Don’t just sit there!
The Green Party has major concerns with the Lib Dem / Conservative plans to repay the last governments’ massive debts.
The Republic of Ireland is about 12 months ahead of us in the economic cycle. They have made large public sector cuts which have caused a massive increase in unemployment that has actually been counter-productive due to lower tax receipts and increased welfare costs. The simple fact is that these Conservative cuts are ideologically driven.
The Green Party also rejects the Labour Party’s proposals that create a consumer led bubble that simultaneously increases personal debt and at
the same time sows the seeds for the next recession.
There is another way. Reinvest in our country’s infrastructure – invest in the railways, home insulation and renewable electricity generation to create a million new jobs and at the same time rebuild a sustainable and stable economy.
Just because the next General Election could be up to 5 years away it does not mean that we have to just sit back and take the new governments’s cuts. Do something: lobby your MP, join a union, support the many planned demonstrations planned when the cuts are announced in October. You could even join the Green Party!