A City which won't look after its own elderly

Liverpool Capital of Property Vultures

Every week seems to see another news story of an old people's home being shut down in Liverpool or Merseyside. The people who own these facilities, have seen property prices go sky high as the middle class snap up property. As ever, with private individuals motivated by profit, many of these individuals could not give a damn about the old folk. Allowing private companies or individuals to actually make a profit off our own elderly here in Liverpool, or anywhere in the UK, is an absolute disgrace. The people who work in these homes are often unsung heroes who care deeply about the people they care for. Tears are shed by the staff when these homes are closed. It's the people earning a profit for just owning these places with whom many of us have a problem with. Why should they live off the backs of the people who helped make our Great City?

"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt." Mikhail Bakunin

As reported in the Liverpool Echo on Wednesday Nov 17th 2004, a headline of 'OAP's Home to be demolished', carried the predictable sub headline of 'Luxury Flats to replace beds for the elderly'

There are 20 residents in this particular home situated in Penkett Road Wallasey. 18 of the residents in there 80's and 90's and need 24 hour care. They have been told they may need to leave the home 'before Christmas'.

Looking after Liverpool OAP's 'not a charity' says Amin Dhanjee

The home is one of 8 owned by 'Flightcare'. One of the directors, Amin Dhanjee, told the Liverpool Echo that the care home 'cannot survive as a business'. Then he states that "A developer made us an offer to build 35 flats and we had to accept, it's a shame" Yes Mr Dhanjee, it really is a shame that someone perhaps not even from England, and likely not from Liverpool, can condemn our old folk to this disgusting betrayal. Dhanjee put the boot in further when he explained 'We are not a charity'. We bet his wages are very charitable, and what the hell, we may ask, is he and people like him doing anywhere near our elderly? Profiteers should be kept a long distance away from our old folk. If there intentions are to make money, they should open up an off license or something. Agencies should be banned from earning profits off the care of the elderly. It makes economic sense, as well as being the right thing to do.

Careflight and all the rest of the companies have long made a big profit from the supposed 'care' of the elderly. I call that being a parasite. And if profit is the No 1 concern of companies involved, then our old folk will suffer. We cannot allow this to happen in Liverpool. Now we see Careflight announce that they will sell the care home off, see it turned into 'Luxury Apartments' and 35 'professionals' , likely in the prime of health, can take up the places which our old folk once had. The law is on the side of Mr Dhanjee and anyone else with money enough to buy the property sold by the councillors of Liverpool, Knowsley and Merseyside and indeed the UK. This sell off by our elected leaders is killing our own elderly. Any councillor who agrees that private care of the elderly is a good idea, can perhaps send these old folk a Christmas Card. Trouble is, we don't were they'll be, or if they'll all survive the stress of moving.

Do they know its Christmas time?

As the collective hypocrisy of the millionaire Pop World gathers to make a crap remake of 'Feed the World' with its famous chorus 'Do they know its Christmas time?', lets just remember that 20,000 British OAP's will likely die of cold related illness this winter in the UK and they are deaths we could stop right here and now. Let's think of the 20 OAP's forced out of there home and the thousands of other pensioners in Liverpool and Merseyside who have been uprooted at the whim of a contractor, a council planning committee, and whoever owns the care home. Our old folks should come before all of the above. The people certainly ought to rise up against the parasites and idiots who are taking over our Country.

As these old folk in Liverpool are cruelly divided and shipped out to other care homes, Liverpools middles classes will have smiled at there good fortune as they look at the portfolios of property. Buying and then renting out property here has spread like wildfire. It's a new 'pension investment' for the middle classes. Ever since the sell off of the council homes and related properties like care homes, schools, community centres, churches, police stations and anything else, a lot of these places are converted into 'Luxury Apartments'. The capital of culture propaganda really does make you sick. The people who made this culture, our old folk, cannot even spend the last few years of there lives with the assurance that themselves and the other people they've known for years will be allowed to stay together. This is a cruel punishment to disorientate these people from what has been there World for sometimes a very long time indeed. Some old folk have no family, but the people working in the decent homes become a sort of family, as do the other residents. There are decent homes still run by Councils but new labours cuts are forcing more and more to close.

We do all this for the mostly middle class property speculators to earn even more money. Liverpool does not belong to us anymore - the middle classes, a tiny minority here, have somehow used there collective string pulling and astute political knowhow to try and turn the centre of Liverpool into a Yuppy Playground for young spoilt middle class trash.

This is our so called 'capital of culture'.

Liverpools middle class invaders plan to alter our working class culture into one which throws our old folk on the scrapheap, and praises the financial 'savvy' of the profiteers who elbow out the old and own these facilities. The Liverpool Echo revels in actually showing us various smiling middle class people who've 'smartly' bought properties here. The middle class are happy at there good fortune and might buy more properties because there so cheap - and the locals are so poor they cannot buy them. Many of these people are vampires who are buying the properties that generations of working class Scousers built and funded.

We should never have allowed ONE British Pensioner to EVER be cared for by private health care facilities. We should have waged a civil war to stop this happening. We may have to yet at some point in the future.

The next time you hear Liverpools politicians telling you how things are 'on the up', remember that this is true for the young 20, 30, 40 something rich and middle classes who've bought that 'bargain property'. Money launderers also will smile with delight at the ample opportunities presented by the sell offs. We have seen thousands, possibly tens of thousands of ex council properties bought by people just looking to make a profit, and now the working class are struggling to buy or rent in any decent areas. Many vulnerable are left at the mercy of unscrupulous private landlords, and the Liverpool Echo has not got enough Journalists to cover just 0.1% of the tales of heartbreak and genuine sadness with the so called 'care' of the elderly. The Duke of Westminster makes millions in deals here in Liverpool, he is already the richest man in the UK and the mind boggles as to WHY a man would hoard that money. Despite this obscene amount of wealth, he allowed to make even more money by the sickening pack of sycophants who seem to be in the Council Chambers in Liverpool and Merseyside. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of old folk are forced to sell there homes to pay for the care which, by rights, should be free. We were promised free health care but New Labour steals the homes from our old folk to force them to pay for care. Liverpools left wing socialists even sold off 'The Picket' live music venue, which will be turned into Luxury Flats. Well done comrades.

Most of us will grow old. Many of us will need care when we get older, and the way things are looking, we will curse ourselves for not acting when we could. If we allow our own elderly now to simply be thrown out of there homes without even raising our voices collectively, then perhaps we deserve to end our own days in some 'bargain' care home and find ourselves thrown out at Christmas. Working class values seem to be vanishing, and one of the values we are losing is solidarity, the simple yet effective tactic of standing up for each other. The middle class encourage us to be selfish so they can divide us further. Remember that many British working class and some middle class pensioners are forced to sell there own homes to pay for there own care. This is despite most of these people paying taxes and national health insurance for 40 or 50 or more years. Many pensioners in Kirkby have to sell there homes if they need care. It has become standard practice. Vulnerable OAP's are prayed upon by property speculators here in Kirkby and all over the UK. Many pensioners could be looked after in there homes if we trained people in the community to care for local people, but its not 'cost effective' and we need the money to murder Iraqis or bail out the rich in the UK with tax cuts and handouts. The middle classes actually import house slaves here to Liverpool (nannies/home helps) and our old folk are left to die in hospital corridors. The middle class pamper themselves, and there petulant selfish culture is spreading in the political circles of Liverpool like a cancer.

If we won't make a stand for this generation that fought for us, then why should anyone fight for us?

If the upper class and the animal tormentors can storm Parliament because there upset at fox hunting being banned, why the hell don't us working class storm the damn thing and drag it down for 20,000 British OAP's dying this Winter?

We'll end this article with that vision of hope. Lets hope the worm turns.

"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt." Mikhail Bakunin