Brown vows to make care 'fairer'; will there be 'winners' and 'losers' ?

Question

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7395357.stm

Ok, so something may be changed - does anyone belive that 'fairer' means having winners and losers - or will it be the (so called) rich will pay more and everyone else pays the same?

Answer 1

Do you really think he will - sounds to me that he's just a great big windbag who says a lot but does nothing.

Answer 2

fairer would mean stopping the absurd and grossly unfair system where english taxpayers subsidise free care for the elderly in scotland, and have to pay for their own care in wales and england

Answer 3

since when did fair have anything to do with politics, especially in this government. There are always losers and its usually the people who can not afford to do so,

Answer 4

Sorry to sound bad to all you labour voters and Gordan Brown lovers but they say a leopard never changes its spots and i just wonder what this excuse of a man does behind closed doors if he does this for the camera..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6VaP1HB7Vew

Answer 5

Caretaker PM Gordon Brown will do nothing. The noises you are hearing are the last gurglings of a man going down the drain of history along with New Labour.

Answer 6

there will be winners and losers, men in suits will win and little men with the a--e out of their trousers will lose, same old story. life's a b--ch hey ho.

Answer 7

Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't .

( so called ) rich ? oh don't even start me . Would that be  inheritance tax worries ? the one that still only effects 10 % of house sales ?

Answer 8

Whatever happens, the poor will always lose out in the end.

Trouble is, the country is now ruled by rich people - some quite obscenely rich - and things will not be allowed to change much, you can bet !

Answer 9

I am sole carer for my severely disabled husband and get NOTHING AT ALL. I get no help from anyone and although we are now both over pension age I am forced to work as trying to exist on benefits is completely out of the question. The fairest way would be to give us carers a living wage, so that benefits would not be necessary and more people could stay in their own homes. This will never happen as  governments of all political persuasions prefer to pay more money to social workers who in our case had to be reminded of my husbands existance, despite being disabled for 25years, and this was because he needed a new "homecare" bed and a social worker had to agree it!.

Answer 10

I have no problem with a tax to help csre for elderly.  However in line with all other government tax and spend the money will be wasted on management, diverted to other areas, squandered on idiot policy decisions that are reversed a week later.

Also who is actually paying for this now.  

The old people who need it now are living of those working today. Those who can least afford extra tax.