Brits need a General Election now
Tax cuts for the lowest paid and the return of maintenance grants for working class students are two Keir Starmer promises that would be good for Britain and help Labour win a General Election.
The Labour leader is understandably cautious about what he unveils and when after distancing himself from the party’s Corbyn-era platform, yet he knows that people require vivid, attractive reasons to vote for his party.
By bashing an incompetent Conservative Party and out of touch Rishi Sunak, Mr Starmer is telling the easiest truths as millions of people are worse off under the Tories, the NHS is on its knees and our criminal justice system, like so many other public services, is broken.
Britain deserves a General Election now. But Sunak runs scared from calling it, and the unelected PM is expected to barricade himself inside No10 until autumn next year in the hope something turns up to save him. It won’t.
Grim betrayal
Few of the Tories’ broken promises are as cruel as the Government’s betrayal of dementia sufferers and their families.
It is unforgiveable that after 13 years in power there is still no comprehensive social care in parts of the country.
It is an abandonment of victims of a terrible illness that inflicts almost unbearable misery.
The condemnation of the Conservatives by Alzheimer’s Disease International, which represents groups in more than 100 nations, leaves the Tories with no escape or excuses when the world recognises they have failed.
With Alzheimer’s Society research forecasting UK dementia cases will rise from 900,000 to 1.6 million by 2040, we cannot afford the Tories doing nothing – not least because social care costs are set to triple to £45.4billion.
We need action, not Tory neglect.
Uplifting story
Rugby League icon Kevin Sinfield carrying Rob Burrow over a marathon finishing line was a celebration of true friendship. It should encourage us all to be a little better.
