Our savings could be key to ending austerity | Letter

Our politicians must stop crushing hope for a better future by talking about fiscal rules that can doom us all, write Richard Murphy and Colin Hines

It's not just the future of the EU that is threatened by the straitjacket of fiscal rules" (Editorial, 19 December). Far too many UK politicians are threatening to take the UK down the dead-end path ofwhat your editorial correctly terms the discredited economics of austerity".

The public wants the next government to supply a more secure future, where wages and conditions improve and more local jobs are available. This will require a massive investment programme to build the foundations of the socially equitable and environmentally sustainable future that people crave.