HOW disgustingly politically correct the public-funded Evolve centre is determined to make itself.

Firstly, we have the drug and alcoholic centre taking over (controversially) from the bequeathed Lewis Textile Museum, next we have to stomach a whopping £400,000 annual bill to run the centre, which will provide services to an apparent 40 people each month.

£10,000 each per annum? This Evolve Centre does not provide any medical treatment (such as methadone).

This is provided by other publicly funded schemes and to top it all off we are now informed that Blackburn’s new Evolve rehab centre will provide addicts with massage, manicure, hairdressing, yoga and tai chi.

According to the man behind the scheme, Jerry Sutton, “getting people through the front door is a huge part of what we need to do.”

I beg to differ.

Open the doors to everyone and the place will be full.

How does that help? It is at the very least questionable to ‘dangle’ such incentives to addicts who have evidently proven themselves to have previously chosen for themselves their illicit and downward path.

You cannot make someone kick their addiction, they must want to do this for themselves and therefore the very realisation is incentive enough and more so the correct incentive. What good will come from addicts using the centre for luxurious freebies rather than somewhere to beat their addictions?

Perhaps the Government’s next move will be to pay addicts for attending, I’m sure this will boost bureaucratic statistics sufficiently.

ROBIN J EVANS, British National Party.