Thread by @uk_domain_names

A devastating Tory decade, in 10 graphs...

1. Wages have still not returned to pre-recession levels after accounting for inflation. The Tories have presided over a decade of wage stagnation. Here's the very latest ONS data from November 2019...
ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…

2. The Tories have cut over 20,000 police in England and Wales (their talk of hiring 20,000 more would still leave us about 1,000 short of the figure before the Tories came to power.)
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

3. Meanwhile, knife crime is up. A lot.
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04…

4. Total spending per pupil has fallen approx. 8% in real terms between 2009-10 and 2017-18. (The government was later accused of misrepresenting the data in the IFS report, which fact checkers found to be correct.)
ifs.org.uk/uploads/public…

5. Waiting list for hospital admissions has grown under the Tories, and a record number of people are now waiting for hospital treatment.
researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefi…

6. Patients are facing much *much* longer waits in A&E.
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-…

7. The 62-day waiting time target for cancer treatment hasn't been met since 2013. I'm sure everyone knows somebody who's been affected by this. I certainly do.
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-…

8. After inflation, local authority spending has fallen on everything except children's social care. Overall, it's fallen 30% per person in real terms due to government cuts.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

9. Planning changes have allowed authorities to eat into the Green Belt. In total, 13,200 hectares of Green Belt land has been lost since 2010. That's nearly 51 square miles! (You could argue we needed to do so to build more houses. But it's still a stat.)
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

10. After declining after the financial crash, personal insolvencies have soared again following the Brexit vote.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

11. Racial and religious hate crime is up sharply in England and Wales. Note the spike immediately after the referendum, which caused a step change in the number of crimes. And it's on the rise again.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

12. House building has barely regained pre-financial crash long term trend after a decade of fewer houses being built. These are actual figures, i.e. they don't take into account population growth. No wonder house prices have risen a lot over recent years!
gov.uk/government/sta…

13. Aftermath of the Brexit vote has precipitated the longest decline in business investment since the financial crisis...
ons.gov.uk/economy/grossd…

14. Levels of domestic abuse incidents and domestic abuse crimes have risen steadily.
psni.police.uk/globalassets/i…

15. Ever-increasing numbers of people have had their benefits capped. (Average effect: loss of £53/week per household.)
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

16. Life expectancy improvements have stalled since 2011. (It could be coincidence in that we happened to hit the limits of science at the exact moment the Tories came to office. It could be austerity. It could be many things.)
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

17. Number of people sleeping rough has risen 165% since 2010.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

18. Growth in the average weekly income of pensioners stalled since 2010 after a long period of upward growth.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

19. The number of people on zero hours contracts skyrocketed under the Tories. (It is important to note that many new "opportunities" have opened up in recent years, like food deliveries, Uber, ecommerce deliveries etc.)
ons.gov.uk/employmentandl…

20. UK GDP per capita has not improved since 2010, according to IMF data.
imf.org/external/datam…

21. The number of households in temporary accommodation has risen to levels not seen since before the financial crisis.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

22. After improving for several years, the "tax gap" (the amount of money HMRC believes it should be able to recoup in taxes, but hasn't been able to) is rising again.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

23. Public sector net debt has risen very substantially since 2010. From just over £1 trillion when the Tories took power in 2010, it's bumping up against £1.8 trillion now.
ons.gov.uk/economy/govern…

24. The number of emergency 3-day food supplies distributed by the Trussell Trust network of food banks has reached an all-time high.
trusselltrust.org/2019/11/13/apr…

25. The number of firefighters has fallen by 21.7% under the Tories, since 2010.
bbc.co.uk/news/50395117

(Just a quick note at this point to say that none of the above is related to our EU membership. This is all home-grown wrecking by the Tories.)

Will continue to add new entries below here as I come across them, so watch this space.

26. Mortgage possession claims have increased for 5 consecutive quarters...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

27. Reported injury and ill health incidents have increased by a statistically significant amount per capita amongst UK Armed Forces, MOD Civilian, and Cadet Forces personnel between 2014/15 and 2018/19.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

28. The timetable for raising the state pension age for women accelerated twice under the Tories, in 2011 and again in 2014.
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-…

29. Since 2015, 127 HM Courts & Tribunal Service locations have closed, leaving just 329 sites. A further 12 are scheduled for closure.
nao.org.uk/other/hm-court…

30. The number of patients having to wait more than 28 days for their elective operation after it was cancelled ("breach rate") has risen significantly over recent years, even as the overall number of cancellations remained low.
england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-…

31. "Official error" underpayments on Employment and Support Allowance payments hit their highest rate ever in 2018/2019. These amounted to £470 million that claimants missed out on.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

32. The "mandatory reconsideration" time for PIP claimants disputing a DWP decision reached an all-time high of 69 days in July 2019. New claim times have also spiked recently.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

33. Corporation tax rates under the Tories have fallen to a record low of 19%. (Could be good, could be bad. Depends on perspective. But it's a fact!)
tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom…

34. Funding for youth services and for the Sure Start programme has been butchered since 2010/11. Overall, spending on children's social care has also fallen.
nao.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

35. Fuel duty freezes since 2010 have cost the Treasury nearly £50 billion in lost tax revenue. You can see the effect on this OBR graph. Every curve gets reset to the baseline when the Government announced a freeze. (Bad for the environment too.)
obr.uk/forecasts-in-d…

36. Tories underfunded the NHS, as they always do...
bbc.co.uk/news/health-50…

33. Corporation tax rates under the Tories have fallen to a record low of 19%. (Could be good, could be bad. Depends on perspective. But it's a fact!)
tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom…

34. Funding for youth services and for the Sure Start programme has been butchered since 2010/11. Overall, spending on children's social care has also fallen.
nao.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Fuel duty freezes since 2010 have cost the Treasury over £46 billion in lost tax revenue. The cost of this giveaway to motorists is now running at over £8 billion/year. Bad for the environment too, as it encourages car use over public transport use.
parliament.uk/written-questi…

36. Spending on public services has been cut since 2010. Excluding DHSS spend, it's down 16%. That's per year! (Don't be fooled by the upturn on the RHS of the graph - that's only projected future spending).
ifs.org.uk/publications/1…

37. Adult social care spending has been cut between 2009/10 and 2017/18 for all but the richest areas (even in those areas, it has been cut *per person*). And it has been cut by far the most in the poorest areas.
ifs.org.uk/uploads/BN240.…

38. Council service spending per person has been cut between 2009/10 and 2017/18, but the richest areas only saw a 17% cut whereas the poorest suffered a 32% cut. Factoring in other spending, the difference is even starker.
ifs.org.uk/uploads/BN240.…

39. Funding for bus services has been eviscerated, and over 3,000 bus services have been reduced, altered or withdrawn since 2010/11.
bettertransport.org.uk/sites/default/…

40. More and more prisoners are getting handed very long (>10 year) prison sentences.
prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Docu…

41. Assaults and serious assaults in prison are at their highest ever level.
prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Docu…

42. Council tax has soared, with average increases over 4% for each of the last 3 years.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…