On the day of our beloved leader's homily on 'restoring respect to our society', my severely disabled sister-in-law was told that all the care facilities provided by our Local Council were being withdrawn, and she would be given a list of Private Enterprise care providers to select someone to carry out the shopping and cleaning services they had provided. She asked if she had any right of appeal in the matter, and was told in no uncertain terms that she hadn't.
It was now, apparently, Government policy that anyone who was capable of getting up in a morning on their own did not qualify for any Social Services assistance for anything else!
The next day she was told by the Social Worker that someone from a Private company would be contacting her. When she queried what had happened to the list to choose from, she was told,'Oh, I have chosen one for you.'
At this point, to quote her (long dead) mother, 'she got her Irish mad up', and contacted a local councillor.
Suddenly, Social Worker's Supervisor came calling to say 'Really nothing we can do'. However, on a threat to contact her MP, suddenly they discovered mitigating circumstances, and normal service will be continued!
It is not as if she was not paying for the service provided, as a Bank pensioner, she pays the full rate, but the way in which the whole thing was handled sucks. Respect, don't make me laugh!

FC