Letter: We have created a Me, Me, Me society

What about the removal of free TV licenses for the over 75s? Remember Boris stating it would not happen.

Did the thousands of protesters that went around ripping down those statues turn on the government when the NHS sent those people back to care homes, causing thousands of deaths among the poor elderly living there? Boris said a ring of steel would protect them.

Take the bike lanes for example. To get the public on board the council has suggested that motor scooters and wheelchairs can share these lanes. If you was to watch the cyclists racing up Bridge Street, without a thought for any one, let alone the disabled, you could imagine a wheelchair being pushed along a bike lane.

Have you seen any uproar from the press and public as a result of the council closing 11 disabled parking spaces along Wentworth Street without any replacements being provided? Or the closure of St Peter’s Arcade causing disabled people parking in St Peter’s Road to have to walk another 500 yards to get to their bank in Cathedral Square?

I noticed just one lonely cry of outrage in the local paper from the local blind charity. Come on you folks of Peterborough raise your voice and if necessary kick out those councillors and MPs that just don’t care .

Did you know that when a person reaches the age of 80 they get a pension increase of £0.25 pence a week taxable, giving them an extra 20p to spend, makes you think about how our elderly are treated in this country. Ask your MP... why this insult?

Between 2014 and 2016 this government froze all pensioners’ tax allowance whilst increasing everyone else’s allowance to bring them all into line. In other words, every tax payer in Britain got to keep an extra £120 in their pocket except our pensioners .

Ask your MP about these facts. And at the same time ask them what allowance increase they got this year. Over the last year millions of pensioners running a car, not a luxury in many cases, has had to find an extra £100 road tax they also have to find £157.50 TV licence. Ask your retired parents how much pension increase they got this year. I hope this makes our leaders think, but I doubt it.

R Graham