SIR – In your editorial on June 27 you wrote that ‘Labour and the Conservatives offer us nothing but years and years of austerity’.

The former leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas MP, said last March: ‘It’s time to admit that austerity in the UK has failed and that an alternative approach to reducing the deficit is needed.

Since 2010, bankers and politicians have presided over the application of brutal economic policies that have impoverished the innocent…’ Your predecessor wrote in his editorial on August 31 that the Worcester News does ‘not believe it’s right that the most disadvantaged in our society should suffer as a result of fiscal pruning’.

Instead of continuing to make cuts that are causing widespread misery, the Government ought to invest in a green public works programme to create jobs and lift the UK out of recession.

MATTHEW JENKINS

Worcester Green Party