ANOTHER week, more news and statistics about broken services and systems letting people down. Universal Credit, social care, family support, health and housing - the list goes on. Each one a national scandal that should be dominating the headlines, but instead the stories are too often getting lost as Brexit stumbles on.

Meanwhile in York I’ve had another week of meeting the real people behind these stories.

People living in desperate circumstances after being failed by this Government and our council, whose stories are too painful to share.

People whose lives are being ruined by political indifference and impoverished services.

People whose misery continues as the systems say “no” and they are forced to beg for basic food, shelter and justice.

People who are living reminders that these systematic failures are not just abstract things, but a harsh reality with serious consequence.

Universal Credit that has cost £1.9bn to implement and is responsible for a 52per cent increase in foodbank use.

I’m hearing from families in York who are going for months and months with no money, and can’t afford to feed and clothe their children.

The Government knows the system is broken, but rather than pausing the roll-out and fixing the problems, it carries on like a juggernaut wrecking people’s lives and denying them the support they need.

Sick people in our city are being denied Personal Independence Payments, often following lengthy and humiliating assessments.

Nationally, we know that 71 per cent of these PIP decisions that are the cause of so much stress and hardship, later go on to be overturned at appeal.

Then we have housing. After decades of being good tenants people are coming to me because they are being thrown out of their council homes, not due to any fault of their own but because of punitive bureaucracy and barbaric policies that our Tory/LibDem council have chosen to implement.

Despite my special pleading these evictions continue to ruin people’s lives.

But it isn’t just homes that are at risk, but families too.

Without the support parents need, families are struggling and at times children are being removed. Why? Because local authority budgets have been slashed by 50 per cent since 2010.

Our political leaders have lost touch with the consequences of their decisions, so this council ends up failing the very people they are meant to help.

As for mental health, too many of us are broken and have not got the services to help us rebuild our lives.

Everyone knows someone with mental health challenges, and the struggles they are having to get the support they need.

The politicians in charge have forgotten what they are there for. They have lost any compassion, vision, and determination to turn their situations around, leaving us with no hope in sight.

Of course, it is always the poorest, the most vulnerable, who are the ones who have to pay the price. I came into politics to be their voice.

It simply doesn’t have to be this way. We need politicians to have a vision and to take action. Take Bootham Park. I am grateful to the 8,385 people who signed my petition.

I have challenged the assumption that cash rich developers have a right to buy our public land, and I have built an alternative vision for the future of healthcare on the site that puts the needs of York people before a one-off profit.

This is just one example. There is so much more I can point to.

Every case I deal with I can see the solutions, I also see how different decisions could have prevented problems from occurring.

Labour nationally and locally are saying that politics can be so different.

I just hope that you come on that journey to show how we can restore and transform our city and nation.