Why do we want an election? To have a big Conservative majority so we can go to those nasty EU officials and tell them what we want, so we can get a really good deal. Well that’s the official version anyway, the unofficial version is this is all about Theresa May and satisfying her ego. For in Theresa’s mind she comes first, the Tory party second and every other poor soul somewhere after that.
Today she has been insisting that “nothing has changed” and that the social care cap is not a departure from the manifesto. Problem with that is that on Thursday Jeremy Hunt explicitly said on the Today programme that the cap was being dropped:
“If you have that cap that was his proposal [Andrew Dilnot]… and we couldn’t be being clearer because . . . not only are we dropping it, but we’re dropping it ahead of a General Election and we’re being completely explicit in our manifesto that we’re dropping it, and we’re dropping it because we’ve looked again at this proposal and we don’t think it’s fair.”
Now if the Health Secretary says we’re dropping it but Joint Chief of Staff Nick Timothy, an un-elected SpAd, says it goes in you have to question who is actually deciding policy. Especially when the Bow Group says:
“These proposals will mean that the majority of property owning citizens could be transferring the bulk of their assets to the government upon death for care they have already paid a lifetime of taxes to receive. It is likely to represent the biggest stealth tax in history”
If you take a multi-decade look at our society, since perhaps 1945, you see that every decade there is a drag of some group or other into a “protected” (from paying) status; the poorest, the youngest, the oldest… and that has been good, it’s a mark of the society that we would wish to live in.
But after seven decades, where are we? The scope of our welfare and supporting state is vast; housing benefits, open-ended dole without any kind of timescale, lifestyle medical operations, translation services into over two hundred languages within our Justice system, the list goes on and on. This in conjunction with an ever diminishing set of unprotected taxpayers. Both Tories and Labour are as bad as each other, basically offering to buy votes at each GE by offering to protect more of their tribes, at the expense of someone else. It all seems on a trajectory to unaffordability. Add in increasing longevity and I think we risk fundamental collapse.
The point is though that that care has to come out of someone’s earnings, someone along the line has to pay.We voters are indeed selfish. Who wouldn’t want the government to step in and offer to pay for something that we gain, or something that previously we paid for or did without? Politicians know this, they just slice and dice us all into little groups of selfishness, then offer to get everyone that is not us to pay for everything we want for free. And we vote for them like sheep.