Read in the Echo about the council budget cuts, about Southend Hospital ward closures, about cuts to student grants, about continued fat cat bonuses to bankers, record youth unemployment, cuts to frontline policing and VAT rises.

All of these things are promises broken by this already disreputable Government.

I am sure I am not alone in feeling betrayed and let down.

I feel so sorry for the younger generation who will now have their dreams ruined by this dreadful coalition.

All the political parties have now let us down. We have a local council dominated by the same party politicians bankrupt of ideas.

It is time for something different, I don’t know what, but I won’t be voting for any political party next May.

Jeff Carr
High Street
Shoebury