Dear LPG,

I just want to remind readers that if there is any section of the community that has the power to speak up for the little people when it comes to championing  those causes that we only realise actually exist when they happen to us, our younger pensioners are often most equipped to do so.

We often find ourselves in situations that are not fair, and members of the English nation will pay a fine, or accept it when the  police or NHS treat them unjustly, or  a government or council department tell them that they are wrong and penalise them financially or in some other way.   I am thinking of the driver who feels forced to pay a parking fine in spite of the fact that their car actually stopped working due to break down when they were caught on camera, the patient who waited for up to an hour outside the doctors surgery only to be told that they cannot be seen and they need to queue again the next morning and so many similar situations.

Most of our community can find so many reasons to just pay the fine or accept the punishment or inconvenience that officialdom sends there way.   But there are just a few years in our lives when we both have the time and resilience to do something about such situations.  There are a few others but, one such stage of life is that time just after you have retired, done the holiday and sorted out all the paperwork you promised yourself you needed to do, but before you get so set in your new routine and there is not enough time to get involved.

I have travelled to a few places during my life and have found that the public in many other parts of the world would not put up with the official abuse that we often encounter in the UK. 

I would appeal to our younger pensioners and ask them to act rather than talk with their friends and then resign themselves to adhere to such injustices.  Do some research into the legality of the way that establishment has acted and complain to the people who can make a difference when you come across such injustice.

Each small complaint will eventually have a bearing on the way the law is changed and could make life that little bit easier for some of the people who face similar predicaments in the future. 

CP, Bromley,