EP.870: How 6% of the Population Hold Power in Britain- Stuart Maconie

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Stuart Maconie, author of ‘The Nanny State Made Me’. He discusses the elitism and propaganda behind the term nanny state, why we should have a state that looks after the population from cradle to grave, why Thatcherism should be considered an unpatriotic revolution, the idea of patriotic socialism, how the privately-educated 6% of the population run our most important institutions, the revolutionary model of Cuban healthcare, austerity in the U.K. by Conservative governments, why Universal Basic Income's time has come in the coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic and more!