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These are the things I believe about our society:

That the earnings of a person on the statutory minimum income, after deductions, should be sufficient for a man or woman with children to rent suitable accommodation or to pay a mortgage on a modest property, to feed and clothe themselves and their offspring, to run a modest motor vehicle and to afford to take a holiday for themselves and for their children once a year for a couple of weeks.
That they should be provided with educational facilities such that their children have a chance of shining at school just as much as those of much greater means. It would be a great tragedy if another Einstein or Sir Isaac Newton were to be missed just because their parents could only afford to send them to an inadequate local comprehensive!
Likewise with university education, when I was young students received a grant to go to university and paid no fees. That is still the case in most civilized European countries but not in the UK nor indeed in the USA, quite the contrary! The utterly iniquitous system of student loans is already discouraging many gifted working-class students from going to university as they do not wish to be saddled with tens of thousands of pounds worth of student debt upon leaving university!

That all salaries benefits and pensions public or private should be indexed to the rate of inflation so that the poorest in society do not suffer unduly as the rich get richer. “A utopian dream” I hear the extreme right-wing bigots scream; not at all! Luxembourg does precisely, exactly that; all incomes are indexed to the rate of inflation and oddly enough the companies here don’t seem to suffer that badly from it as it is, by at least one metric GDP/Capita, One of the richest countries in the entire world!

That all residents of a civilized country should have the right to free or completely affordable health care. No one should ever be forced to go with out necessary care, medication or be bankrupted by the expense of healthcare that is an anathema in any decent society!

That adequate, comprehensive, free or heavily subsidized public transport should be available in all areas of the country so that residents are not obliged to use a private car or other vehicle to get from A to B or to work.

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