A nomination for fucking Think Tanks, in this particular case Autonomy.
These bright sparks have come up with a Universal Basic Income (yes, I know not a new idea) and appear to have been given a green light to ‘trial’ a £1600 per month with ‘no questions asked’ for a limited number of people.
The grand plan would be a to make it available to everyone regardless of circumstances, sounds great doesn’t it.
What will happen, well you can bet there with be a lot of people sitting on their arses because there will be no requirement to actually look for a job, there will be many people using the basic income to fund a nice little earner in the black economy and there will be a few people paying for the scam.
I know in Wales they doing something similar targeted at kids coming out of care, but will see how it pans out.
Finland gave it a go and then scrapped it, so why the fuck does anyone with any sense think it will work here.
Think Tanks are cunts, it’s fucking easy to come up with schemes to piss money up the wall, where are the think tanks who come up with stopping the boats, like blow the cunts out of the water, bound to work or why not cut benefits and watch the bone idle queuing outside the job centre.
Nominated by Sick of it.