Is it ‘far right’ to expect decent standards of care?
There have recently (August 2024) been protests and indeed violent disturbances apparently because of issues involving migrants. I’m not going to delve into the issues that the mainstream media, and politicians, have been discussing; Viv and I have personal, recent, experience of the effectiveness of overseas recruits working in close contact with the public in England. I have revised this post in case anything I had initially written could possibly have been misunderstood. That I should feel it necessary to do this at 3.30 on a Saturday morning is a sad reflection on modern society. + + + For years we’ve heard of a ‘social care crisis’: there aren’t enough care workers to fulfil demand; hospitals won’t discharge patients unless care is arranged for them, and the health and care aspect of the welfare state is gradually grinding to a halt. Viv and I have been ‘service users’ (that’s what they call beneficiaries of social care) on and off for the last seven years, all related to Vi