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Sorry - you're both absolutely correct and I wasn't properly applying the word Universal. In my opinion - it shouldn't be universal. It should be qualified for people earning under a certain threshold, on a sliding scale depending on how many people are in the home. For example, families would...

Because there's always fraud whenever you have a benefit or a scheme of any kind. You have to be prepared for it and how to respond to it and because you know that the people who do not like the policy would jump on any opportunity to highlight the flaws. There would be flaws in any plan. I'm...

I am fiercely independent but I am quite left on issues about helping people. I think that the cost could be offset by actually collecting the appropriate rate of tax from the superwealthy, but that's a whole other argument. I think any system would take years to really get right because you'd...

I am 100% in favour of UBI. I have been thinking a lot about it over the last few weeks and I see several problems with implementation. There is a significant difference in earnings in the North and the South - so how would you adjust what people can earn? What is the minimum people can earn and...