Paul Burstow, the UK health minister, urged the public to accept "the nasty truth" that all but the poorest will have to pay for their own care. The issue involves who is to pay for residential care for the elderly / disabled. Burstow warned that care for the elderly would "never" be free, describing the idea of a fully state-funded system as "a fantasy". "It is not free. It never has been and it never, ever will be free," he said. "That the boat has sailed on a wholly tax-funded social care system." Under the expected plan to cap the costs, individuals could take out new insurance schemes to protect themselves, or be given incentives to save through their pensions, or downsize to a smaller home to fund their share of the bill.
As dear Rudyard Kipling once wrote,
"And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all."
(KUNA) -- An investigation has been launched into how leading Paleostinian activist Sheikh Raed Salah managed to get into the UK despite being banned, British Home Secretary Theresa May said Wednesday.
Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was jugged late last night in London by police, the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) said.
In a brief statement, May said officials from the UK Border Agency were now taking steps to remove Salah from the country.
Mrs May said "We do not normally comment on individual cases but in this case I think it is important to do so.
"I can confirm he was excluded and that he managed to enter the UK.
He has now been jugged and the UK Border Agency is now making arrangements to remove him.
"A full investigation is now taking place into how he was able to enter."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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