who provide care are desperate. they cannot keep their staff, they can't pay their staff enough. what the state pays for each person is much too little and i am afraid it doesn't solve any of those. it's a little bit, but probably about the same little bit that's been given every year as a bung to keep it going. and to begin with, the money is going to go to the nhs anyway, rather than to social care, because the government thinks there is catching up to do because of the backlog of cases brought about by covid, where only covid patients were really being seen in hospital. simon, we have got this rather unusual situation where we have got a conservative government in favour of tax increases and a labour opposition who don't want to see them because, as polly alluded to there, they don't regard them as being fair, they're being regressive, so what's the alternative? well, the phrase that is doing the rounds at the moment is, i good politics, bad policy, i in the sense that the politics of it is that by increasing - national insurance, which uk viewers will know hasi