“Research by the House of Commons library shows town halls will need to raise billions to keep up with the cost of social care.
Labour has warned of a council tax “bombshell” after documents showed bills are to rise by 25% by the end of the decade.
Research by the House of Commons library revealed ministers expect town halls to scoop almost £6billion extra a year in council tax by 2020.
If shared equally across each home, it would mean the average band D household paying an extra £371 a year by then.
Shadow Local Government Minister Jim McMahon said: “What we have on our hands is a council tax bombshell.”
The extra cash represents a 25% rise on the £22billion raked in by councils in England in 2015. It is the cumulative effect of annual 2% council tax hikes allowed over the five-year period, plus two further 3% increases unveiled by Theresa May last year to help cover the cost of social care.” …
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/council-tax-bombshell-see-rates-9819044
East Devon Watch 
So what will happen in those areas with huge social care needs and a relatively poor population who won’t be able to afford these massive council tax rises?
There will simply not be money to provide social care and hundreds of thousands of people will suffer and many of them will die of neglect.
Whilst affluent areas with low social care needs (who often already have council tax bills a fraction of those in Devon) will not have council tax rises at all.
This policy will make the ultra rich even richer (again), but the middle classes will need to reach heavily in their pockets (again) – doubly so as they will need to find public social care through council tax and fund their own social care – and result in massive cuts to services to the less well off who can’t afford to pay themselves (again). The JAMs will become poor, the middle classes JAMs.
This is massively divisive and dividing and amounts to social engineering of the worst kind. It will return us to the victorian age of slums and disease and deprivation.
Simply put, in a civilised society there are some services that need to be funded centrally and provided to the same standard across the UK, and basic social care is one of them.
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