Likely to be the most controversial part of Levelling Level, the following list that covers the food, goods and services that we actually need, will look and sound alien to many reading the contents right now. However, what we need and what we want or believe that we should have are two very different things. … Continue reading What we really need
Tag: Basic Essentials
Public Transport
The rail network must be fully returned to public or community led operating companies, holding responsibility for all activities on the most localised basis possible. Each local County level authority should become a bus operator, ensuring that service coverage is universally provided by a system that allows equal basic access to everyone, whether they live … Continue reading Public Transport
Utilities: Electricity, Water, Gas
The entire utility infrastructure must be returned to public and preferably community hands. So that issues such as repairs and the impact that they have on other areas of life are managed in a far more thoughtful, responsive, localised and therefore intelligent way.
Essential Services to the Public
As discussed earlier, public services have become a political football and plaything for politicians, public sector workers and those with a financial interest in them alike. Man cannot have two masters, just as you cannot put two saddles on the same horse. Services that are provided for the benefit of the public must have the … Continue reading Essential Services to the Public
The Basic Standard: what everyone should have – and be able to afford to have
Change will define what we need, rather than everything being about what we want The point we shouldn’t miss is that a Financial and Systemic collapse of the kind where everything we know changes, will result in everyone having to share what is available. Access will not be based on what anyone can or cannot … Continue reading The Basic Standard: what everyone should have – and be able to afford to have
Rationing: A way of sharing the basics fairly, so there is enough for all
The days of unnecessary food production and manufacturing, prioritised only on the basis of repeat financial turnover and profit-making are done – even if that doesn’t appear to be the case right now. As we experienced being the case in the early days and weeks after the first Covid Lockdown was called in March 2020, … Continue reading Rationing: A way of sharing the basics fairly, so there is enough for all
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