GIVE US ALL £6K A YEAR

At first sight it seems crackers to give everyone a shed-load of taxpayer cash.

But John McDonnell’s plan to trial universal basic income if he becomes Chancellor makes sense.

It won’t matter whether you have nothing in the kitty or are a fat cat with billions, you still get the money.

The scheme does away with benefits and gives everyone a monthly income just high enough to cover living costs. A pilot in Finland sets that at £490, or £5,880 a year. UBI was thought up in the 1930s by philosopher Bertrand Russell, pictured.

Lefties love it because it smacks of real socialism while Tories hate it for the same reason.

There’s no expensive means-testing or bureaucracy so it would save money by simplifying the welfare system. It’s taken away in tax as people earn.

The beauty of it is that no one gets left in poverty but work still pays. And we all become the cats who got the cream. Attorney General Geoffrey Cox, pictured, hopes the High Court will alter National Fund rules so he can snaffle its £475million.

This charity was set up with £500,000 by an unnamed benefactor in 1928 on condition nothing was spent until the ENTIRE national debt could be paid off. It now stands at £1.84trillion.

Donations keep coming in, but not always serious ones. Two people who gave a penny were surely taking the pee.