What's To Become Of Me...

[sandyRoe]

...if I sink so deep into decrepitude I'm no longer able to look after myself?

With restrictions on foreigners coming here to take low-paid care jobs, where can I and others of my generation, turn?

[barry1010]

Apparently our old folks are migrating to care homes in Thailand

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/thailand-new-benidorm-retiring-and-elderly-british-expats/

[barry1010]

It would suit the government very well if we old codgers all shipped out to Thailand. Our pensions would be frozen and no pension credit 

[-SharonA-]

And it's hot there! 😁

[Ellipsis]

Or India - here's a preview:

[Old_Geezer]

You turn to your local council, unless you have sufficient wealth not to need them. Surely government has plans to employ capable native working age citizens to fill all needed roles.

 

Obviously no one would want to abuse foreign nation citizens by allowing them here and  underpaying them (while keeping our citizens out of a job and on welfare) and while depriving their own nation of their skills.

[Hymie]

Being a care-worker is not exactly something to aspire to as a career – with statuary minimum pay a likely reward.

 

While people-watching at my local Wetherspoons, I’ve noticed a number of elderly patrons accompanied by a very much younger care-worker (with virtually no interaction between the two).

 

Sandy – maybe you could find a slightly younger friend, who’d be willing to accompany you to your local Wetherspoons – taking advantage of your bus pass.

[Untitled]

unfortunately you are expected to suffer for the sake of people who don't like immigration... as apparently is everyone else.

the proportion of working age brits is shrinking and the proportion of retirement age brits is increasing. that problem simply cannot at root be solved without either increasing the birthrate in the long term or importing more people in the short term. otherwise the costs of the retired population will grow and be shouldered by fewer and fewer working age adults.

and no there are not enough unemployed people to solve it either. 

[Khandro]

Untitled: // ...there are not enough unemployed people to solve it either.// 

 More of your usual crapcodswallop:

There were 1.77 million claimants in March 2025, which was 19,000 more than the month before and 196,000 more than in March 2024.

Why pay all these residents, many on spurious grounds, to do nothing, and import foreigners and pay them to work?

 

[barry1010]

Khandro, would you want a resentful, workshy person with no empathy, understanding or interest looking after you? 

[douglas9401]

If we live long enough we'll each have a fully qualified doctor  as more and more deserving experts wash up on our shores and are spread around the country to populate previously uninhabited hotels. They may kill two birds with one stone and move patients and doctor into a suite to enable 24 hour care.

Some may scoff but then who would have believed just a few short years ago that we, as a country, would commit suicide before the altar of wokery and craven cowardice brought about by those we elected to keep us safe and secure?

[Hymie]

Of course in reality this is just another Brexit benefit, with employers unable to find staff to fill jobs.

 

There is a big advantage to the country in being able to fill such relatively low skilled jobs at a low rate of pay – imagine if care-workers were paid a minimum of £50k/annum, what would that do to health budgets.

 

But this is the nonsense (to pay a much higher rate for the job) spouted by certain politicians, without considering the consequences.

[jno]

yup, Brits want everything cheap but want high pay for making or doing whatever it is. The only way that circle can be squared if you can find a labour force who will work for less.  Such people exist, but we don't want them in the country.

This cannot end well.

[fender62]

where are all these foreign care workers going to live, seen rental prices lately, there wages would not cover the rent let alone other living costs, we have unemployed living with parents who could and should be in work or training, we don't need imports just a kick up the backside into work.

[davebro3]

//What's To Become Of Me...//

Don't worry - the assisted dying bill will soon become law! 😀

 

[drmorgans]

 

So the strategy is to make life not worth living, then provide the means to end it all. No doubt restrictions on assisted dying will be reduced over time.

 

[Untitled]

and all of those 1.7 million are qualified and trained to work in care homes are they khandro? it's you spouting cadswallop not me. 

[Untitled]

"where are all these foreign care workers going to live"

many of them live in HMOs owned by scummy (and usually British) landlords who make an absolute packet off them. 

[davebro3]

but still they come...   (H G Wells)

[barry1010]

This issue of too many pensioners and too few workers was the subject of much debate 30/40 years ago.

The boffins had no suggestions then and they have none now

[Khandro]

barry //Khandro, would you want a resentful, workshy person with no empathy, understanding or interest looking after you? //

No, why does it have to be so ? I would prefer a person who is already in the country & scraping along on benefits, to get a decent wage to care, paid for with the savings made by not having to pay thousands of foreigners who are not only paid, but need the resources of healthcare and the use of the country's limited housing stock.