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Homelessness has increased massively under the Tories – AFTER 449 rough sleepers died in a single year

This is a shocking indication of the Conservative government’s real policy towards the homeless.

Last year, I quoted a report that homelessness had increased by 134 per cent since the general election in 2010. Today, that figure stands at 169 per cent. That is an enormous increase.

Worse still, after the Conservatives announced that they were going to end homelessness by 2027, we have discovered that 449 rough sleepers died within a single year.

That’s compared with 300 deaths over five years, between 2013 and April this year.

I have said the real Tory policy isn’t to end homelessness by getting rough sleepers into homes and jobs; the plan is to kill these people off. By that standard, I imagine the Tories think 449 deaths is a good start.

Anyone with the slightest speck of decency about them would consider it an abomination against some of the most vulnerable people of the United Kingdom.

Labour has made a video clip to hammer the facts home:

And some of our favourite campaigners made it personal, pointing out that people like Theresa May (for example) have not been honest with us:

The figures should make it perfectly clear that there is no way the Conservatives will ever make life better for people who have been reduced to living rough on the streets.

And let’s be clear on this: Rough sleepers aren’t “scroungers”. They aren’t “lazy”. They haven’t chosen to live that way, either.

The figures don’t lie.

They became homeless because the Tory government wanted them to be. And now they are dying because the Tory government wants them to die.

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The facts on rough sleeping are against the Tories – so they lie

Mapped out: This graph shows the increase in the number of rough sleepers in the UK since the Conservatives took office.

The Conservatives have been caught lying about the number of people sleeping rough in the UK.

They said fewer people were sleeping rough now than when Labour left office in 2010; in fact there has been a 169 per cent increase.

The Tories have a flagship policy to eliminate rough sleeping by 2027, and have announced an increase in funding of £100 million to achieve this aim.

… Except none of this is new money. Half had already been committed to the policy, and the rest had been “reprioritised” from other existing budgets.

The Conservative government is doing what it always does – trying to fool you that the poor are better-off than the evidence shows. Meanwhile, their policies continue to ruin lives across the UK.

[Communities Secretary James Brokenshire’s Parliamentary Private Secretary falsely claimed on the BBC’s Westminster Hour that] the number of rough sleepers is now lower than it was when the Tories came to power.

“That number is by the way lower than it was when the last labour government left office in 2010,” he said.

He admitted the figure had gone up in the last year, but claimed: “In recent years it’s been rising but it’s still lower than it was when Labour left office.”

This is untrue.

According to government figures, the number of people sleeping rough was estimated at around 1,768.

The most recent estimate for 2017 was 4,751 – a total estimated increase of 169% since the Tories came to power.

Source: Tory minister admits none of £100 million ‘boost’ for rough sleeping is new money – Mirror Online

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