Broken Britain: Labour’s Policy
Homelessness
According to Shelter 109,000 households are homeless in temporary accommodation - up 10% in a year - including 142,490 children – up 14% in a year.
Labour does NOT include ending homelessness in Keir Starmer’s “Five Missions" that are at the centre of his party's promise to voters.
Child Poverty
4.3 million children were living in poverty in the UK during the period 2022/23 – 30% of ALL the nations children.
Labour does NOT include ending child poverty in Keir Starmer's “Five Missions"
Food Banks
Nearly 3 million emergency food parcels were distributed by food banks between April 2022 and April 2023, 760,00 people using food banks for the first time. The number of children in "material deprivation" wherein families cannot afford to feed themselves was 1.9 million.
Labour does NOT include ending poverty in Keir Starmer's “Five Missions"
Water Pollution
According to the Environment Agency there were 3.6 million hours of spills of raw sewage into Britain’s waterways and beaches compared to 1.75 million hours in 2022. Not a single river in England is now rated as healthy.
Labour does NOT include environmental cleanup and protection in Keir Starmer's “Five Missions"
Social Care of the Elderly
Chronic under-funding, severe staff shortages and a growing elderly population has brought the social care sector to crisis point and on the verge of collapse. According to Age UK 2.6 million people over 50 years of age have unmet social care needs, while many thousands languish in hospital for lack of a social care plan for living in their own homes.
Labour does NOT include social care reform in Keir Starmer's “Five Missions"
The Labour Party’s number one priority isn’t to help the poor, the homeless, the elderly or to protect the environment. It is to secure:
…“the "highest sustained growth" in the G7 group of rich nations, made up of the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, by the end of Labour's first term.”
Strangely enough within Sunak’s “five promises” he emphasizes growing the economy above all else. Its all very well “growing the economy", but WHO are we growing the economy for, and who will benefit from any future growth?
After 14 years of Tory government the poor have become steadily worse off while the rich have prospered. The continued redistribution of the nation's wealth from poor to rich is a national scandal, leading to the UK “having some of the highest levels of inequality in Europe.” Unfortunately, even if Labour should win the next election, this inequality is likely to continue.
