• DEPARTMENT of Health research shows that already 35,000 people a year are forced to sell their home to pay for nursing-home care, and now, if the Tories have their way, thousands of others, especially dementia sufferers, will be forced to sell their home to pay for domiciliary care.

The Tories say that this shifts the balance towards intergenerational fairness. But they are not calling for an end to student tuition fees.

The two sections of society that are forced to pay for services are frail elderly and disabled people paying for care and young people paying tuition fees.

Older people are parents and grandparents, young people are children and grandchildren. Don’t the Tories understand we love each other. Generations unite. Stand together to defeat these obnoxious policies.

DOT GIBSON
Secretary, Islington
Pensioners Forum