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Clearance of Dor’s flat shows old people
are a soft touch
• I wonder if your readers have made the curious link between your cover story last week on Dorothy Robinson of Gospel Oak (Who sold Granny’s antiques?) and the emerging policies of the Lib Dem Tory pact.
It is becoming clearer by the day that they are proposing ‘looting’ the services to our elderly and vulnerable in their attempt to keep the council tax down.
We already have an increase of 21 per cent in community meals, hikes in the charges for domiciliary care and the proposed selling off of care homes; not to mention cuts in services to law centres.
However, you ain’t seen nothing yet. This is only the start of a much severer attack on these services and the voluntary sector in particular as the pact strives to keep the council tax down in the coming years.
Those who care about our elderly and vulnerable must protest actively and vigorously to protect these services now. The elderly and vulnerable are the easy and soft targets for cuts. On the horizon there are cuts to special education needs budgets and the youth service. If we do not things will get much worse – our motto should be protest and survive.
Mick Farrant
Oak Village, NW5
• Ah, now that explains it. Reading your previous reports about the clearing of Mrs Dorothy Robinson’s flat, I was a little puzzled that the council’s “exhaustive” investigations (their own term) had failed to unearth a legitimate heir, when Mrs Robinson’s neighbour had managed to locate a grandson without too much trouble.
Even odder, that the “exhaustive” investigation evidently didn’t extend to talking to the neighbours.
Last week’s report makes it all clear. Since certain persons are evidently making a nice little earner out of flogging off any worthwhile stuff that falls into their hands, small wonder if “cursory” comes closer to an accurate description of their inquiries.
Not for the first time, I feel profoundly grateful that the CNJ is around to brush aside the standard official bullshit and ask the kind of questions that the Town Hall would much rather weren’t asked.
Philip Kemp
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