SIR –According to the Campaign to End Child Poverty the recession has led to one in five children in the UK living in households where neither parent has a job.
Parents who lose their jobs should not have to worry whether they can keep their children warm this winter in their poorly-insulated homes. When the Labour government was elected in 1997 they made reducing child poverty one of their main priorities. However, as the number of children living in poverty has surged in recent years, Alistair Darling has instead promised another £40 billion to bail out our banks. That is almost 10 times the amount the End Child Poverty coalition says is needed to halve child poverty by 2010.
People are disillusioned with the Government and bigger political parties. The Green Party is the only party offering a fresh alternative. Our Green New Deal plans for a million low-carbon jobs to tackle the recession and the climate crisis.
People are voting Green not just as a protest, but because Green councillors have a good track record and our policies are increasingly what people want.
Paul Snookes
Worcester Green Party
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