Do you want social care to suffer so defence spending can rise?
Do you want social care to suffer so defence spending can rise? Or would you rather the money came from Taylor Swift’s swear box?
This Site suggested earlier today that the melodious Ms Swift could fund the planned 0.5 per cent increase in defence spending as a percentage of total government expenditure – with swear box takings from her increasingly obscenity-ridden songs.
In fact, it seems the plan is to take the money from social care budgets. Here’s the i:
Councils may be forced to make cuts to social care budgets due to Rishi Sunak’s pledge to increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP, senior councillors have warned.
Representatives of local authorities in many “Red Wall” areas say the extra money for the Armed Forces risks municipal funds that are already under pressure being “pared to the bone”, and that services for elderly and vulnerable children will be hit hardest.
The Government claims that the funding will come from diverting research and development cash and cutting the Civil Service headcount by 72,000.
But on Wednesday the Prime Minister refused to rule out cutting spending in non-protected Whitehall departments to meet the pledge.
Councillor Graham Chapman, vice-chairman of SIGOMA, the group of councils which represents urban areas in northern England, the Midlands and south coast, said the axe was likely to fall on adult and children’s social care, which for some authorities makes up 70 per cent of budgets.
Wait a minute! Didn’t the Tories promise to revolutionise social care, with massive improvements?
Yes they did. Boris Johnson won his 2019 general election, partly on a claim that he had a “clear plan” for social care.
This was proven to be a lie in 2021, when he announced an increase in National Insurance – not to fund a new system that might actually work, but to shore up the existing, predominantly privatised and poorly-functioning, system instead.
And now the Tories have slashed NI and are planning to slash it again.
So instead of implementing a “clear plan” for social care, after nearly five years, the Tories who were elected by a landslide instead of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour – which did have a clear plan for social care – are making it worse.
Does anybody know Ms Swift personally? Do you think we can persuade her to release the contents of her swear box?
Source: Social care services at risk from increase to defence spending
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