I am sympathetic to your plight. Please understand it was not the current Government that created this situation, but rather the Labour government and local committees spending money that we just don't have. I have never experienced what it is like have a loved living in a Social Services run home.

However, there is a difference between sympathising and feeling guilt. While I sympathise with you, My father spent his last years in a private nursing home, like so many, he made his own provisions for old age.

I can't understand why some people feel that government are duty bound to look after us in old age. As my father used to say, "I owe them nothing, just as they owe me nothing."

So, yes I sympathise, but I am not prepared to go further than that.