I agree with your grievances re Soulsby but fundamentally this issue is caused by the epoch like rise in the need to fund social care and the lack of financial resources from central government to do so. This council has overall been reasonably financially responsible hence the large amount in reserves but that money will all be gone because of social care bill, ultimately underlining a problem that will engulf generations to come. I like Keir Starmer if not for anything more than I find him honest but Labour’s new manifesto does not do enough to cover this social care funding issue. I don’t want to engage in ideology/political talk, all I want this post to highlight is that social care will be the domestic issue of our time unless at least one mainstream political party engages properly with it.
