Sir - The Green Party believes that there ought to be an end to austerity.

This stance is one reason why it will be fielding a record number of candidates in this year’s General Election. It also has more members than UKIP and the Lib Dems.

We need to challenge a political status quo that believes it is OK to make the rich richer at the expense of everyone else. Labour has allowed the Conservatives to frame its politics.

The Conservatives have faithfully stuck to the script that the financial crisis was caused by excessive government spending not the banks, for which the only cure is austerity.

If ever there was a time to stand up for the welfare state, it is now. In a few weeks’ time, voters across the UK will decide not just who will govern for the next five years, but whether they can sit back and watch while a Conservative-led government makes more cuts that will heap yet more misery upon millions of people.

The Green Party rejects austerity and believes that we need a government that acts for the common good.

Neil Laurenson

Worcester Green Party