Basic Income

Fish, chips and mushy politics!?

UBIE event 24th–26th March 2017, London Here, our North Wales committee representative, Eri Mountbatten, provides a summary of the Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) weekend held in London on 24th – 26th March 2017.   Eri asks, is Universal Basic Income (UBI) a utopian exercise in socialist Sympatico, or can it Read more…

By alanmarkey, ago

A Basic Income in the UK – ‘what’s not to like’?

Eri Mountbatten, our North Wales elected representative on the NAWRA committee, writes about the concept of a basic (or citizens) income: What is basic (or citizens) income? For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, the central and arguably well founded assumption is that the current welfare system is broken.  Read more…

By alanmarkey, ago