Ian Rex-Hawkes

@youdeservebetter.uk

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Financial expert, former martial arts teacher, disabled, photographer, web designer, occasional chess player.

Picture I mocked up during my General Election Campaign last year showing the level of national debt over time, with significant increases under the Tories even during Austerity.
Figures for UK asylum applications. 84,200 in 2024, the highest ever, but 84,100 in 2002, falling to a low of 17,900 in 2010 and then averaging a fairly consistent 27,500 between 2011 and 2020.
Cat dressed in a lion costume
Chart showing the cumulative inflation from 2019 to 2024, including general price increase of around 20% between 2021 and 2023 which still affects us.
Chart showing the tax revenue lost to: Benefit Fraud; Benefit Errors; Benefits Unclaimed (actually a net positive to revenue); Tax Avoided, Evaded and Uncollected according to HMRC estimates; and Tax Avoided, Evaded and Uncollected according to the Tax Justice Network and PCS estimates. Benefit fraud and errors combined was about 1/25 of the lower estimate for tax avoided and evaded.
Chart showing support for Proportional Representation vs First Past The Post among Conservative and Labour voters and MPs. The majority of Conservatives support FPTP, while the majority of Labour voters support PR. Labour MPs are broadly split down the middle, disconnecting them from their voters. Chart refers to the split among Labour MPs as the "Infernal Ratio" of 52% to 48%, as this was also the result of the Brexit referendum.
A chart from the UK Parliament voting record showing Labour almost universally absent from a vote on "Amendment to criminalise water dumping and make water company executives liable for their company's actions" proposed by Lib Dem Tim Farron. Text asks "Where were Labour?"
Chart showing the national debt as a function of GDP - relatively flat from 1998 to 2008, spiking up during the Global Financial Crisis, then continuing to rise during austerity and then spiking up once again during the Covid years.
Chart showing the 3 main parties manifesto pledges for public spending cuts, with Tories at £96bn, Labour at £82bn, Lib Dems at £80bn and the eventual result during the coalition of £81bn