[
  {
    "id": "electoral-info-gap-2025",
    "value": "49%",
    "claim": "Only 49% of people in England said they had enough information on candidates to make an informed choice in May 2025 polling.",
    "context": "The democratic gap is not only turnout. It is information quality, local media weakness, and whether voters can see who is asking for power.",
    "sourceLabel": "Electoral Commission",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre/strong-confidence-running-elections-appetite-more-voter-information",
    "sourceDate": "9 July 2025",
    "checkedAt": "19 April 2026",
    "status": "Verified source link",
    "usedOn": [
      "Home proof card",
      "Public operating system article",
      "Receipts stream"
    ],
    "notes": "Use as the opening case for radically legible local candidate and issue information."
  },
  {
    "id": "local-election-turnout-2025",
    "value": "34%",
    "claim": "Turnout in the May 2025 local elections in England stood at 34%.",
    "context": "Low turnout is not a reason to sneer at voters. It is a product-design failure in democracy: unclear stakes, low trust, and weak local information.",
    "sourceLabel": "Electoral Commission",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre/strong-confidence-running-elections-appetite-more-voter-information",
    "sourceDate": "9 July 2025",
    "checkedAt": "19 April 2026",
    "status": "Verified source link",
    "usedOn": [
      "Home proof card",
      "Public operating system article",
      "Receipts stream"
    ],
    "notes": "Pair with the 49% information gap to explain why FU focuses on useful public proof and local signal quality."
  },
  {
    "id": "housing-affordability-england-2024",
    "value": "7.7x",
    "claim": "In 2024, the median home in England cost 7.7 times the median annual earnings of a full-time employee.",
    "context": "Housing scarcity is not abstract ideology. It is the everyday price of a country that lets veto power outrank future households.",
    "sourceLabel": "Office for National Statistics",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/housingaffordabilityinenglandandwales/2024",
    "sourceDate": "24 March 2025",
    "checkedAt": "19 April 2026",
    "status": "Verified source link",
    "usedOn": [
      "Home proof card",
      "Future-bias article",
      "Growth Index method"
    ],
    "notes": "Strong candidate for share cards and local affordability comparisons when Growth Index data goes live."
  },
  {
    "id": "wage-stagnation-15000",
    "value": "GBP15k",
    "claim": "Resolution Foundation framed British workers as living through a two-decade wage stagnation costing around GBP15,000.",
    "context": "The pro-growth argument needs to connect national stagnation to personal lost capacity, not just GDP abstractions.",
    "sourceLabel": "Resolution Foundation",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/press-releases/british-workers-are-living-through-a-two-decade-wage-stagnation-costing-15000/",
    "sourceDate": "18 November 2022",
    "checkedAt": "19 April 2026",
    "status": "Verified source link",
    "usedOn": [
      "Home proof card",
      "Future-bias article",
      "Receipts stream"
    ],
    "notes": "Label as a think-tank framing rather than official statistic."
  }
]