One million foodbank visits.
No, not because we all like to get something for free. Everyone now lives at least quite close to one. Why are we all not going to them? Simply because they insist on proof of need.
Even Norman Tebbit has had to admit that. When he is not telling people to vote Labour. Very Enoch.
So this level of need is very, very real. If anything, there are probably still people who are too proud.
Yet this is not the worst of the benefit sanctions regime, a scandal surpassed only by the blacking out of it by the media, and especially by the BBC.
Beyond that, vastly more people in work now depend on Housing Benefit payable, of course and necessarily, to their landlords. But look at who and what those landlords now are, and at how they behave towards those tenants.
Or take, for example, the fact that workers in the South West are £2000 worse off under this Government.
I spent the Parliament that has just been dissolved arguing that, with the selection of the right local candidates, and with the ploughing in of enough cash and other effort by the unions and others, the Coalition had given Labour had a one-off chance to capture scores of previously unimaginable seats.
Ho, hum. At least those people's living standards will be raised by and under Ed Miliband. But there could have been so much more for them than that. One Nation?
I spent the Parliament that has just been dissolved arguing that, with the selection of the right local candidates, and with the ploughing in of enough cash and other effort by the unions and others, the Coalition had given Labour had a one-off chance to capture scores of previously unimaginable seats.
Ho, hum. At least those people's living standards will be raised by and under Ed Miliband. But there could have been so much more for them than that. One Nation?
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