“Welcome to foodbank Britain.” A display by anti-austerity campaign organisation The People’s Assembly outside Downing Street. Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire/PA Images When the left talks about social security it sounds like a car being driven with no middle gears. Half the time it debates little tweaks to make Conservative policies a bit less bad and save universal credit from itself. The rest of the time it dreams of total transformation and the creation of a universal basic income paid to everyone without condition. It seems that the left can be timidly incremental or radically iconoclastic—but nothing in between.
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