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That’s as may be, but not in our surgery. They have plenty of non medical staff and plenty of doctors.

There are quite a few GPs in our surgery, the trouble is they are almost all working part-time ( some very part -time)

Relatively few parents come into that kind of bracket.

Hmm, ‘some quarters.’ Nutters maybe, but not the vast majority of right minded people in this country of all political persuasions ( the nutters excepted). How can parents really wish that kind of society on their offspring?

It is indeed and I I am sure it is a situation that concerns the powers that be. If it doesn’t, it should do!

I am well aware of the problems facing the younger generation, especially housing costs. We have 3 children aged, 35, 32 and 30. None of them own their own property and are renting in the private sector. Nevertheless, they all work pretty hard and have done since being teenagers when they worked...

Exactly, so if this cohort that are unwilling to face 35/40 hours a week want a decent future and ‘prospects’, then they will have to develop some resilience and face reality. The alternative would not be pleasant.

Out of interest, how would it be decided who would be best able to pay more?

Good heavens, if people can’t face working a 35/40 hour week when they are fit and young, then I despair for their future prospects! I would even go so far as to say their mental health will suffer even more from being almost permanently skint! Resilience doesn’t seem to exist anymore amongst...