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I heard that on R4 this am. "Yes I support it as long as its funded by magic." 🤦‍♀️

So presumably she’s in favour of richer old people having to give up some of their assets instead. Interesting.

Oh, and the idea that you're protecting people who've saved all their lives is utterly laughable. As if the current system does that!

I know why social care isn’t being fixedFinding £17,000 a month towards the care of my parents forced me to reflect on the collective delusions and political cowardice that conspire to prevent us confronting – once and for all – this huge s...www.tortoisemedia.com

Badenoch isn't interested in social care, only in power. She demands a taste of it so she can lay a trap for Labour, only she's stupid enough to reveal it first.

"You know that thing the public have to pay thousands and thousands for? Well we'll help bring that into national scheme. But only if no one pays for it, in any way at all." More incredible Tory economics there.

It appears there is a big pot of abstract spending at the end of rainbow which could easily be reduced to fund anything and everything, and is quite different from actual spending, which helps real people and is painful and difficult to cut.

Surprising, because in today’s The Times, Trevor Phillips says Kemi inspires hope for better times. Which is nice.

Kemi on the ball again, when it comes to losing votes

Any that thinks adult social care can be fixed without raising taxes is mad, stupid or both. We can borrow to build the care homes ideally not through PFI or some new name for it. But we have to raise taxes to staff and run them.

The cake part is the idea that there is a fixed size of cake that needs to be shared around. This is the neoliberal myth. Government creates money anew for all its expenditure. Money is not scarce, resources are.

Tories support business above people. PPS scandal proves it. Tories were against the NHS at the beginning, private doctors losing money. If you didn’t have money for a doctor, tough!

The idea that taxes must always be raised to pay for new expenditure is just as silly as saying it must never be. State spending/GDP is the biggest it's ever been outside war/pandemic. Saying it's big enough and we can do this through reallocation isn't cakeism.

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How many people with short attention spans, will have read beyond the initial Badenoch headline of "working cross-party"? Disappointing how the wilfully lazy media still breathlessly publish their "breaking news" & avoid the harder parts

Not ‘telling’ but ‘asking’. BBC needs to learn the difference. Badenoch is not in a position to tell the Government what to do no matter how much the BBC would like it to be so.

Some still believe in the Laffer curve....rather like the unfettered global free market, it has an existence outside reality.

It’s all they have to offer while they carry on into the future of insignificance.

Ignore her. She doesn’t even understand climate collapse.

Inevitable. By all accounts she has never been into cross party working.

It is easy to raise the money. Expand the economy further by permitting in more immigrants to work. Means test the state pension and raise the state pension age further. I'm sure Kemi would like all these sensible Ideas. None of them raise taxes.

I'm 65 and in reasonable health. I expect to be culled by excessive heat before I get anywhere near my typical life expectancy. Others will be far more vulnerable. Perhaps this possibility is influencing her 'thinking'?

They’re more committed to selfish greed than to care for the population. Same old tories

Maybe move around in the budget. Remove salaries from MPs should cover a little, Royal family could pitch in the rest? 😉

We appear to be running three social care systems, one for children, one for adults, one for older people. The old person one appears to be a care home nursing home protection society. Why exactly haven’t the concepts of person centred and whole system been taken seriously?

Signalling virtue without enacting it has become the totality of politics in our doom-scrolling, desperate world. “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

Typical Tory idea of reform involves destroying it completely thus removing the cost of the service. We need to treat our elderly better and that means spending money that doesn't go to the pockets of private investors

Spot on. Question is, will the Burnham govt be brave enough to call this out? Her ridiculous views on giving up on any net-zero targets are surely ripe for attack given heatwaves/droughts/wildfires. Conscious Labour wants to be seen spinning positive vibes but she can’t be given a free ride.

Ah, but you can pay for this from savings from the benefits budget, surely….

So she is saying she would pay for any new care plans purely by spending cuts elsewhere. Sounds a lot like Austerity II.

Let's not have the economics of funding social care get in the way of a political headline! As usual, much fanfare without any substance. Social care isn't a luxury; at present, those who can, cross subsidise those who cant. The status quo is unsustainable!

What about the people who haven’t been able to save up over the course of their working lives because wages have been too low and rents too high.

At some point we're going to hear that The Left are to blame for old people being more infirm than they used to be.

Exactly what I thought. Kemi thinks taking money from the poor and the young is the way to ensure she doesn't lose the votes from older wealthier voters who are the core tory vote.