Litany of disasters left by 14 years of Conservative rule

✒ THE statistics keep coming.

Fourteen years of Tory rule leaves us with 8% of pensioners failing to eat regularly because of heating costs and other bills.

Nine children in any state school class of 30 are living in poverty (defined as family income below 0% of the national average).

The Government has allocated money for 82 major repairs in state schools this year to make them “safe and in working order”; this stat is down by 0% in a year because our Government can’t afford to make any other repairs while buckets on desks to catch the rain are so common they go unreported.

Teachers state that in some classrooms hands are too cold to write.

70% of families needing help with the cost of uniform and food have at least one parent in work.

Meanwhile, the average cost of a year at a private school is now £35,300.

The wealthiest five families in the UK have more than £23 billion each, the richest 10% in our country have 43% of “our” wealth and the poorest 50% have 9%.

1.9 million on the waiting list for mental health treatment including 40,000 children on that list untreated after more than two years. Anti-depressant drugs now being given to children aged under 10.

Pothole numbers are calculated by the AA at six per mile yet Sky News states that £21bn of Government spending has been lost since the start of Covid, some of it in those ‘VIP’ deals for useless medical equipment given out to ministers’ friends. The same ministers say the sums must be written off (in order to hide Government inefficiency and corruption).

At present Tory MPs intend to quit their jobs (and many more to come) at the next election, perhaps feeling that Government incompetence is such that they can no longer serve the party that prides itself on being the “party of opportunity”.

Opportunity for whom? Obviously people like the bosses of the FTSE 100 top companies all of who earn more than £500,000 annually, excluding “perks”.

The Rwanda scheme intended to “solve” the “invasion” by desperate migrants will, if ever started, remove 300 people at a cost of £1.8m each (Government figure).

And our leaders, irrespec