LANCASHIRE County Council's treatment of both care for the elderly and for handicapped adults in Lancashire is an abomination.

The government recently announced a further 100 extra asylum seekers were to be allowed into this country every day, on top of those coming in already.

Our tiny island now takes 21 per cent of the total seeking asylum in the whole of the European Union and the National Asylum Support Service has announced they have provided houses for 40,000 asylum seekers.

And Tony Blair's Labour council in Lancashire cannot keep old people's care homes open. Handicapped centres are to be closed -- such as Meadow Bank Centre in Burnley; a purpose built centre which has just had a vast amount of money spent on it.

In other words, Labour cares less about the indigenous old age pensioners and handicapped than they do about asylum seekers, many of whom are here illegally anyway.

I live in Worsthorne which, as everyone knows, gained national publicity in the local elections when they voted in a British National Party member.

I am convinced the people who voted for them have no quarrel with our Asian community who have lived with us in harmony for many years.

The reason the BNP candidate was voted in was because people are sick of the way the county is run; some would say the way the country is run as well.

The Tory party does not really offer any answers to our problems and the Liberals keep coming up with half-baked ideas, so only by voting for the British National Party can we get the Labour government to listen to us.

I warn Tony Blair that there will be a much bigger vote for the BNP if Lancashire County Council does not listen to the voice of the people of the county.

Failing to look after the old and the handicapped and not listening to the desires of the parents and carers of the handicapped will open a floodgate for the BNP.

ANTHONY COCKETT, Duncan Close, Worsthorne, Burnley.