So yesterday was Keir Starmer’s first PMQs as Labour leader and by all accounts it was an impressive first outing for Keir Starmer at PMQs, asking questions I’d want a Labour leader to currently be asking the Tory government, questions about the Tory government’s incompetence in instituting the rollout of testing for COVID-19 amongst the populous and the lack of personal-protective-equipment for healthcare workers and in the forensic manner he was doing so he certainly had Dominic Raab who was standing in for Boris Johnson flustered and somewhat on the ropes.

Keir Starmer impressive at his first PMQs not so impressive when it comes to supporting UBI

But how much Starmer flatters to impress at PMQs he has now only gone and disappoint me once again by rejecting the Labour Party supporting Universal Basic Income and absolutely this is a pretty big fucking deal for me not just because of the Georgist social-justice justifications for UBI, it’s the COVID-19 pandemic which has really precipitated the need for UBI, as they say every good idea will have it’s time and UBI’s time is now!

The only major political party in the UK which currently supports there being a Universal Basic Income is the Green Party, it kind of makes sense for the Greens to support the Georgist argument that as nobody created land or natural resources technically all citizens should have access to land and natural resources and therefore any individual or corporation who exploits natural resources for profit should depending on your prospective pay compensation or pay for the privilege for doing so, all of which has the upshot of there likely being greater conservation of land and natural resources something the Green Party obviously supports. Though I think the one Green Party Member of Parliament Caroline Lucas is frigging awesome, unfortunately there is something of an anti science bent with the Green Party meaning its populated with far too many oddball hippy antivaxxer morons for me to support them and so I’m stuck supporting Labour even if Labour’s new leader seems unwilling to support there being a Universal Basic Income.

I could fast become extremely boresome riffing from the wealth of Georgist arguments in favour of a Land Value Tax and a Citizen’s Dividend which has become known as Universal Basic Income, I could prattle on and on about how Georgism wasn’t some nefarious socialism by the backdoor scheme dreamt up by the evolutionary Marxists at the Frankfurt School as some uber neoliberal capitalist kooks would have you believe and that Georgist arguments can be traced back at least a millennia and have had some surprising proponents including conservative economist Milton Friedman to scumfuck capitalist twat Richard Branson, however the point here with this article is to ask why isn’t Keir Starmer willing to have Labour support Georgist arguments for there to be a Universal Basic Income despite there being substantial social-justice justifications for instituting a Universal Basic Income and despite there being glaring justifications with the current COVID-19 crisis for there being a Universal Basic Income.

The fact that Keir Starmer isn’t willing to have Labour support UBI is just yet more evidence he’s selling Labour out to the Blairite corporatist agenda which is far too in love with neoliberal capitalism. I bet Blairite advisors are whispering in Starmer’s ear that he needs to move Labour to become more Tory then Tory and the Tories think UBI would disincentivize people from working, well Iain Duncan Shit might think this but that Tory scumfuckbag would, of course it hasn’t occurred to IDS that UBI would be an answer to the issues of income for seasonal workers or that as a consequence of UBI you would have a far smaller welfare state (just as you would if you significantly raised the minimum wage), but ultimately UBI would provide an income for people to fall back upon in a crisis such as the current COVID-19 pandemic and which is costing billions more for the government to furlough workers then UBI would cost!