http://alangibbons.net/?p=632 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:45:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://alangibbons.net/?p=632#comment-5107 Shirley Burnham Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:46:07 +0000 http://alangibbons.net/?p=632#comment-5107 This is a great disappointment to me. I had always thought Frank Field thought things out well; often made sense. I thought well of him. What is happening to people whom one used to admire? He is way out of line by equating the saving of community libraries as a strike against the needs of the elderly and infirm. That is the most cynical manipulation of the facts that I have ever heard, and downright nasty to boot: to scare the elderly and infirm, and those who care for them, with such threats. Mr Field, you have shown an unpleasant side and I hope you will realise it will alienate a lot of people. Libraries and communities and a decent society: that's what we want to preserve. And we will do so, in spite of you. This is a great disappointment to me. I had always thought Frank Field thought things out well; often made sense. I thought well of him. What is happening to people whom one used to admire? He is way out of line by equating the saving of community libraries as a strike against the needs of the elderly and infirm. That is the most cynical manipulation of the facts that I have ever heard, and downright nasty to boot: to scare the elderly and infirm, and those who care for them, with such threats. Mr Field, you have shown an unpleasant side and I hope you will realise it will alienate a lot of people. Libraries and communities and a decent society: that’s what we want to preserve. And we will do so, in spite of you.

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