50 billion in tax cuts that only benefit the rich, whilst bankrupting the rest of the country. Make it make sense! trickledowneconomicsdon’twork! To put into perspective what the real world is like. Here’s my ward that I live in (& grew up in these stats)& represent

50% households earn less than 20k a year. child poverty is 31.5% compared to the England rate of 17.1% older people living in poverty 22.8% compared with England 14.2% (both probs higher % now)

People were already needed financial help by @CitizensAdvice way before huge increases across everything but esp energy. Even tho it’s “capped”, it’s still too much I now have 4 separate foodbanks operating for just 1 ward. Asda is limiting cheap food per customer

There is no youth provision other than some sports (trying to fix this but need some funding to pay someone with youth work qualifications) Our playgrounds are older than me & as tired as me! disabled folks can’t afford to go to day centres. Carers get no respite

Got high % of folks being made homeless from private landlords & needing to escape domestic violence & wanting council houses but there’s none. many won’t be able to buy the “affordable houses” built on current poor wages & price increases & debts incurred.

we’ve lost loads of police officers. My ward sits in the North of Donx that doesn’t have its own team. (This is to change {hopefully} next year.) ASB & crime grows & makes building nice things & peoples sense of security harder. I could go on & on & on…

I’ve picked this up from 12yrs of Tory underfunding across every major institution. We’ve been asset stripped. Less libraries. No youth clubs, no after school stuff. Poor GPs working flat out due to the extra work this slow damage does to peoples lives & communities.

There is very little left to take. The low-income are already being crushed under the weight of impossibility. The middle folks now starting to really feel this personally, but felt it in our community. This is the legacy of 12yrs trickle down economics. Where is it?

The Tories successfully told England that the reason why we were in recession, wasn’t cuz the rich in USA banks gambled our £, but because we had too many libraries or youth clubs. I am worried for all of us with these tax cuts. That only benefit the rich, AGAIN.

This is slow-hard-violence that affects at least 60% of the population. Who will have felt this. Seen this. Wondering why things look so depressed. This is a 12 yrs trickle down economics legacy. That’s before another 50 billion in tax cuts. SLOW VIOLENCE. It causes harm.