We speak to Professor Guy Standing, the former economic adviser to John McDonnell of the Labour Party and author of ‘Battling 8 Giants: Basic Income Now’ about the Coronavirus economic crisis. He discusses his opinion on Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak’s plan to pay 80% of workers’ wages and why he believes it won’t work, why universal basic income is the only way to save millions from homelessness and solve the lack of demand for basic goods, why Universal Credit will ultimately fail in alleviating the economic crisis caused by COVID-19, the current problems of neoliberal capitalism growing bigger due to the crisis, the ‘precariat’ growing due to Coronavirus and more! <br /><br />LIKE<br /><br />Going Underground <a href="http://fb.me/GoingUndergroundRT" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://fb.me/GoingUndergroundRT</a><br /><br />FOLLOW<br />Going Underground <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GoingUndergroundRT" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/GoingUndergroundRT</a><br />Going Underground on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/Underground_RT" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/Underground_RT</a><br />Afshin Rattansi on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/AfshinRattansi" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/AfshinRattansi</a><br /><br />PODCAST<br /><a href="https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/going-underground-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/going-underground-1</a><br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx4929e7r0A" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx4929e7r0A</a>