Boris promised last year to solve the social care crisis ‘once and for all’. Since then, one or two things have cropped up and, after all, every PM has said they’ll sort it out, none ever has and no-one remembers anyway. This ‘boost’ is a financial sticking plaster, and will have as long-lasting an effect as those baskets of harvest festival fruit we used to take to what we used to, politically incorrectly, call the ‘Old People’s Home’. What with All This (Covid) and All That (Brexit), I suspect, alas, that another election promise may eventually fall by the wayside.
“Tories still to decide on approach to social care crisis that ruined Theresa May’s election campaign, health secretary admits”
The other real problem of our age (after climate change, Brexit shouldn't even be in the mix) is social care, or, how do we look after old people who can't look after themselves. As a high rate tax payer who hopes to be old one day, I reckon there are stark political...
