'Why should we have to pay to keep this out of date organisation going?' - Your Letters: June 7

BBC boss Tim Davie wants to increase the TV licence fees. It’s now time to do away with payments and let the BBC manage like other TV companies have to. Why should we have to pay to keep this out of date organisation going?

Kenneth Clibery, Lanesfield

MY THANKS TO ALL AT HOSPITAL

I would like to thank all concerned at Walsall Manor Hospital for their care whilst being taken by ambulance with third degree burns regarding my hot water bottle bursting on my back and bottom. I was treated with care and respect by all. My pain was horrific. After treatment I was sent home in the early hours of the next day.

After about two weeks with no care whatsoever the district nurse arrived. She was brilliant and couldn't do enough for me. She was dedicated to her job.

Many thanks to my dear friend also who visited me on a regular basis, they’d worked for five years in an operating theatre, they dressed my burns very professionally. Also to Lauren Mason the district nurse.

Now I’ve been told to visit the walk-in centre but I cannot go as I’m struggling to walk with arthritis, a bad turn and cellulitis.

Susan Farnell, Wolverhampton

WHEN WILL GRASS BE MOWED?

Could I enquire whether Dudley Council is intending to mow the gutters and pavements in Wordsley any time soon? The grass is two feet high on the Bracken’s estate.

B Williams, Wordsley

ALL WE ASK FOR IS COMMON SENSE 

I was rather surprised to read recently that there was a request for 'Commissioner for Older People' when all we need is a common sense Chancellor.

Oh no! not another ' jobs worth' on top of the already 650 MPs and 1,000 Peers, and dozens of Metro Mayors, and dozens of police and crime commissioners, need I go on?

At £100,000 plus a year all we need is the 650 MPs now on holiday, to do their job. What we have is the two the party line, whoever is in power it matters little. Fairness, trust and responsibility have been lost in the process, which ensures poverty in old age as the Treasury advocates, thanks to Ms Reeves. We have lost our free TV licence, £160, our winter fuel allowance, £300, on one of the coldest winters ever, and are being taxed at 20 per cent on pensions above £12,570, which we were not told when we joined the government pension scheme 45 years ago. The so called triple lock has turned into a negative because of the governments last budget.

So all in all, we have a poor public presence and are seen as an irrelevance by the present government.

We need the personal allowance increasing to £20,000 to bring the low paid pensioners out of the tax trap, which has completely negated the triple lock of 4.1 per cent - gone, gone forever by the clever tax trap. 

I cannot think of anyone worthy enough for the job so perhaps we should abandon the idea of a Commissioner for Older People before it grows legs and runs.

M Cooper, Blakenhall

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