Is the treatment of our elderly a total scandal?

You bet its a scandal, but just wait a few weeks until the Crewe bi-elections die down, the next bombshell is set to announced. Wonderful Brown is now giving councils the right to sell your house if you need to go into a care home, but not in Scotland, no its different there, they pay for it or should I say, WE PAY FOR IT. You will no be able to pass on a property to family members if you have to go into care, though a surviving spouse may remain in the property until they die, then the council will snatch it.
Now what does that say. To me it says that they want you go out in this climate and buy a house, pay through the nose for the rest of your life and when you get older and need to cared for, they will simply snatch your property and all the equity, but not in Scotland. Brown and most of his cronies are Scottish aren't they, funny that.
This case in discussion regarding the devoted couple, now where in all of this PC crap and all the do-gooders that rule this country, where does basic human rights come into play, where are all the lawyers now. Are we all going to continue to sit on our backsides and take this rubbish or are we going to get out in the streets and do something. Government, and that includes local government, need to understand that they have a duty to the very people that elected them, not to do everything possible to walk all over us, tell me where this 'Democracy' nonesense comes into it. Truth is, its a word that they simply have no idea of its meaning and I am sick and tired of hearing 'we will learn from this'. Democray and Respect, two words that should be stricken from the english language because absolutely nobody understands the meaning of them.

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