Education hammered by this govt!? You must be having a laugh. I've never met such an incompetent generation as those schooled under 13 years of Labour government. That's probably why the Greens, Labour and lib dems tell us we need so much immigration to get the skills we need. Skills that from growing up in the 80s and 90s we didn't appear to need in such large numbers.
As for poverty, you say that like 13 years of the last tax and spend Labour government got that issue cracked. 'If' there is more poverty in the last 7 years you need look no further than Labour for leaving the country in the state they did and the Tories making the difficult choices to get it fixed.
The problem with Labour is they seem to think every problem is solved by continually throwing more money at it. One trick ponies. The problem is there isn't a limitless supply of that so guess what you have to make difficult choices.
That isn't because I don't want a first class health service, free at the point of need, or the best education system in the world, or no one living in poverty, it just so happens that the real world and real life choices get in the way.
Anecdotally, my wife saw a beautiful Versace bag the other day, unfortunately, I didn't have the money to buy her that so I got her the Michael Kors instead, same size, same colour, could hold the same amount but a fraction of the price. You see its all about value and the outcome was a good one. I didn't get out the plastic and pretend she could have whatever bag she wanted just to make her happy because eventually the credit would get maxed out and the bank would want repaying.
Socialists are well meaning but totally misguided.