DIRTY hospitals, an increase in head lice and bedbugs, the rat population out of control, high rates of TB, filthy streets, high crime rates, some involving stealing by children as young as eight years.

Bad public transport, the poor becoming poorer and the rich becoming richer.

It appears we have gone back to the 1800s and are supposed to be the fourth richest country in the world, so where is all the money going? You tell me.

H HAMER, Lowther Place, Blackburn.