Universal Basic Income

badsim339

I encourage everyone to sign this petition:

Implement Universal Basic Income to give home & food security through Covid-19

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302284

UBI has the potential to help many more struggling people in the UK not just for now in the UK's struggle with Covid-19, but for the future.
170 MPs and Lords are already calling for this to be implemented. If you agree with them then sign the petition write to your MP.

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badsim339

onwards&upwards said:

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Dia_Pita said:

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badsim339

UPDATE
The petition has reached the 10,000 & 100,000 signatures required for the government to respond.
But please keep signing it, every signature counts.

badsim339

Please consider signing this petition. 
Implement UK lockdown for preventing the spread of COVID19
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301397

Seeing the crowds over the weekend and today in London on the Underground, was shocking, people are not listening to advice. Tough measures are now required.

Also please consider signing the following petition, to help people through any lockdown that might happen:

Implement Universal Basic Income to give home & food security through Covid-19

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302284

strawb_shortcake

How would this work though with measures already introduced? I'm working from home and on full pay indefinitely and as much as a bit extra is always going to be nice I don't need it and it wouldn't be right for me to have it or others in the same situation as myself. 
I would much rather money went to those most in need

badsim339

Universal basic income would replace things like universal credit. You could always opt out of it or you can always donate the money to charities, it would be for the politicians and civil service and advocacy groups to work out the intricacies of the scheme
Well, that isn't how it is working at the moment, a lot of the money is going to big business.

It is the simplest way to get money into the hands of the people who really need it, instead of things like Universal credit, still with its up to 5 weeks waiting time.
Please visit https://www.basicincome.org.uk/about_us for more details. 

badsim339

Encourage lenders, landlords, and utilities to freeze payments during lockdown Petition

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302256
Implement Universal Basic Income to give home & food security through Covid-19
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/302284
Implement UK lockdown for preventing the spread of COVID19
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301397

HornetSaver

Signed.

The 80% guarantee was an urgent measure to persuade employers of literally millions of people not to lay them off. But I see it as an interim reassurance to the correct solution.

The announced level of support for those who qualify was bold and courageous, but doubling down is necessary. UBI will prevent the Government getting bogged down in technical nuances on how to handle tough cases like zero hours, the self employed, and people who would not ordinarily qualify for any form of state support but for which it's in the national interest to provide it. We need everyone who is working in our critical industries - the emergency services, various aspects of food supply and distribution, transport and logistics, manufacture of critical items - to be motivated, to be going all-out, to be going because they want to be there and because they feel it's safe and/or an acceptable risk in comparison to the value of their work, not because of economic pressures. And, when this tails off, we need them to go on a well-deserved, self-indulgant spending spree which will have the effect of kick-starting the normal economy again.