Last straw

Published: 15 July, 2010

• COUNCILLOR Angela Mason’s warning about the forthcoming cuts to Camden’s public services is timely and, sadly, only too true.

The government proposes to cut a quarter of the borough’s spending. But this will hit disproportionately the principal users of these public services: the elderly, sick, disabled and mothers and children.

These are the disadvantaged among us whom we ought to be prepared to defend. News that the Building Schools for the Future programme will be savaged is the last straw.

It illustrates the fact that the “Boys from the Bullingdon Club”, the Prime Minister, his chancellor and our own London mayor, care little for the welfare of the rest of us, the careless souls, who neglected to be born with silver spoons in our mouths.

Education is always to be found in the firing line. But I would remind our Oxford-trained rulers of the old adage: “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance”.

Dr PETER PRESTON, NW1