If Howard's figures are correct no wonder it is being closed down, that is an awful lot of money per person.
Some of the severely disabled would be just as happy and independent in some kind of sheltered housing with all the care and facilities they need. I am thinking of housing like us oldies can move into but with resident care workers. Such a system must be a lot cheaper I would have thought.
I am disabled myself having had polio as a child which left me with a paralized arm, I know how I would feel if that amount of money was being spent on me so I could live on my own but with several carers.
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Barry, I think we all know we have to reduce expenditure by now there is no need to keep on about it.
As for your last sentence you can not keep blaming the left for the "poverty and misery" that was there under the right as well and sadly I expect it will always be there for some.