Green Councillors join call for Universal Basic Income to support us all through covid crisis 28th April 2020 / 6th May 2020 by Dagan Smith Local Green District and County Councillors join over 100 MPs and Peers across seven parties for the introduction of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) in response to COVID-19. The letter to Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer was published in the Financial Times on April 22, 2020. The joint statement calls for a recovery UBI […] Read more » COVID-19 Dursley Greens Stroud UBI
Building a Community Shield to Suppress the Coronavirus 23rd April 2020 / 23rd April 2020 by timdavies The Green Party of England and Wales has released a report written by Molly Scott Cato, making the case for an approach to the corona virus pandemic which combines testing with the establishment of ‘community shields’: a network of locally-based community protection schemes. Professor Scott Cato said: “From the beginning of this crisis, our government […] Read more »