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Why the Iraq War was still the right decision?

Many in the UK and across the World now consider the invasion of Iraq to be a catastrophe, with 43% of people in the UK now believing that it was the wrong decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and remove Saddam Hussein from power. The UK’s current leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn has said as much , whilst running in the US Republican Primaries, current President Donald J. Trump had expressed the same sentiments. However I profoundly disagree with both Jeremy Corbyn and Donald Trump and agree with Tony Blair in regards that the Iraq War was the right decision, but with significant mistakes and errors taking place in its implementation. First I would like to acknowledge one of the biggest issues involved in the Iraq War and that is the miscommunication to the public about the reasoning of the Iraq War. Before the invasion of Iraq War the message was communicated to the public that Iraq had significant weapons of mass destruction. The Chilcot Report has now cleared up the claims
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How a negative income tax could both be pro-business and pro-welfare in the UK?

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How a negative income tax could both be pro-business and pro-welfare in the UK? Tax reform and a universal basic income are both topics that have garnered more and more interest in recent times. President Trump’s controversial budget has major changes to the US tax code. Whilst his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton even suggested that she would ran on a platform offering a universal basic income. One proposed policy position which would combine ideas from both these political foes, is the negative income tax. A negative income tax was first proposed by a female British politician Juliet Rhys-Williams, as an alternative to the famed Beveridge Report and as a way to deal with the crippling poverty and social issues the United Kingdom faced after World War 2.  But it was later popularized by the neoliberal economist Milton Friedman. In 1969 President Richard Nixon was close to passing a form of negative income tax , in a continuation of his predecessor -Lyndon B. Johnson’
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