What do you think the solution is for the growing number of people who aren't in work?
A universal Government job guarantee, 40hrs a week, you can choose less hours if you want and you get paid minimum wage if you do atleast 30. Government can put the people to work directly or into training/apprenticeship. Have it be a legal right, see article 40 Soviet constitution.
Pop the housing bubble, landlords have too much power; build more social housing etc. Don't cut pensions and increase spending on NHS drastically to compensate for decades of austerity.
Of course, none of that is going to happen because U.K. because its political system is at a dead-end.
No, it was extremely successful and boasted the fasted rate of economic growth in human history while also defeating the most devastating invasion of all time, until it was illegally dissolved against the wishes of its people in a violent CIA-backed coup, leading to the worst humanitarian disaster since the second world war.
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Other countries (eg India) copied different aspects of the Soviet constitution. Learn something from it. And what the other commenter said.
Europe including U.K. in the 1960s-1970s had such an implicit job guarantee btw, though not as a right.
Just look at how the living standards in the west have declined since the dissolution of USSR and rise of neoliberalism. See https://redsails.org/concessions/
The rich ghoul fuck who wears gifted suits telling the cold, the hungry and the poor over and over to get back to work while their world crumbles. What a classic case of fucking around
I do think that helping people get into the best job for them is a good goal, so here's hoping the investment in job centres helps.
On the other hand, boy do I wish we could talk about redistribution and shifting the tax burden away from income and towards assets. But so much as hint at these policies and you're tarred as a filthy communist.
and turning it on again? 