This is one of the posts that he shared recently on Facebook - it sums up more succinctly than I can why the Tory Govt. needs to go!
Here are 50 more broken Tory promises from the first five years of failure in Downing Street:
We will balance the books by 2015
THE TRUTH: Britain still has a budget deficit of £90billion
We will pay down Britain’s debts
THE TRUTH: George Osborne has borrowed over £500billion in five years - more than Labour did in 13
We will get net immigration down to the tens of thousands
THE TRUTH: Net immigration is almost 300,000 per year
No more top-down reorganisations of the NHS
THE TRUTH: £3billion wasted on the biggest reorganisation in NHS history
We will improve your living standards
THE TRUTH: Families £1,600-a-year worse off than in 2010
We will deport more foreign criminals
THE TRUTH: The number of foreign crooks on our streets soars 20%
We will keep our nation’s defences strong
THE TRUTH: Army hacked back by 20,000 troops to its lowest level since the Napoleonic wars
We will not raise VAT
THE TRUTH: VAT hiked to 20%, costing the average family £450-a-year
We will protect the vulnerable from the cuts
THE TRUTH: Cruel welfare sanctions force one million people to use food banks
We’re all in it together
THE TRUTH: Millionaires get a £100,000-a-year tax cut - the poor get the £15-a-week Bedroom Tax
GP access promised 12 hours a day, seven days a week
THE TRUTH: Patients face a 10-day wait to see their family doctor
We will get tough on illegal immigrants
THE TRUTH: Home Office loses track of 174,000 illegal immigrants
We will get tough on tax avoidance
THE TRUTH: The Treasury is still missing out on an estimated £34billion a year
We will stop the closure of A&E and maternity wards
THE TRUTH: Dozens closed or downgraded since 2010
We will cut the number of MPs by 10%
THE TRUTH: Not a single MP has been cut
We will get Britain building again
THE TRUTH: Lowest level of house-building since the war
We will have more small schools with smaller class sizes
THE TRUTH: Number of infants in oversized classes up 200%
We will protect front-line policing
THE TRUTH: 17,000 cops get the boot
We will support families through the tax and benefits system
THE TRUTH: The average family loses £1,100 through tax and benefit changes
We will be the Greenest Government Ever
THE TRUTH: Cameron tells his Ministers to “cut the green cr*p”
We will work towards ending child poverty by 2020
THE TRUTH: 300,000 more kids plunged into poverty
We will enhance the status of teachers
THE TRUTH: Teachers’ pay cut in real terms year after year and their status publicly attacked from Michael Gove
We will revolutionise cancer care
THE TRUTH: The key cancer treatment waiting time target missed for the past four quarters
We will cut the number of highly-paid special advisers in Government
THE TRUTH: Number of special advisers soars by 50%
We will support and improve Sure Start
THE TRUTH: 763 Sure Start centres closed and many more scaled down
We will break down barriers between health and social care
THE TRUTH: Social care funding slashed by £3.5billion as part of attack on town hall budgets
We will restore trust in politics
THE TRUTH: The Tories trouser £30million in donations from hedge funds – which were given a huge tax cut in 2013
We will protect our NHS
THE TRUTH: 40% of NHS contracts handed to private health firms
We will revolutionise prisoner rehab
THE TRUTH: Prison escapes, assaults and suicides all soar as inmates are locked in overcrowded cells for 23 hours a day
We will increase spending on vital flood defences
THE TRUTH: Flood defence spending cut by £247million – and thousands of homes are flooded
We will fight for the union
THE TRUTH: Cameron talks up the SNP to punish Labour and unveils plans to downgrade Scottish MPs at Westminster
We will tackle inequality
THE TRUTH: The richest 1% of Britons now own the same amount of wealth as 54% of the population.
We will treat white collar crime as seriously as other crimes
THE TRUTH: 90% of cyber-crime is allowed to go undetected
No more winter crises in hospital
THE TRUTH: A&E departments in meltdown with one in five patients not seen within the four hour target.
We will invest in our schools
THE TRUTH: Plans to build more than 700 new schools across Britain brutally axed
We will help the disabled into suitable jobs
THE TRUTH: Remploy factories shut down and disabled people subjected to cruel Atos tests
We will make our borders more secure
THE TRUTH: Customs checks for dangerous drugs and weapons scaled back dramatically
We will keep supporting our young people
THE TRUTH: More than 2,000 youth workers axed and at least 350 youth centres closed
We will create security for British businesses
THE TRUTH: HSBC is amongst a raft of UK firms unsettled by Cameron’s EU referendum pledge.
We will not means-test child benefit
THE TRUTH: Child benefit means-tested and then cut for better-off families
We have no plans to get rid of the Education Maintenance Allowance
THE TRUTH: Six months later it is axed completely
We have no plans to get rid of Labour’s Future Jobs Fund
THE TRUTH: Six months later it is axed completely
We will improve Britain’s productivity
THE TRUTH: Productivity is 21% lower than the G7 average
We will deal with long-term unemployment with our ‘Work Programme’
THE TRUTH: More than 650,000 people are left off work for more than a year.
We will bring in 3,000 more midwives
THE TRUTH: Cameron misses his target by almost a third
We will create the “right sort of jobs” to spread prosperity “for the many not the few”
THE TRUTH: 1.7million zero hours contracts handed out in Cameron’s low-pay Britain
No-one will be made homeless by our welfare cuts
THE TRUTH: Rough sleeping up 55% since 2010
We will not allow cuts to front-line services
THE TRUTH: Services are cut across the board, from nearly 500 public libraries to over 1,000 lollipop ladies
We will not cut the NHS
THE TRUTH: The NHS is forced to find £5billion of ‘efficiency savings’ – cuts by any other name
We will have head-to-head TV debates like in 2010
THE TRUTH: Cameron was too chicken to take part
And there will no doubt be more of the same. If you think this is wrong, please join the Labour Party today and help us put things right. https://join.labour.org.uk/
