What Have The Tories Ever Done For Us?
The Conservatives have now been in power for 9 years and their list of achievements is replete with and splendidly adorned by numerous glorious and monumental failures.
Let's take a look at some of these "achievements", shall we?
Let's take a look at some of these "achievements", shall we?
- 1,000 sure start centres closed.
- At least 370 libraries closed.
- 700 football pitches closed.
- Food bank use up by at least 73%.
- Homelessness up at least 165% since 2010.
- Rough sleeping up by 1,600% in some areas, 106% nationally
- Around 1/7 people to at risk of eviction due to Bedroom Tax.
- Evictions are running at record highs, up 53% since 2010.
- 30% of U.K. children live in poverty.
- Student fees tripled.
- Student debt has risen dramatically.
- Eradication of EMA (education maintenance allowance).
- National debt has risen from £0.95trillion to £1.8trillion.
- Brexit related fall in national revenue £500b (between 1.5 - 2.5% GDP)
- GDP fallen to -0.1% in September, barely growing otherwise.
- GBP fallen by up to 12% vs EUR & USD.
- Manufacturing in recession.
- Construction near recession.
- Services close to recession.
- 25-30% cuts to all govt departments.
- 25-30% cuts to all councils, mainly centred on Labour councils.
- Many local councils facing effective bankruptcy.
- At 120k extra deaths attached to the political ideology of austerity.
- 21,000 less police.
- 14,000 less prison staff.
- 10,000 less firefighters.
- A shortage of 100,000 NHS medical professionals.
- A shortage of over 1000 beds for patients with mental illness.
- OECD calculate 3 million hidden unemployed, rate is really 13%.
- Creation of 1.3m jobs, mainly temporary, self employed, gig economy and ZHC..
- 80% of 5.3 million self employed live below the poverty line.
- 25% cuts for our disabled community.
- 80% cuts to Mobility allowance.
- Closing Remploy.
- 32% of working households have less than £500 in savings..
- Household debt reaches new peak, despite emergency base rates.
- Increase of 100% in hate crimes over 5 years.
- Increase of knife crime offences by 44,000 over 12 months.
- Increase in teenage suicide by 67%.
- Suicide up 12% in the year 2018.
- Self harm among young women up 70%.
- Life expectancy flatlined.
- NHS satisfaction level at lowest recorded rate.
- Council home building down 90%.
- 200k social homes lost since 2010.
- Zero starter homes built, despite Tory flagship programme.
- One million families on council home waiting list.
- 100,000 increase on the council home waiting list since 2010.
- 36,000 teachers have left the profession.
- Failing Grayling left us £3bn worse off
As you might have noticed, this list is doing the rounds on social media at the moment. I thought it might be useful to provide a source for these claims. I've had to adjust the numbers on some as they were skewed to the more extreme end of the spectrum or delete some claims as I could not find a source to verify them. Some of the articles are also a few years old but remember that we're dealing with a 9 year period here. I have tried to find more recent articles where possible.
Still, the numbers make for grim reading and don't reflect well on one of the coldest and heartless governments the UK has ever had to endure. We can do better than this and we can end this sordid rigmarole on the 12th of December. We have a chance to reorganise the economy to work better for all of us - the power is in your hands to do so.
Vote Labour on 12th December.
Still, the numbers make for grim reading and don't reflect well on one of the coldest and heartless governments the UK has ever had to endure. We can do better than this and we can end this sordid rigmarole on the 12th of December. We have a chance to reorganise the economy to work better for all of us - the power is in your hands to do so.
Vote Labour on 12th December.
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