I THINK Nigel Dix should contact the national Labour party as in June Ed Miliband and Ed Balls signalled that a future Labour government will accept the framework of the Tories’ austerity plans and put a cap on welfare spending.

Iain Ferguson looks at Labour’s shift to the right and challenges the myths about the welfare state used to justify this turn. Ed Miliband and shadow chancellor Ed Balls gave up any pretence of resistance to the coalition’s austerity agenda, including even the “too much, too quickly” rhetoric of the past three years.

Instead, in a series of well-publicised speeches, Miliband and Balls confirmed that a future Labour government would work within the spending framework laid down by chancellor George Osborne, and would not seek to reverse any of the welfare cuts imposed by the coalition.

Andrew Nutt, Heolddu Rd, Bargoed