The huge point @IonaPaton chooses to miss is that within the UK we have c.£1,700 per head more to spend on public services* and the Scottish Government has powers to redistribute wealth through income taxes and new benefits - so why aren’t we? https://twitter.com/IonaPaton/status/1036681476581060609 …
About £500m a year now on free personal and nursing care at home for those who can easily afford to make a contribution, thereby overstretching available staff and wasting a fortune. Poor suffer most