Why We Need A Labour Government – By The Numbers

These are some of the problems the UK faces as a result of nearly 10 years of Tory/Lib Dem rule.

• Record A&E waiting times

• NHS waiting lists up 70%

• 100,000 unfilled vacancies in the NHS

• NHS staff doing 1,000,000 hours of unpaid overtime per week to keep the system running as a result of government underfunding

• 72 deaths at Grenfell, 200 students without accommodation because government is doing nothing about unsafe cladding whilst Fire Services are cut to the bone

• Child poverty up 50%

• Food Bank use up 1,000%

• Homelessness up 170%

• 9,000 people sleeping rough

• 126,000 homeless children

• 21,000 police cuts and 600 police stations closed

• Crime up 30%

• £11 million spent on commemorative 50p pieces only to then smelt them down

All of this in the 5th richest country in the world

You deserve better than this.

Only a Labour Government has the policies and the will to tackle these and the myriad other problems facing people in the UK today.

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This article first appeared on the Labour International Website. Reproduced with permission.