Dear David Cameron and George Osborne,
I am 17 years old. I am writing this letter because I am disgusted by what you have done to people of my age and hard working families like my own.
You pretend to care about people in hard situations and that you want to help people who are struggling to make ends meet, feed their children and want to better themselves. However, it is those very people that bear the weight of the cuts that your government has put into place, as if their own stresses and struggles weren't enough. You do not cut bankers bonuses, take pay cuts or make huge corporations pay the taxes they evade, all of which would be more useful to the economy than getting rid of help for students or cutting benefits.
You say that you want a more independent society, own whose people do not rely on welfare. How is this type of society suppose to develop when you insist on removing any type of support available to young people, who want to become educated, get good jobs and become tax paying citizens. Not only have you scrapped EMA, which allowed young people from any background go to any college, you have increased student fees meaning that the majority of young adults worry about how they are going to cope with a debt they will never pay back and now you are changing the maintenance grant into yet another loan that students will never pay back.
You have the power to help people and yet instead all you seem to be able to do is make people more vulnerable and more in need of help. I cannot for the life of me understand why you have made the decisions you have and why it is so difficult for you to see the damage you are doing to ordinary peoples lives. I don't know if you'll ever see this or if you will care but I am 17 years old, almost 18 and struggling to see how becoming an adult will ever be a positive part of life.
