YOUR concerned parental carer (Journal, August 14) may be right when he says he understands the need for cutbacks.

But understanding must end there. A civilised community cannot be understood when it disproportionally deprives its most vulnerable members.

The county council makes these cuts and sells off services at the behest of central government at the same time being protective of the extremely well-off, particularly those who created the crisis yet don’t suffer from austerity.

Obliging Evesham’s disabled to leave their community, friends and support network to travel to Pershore mocks the “localism” mantra they also champion.

And now a contractor with reduced “trade” has pulled out and left needy elderly people with cold meals (Journal, August 28).

These are neither local actions nor examples of appropriate care.

Whilst central government and their local political supporters continue to save money on the vulnerable, they show a callous disregard for our most needy residents.

Meanwhile, a decade’s debacle of wrongful warring in the cash sink-holes of Iraq and Afghanistan continues to antagonise foreigners, diverting money from local communities while putting our young men at risk.

Michael T Parker

Sedgeberrow