If I may respond to ''Money for social care or for 20 mph speed signs?'

I have complained on these pages before about The Bolton News printing unsubstantiated and false claims and withholding the writer's name but it's their paper so!

I don't know how old 'Name and address supplied' is but they don't seem to understand how it all works, or rather should work. It is government's job to provide good quality public services not the profit making private sector. But this doesn't fit the Tory ideology which is, public bad ...... private good, no profit to be made from public ownership. Therefore sell off at a knock down price public utilities, even our water supply is in the hands of private companies.

This 'Labour bankrupted the economy' yarn that the Tories bang on about despite being in power for seven years. Well in 2008 there was this global economic crash. I'm surprised 'Name and address supplied' didn't hear about it, it was in all the papers and on the telly and everything.

Regarding borrowing, well perhaps they also haven't heard that the Tories have borrowed more in seven years than all Labour governments put together. The Conservative economic plan also includes austerity for most with no end in sight. I say most because some have done very well since the crash. Now with the Tories in control, who do you think they might be.

The unnamed correspondent talks about the 20mph signs outside schools and tries to link it to chronic underfunding of social care. This is more proof, if more were needed, that the writer really is clueless. The signs are 'one off' , social care is ongoing.

Eric Hyland

Harwood