THE people of Redditch waited a long time for a decent hospital. And I remember being on a vigil with my wife when there were threatened cutbacks at the Alex some years ago.

And they are still having problems.

We could lose our A&E and other vital services and no doubt many jobs will go too, whatever they promise.

Common sense tells me that it has to do with the administration and the people who look after the financial side.

Isn't it these people who should lose their jobs, not the people who work in A&E and other services.

Our MP should be campaigning to have these people sacked because they are the ones responsible for looking after the financial side.

These days, it seems that if they run the business properly of not, they still get large pensions and golden handshakes.

How many are there who have worked for the trust and have left with a golden handshake, even though the hospital was in debt?

They can find the money for those who create to problems, yet they seem to think that by cutting jobs and services - which is ludicrous, in my opinion - they can maintain the budget.

This sounds just like other Government departments which want to penalise the ordinary person in the street because they are an easy target.

What is this world coming to when we penalise the ordinary person, the sick, the less abled and disadvantaged over those at the top who get well paid for doing very little, getting into debt and than getting a golden handshake.

There is something wrong in society if we cannot address this.

RICHARD K ARMSTRONG

The Green Party

Linton Close

Redditch