.<p>“I don't like <a href="https://c.im/tags/KeirStarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KeirStarmer</span></a>. Give me one good reason why I should vote for Labour!”</p><p>Well let’s take 2019, the last full year before <a href="https://c.im/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a> impacted on everything and skewed figures, this was the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tories</span></a> at their best allegedly 😂😂</p><p>So in 2018-19 in case you missed it at the time...<br>1,000 sure start centres closed.<br>780 libraries closed.<br>750 youth centres closed.<br>Thousands of youth workers made redundant.<br>700 football pitches closed.<br>Food bank use up 2,400%.<br>Homelessness up 1,000%.<br>Rough sleeping up 1,200%<br>Bedroom tax caused mass evictions.<br>Evictions are running at record highs.<br>35% of U.K. kids live in poverty.<br>Student fees up 300%.<br>Student debt has risen 150%.<br>Eradication of EMA (education maintenance allowance).<br>National debt has risen from £850billion to £2.25trillion.<br>Emergency Brexit stimulus from BoE in June 2016 of £175b.<br>Brexit related fall in national revenue £500b.<br>GDP fallen to -0.1%.<br>GBP fallen by circa 15% versus EUR and USD.<br>Manufacturing in recession.<br>Construction in recession.<br>Services close to recession.<br>25-30% cuts to all govt departments.<br>25-30% cuts to all councils, mainly centred on Labour councils.<br>Half of councils facing effective bankruptcy.<br>185k extra deaths attached to the political ideology of austerity.<br>25,000 less police.<br>20,000 less prison officers.<br>10,000 less border officials.<br>10,000 less firefighters.<br>10,000 less medical professionals.<br>25,000 less bed spaces for mental illness.<br>OECD calculate 3 million hidden unemployed, rate is really 13%.<br>Creation of 1.3m jobs, mainly temporary, self employed, gig economy and ZHC.<br>Only 30k full time work positions created.<br>Close on 50% of workers are self employed, ZHC, or part time precariat.<br>80% of the 5.3 million self employed live below the poverty line.<br>35% of self employed only earn £100 a month.<br>25% cuts for our disabled community.<br>80% cuts to Mobility allowance.<br>Closing Remploy.<br>40% of working households have practically no savings.<br>70% of households have less than 10k savings.<br>60% of households can only survive 2 months without a wage.<br>Household debt reaches new peak, despite emergency base rates.<br>Increase of 50% in hate crimes.<br>Increase of knife crime by 150% to 22,000 per year.<br>Increase in teenage suicide by 70%.<br>Suicide up 12% in the year 2018.<br>Self harm among young women up 70%.<br>Life expectancy down 3 years.<br>NHS satisfaction level at lowest recorded rate.<br>Council home building down 90%.<br>200k social homes lost since 2010.<br>Zero starter homes built, despite Tory flagship programme.<br>Council home building down 90%.<br>200k social homes lost since 2010.<br>One million families on council home waiting list.<br>100,000 increase on the council home waiting list since 2010.<br>36,000 teachers have left teaching.</p><p>FFWD to 2022…And how much worse has it got now with fuel poverty, a cost of living crisis generally and the “benefits” of BREXIT kicking in plus continued fallout from mismanagement of COVID.</p><p>FYI I didn’t like Corbyn’s eurosceptic stance given I was a staunch remain voter but I still supported him because he was Labour Leader and I WANTED THE TORIES OUT! I can do that but you can’t vote for Starmer? Who was a remainer lest we forget! </p><p>You don't have to like Starmer! He's not coming for tea! He's not moving next door! I don't like <a href="https://c.im/tags/StrawberryCreams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StrawberryCreams</span></a> but I still buy <a href="https://c.im/tags/QualityStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QualityStreet</span></a>!</p>