SIR – People are tired of living off benefits and struggling, tired of workfare and short-term contracts, and tired of training places that lead nowhere.

Since the start of the crisis, the Bank of England has printed £350 billion in new money, but it hasn’t caused banks to lend to the ‘real economy’.

The Government needs to lend money directly to small and start-up businesses to create work for people in Worcester who have been made redundant, and for graduates across the West Midlands who are coming out of education with no jobs.

MATTHEW JENKINS

Worcester Green Party