United Kingdom: Sonia Sodha – “UBI is no panacea for us – and Labour shouldn’t back it”

United Kingdom: Sonia Sodha – “UBI is no panacea for us – and Labour shouldn’t back it”

Sonia Sodha (Twitter account image)

Sonia Sodha , lead writer at the Observer , urges the British Left not to support UBI. According to her latest opinion piece for the Guardian , UBI will not cure any social disease that UBI advocates claim will be alleviated, and rather, it is currently a fatal distraction from other battles on which the British Left should focus.

Sodha charted the rationales for UBI in the following three categories: tech utopians’s prophecy of a decrease of jobs, Ken Loachian welfare critics’ blame against inhumanely complex welfare system, and.labour market dystopians’ poverty backstop against insecurity.Sodha […]

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