P.O. Williams
Bio
I am a freelance writer, and I work at a charity for social change in Liverpool, UK.
I write because I believe that writing can change things, I write to make a feeling into something tangible, and I write because I love it.
Stories (2/0)
Austerity Britain Is Like a Modern Day Dickens Novel
I have been engaged with politics since the Conservatives came into power via a coalition government, back in 2010. I can remember feeling, even at 16, that my life was going to change for the worst. I come from a proud working-class background in Liverpool, in the north of England: a staunch Labour stronghold, with deep socialist roots; a place that past Conservative governments (namely under Thatcher) have tried to destroy. Education schemes, funding, signposts to opportunities not afforded to the generations before me, and not least, sacrifices by my ever-supportive mother, have meant that I was the first in my family to go to university—despite the enormous tuition fees and interest rates on student loans imposed by the Tories, to try and keep people like me out of the world of the educational elite. Waving goodbye to Labour in 2010, and beckoning in the past eight years of austerity under the Tories, have done untold harm to cities like mine—and the end does not seem to be in sight.
By P.O. Williams5 years ago in The Swamp