Care homes began to be privatised at the end of Maggie’s ‘80s. I remember all sorts of grants were being handed out and we had enquires from (literally) all sorts looking to convert anything they could buy into a barracks for the elderly. The whole business (as it was by then) soon became murkier. Some clients spent years trying to trace the absent owner of their rapidly deteriorating ‘retirement village’, which turned out to be an offshore company whose UK subsidiary had gone bust. So Panorama is right to say ‘follow the money’ if you want to know why the whole thing is such a mess. Many a vested interest is, I’d say, likely to materialise with more murk still to emerge.
“Sunak and Hunt accused of ‘damaging UK plc’ over NatWest boss’s exit”
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?
