How reckless that in such a short time two key “red wall” promises Johnson made in 2019 have become serious electoral liabilities.Īll the attention has been on who should pay for social care, and how much. On the same day, another missile lands on his target voters: the northern rail promises hit the buffers – forget Bradford, forget Leeds. With a new manipulation of the figures that create an £86,000 cap on care costs, the Treasury claws back some of its high cost – but all of it taken from those with less valuable assets. His manifesto promise, repeated time and again, was that people would not lose their homes through the unlucky “bolt from the blue” of needing care in old age. These are the very people Boris Johnson now likes to claim as his own. The change in social care subsidies in England, sneaked out under the shield of their own sleaze scandal, is a finely targeted strike on older, less affluent homeowners living in northern English seats. A nother day, another assault by this government on the very voters who gave it such a stonking majority.
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