer Sunak and Davey extremely Metropolitan and elitist the Social Democratic Party is the future unlike the Liblabconsnp
had to laugh at the comment that £1600 a month is not a liveable amount, when it is more than i earn a month for working, can i have UBI please or even the living wage as a Basic?
multiple reasons for why this Labour controlled senod in Wales needs to be sorted The Conservitives will never gain a majority here as too much was done by the thatcher era when deindustrilising the Welsh core industries of Coal and Steel, but new independant thinking and solid policys like here at the democratic party give me confidance that maby a way forward is posible.