It is Beat the Bully Week and I am pleased to see the difference that the new school secondary school buildings are making. There are still issues, but the wider corridors and decent lighting are design features that are making a big difference in reducing bullying in schools.

In the community I am pleased to see some success in our villages in targeting the households of the ringleaders who bully the elderly and disabled, with arrests, prosecutions and evictions. We need to continue a concerted effort to expose and fight back against the bullies who roam our streets by giving them as much as they give the rest of us - and more!

A 97 year woman took me by the arm at Westwood Care Home on Tuesday and asked me to make sure that her day care survives the County Council cuts. How disgusting it was to have two elected Councillors at the meeting trying to justify concentrating their cuts on the elderly and disabled.

How can they draw up plans for cuts, privatisation and price rises which directly threat the elderly and disabled and then patronise them by saying we will listen to you but will still make the cuts? As their Council Leader Mrs Cutts (I am not making her name up) says: her Council will not do anything that the private sector can do better. If this is the case then why do we need to pay Councillors?

The facts are that council services for the elderly and disabled need increasing not cutting. We need more Westwoods and James Hince Courts not less, and far more day care facilities. How will the private sector make money - they need to make a profit and have enough left for capital investment? The truth is that there are only two ways, put up prices massively and cut quality. If private care homes could deal with these issues they would be making money here already. Instead the owner of Abbeymoor nursing home locked his staff out and did a runner. Leonard Cheshire Homes shut down in Retford, claiming they could not make money out of residential care.

Evidence of Councillor waste of tax payers money continues to be highlighted to me by County Council staff. At Queens Buildings the County Council has almost an entire block of offices empty. Meanwhile we pay a fortune for fancy carpets at County Hall and a new dust free floor for the Council Leader's office.

The Councillors still have to vote on this nonsense, so public pressure can be made to count. I have petition sheets in my office and its available online here.