Andy Burnham has now added his name to the long list of PMs promising to solve the social care crisis, with a National Care Service, "free at the point of use". He announced it during his speech at the Labour Party conference on Tuesday, re-hashing his own National Care Service proposal from 2009, when he was Health Secretary under Gordon Brown.

    Inevitably, social care has seriously deteriorated over the decades during which it become a money-making business - taken away from Local Authorities and put in the hands of private sharks.

    It's a lucrative "market" for big and small business - worth £30bn a year: a place in a care home costs an average £5,000 a month! Who can afford that?

    But whether Burnham is actually proposing to cut out the thousands of small and large companies that are profiteering from elderly care, he didn't say. Instead, he left it to the ongoing "Casey Review" (expected to be published next summer!), to come up with a proposal for how to organise the new service.

    Needless to say, this latest review will likely have as much impact as Blair's "Royal Commission on Long Term Care", Cameron's "Dilnot Report", or Boris Johnson's promise to "fix the crisis in social care once and for all" (remember that?)! And as everyone agrees, picking the pension "triple lock" to make it a double lock instead, won't pay for it. It will simply add many more pensioners to the 2m elderly who already live in poverty, despite the triple lock!

    On the other hand, it's estimated that the government hands over £200bn to private companies (including social care companies!) in subsidies, grants, tax relief, etc... So why not cut that? Or tax the rich? Well, because they "promised" not to.

    Indeed, if Starmer and Reeves hadn't promised not to raise taxes, they wouldn't have been elected. Capitalists first, is the pledge all governments honour and will continue to honour in this class society - until their system is pulled down around their ears. "All together now" (to quote Andy)... for revolution!