business editor simonjack. welcome to you all. so to begin with, borisjohnson s government has announced the largest tax increases in the uk for decades to try to fix the nhs and the social care sector. some say that the £36 billion it will raise over three years won t solve the crisis. 0ther critics say that the tax rises are unfairly distributed. let s begin this conversation with polly. to what extent, polly, do you believe that what the government is proposing will solve the problem with social care, which we have been discussing in this country for years? yes, government after government has failed to grasp it. at least this government has come up with something, but the something isn t nearly enough and it doesn t begin to be a plan. most of the money it is using will go to compensating richer families who are paying at the moment so that they pay a bit less.
really? and then, there s kevin mccarthy, who is so determined to downplay what happened on january 6th, he calls it an altercation. we ve watched the sergeant of arms have to pass a note to the speaker during the altercations on january 6th, whether to call the national guard. pathetic. i m just going to say it. pathetic. do you believe that? it s not even the body language it s so fake. it s so fake. acting. an altercation is defined as a noisy, heated dispute, that doesn t begin to describe the violence, the bloodshed, when rioters ran wild in the seat of our democracy, trying to overturn joe biden s victory. does that look like an altercation to you? that s an altercation? okay. and just listen to this
it s so fake. acting. an altercation is defined as a noisy, heated dispute, which doesn t begin to describe the violence, the bloodshed, when rioters ran wild in the seat of our democracy. trying to overturn joe biden s election victory. does that look like an altercation to you? that s an altercation? okay. and just listen to this mish-mosh, as kevin mccarthy tries really hard not to say what happened on that phone call with the then-president, that day. when i called the president, i was telling about what was happening in the capitol because none of you would know unless you were in the capitol. low and behold, the information we have today, i didn t know, at that moment in time, that pelosi had been passed a note, can you call the national guard? i don t know, at that time, december 14th, they knew.
system. we make this up in any sort of way with federal holidays, then i m all for that. let s make election day a holiday. there are plenty of other things i think we should recognize while we re at it. yeah, exactly. i don t want to be a complete pessimist. because it is juneteenth and there s such a breadth of many conversations we could have. i want to ask you something. my understanding of who i am as a black woman doesn t begin in this country, doesn t begin at enslavement it begins beyond that. the ancestors. who we were before white america declared us to be enslaved. i m curious for you. are the dreams and hopes of the ancestors, if somebody prayed for us to be here, then just a message to the fellow descendents of the enslaved, what should we be sewing into our communities? what should we be sewing into our pedigree so 100, 200 years from now our descendents will say they are our hopes and our dreams? you know, i think that it
not a small amount of money. but as we have just heard, not a small amount of money. but as we havejust heard, labour, teaching unions, education policy experts, say that it is just not enough, doesn t begin to cover the scale of the problem and the interventions that are now needed. i think there has been a discussion in the last few days between government departments, specifically the department for education and the treasury, about increasing that significantly. a figure of £10 billion has been talked about behind the scenes. in the end in terms of this announcement, the treasury balked at that and thought they could not commit with spending restrictions are tight at the moment because of the pandemic, to that sort of commitment at this stage, i have a full review of government spending that is due in the autumn, and that is the time that you would expect money of this sort of scale to be signed off. the wrangle between the department for education and the treasury is going to con