Join us tomorrow for #CostofCameron day

This week we watched as David Cameron’s government presented £25bn of unplanned spending cuts as a sign of victory, desperate to stop talking about the cost-of-living crisis.

This is the context in which we approach #CostofCameron day tomorrow, where Labour’s frontbenchers and activists will be out campaigning in each of our 106 target seats. This is an important moment, as we want to show everyone in those seats that they and their families matter to us and that only Labour has the answers to the cost-of-living crisis they face.

We want you to join us. Find your nearest #CostofCameron event – and sign up to say you’re coming – here.

The Conservatives talk about ‘hard truths’ when the real truth is it’s hard times for people in Britain today. Families are on average £1,600 worse off than when David Cameron’s government came to power – the equivalent of 16 days’ full-time work. Energy bills are up almost £300 and yet the Prime Minister refuses to back Labour’s freeze while the market is reformed in consumers’ interest. Home care charges for the elderly and disabled are up £740 while social care funding is cut. Almost 700,000 people are hit by the bedroom tax which Labour would scrap but Ministers defend. Tuition fees have trebled, rents are up £960 a year and rail fares are up 20% since David Cameron became Prime Minister. This is the #CostofCameron and that’s what’s spurring people to campaign tomorrow.

The cost-of-living crisis is driven by the Government’s economic failure. The lack of growth which followed decisions to cut too far and too fast, sucking demand from our economy, led to failure to balance the books by 2015 and falling living standards for ordinary Britons. A government gleeful about extending this strategy in to the next Parliament is not one guided by workers’ or families’ interests but by party political preoccupations and economic misjudgement. David Cameron is in denial about what’s required for sustainable and balanced recovery for all, and denial that an unspecified £12bn cut from social security amounts to a long-term plan for the country. The Tories think they’re painting Labour in to a corner – but instead we’ll be campaigning in local communities.

Tomorrow will be about sending a message to the Government and to the country, but it is principally about people: the struggling small businessman, the unemployed and worried young people, the parents up late each night discussing how to make ends meet. These are the people who deserve better than a government intent on serving only a privileged few.

We also want to hear how the cost-of-living crisis has affected you. If your daily costs are rising, please take our short survey and share your experience.

If you do come out campaigning, please take and share your pictures of the day with us. Tag your posts on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook with #CostofCameron and we will feature the best throughout the day on our homepage.

Working people are worse off under the Tories and so I hope you’ll help us highlight the damage done by David Cameron and Labour’s plan to grow and earn our way to higher living standards for all.

I hope you’ll join us tomorrow at a local #CostofCameron event and show that anger at abandonment by David Cameron will be met with action to demand Labour’s alternative.