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That example, of course is assuming that there are two adults bringing up the family of 4. Often, there will be just one parent of course, or there may be some sort of special need so a top up would be needed in some instances. So if we are saying £700pm per adult. £700 x 12 months x 46m =...

Don't think Friedman was advocating a grand a month to be fair, which the fella I was replying to was.

If it were introduced, I'd argue for no regional weighting. We need to encourage more people (and jobs) out of London and into the regions, so this would be one mechanism by which to achieve this.

The cost to the exchequer might be a bit of an issue with this? (I admire the hardcore socialism on display, you're significantly to the left of Corbyn and McDonnell, but don't let anyone tell you there's something wrong with that)

Unemployment wasn't actually bad before the virus struck. Getting employment back to where it was after the virus will take years, but not decades. Then there's the argument that new jobs will just be created to replace the ones taken by automation. It's hard for us to visualise what they...