LEST WE FORGET

WITH the Tory Party Conference getting underway it’s worth just examining the Tory-Lib Dem Government’s record during their 39 months in office.

So when we hear the rhetoric emanating from the Tory conference hall in Manchester this week let’s remember:

 

·         prices have risen faster than wages in 38 of the 39 months that David Cameron has been in Downing Street.

·         working people are an average of almost £1500 a year worse off under David Cameron.

·          family energy bills have been allowed to rise by £300 a year since the general election.

·         under the Tories we’ve had slowest recovery for 100 years and 1m young people are out of work.

·         David Cameron’s cut tax for people on over £150k a year while raising it for everyone else

·         while small businesses struggle to get credit, bankers’ bonuses are up 82%

·         Cameron wants UK to participate in a race to the bottom for lowest wages & fewest rights at work

·         there are 5,000 fewer nurses in the #NHS under David Cameron

·         the Tories wasted £3bn on a damaging #NHS reorganisation nobody wanted & nobody voted for

·         people are being denied vital #NHS treatments, from cataract removals to hip replacements

·         NHS patients are waiting longer to be seen in A&E

·         since autumn 2010 our economy has grown by just 1.7% compared to the 6.9% expected at the time

·         UK economy’s currently 3.3% below its pre-crisis peak. USA is 4.6% above its pre-crisis peak

·         David Cameron and George Osborne are set to borrow £245bn more than they planned in 2010

·         the independent Office for Budget Responsibility says that deficit reduction has “stalled”.

·         average energy bills have risen by £300 since David #Cameron became Prime Minister

·         Britain’s big six energy companies have enjoyed a £3.3 billion windfall in profits since 2010.

·         Cameron’s broken his promise he gave to me at PMQs that he would force energy companies to put all consumers on the cheapest tariff.

·         only one Green Deal package has “gone live” since the scheme launched in January

·         investment in clean energy fell from an all-time high of £7.5bn in 2009 to £5.3bn in 2012

·         almost a million young people are unemployed

·        people working part-time because they can’t get a fulltime job is at highest level since records began

·         the number of people unemployed for over two years is up 60% since the General Election

·         the number of 16-18 year olds starting apprenticeships is down by 12% in the last year

·         8 out 10 people who’ve been on Work Programme for 2 years have failed to get a sustained job

·         the ‘Youth Contract’ to help young unemployed get a job is set to miss its target by more than 92%

·         two thirds of people hit by the unfair and hated Bedroom Tax are disabled

·         the number of children living in absolute poverty has risen by 300,000 under this Tory-led Govt

·         the IFS estimates that 1.1m more children will be living in poverty by 2010 thanks to this Govt’s policies

·         almost 350,000 people relied on food banks in 2012-13 - compared to 41,000 in 2009-10

·         Michael Gove says families use #foodsbanks because they can't manage their money properly

·         the #NHS has lost 5,445 nurses since David #Cameron became Prime Minister

·         NHS waiting lists are rising

·         David Cameron is cutting 15,000 police officers by 2015

·         response times to 999 calls are rising – night-time emergency response times are up to 30% longer

·         cutting 5,000 #firefighters by 2015

·         the Government is looking at how to privatise the fire and rescue service

·         last year under David Cameron, nursery costs rose six times faster than wages

·         the Tories cut Labour’s help with childcare costs. Families are losing up to £1500 PA in tax-credits

·         David Cameron will have taken up to £7bn a year of support away from children by 2015

·         there are now 566 fewer #Sure Start children’s centres than in 2010

·         more than half of all free schools have opened in areas without a shortage of school places

·         twice as many infants are now being taught in large classes compared to 2010

·         Messrs Cameron and Gove are allowing unqualified teachers to teach in academies and free schools

·         there are now 6,063 fewer teachers than in 2010

·         5,950 teacher trainee places are unfilled this year

·         last year a third of councils reported a cut in the number of after-school clubs

·         housebuilding is at its lowest peacetime level since the 1920s

·         average rents have gone up by 9% since the election – rising faster than wages

·         homelessness is up by 25% since the election

·         the most deprived areas in the country are seeing the biggest cuts in their resources

·         one third of Tory councils have increased Council Tax, despite #Cameron's boasts of a freeze

Britain can do better than this!