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I'm living in the UK (Edinburgh) and I definitely feel like everything has gotten worse. The facts - on waiting times, strike days, inflation, wage stagnation, inequality etc. - speak for themselves. But there is also just a general feeling of malaise and decay.

I will say that the large population of increasingly Facebook-addled Boomers really don't help. These are people who've paid off their mortgage, can collect rental income, are becoming pensioners, and generally vote against immigration, against public spending, and for lower tax rates. They're also massive consumers of NHS resources. We're going to be supporting these people with our taxes for decades to come. Meanwhile the Government has consistently failed to support productivity growth or infrastructure investment, and our whole economy is oriented around the service sector in London and a handful of other cities.

The only alternative prospectus (Corbyn's "Green New Deal") was trashed by the established media, and his successor is now delivering bromides about national unity and being "tough on crime". He's also put EU integration completely off the menu. Nobody in power seems to grasp the scale of the economic and demographic crisis we're facing. It's not great.