It's a hugely ageist administration in London who think it's all about basket weaving classes and sideshow events but actually making things more difficult and ostracising the less mobile and elders is about the only thing they are deft at.Most want to get on with normal things in as normal a way. But discrimination through means, i.e. you must have a smartphone, fast broadband and be 100% computer and app literate is like having a passport, not mandatory. And it is now expensive.Maybe if some of these decision makers had a week with restricted vision, shaky hands, balance problems and arthritic joints and movement limitations through no fault of their own as is most common, then maybe there would be more common sense in these bonkers policies.None of us really foresee limitations when we are fit and healthy and everything works well. But to assume we will all be 100% when older is pure folly.Most overcome and try very very hard to make small of these things but Councils and others have a lot to answer for by moving the goalposts and effectively freezing a large part of society out.It's hardly helpful after hanging on a Phone to LBE that after endless messages to do it online, the human also says " You have to got to www./// Http. balderdash/underscore/ hashtag// .gov.uk.earth.universe.com"The lesson of dementia should be held as an example. ( Whatever happened to Camerons big drive for dealing with the here and now of this horrid disease and the long term effort to contain and eradicate? )Who ever considered people with even mild dementia when designing Bus Islands? Did anyone even try these with people who otherwise can still get about? Clearly not. Would you dare let go of a small child whilst waiting at one of these? No. But a dementia sufferer at early stages don't have a Mummy or Daddy or nanny to hold their hand.Yet not one elected person and several suffer these problems ever stands up for these people. The party machine seems to always come first. Not people.
Raymond Havelock ● 310d