I REMEMBER last December the Prime Minister informed us that taxes would increase for the cost of the war against terror in Afghanistan and he had the support of all parties.

We are committed to US policies and, therefore, all public services are cut -- police, fire and now old people's homes.

What is to replace them -- some form of a private workhouse, run by cheap, untrained staff, where, as the calories are reduced, nature will solve the problem of age as efficiently as Hitler did with his old folk.

In my lifetime, two young generations have gone. Am I to live long enough to see a third one go?

F FOSTER, Halifax Road, Brierfield.