www.number10.gov.uk/Page22353.

Paul

Hi Paul,

Thanks for putting up this link, I hadn't realised the petition had closed yet, we've been so busy here since Youreable closed it's forums.

The response to the petition is much as I expected, as are responses to most
petitions to Downing St.

Tells us nothing new and full of the same old rhetoric.

Jim

Another bureaucratic nightmare and a complete waste of time and money.

What a load of rubbish from this clapped out government!

Its a case of carry on as we are for the under 65's (as I am) unless we decide something else in the future.........kept someone in a job for a few months, now they move on to see what other benefit they can crucify....waste of time and money.

So the over-65's get shafted. Surprise, surprise.

It's going to be so easy to sell this to the voters. The key thing is that the government wants to imply that its wonderful new care system will mean that its middle class voters won't have to sell off their houses to pay for their care. I wonder if those older people that are on AA/DLA are less likely to be able to get to a polling station and of a generation less likely to ask for a postal vote?

I wish I wasn't so cynical about the politics of all this, but I am. Whichever way you look at it, it's about saving money. You can't save money whilst doing away with people paying for part of their care without taking some money off other people.

All of this move to local authority administration is in line with the EU plan for the regions, eventually sweeping away parliament, and placing the Regions under jurisdiction of the Committee of the Regions in Brussels.

I doubt it will be easy to get help past 65, and that help will be reduced I fully expect.
My 100 year old friend near Louth, already struggled to pay for her care, because it kept increasing in cost, as the council and the provider coined it in.

This is because Local Authorities are now Limited Companies listed on Dun and Bradstreet, they are no longer truly government bodies, and can raise revenue themselves. The plan eventually is that they collect local income tax, and central government is irrelevant, thus robbing the people of true accountable democracy.