Make the super-rich pay for social care, not the poor worker

THE Government needs £10billion a year to pay for social care for Britain’s elderly. Where will it find this money?

- Gary Stevenson

According to the Times Rich List, in the last 12 months of acute economic emergency, Sir Leonard Blavatnik, Britain’s richest man, saw his wealth actually INCREASE, by £7.2billion. David and Simon Reuben, property moguls and Britain’s second richest family, have seen their wealth rise by £5.5billion. Lakshmi Mittal, Britain’s fifth wealthiest individual, has seen his fortune swell by £7.9billion. That’s a total wealth increase of £20.6billion, coming from only three families, during the pandemic. Take the top 250, and it’s £106billion.

So, in this most difficult of times, when millions of mothers and fathers have lost their jobs and their incomes, when over 100,000 Britons have lost family members, when millions are struggling to cover their rent, to put food on the table for their children, where is Boris Johnson looking to find this £10billion, to take care of our elderly? Surely he will approach these billionaire individuals. These three families who can pay for this social need care twice over with just the increase in their wealth during the pandemic, and still have enough left over to buy Jack Grealish and Harry Kane, three times.