Posts by Sacha
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The righties do have an admirably coherent attack line on this - 'too expensive'. Wonder how that happened? And who could possibly have forseen it?
Instead, the left have spent all week talking about costs.
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Access: Disability abuse: it’s not OK, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Creative Abilities
Ah, one of the large sheltered workshop outfits. Didn't know they ran housing as well.
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Guess we can gather from the 'debate' this week that that the word "universal" is not a useful way of framing this now.
"Guaranteed income" or suchlike might have attracted less clutching of pearls and black/white responses. Would still have fitted Labour's 'future of work' framing too.
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Economist Eric Crampton sees problems with a UBI.
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Hard News: UMR: Medpot and the public, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
just ask if they want a single shot
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Polity: Let the big lies flow, in reply to Hilary Stace,
It also has to go to everyone at the same rate including children.
Did he say why? Most discussions I've seen lately propose a lower rate for children.
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Polity: Let the big lies flow, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Also building up funds through returns from investments in public assets (eg Norway has huge funds from years of state owned oil exploration).
Whereas our govt stopped investing into the Cullen fund and keeps shifting the date when they will resume.
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Speaker: Her outdoors, in reply to Joe Wylie,
"YOU WANNA BUY A FLOWAH?"
preserved as a line in this:
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Polity: Let the big lies flow, in reply to Nick Russell,
It might be a good idea to anticipate the attacks and pre-empt them when releasing a policy, or even announcing that you are thinking about it, rather than giving the other side free hits.
Still waiting for anyone to explain how Labour continues to be unable to perform this most basic political function, year after year.
Where's their problem? Who can fix it? Why aren't they?
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I wouldn’t link it to increased civics education – voting is either a right or it isn’t.
Whereas I see it being the same sort of right as informed consent is. That applies to adults as well as teens. Where is our life-long investment in civic understanding?
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