Photograph: Henry Nicholls/ReutersPhotograph: Henry Nicholls/ReutersThe Conservative candidate for London mayor,
This sambo is just embarrassing. So the Tory ministers are cocaine free? Is that what he is implying?
Is that his own basic income?
He’s right!
God forbid I stick up for a Tory, but this is shameful out of context quoting .
According to his leaflet that came through my door, he can do a backflip... what can the other candidates do?
Put VAT on drugs then (-:
Typical shameful Tory statement!
A knuckle head if ever I saw one and a TERRIBLE candidate fir anything, let alone mayor of London!
F***ing Tories, casting aspersions that all benefit claimants are drug addicts,please please please don’t vote for this shyster to become Mayor.What a sweeping generalisation? A bit like all black people are muggers
Another Tory self-entitled bellend.
Hopeful? He's clearly fucking desperate! Now that's he's drained all his resources in blaming Sadiq Khan for EVERYTHING!
Candidate would be the better word than hopeful, as he doesn't offer much hope.
Idiot
Breaking News...A Tory that does Tory stuff!
Everyones laughing, but they voted for that clown in Mansfield and he comes out with the same garbage
LewisOlsson
Crazy to think we was a youth worker because all he does is peddle right-wing stereotypes of poorer people
Plenty of studies shows direct cash is BEST way to alleviate poverty. Wonder what research he's basing his assumptions. Also, my Labour MP dismissed UBI because 'it's a Tory policy'.🤔
'I’ve been a youth worker for over 20 years. I know some people would absolutely fly if you gave them a lump sum to deal with every week. I know some people who would buy lots of drugs. So where is the care in this, where is the care for the person?'
Antidepressants, probably....
The subtle gold chains of internationalist neo-Feudalism.
Shaun Bailey London mayor cand. said: “I know some ppl would absolutely fly if you gave them a lump sum to deal with every week. I know some ppl who would buy lots of drugs. So where is the care in this, where is the care for the person?” Is Guardian becoming a DailyExpress?
Is alcohol a drug?
And giving Tory donors huge contracts for PPE would result in them using it for champagne lifestyles.
I heard he had been deliberately misquoted and that what he had actually said was that “ Basic income would just be spent on lots of paint patch testers and that we needed to set up a proper charity to support these very needy people”
Well legalise drugs, and get the money back into the economy instead of it going to the criminals...
when rich people can dream with their expensive lifestyle, the poor does drugs to keep their dreams alive so they can live like them without luxury, more importantly not get manipulated around society. Harsh reality capitalist warmongers
Shaun bailey chats so much shit and all tories think everyone is addicted to drugs... these people are so clandestine and elitist
He's 100% correct.
Yes, can def see Boris Johnson and Michael Gove spending theirs on it like the old days.
It's just scary he's been a youth worker for decades, his views on human behaviour are so incredibly poorly-informed, what has he been teaching these kids for all these years? all his arguments seem to be based on anecdotal, rightwing newspaper headlines and talk radio nonsense
IMHO this comment is inflammatory.
He’s not wrong
He embarrasses me!
Hes right and if you think he's wrong you have your head in the sand
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What an utter Tory he is. No wonder he got the gig.
He's a bit mad isn't he.
I honestly don't think this is even worthy of publicity.
Yet another tory bugle klaxon !
Prescription cost's going up for Diazepam
The Republican party would like you as a candidate.
Where do I sign up for this 'basic income' thing? 😉
No evidence that this would be the case.
Goodness me. Bailey's views and reasoning in the article make him even more repugnant.
Unlike hard earned wages, which no one spends on drugs? This argument is incredibly stupid. Theres many reasons to site on how it could be abused but 'dumdum derr they will spend it on le drugs' is the empty and irrelevant. Drugs common everywhere and at every level of wealth.
Sounds like that's what he would do
So
Well that's a very disingenuous headline. According to your own article he didn't say that. He said he knew 'some people who would fly' given UBI & he knew 'some that would buy lots of drugs' given however many years he was a youth worker.
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You might not want to hear it but in the context it was said & looking at his life experience he is completely correct. Week on week, long term addicts wait at the cash machine at 0100H for their UC or PIP payments to show in account & then spend it all on their chosen poison.
Stfu
Once people receive welfare payments it becomes their own money and they can spend it on whatever they fucking want. It's not 'government money' at that point.
Same that paying taxes?
He’s right
Sellout
Being high is the only way anyone will vote for him!
What a plonker!
Minorities & colored people who follow right-wing, rabidly racist parties like Republicans and Tories can’t hide their self-hatred. If there was some in the market, they would buy bleach to whiten their skin. Acting like house slaves in XXI Century. Pathetic, to say the least.
Yeah, because Conservatives don't snort Cocaine off Strippers.
Who are these people who'll be buying drugs? The same people who were planning on using free food to buy drugs a few months ago?
Can't the Tories find anybody with half a chance of beating that useless Khan?
He's not wrong
Aside from showing Londoners what he truly thinks of them, Shaun Bailey has also shown a shocking lack of understanding of how the Universal Basic Income trial would help families and households who are living on the breadline. He is unfit to lead London.
London. Something that Oppenheimer missed.
I did my research and I must confess, no one handles business like you do sir gigsfrid it my privilege to work with you.
I expect he's speaking from experience - he and his friends have disposable income, and buy lots of drugs, why would the poors be any different - and not just being a basic bigot, right?
Despite compelling evidence that this isn't true, the Tories still go to incredible lengths to assert their broken ideology and paint low-income people as idle, alcoholic good-for-nothings.
It's always projection with them.
ShaunBaileyUK did you hit your head very hard at some point in your life?
Half there Tory front bench have been at the gak!
Don't threaten me with a good time.
I do wonder if the Tory party just picked this guy completely at random, as some kind of practical joke.
Legalise them and tax them. Then use that income to educate and train people in marginalised areas. Simple.
He isn't wrong. Why subsidise drug dealers?
And what? It's not like people already do that.
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Are these real people ? Or paid actors
Okay
Do any London based football clubs have a mascot they could put up instead?
That’s what I’d use it for
'Lets not do something that could be of benefit because a small number of people, hypothetically, could abuse it'
Let's hope so....
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