Health and safety is now out of hand

THE government is using a sticking plaster to replace the NHS with nursing and care homes. (A cost to desperate elderly patients).

I have just spent a few days with “carers” in such homes.

They are young and gallop like leverets on uppers. But it is costly to the patients and not like 24hr hospital care.

Even elderly death is a taboo subject in our culture. We must gradually grow up. “Life is mainly slippy slidey...only death is neat and tidy.”

MAX NOTTINGHAM, Lincoln ALL this health and safety culture seems to be getting out of hand. Are these spoilsports trying to turn ordinary folk skinny – must not drink, must not smoke, must not get fat?

Before long, footballers and others are going to get yellow or red cards just for bumping into another player. We’ll need scaffolding erected just to clean bungalow or shed windows.

Insurance companies must take some blame, using any safety excuse for not paying up on a policy.

As if politicians weren’t churning out enough daft legislation – I read that someone wants to create a hate crime register.

The state which this overpopulated world is in, and with roads bunged up with traffic, there’s plenty of reasons to get riled up with hatred or anger.

The idiotic nuances or excuses some faint hearts will continue to use to put the block on “free speech” will become common practice. JOHN CRESSWELL Chester-le-Street