PAY FOR ALL

It's funny. Ever since I was first told about UBI or Universal Basic Income it keeps cropping up in the news.

When first rid about it by a supporter I thought it was some mad idea cooked up by some drug crazed conspiracy theorist?! But no.

The person explaining it to me was a big supporter of the idea but I thought it was totally fucking bonkers!

For example .. everyone gets £100 per week .. EVERYONE?!

First off .. that's utterly stupid and your wasting a large chunk giving out to people that are earning a high amount anyway so neither need it nor deserve it.

Of course you know that any system introduced like this will allow them to get rid of the welfare system fairly easily.

Umm .. rent? That's the biggest problem in the UK and especially in the south east is the criminally high rent prices.

Rent is one problem. Next up .. children?!

See where this is going?

Now all this are the basic problems and you don't have the most immediate and painfully obvious problem ..

.. money?! Or how are you going to pay for this? Every person, there is 58 million or so, gets £100 or whatever it is?! That's one hundred times 50 million? Providing, that is, of its set at £100 per week?

Like I said .. sorry .. it's bonkers, pure and simple held onto by people so desperate for their lives to change from the living hell they are living in.

They can't see the wood for the trees I'm afraid.

It's also been rejected recently, or something very similar to this, in Switzerland. Theirs was a lot more than £100 per week and I think it was over £300 per week? Seem to recall it being over £1,500 per month but likely due to the high living costs in the country?

Imagine it being set at that amount in the UK?! LMAO, does not bear thinking about.

That's another problem you have with this nationwide flat amount .. regional variation.

Oddly enough the supporter of it failed to realise that it would actually bring about a mad sounding conspiracy theory he had. That they are planning to move all the poor people and shepherd them into built up places away from rich people. There was also some mad talk about a wall around London?

Yeah well .. if you pay a flat rate .. people are going to migrate away from the more expensive places all in their own. Not having hoods places over there heads, bundled into an unmarked van in London and dropped off somewhere. Somewhere rundown.

This BBC report below isn't this UBI thing .. or so it claims but it sounds a hell of a lot like it to me.

As for introducing something like this? Look how effing long it has taken them to bring in Universal Credit and what a major feck up that is?!

I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: £10,000 proposed for everyone under 55 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43078920