We can sketch out the headlines that many of us will be most concerned about if manifesto policies are implemented: Human Rights Act repeal; £12bn in further welfare cuts; continued injustice and court backlogs from legal aid cuts; housing benefit withdrawals and "compulsory volunteering" for under-25s; possible tuition fee increases; and the eye-watering prospect of continued deep cuts to local authorities. None of these will fall upon a society or a voluntary service sector in robust shape to bear them well. Too many families are at breaking point already - reliant on food banks, struggling with unaffordable debts, working three insecure jobs and still not earning enough from them to meet their basic needs.
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