MaggieRainbow ... you are all pathetic class ideology, no facts, if you refuse to see the damage the 'party of the people', with an ex postman, ex ship steward and other simple folk managed to inflict on the poor with all those billions to spend - and choosing to always blame the Conservative Party that sorts it out - including Thatcher, were YOU around in 1976 when Labour called out the IMF to financially bail us out and the UK was disappearing up its own arse hole, I was.
Labour over 13-years build up a client State BIGGER than the private sector that could support it, hence needing to borrow over £30 bil a year ON TOP of record tax receipts from a banking bubble before the crash, JUST TO SUPPORT IT - so it was always going to go tits up at the first recession when the state had to also support the unemployed as tax receipts crashed.
Labours policies was encouraging the landlords by screwing private pensions in their first year and lowering Capital Gains Tax (the real millionaires tax) to record lows (10%) - together with a 2000 secret policy to encourage migrants in before 2004 and not building anywhere near enough homes- why do you think they'd be no fall out from those POLICIES, not the fallout Cameron inherited?
Shelter (2009); The housing crisis in numbers – and the need for spare bedrooms, never mind homes.
england.shelter.org.uk/campaigns/why_we_campaign/the_housing_crisis/what_is_the_housing_crisis.
• Over 1.7 million households (around 5 million individuals) are currently waiting for social housing
• 7.4 million homes in England fail to meet the Government's Decent Homes Standard
• 1.4 million children in England live in bad housing. [3]
• In 2008/09, 654,000 households in England were overcrowded. [4]
The number of new households is increasing faster than the number of house builds
Labour just put up taxes to the poor, not take millions out of tax, had no idea how to create non government jobs when the Conservatives have created over 2 million.
In 2005 there were around 500,000 unemployed 16-24 year olds, around 700,000 before the crash began in 2007 and nearly 1 million by 2010 - spot the trend, as real earning fell under Labour from 2008 and Labour was 'helping' the poor by putting up National Insurance to employer and employee, so a tax on jobs.
Judging political parties by a Food Bank is just pig ignorant, as god knows what the take up would have been if Labour were returned to power in 2010 - as all the damage to the economy/jobs was done BEFORE then.