IT is highly hypocritical of Labour leader Ed Milliband to accuse Southern Cross of treating the elderly as commodities (Echo, June 8), when the Labour-controlled Durham County Council did exactly the same with the closure of the council-run care homes recently.
During the so called consultation into this matter, the council was told time and again that they were leaving elderly people to the mercy of a financially crippled company that had 70 per cent of the care beds in this county.
Yet they still went ahead with the plan on financial grounds.
I hear of contingency plans being in place. If the council-run care homes were still open, they’d be part of the contingency straight away.
As a footnote, is it any wonder people don’t participate in council consultations when the decisions have already been made beforehand?
Billy Bennett, Newton Aycliffe.
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