A government prevaricating avoiding difficult decisions on issues which might affect our future for generations to come? Surely not? This time, I’m not talking about climate change, although well done Extinction Rebellion for putting it back in the headlines. No, this is the elephant in the room avoided since Blair’s Royal Commission reported and was ignored some 20 years ago: how we look after our parents, and shortly us, when we can’t. Unfortunately, those most affected can’t get out on the streets and glue themselves to Theresa May’s car. But somebody should.
“A ‘no-deal’ Brexit will be devastating”
I quoted Overheard Bloke in the Gym Changing Room not long after the referendum: ‘We should say ‘You’ve had your last cheque, Merkel’, close the borders, job done!’ If we’d followed his sage advice rather than fannying around for four years, we’d have been through the...
