ON TUESDAY September 15, I took part in a march through Preston to County Hall with some of the residents and relatives of Whiteacres Home for the Elderly in Burnley to fight its closure.
The elderly men and their relatives were out in the rain for two hours, some of them quite frail, two in wheelchairs, but they insisted on going to the council meeting to try and change the minds of the ruling Labour group.
All in vain, the "caring" council voted to close Whiteacres and the other homes listed.
Isn't it a disgrace to have elderly people marching in the rain, frail and unwell to beg for their homes to be kept open?
What sort of society are we becoming when we treat our elderly citizens in this way?
I have voted Labour all my adult life. I will never vote for a Labour county councillor again.
SUSAN BRIMBLECOMBE, Rossetti Avenue, Burnley.
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