JOBS AT ANY PRICE leads to big national infrastructure spending

Rather than jobs at any price, do you agree that the wealthy must ensure through their taxes that everyone must have a basic living income to ensure a comfortable standard of living to guarantee decent shelter, food and clothing?

Spend on the poor; on making them richer!

Spend on humanitarian aid for Yemen.

Spend on Fare-Free Public Transport for all

Spend on green jobs to address the climate emergency.

Spend on a Basic Income scheme and more generous Universal Credit

Spend now to save on greenhouse gases in the medium to long term.

Spend on renewables - solar, wind, hydro.  PV on every roof.

Spend on trains and stations back on our wasted/part used 106 Kms of double-track railway lines in the Black Country and Brum.

Status symbols for our own self-aggrandisement

Metro is all part of the most unfortunate, greedy and immoral HS2 syndrome. These are the two most extravagant and over-indulgent and totally unnecessary expenditure that is of no help to the hordes on low incomes. They need the money, not you and me for our status symbols and personal self-aggrandisement. Use the £106 billion for HS2 and the £15 billion for trams for FFPT for all; for UC and Basic Income generous enough to keep everyone living in dignity.

Get level with nature

If we can give everyone a basic income to provide food, shelter, clothing and a life free of disease, the present state of quiet roads, cleaner air and less economic activity would be quite appealing to me!  Green or eco socialism.  Equality from fair shares for all.  Levelling out = levelling down for the rich and levelling up for the poor = sustainable or eco socialism.

Lockdown is meaning a slow down of greenhouse gases and, hence, ecocide.  But many are suffering.  Even more so with resource depletion and a stir crazy climate.  But we have to spend less and get green, ecological growth to reverse ecocide.