It's taken a pandemic to make these buggers spend some money after 10 years of austerity, misery for many and a significant number of countless deaths.
Whilst the spending is surely welcome, from the Tories it is like beating the crap out of someone and then saying: 'I tell you what, I'll now pay for your medical fees.'
Still no clarity about social care. Just a promise from the last Queen's Speech to spend enough to maintain it AS IT IS. Johnson's off the top of his head promise that 'no-one will need to sell their house to pay for social care' (which a journalist got him to repeat) seems to have been forgotten.
Pathetic bunch of shysters. But hey, all those up north who voted for them-enjoy your old age in dignity!
Main problem I knew the Tories would not fix: HOUSING.
12.2 Billion over the Parliament for 'mixed tenure' housing is not good enough and still means we will have plenty of landlordism (most of the Tory Party) and not enough socila housing.
'Affordable Housing' is an euphemism and the 12.2 Billion will be another bung to developers who will limit the number of fully social homes. We needed about a million fully social homes in the life of the Parliament. The price inflation that low interest rates + speculative buying will cause will cause more house price inflation and more wealth transference -but hey, why take away the bankers' golden goose which has been laying now for forty years.
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Oops ... a significant number of avoidable deaths.
It's taken a pandemic to make these buggers spend some money after 10 years of austerity, misery for many and a significant number of countless deaths.
Corona, Corona, where you been so long. ;-)
And I thought Labour was the profligate party. ;-)
Whilst the spending is surely welcome, from the Tories it is like beating the crap out of someone and then saying: 'I tell you what, I'll now pay for your medical fees.'
Still no clarity about social care. Just a promise from the last Queen's Speech to spend enough to maintain it AS IT IS. Johnson's off the top of his head promise that 'no-one will need to sell their house to pay for social care' (which a journalist got him to repeat) seems to have been forgotten.
Pathetic bunch of shysters. But hey, all those up north who voted for them-enjoy your old age in dignity!
Main problem I knew the Tories would not fix: HOUSING.
12.2 Billion over the Parliament for 'mixed tenure' housing is not good enough and still means we will have plenty of landlordism (most of the Tory Party) and not enough socila housing.
'Affordable Housing' is an euphemism and the 12.2 Billion will be another bung to developers who will limit the number of fully social homes. We needed about a million fully social homes in the life of the Parliament. The price inflation that low interest rates + speculative buying will cause will cause more house price inflation and more wealth transference -but hey, why take away the bankers' golden goose which has been laying now for forty years.
Pathetic.
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