If I write a headline like this then this will make me find time to explain.
The first, at a time when cash is scarce, is regarding the wasteful spending of £100,000 by the Highways on something that had they been doing their job properlywould not need repairing - it was someone else's job. James Airey hasn't succeeded to talk sense into the Highways department.
The second is a dramatic example of an Ulverston man being kept against his will "in care"whilst they raided his house using his keys without his permission to fetch clothes amongst other things. Fortunately he is capable enough to have 'escaped' back home with some help from Cllr Norman Bishop-Rowe - one of the few councillors that get off their backsides and try to help individuals when they are haveing trouble with officialdom.
Will any of you complain?
If you value the money in your pocket and your personal freedom when you are either old or ill you will be hopping mad, causing you to: write emails, make phone calls, ring the doorbell of your councillor and go thumping on official's people's desk.
But will you?
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What is your source for the story re the Ulverston man kept against his will?
The man himself.
If anyone had taken my mother's words seriously, and she certainly sounded perfectly normal, folk would have believed a carer was trying to poison her, a friend was spying on her and a man on an afternoon 'soap' had stolen her walking stick. FAR worse things than that. She lived in fear and there was no way I could reach inside her mind.
My mother had us to care. I should hope that people do care about those who live alone and get help for them if they appear to be in some sort of danger, or others are in danger from them. You cannot assume the man is completely normal, even if he seems to be.
We can only trust our own judgement.
This is a person I know well and chat to frequently and have known for thirty years now.
Furthermore he is known and much respected by about thirty others with whom he does community work.
Definitely not the kind of person who suffers from paranoia and not in the slightest bit 'senile'.
I'm sad that you have such faith in 'the system'.
In my experience caring can easily cross the boundaries into a "We know what is best for you"attitude of non-consultation of what the patient really wants.
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