The DT had a particularly annoying headline today - 'Scandal of neglected pensioners' - about the poor standard of council in-their-own-home care for the elderly. What on earth do we expect, given that we don't like paying taxes and that we elect a government on a slashing ticket, a government which has gone on to slash local government expenditure? Halved it or something.
The DT's and, it seems, the politicians' answer to the problem is more and tougher central standards, but what on earth is the point of setting all kinds of fancy standards for such care when there is no money in the system to pay for it? Apart from siphoning off an ever bigger chunk of what little money there is to the people that supervise from a safe distance from the people that do.
Also true that people on fancy pensions who don't like either the council carers or paying taxes are perfectly free to go off to the agency of their choice and to pay them instead - which is presumably what most of them do. Not so hot of course for those not on fancy pensions.
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