Past Caring; Present Injustice

The coronavirus has focussed on care homes and their disjuncture with the NHS. But what is neglected in these media reports is that people have to sell their homes in order to pay for going into a care home. Which means their children are losing their expected inheritance which these parents have worked long and hard for. By contrast, the immigration industry (legal aid lawyers, Advisors, NGOs, Tribunals) is largely funded by the British taxpayer. The Government can find money to enable foreigners to occupy these islands, but it can't make care homes as free for elderly patients just as the NHS is free for all and sundry. (In fairness, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he intends to end this discrepancy.)