Universal basic income: equality and the individual

Article by Leo Holmes, Co-founder of Labour for a Basic Income.

Photo by Micheile Henderson on Unsplash

“I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, I warn you not to get old”. This was Neil Kinnock’s assessment of life for individuals across the UK after the 1983 general election, which saw Margaret Thatcher, a Prime Minister who espoused an ideology vastly opposed to…