The British tabloid newspaper The Sun is attacking Boris Johnson unusually harshly: The massive increase in social security contributions announced by the British Prime Minister will “make us all poorer” – and yet not bring the hoped-for success: The conditions in the British health care system would remain as devastating as they are now, The rescue of the National Health Service (NHS) announced by Johnson will not change this either.
All dams are broken with Corona: The health system has collapsed, waiting times of hours or days and tough two-class care for patients are part of everyday life. However, it is precisely these conditions that will persist. Because the real reason for the historical burden on ordinary British men and women: The state pension is at the end. Britain is facing demographic collapse. The financial holes are so big that the state has to dig even more into the pockets of the citizens. Such an intervention policy has hitherto been anathema to the British and to the Oxford-trained super-liberal Johnson.
What makes the British particularly angry these days with Johnson is that the extra £ 36 billion is being deducted from wages like a tax. There is no earmarking – the government can do what it wants with the money. The British super-rich, on the other hand, who manage and grow their wealth outside of the normal world of work, are not being touched.
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung describes the dilemma: “Employees now have to give a few hundred pounds more of an average wage to the state every year so that millionaires in need of care can bequeath their own home to their children.” Johnson, the star of Brexit, is standing in front of the rubble his political career. It is conceivable that the kingdom after “BoJo”, seen from a social point of view, will only be a ruin.