Thread by @rail_guns

This isn't just good leaflet copy, this is why politics matters and different parties aren't all "just the same".

Here's a collection of similarly devastating graphs

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Food bank usage.

I can remember when food banks weren't a major part of public discourse.

I can now name about 10 organisations delivering similar services in Oxford alone.

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Largest reduction in real living standards since ONS records began in the 1950s

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Average weekly earnings compared to pre-2008 trend

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UK public spending as percentage of GDP. Is it any wonder _nothing_ works in the UK now?

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Lots of inequality ones, let's start with straightforward Gini coefficient, not good.

(These are all from )

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Regional inequality (7/11)

Inter-generational inequality, through the lens of home ownership (8/11)

Health inequality, though the lens of the postcode lottery of cancer survival (9/11)

Child poverty (10/11)

This is the most awful one. Average height of five-year old boys 1990-2020.

Politics matters and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.