WHAT a spineless group we have in control of Lancashire County Council. Not one of them had the guts to defy the Labour Party and vote as their ward electorate wanted them to on the future of care for the elderly (LET, September 27).

Come the county council's elections, the mantra from Labour candidates is sure to be that they were "only following party orders!" Were not the same pathetic excuses trotted out at Nuremberg?

With the lives of the older end of the public now looking almost certain to end up under the auspices of Social Services, one can only pray that Social Services are able to live up to the responsibilities involved!

HARRY ROBINSON, Juniper Court, Woodside Road, Accrington.