Its all about ‘care’. I care, you care, I need a carer, we’ll ALLL need lots’a care when we get ‘old’. Its what its all about. Andy Burnham’s dad was in a care home, my dad was in care home, Mel’s dad is in a care home waiting for… errrr… for whatever 100 year-olds wait for; when they can remember what it is.

But its the Prime Minister’s ‘big thing’. Social Care. Put the whole fucking country into ‘homes’ and care for them. Solves the housing crisis in one swoop, pre-empts things like dementia, disability, incontinence, old age and needing care at all. Just get in there and do as you’re fucking told!

We have an ‘aging population’, wow. Show me a place where the population is getting younger then. Oh, you mean there’s more old people and less young’uns to replace them. And to pay the tax burden needed to keep all these old people like cosseted pets.

And, of course, being Andy Burnham, ‘these will be FREE TO ALL!!!!!’

Firstly, can you just imagine the quality of such care homes? Run on the ‘NHS model’ of ‘awful, chaotic, unmanageable, ridiculously expensive yet still ‘shit at the point of service’, if you can get service, cram-em-in, fill the corridors, leave ’em in a pool of their own piss and serve them swill when absolutely necessary.

And secondly; how will it be paid for? If its a government ‘initiative’; a free, give-away social care deal, it will be loaded with free-loaders. Middle management on 6-figure salaries engaged in ‘admin’, on zoom calls from the golf course. There’ll be loads of meetings. Loads.

The cost? Measured in the hundreds of billions, per year. Ok, the NHS currently costs around 200 billion a year. And Saint Burnham wants to add social care into the mix.

Ask old people. I’m sure they’d rather pay something and have better quality than the ‘free for all’ could ever provide. Or chuck in their house, their savings, something. Anything.

We all want the ‘best services’ for our population. But it has to be paid for. We’re almost at war with both Iran and Russia, yet have no weapons. Only a few bullets left. But heh; ‘we’re in NATO’, so we’re safe. Phew.

If your last line of defence is help from the French, or Italians, you’re fucked.

Think harder, Andy

Happy Monday

A xxxx