1. sources for your numbers rather than just random numbers thrown out on the internet
2. not using specific city data, i.e. look at national census-type level data. because if you look at the largest cities in the UK you're going to see effects/changes which are local to those cities, and not nationally applicable. manc/brum are still not representative of the whole country.
You're still cherry picking your statistics, which is how to lie with stats 101 (i did that for a job for 3+ years, i know all the wily tricks dude).
Feel free to keep going, but you'll just be cherry picking more and more un-representative samples until you start using national level census-type data.