England is a monarchy, with subjects. I am not a subject, but a citizen, and if that difference is lost on the writer, no wonder they are pushing this.
There is no free lunch, the money has to come out of someone's pocket, and in the end, the taxpayer will get it in the 'end'.
The parasitic classes love the idea of getting a check, but the proponents of this ignore the fact that someone has to issue and distribute these checks. Someone would still have to enforce the tax law, so there would still be an army of government minions sucking up our substance so it can be unConstitutionally redistributed. Never mind.
Just get government back within its Constitutional constraints and we'd really save a grundle.
Tony Blair, and Gordon Brown will be very surprised to discover this. Along with the rest of parliment and the British people.