IN your report (LET, September 20) about the planning committee's decision on an application for a centre for asylum seekers in Blackburn, Councillor Andy Kay said that some of the attitudes and the way people had no faith in what was being done was little short of bigotry.
When you look at what has been going on in Lancashire for quite a long time, I think the majority of people draw their own conclusions -- and these are that the bulk of asylum seekers are in this country illegally and that they are being treated better than the old people who face their care homes being closed.
Coun Kay says he supports the efforts to help people who are seeking refuge from their homes, but does this only apply to refugees and not our own?
ROY DAVIES, Olive Lane, Darwen.
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