John Harris succinctly summarises the anxieties afflicting our lives in the UK (Britain is already in the grip of a deep malaise – what happens when zero growth bites?, 12 June). However, is it really true that there aren’t any optimistic stories that can be told about the future, as he suggests?
I am certain that progressive people in England – those who vote Green, Labour or Liberal Democrat – could agree fairly easily on what needs to be done. Green growth strategies to combat climate change; wealth taxes to curb increasing inequalities; investment in public services; reform of corporate governance to tackle wreckage capitalism; and constitutional change, such as electoral reform and transformation of the House of Lords, to bring the country into the 21st century.
