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Comment by Patrick Diamond
Lecturer in Public Policy at Queen Mary University of London
A more effective and convincing strategy for the centre left is to strengthen, reform and revitalise welfare states and social policies.
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(2017)
2y ago
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Quote attributed to Patrick Diamond from the Policy Network paper "Europe's New Social Reality: the Case Against Universal Basic Income" (co-authored with Daniel Sage). Web search results confirm that Diamond and Sage's paper argues that "a more effective and convincing strategy for the centre left is to strengthen, reform and revitalise welfare states and social policies" as an alternative to UBI. The vote direction ("against" for "Implement a universal basic income") is correctly aligned with the quote's meaning. Updated year from 2016 to 2017 based on search results indicating the paper was published in 2017. Updated source_url from the dead link (policy-network.net/publications_download.aspx?ID=9492, which returns 403) to the current Policy Network PDF URL. However, the source URL itself could not be directly fetched and verified (returns 403 to automated access), so marking as ai_unverifiable. The quote content, author attribution, and vote alignment all check out based on web search evidence.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 17d ago
replying to Patrick Diamond