Universal? Credit?

Of course Jeremy Corbyn knows that the solution will eventually be the Universal Basic Income, undergirding Modern Monetary Theory's Jobs Guarantee, and undergirding Universal Basic Services.

But until he can quite bring himself to say that, then we ought of course to welcome measures such as the reduction of the five-week waiting time for Universal Credit to two weeks, the suspension of sanctions, the abolition of the two-child limit, and the abolition of the Work Capability Assessment. The five-week waiting time is deliberately designed to ensure that a certain number of claimants will die before they have ever been paid.

Why, though, did Corbyn go to Iain Duncan Smith's constituency to announce the intended end of these evils? Duncan Smith resigned over them. It was Harriet Harman, the next Speaker of the House of Commons, who whipped Labour MPs to abstain rather than oppose them. And the Work Capability Assessment, with its horrifying body count, was introduced by Yvette Cooper, who is still The Guardian's choice for Leader of the Labour Party.

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