{"id":55455,"date":"2017-05-20T01:06:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/pay-for-social-care-our-reaction-shows-britain-is-a-nation-of-minor-aristocrats-deborah-orr\/"},"modified":"2017-05-20T01:10:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:10:33","slug":"pay-for-social-care-our-reaction-shows-britain-is-a-nation-of-minor-aristocrats-deborah-orr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/pay-for-social-care-our-reaction-shows-britain-is-a-nation-of-minor-aristocrats-deborah-orr\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay for social care? Our reaction shows Britain is a nation of minor aristocrats | Deborah Orr"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe Tories\u2019 manifesto plan repulses us because we\u2019re so focused on protecting the family estate for the next generationOne of the many enduring miseries of the past 20 years is the particular character of the social care crisis. The most recent Conservative foray into the funding of elderly care is in its general election manifesto, proposing that the number of people who pay for care at home will have to increase, to include anyone with assets worth more than \u00a3100,000: so, essentially, a lot of people who own their own homes. Related: Tory manifesto: more elderly people will have to pay for own social care Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
\nRead more…Pay for social care? Our reaction shows Britain is a nation of minor aristocrats | Deborah Orr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tories\u2019 manifesto plan repulses us because we\u2019re so focused on protecting the family estate...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-eqr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51288,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/its-no-longer-just-london-now-britain-is-encircled-by-the-property-sharks-deborah-orr\/","url_meta":{"origin":55455,"position":0},"title":"It\u2019s no longer just London: now Britain is encircled by the property sharks | Deborah Orr","date":"April 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Once the capital was the prime target for foreign speculators, now it\u2019s all our major cities. 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