Why I went on the anti-austerity March

I once heard a quote, 'create a life you don't need a vacation from'. Easier said than done. Having been on a March against austerity yesterday, I faced the true reality. The realisation that over 1 million people needed food banks last year, 370,000 of them being children. Fundamentally - children are being deprived of even the most satisfactory of upbringings. How can we create lives we don't need vacations from, when people can't even afford a standard meal for their children? The Conservative cuts are slowly and slyly crumbling the lives of the most vulnerable, and it has to come to an end.

Like a lot of people, when I first heard about austerity, I thought 'Great, get the deficit down so we have nothing to worry about!'. However, in hindsight, making cuts to public services, wages, benefits, is also cutting people's happiness. People will have less money to spend when shopping, which means buisnesses make lower profits, which means less taxes are paid. It's certainly not the way forward, and critised by economists - the people who really know what's best for the economy! An article in the independent shows that 2/3 of economists say that austerity has damaged the economy. 

The reason I went on the anti-austerity demonstration in the end, is because poverty is a crisis can't be slyly dismissed by our own prime minister any longer. I'd like to see him Living off the minimum wage for a week. 

Although austerity doesn't affect me, it affects others. The 37% of people who acctually like conservatives do so, because they don't drastically get affected like millions do. They have no idea how many people can't find jobs, those who can't get houses, how many people have been hit with the bedroom tax, people who struggle to bring food to the table, people who can't afford meals for their children, nurses and teachers working tireless hours being underpaid. Millions and millions of people suffer in the UK from the cuts. It may not be you, but have some integrity - the cuts could cut you're happiness, too.