The UK has "enjoyed" nearly 10 years of post 2008 austerity, destroying services, reducing spending on health, education, social care, everything really. Health

The UK has "enjoyed" nearly 10 years of post 2008 austerity, destroying services, reducing spending on health, education, social care, everything really. Health waiting lists have risen to the highest levels for decades, mental health care has essentially become dysfunctional. The resultant effect on life expectancy isn't surprising. For the UK at least, it's policy. The main alternative political party spends more time making itself unpopular than opposing the government, or we may have voted in a change years ago.