The urgent need for trade agreements with the BRCS countries must not and need not preclude sharp criticism of their respective governments. But nor must that, in turn, preclude a willingness to learn from them.
The Congress Party may be better than the BJP, but it still has terrible failings. Yet it is moving, if not quite towards the Universal Basic Income, then towards something that can only end up there, once it had begun to be implemented.
The Congress Party may be better than the BJP, but it still has terrible failings. Yet it is moving, if not quite towards the Universal Basic Income, then towards something that can only end up there, once it had begun to be implemented.
That is one of several reasons to hope, on balance, for a Congress Party victory at the forthcoming Indian General Election. But even without that, the idea is now out there.
Are we to be left behind, apparently unable to do these things while India can? Well, look at our railways.
But we need to get our act together on those. And we need to get our act together on this, too. We need the Universal Basic Income.
Another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it.
Another hung Parliament is coming, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it.
It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post.
I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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