OUR council and MPs are letting disabled people down very badly indeed!

Both my wife and I are disabled and all we ask for is a little consideration.

My wife has to use catheters and needs a clean environment to use them.

She needs regular toilet stops and has been attending the QE in Birmingham. We have to plan for stops every 20 minutes or 15 miles or so.

The number of council public loos closed has put such pressure on supermarkets and fast food outlets to “take up the slack” that their toilets are falling apart and needing refits sooner.

I have physical disabilities and cannot use toilets on an upper level of a building without a lift as stairs are impossible because the movement of stair-climbing sets off my “chronic pain syndrome” for which I manage 190 tablets a week.

Herefordshire Council clearly needs to have a top-down sort-out to save money rather than a bottom-up cut of basic services and humanitarian needs.

Plain and simply put, cut one high-roller manager and you will keep five workers at the coalface.

The council has too many managers managing managers, all taking a wedge of the council budget.

Meanwhile, our county MPs sit on committees at Westminster claiming all sorts of perks on top of their £70,000 salary, while every person in Herefordshire working or not, has to find ever more inventive ways to make their money go round.

Perhaps Jesse Norman and Bill Wiggin should spend a couple of weeks dishing out food parcels and helping at Citizens Advice offices to see and appreciate just how hard life is beyond their mansion walls!

S LLOYD Leominster