LIKE hundreds of other people, I am disgusted at the care home closures on the cards for our old people.

I have been a Labour voter all my life -- not a natural one; my family were Tories -- and I cannot believe the party I have supported and argued for all these years would do this to people who have worked and paid in more ways than one through the war years and years of hardship, only to be treated this way in their twilight years.

This, I would have expected of the Iron Lady, not Labour councillors.

Those who support this are a disgrace to the Labour party. If this is New Labour, it's time to go back to True Labour.

CHRIS WHITEHEAD, Lamgham Road, Blackburn.