It's been a terrible season for respiratory infections (RSV, Covid, Flu) and gastro bugs, the most vulnerable can't afford to eat, let alone turn on the heating, and social care availability has been in decline for a decade, worsening significantly in the past year, nuking front-door availability at hospitals, doctors and the transport they rely on.

All of which I mean to say: No. Shit. Sherlock.

It's all so painfully obvious to anyone paying attention. The doctors and nurses and care homes and mental health workers have all been screaming about this for a decade. Cuts upon cuts upon redirected funding upon private providers upon universal credit cutting benefits upon cuts and failures and all that before covid, all before inflation lowering everyone's incomes.

We need to hire. We need to train. We need to retain. We need to build. We need to instill the fact that care home workers, pastoral carers for our elderly are such bloody important roles because without them helping people live outside hospital, nobody else gets seen. We need to pay them, we need to pay them to pick up shit and talked to dementia sufferers more than Jeff Bezos can pay them to pack boxes.

If we can't do that… It's over. But we need to have a serious conversation about what we actually want to do with the infirm in this country. Letting them freeze to death in their own homes feels like state-mandated euthanasia without the "eu". Huh, a wild Brexit joke appeared.

We need a General Election.