1nvest wrote:stevensfo wrote:
Measures against tax evasion and corruption I will support, though I'd like them to put investigation of some of all those fast-tracked PPE companies at the top of the list, as well as much tougher punishments for bank/company hierarchy when guilty of criminal acts!!
But telling parents what they can and can't pass on to their own kids would be a dangerous move, IMHO. It's about as far from human nature as you can get!
Steve
Already even under the Tories the elderly are expected to sell their home to fund late life care costs, just have to define a elderly individual as having 'dementia' - easily proven via simple tests such as recalling a sequence of numbers/items that even those of sound mind might fail. Those care/nursing costs are already high and likely to advance well ahead of inflation. For those that avoid such costs, heart attacks/whatever end of life where they leave assets Labour will be looking to seize that capital for redistribution purposes and may argue that such policies still sees the persons children benefit from such policies (even though to a far less extent than had they inherited directly themselves).
With a million migrants, who are then rapidly awarded legal stay and the right to bring across dependents, already high congestion would increase, as would state spending. 5 million/year+ more comes at a high cost to the existing system/infrastructure. Such policies have to be funded somehow. Pre election the Labour dictatorship wont broadcast any of that detail as that would be inclined to reduce the might of that dictatorship.
I wasn't commenting on care costs, and that is an entirely different subject. It is rather UK-centric in that in most countries, the children and relatives look after their elders, whereas in the UK, everyone expects someone else to do it. Then for free??
Re. immigrants, well, the UK has had at least 40 years to follow the other European countries and update their social security rules. Try moving to Italy and asking for money and a flat! Haha! Yet the tabloids have blamed a lot of this on the EU, while ignoring the fact that the UK is a soft touch and the rules have nothing to do with the EU.
Even when I was young in the 70s, I vaguely remember papers complaining about rich Arabs coming to London for free treatment on the NHS. It's 2024 and they're still at it.
So easy to change. As someone else pointed out, look at the German/French systems and improvise!
Steve