New Labour - state control of the elderly.

They fell in love during the Second World War and have been together ever since.

So Thomas and Iris Bashford should have been looking forward to marking 60 years of commitment and devotion with their diamond wedding anniversary.

But social services officials have given them the devastating news that they could be living apart by the time their anniversary comes around later this year.

Mr Bashford, an 82-year-old war veteran, may be moved to a care home, while his 81-year-old wife, who is blind and dependent on him, will remain in the couple's sheltered housing.

**Work all your life and the socialists decide that they know what is best for you, despite not even knowing you on a personal level. Maybe they will come in at 2AM like the former East German secret police to remove this 82 year old man?

Truely we have become an authoritarian fuck hole of the worst order, every department of the state now feels that has the right and moral duty to run your life for you even if all you want is the state to fuck off and leave you alone.

The irony for Mr Bashford is that despite his taking up arms, now the nazis are in his social services dept...

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