Boosting Britannicare

Even the most optimistic patriots have their off-days, and it appears that Her Majesty's Government is beginning to plan for a disappointing scenario in which Freedom Day and the Delta variant somehow fail to constitute a final solution to the social care problem. Still, having broken their manifesto pledge on foreign aid, the more libertarian elements are now expected to have little difficulty in breaking a few more. Ministers have chums whose companies need a handout; the only question is whether to levy a tax that would affect mainly those with higher incomes, or mainly those whose incomes have already been shredded by Her Majesty's Government's response to the pandemic. It is no doubt a cruel dilemma.