Universal Basic Income takes Wales closer to being a ‘communist state’, Tory MS claims

Universal Basic Income takes Wales closer to being a ‘communist state’, Tory MS claims

News Karl Marx (left) Photo by klimbims, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Janet Finch Saunders (right) photo National Assembly Wales. A Universal Basic Income (UBI) scheme would take Wales a step closer to being a “communist state”, a Tory MS has claimed.

Janet Finch-Saunders, the Conservative Senedd member for Aberconwy, suggested that providing every adult with a fixed income every month that would be enough to pay for all basic essentials is “unjustifiable”.

Finch-Saunders made the comments in the Senedd, while questioning Finance Minister Rebecca Evans, in response to an announcement from the Welsh Government that it intends to pilot a […]

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