Well if this is socialism, then sign me up. This is impacting human society across the globe. Only essential businesses need to be kept funded and afloat.
Otherwise, households needs to be sustained with a universal amount until a vaccine is developed. My mortgage company just kicked the can down the street for three months when the payment holiday ends.
What then? Same goes for all these other initiatives. Three months pay, three months for this, three months for that.
I'm certainly no economist but why go £1trillion in the hole, if households in this country could get it instead and spend the money to essentially live, thus paying that cash directly back into the very economy it needs to keep afloat?
It's not as if people can go out and spend it on a holiday is it?
Kinnell, Tolm - you're talking political sense! First dissing Trump as an idiot and then arguing for UBI. These must surely be the end times!