FURTHER to the letter “We need to pay our way to help the NHS” by D M Deamer (The Press, April 14), I am asking myself what planet this person has been living on for the last seven years.

Thanks to David Cameron we have been on austerity measures and council money has been cut, so the first thing the councils cut is the nursing homes to look after the elderly.

When the elderly do into hospital they have nowhere to go. It’s called bed blocking.

Mr Cameron was intent on destroying the NHS so it would be privatised and then you would pay for medical treatment.

There is plenty of money in the coffers to sort out the NHS, but these career politicians haven’t got a clue.

The latest figures from border control tell us that there are over 300,000 immigrants in this country - that’s the population of a city - and they are unemployed, get money for housing and free health care. To do what?

I do not object to anyone coming into this country to work and contribute to our economy, but we can’t carry this amount of people for much longer.

I think the elderly have been let down by our Government and to ask them to pay more is out of the question.

They have paid in all their lives and so have I. It’s time the Government took its head out of the sand and realised we are living longer and the issue has to be tackled now.

The first thing should be to cut foreign aid until we have things under control.

B Norrie, Campbell Court, Osbaldwick Lane, York