Where is the money going to come from to care for the elderly and the disadvantaged?
That's easy: the millenials, and the generations that come after. All the main parties are scared sh!tless of losing the grey vote, which is why they've cut working-age benefits, youth services spending, school funcing etc. etc. Even tax breaks on pension saving is less generous than it used to be. At the same time, they are extremely keen on maintaining the unaffordable triple lock on pensions and other benefits for wealthy OAPs.
What you have at the moment are a generation that retired early, retired healthy and retired (comparatively) wealthy. Unfortunately, the baby boomers are going to be a growing burden on the state for the next 20-30yrs until nature takes its course. By the time my generation gets there, there will be less pension money and less state spending on health. So it should begin to balance out.
How come there is less per head in England than in Wales or Scotland ( where I have noticed everything is free!)? Joking apart from personal family experience care is a problem even in Scotland.
Because since devolution, the provinces have had more money to spend on pretty much everything ;-). Its one of the reasons the whole Indy Ref business is so ill-thought-out - they won't admit it, but they need the english cash cow to keep on providing.
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