So austerity politics is doing exactly what it was designed to do, ie. killing poor people?

“Okay but hear me out, if people are dead we no longer have to throw away perfectly good tax money on them, which would be better spent on X” - Tories

(Just replace X with whatever you like, stopping small boats, propping up boomer pensions, funding private schools, improving the police force’s response times and manpower to improve suppression and arrest numbers at peaceful protests, ensuring that hundreds of thousands of people who need social care or benefits don’t receive them because what if one guy somewhere might be trying to game the system?!, etc etc)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

More than 1 million people in England died prematurely in the decade after 2011 owing to a combination of poverty, austerity and Covid, according to “shocking” new research by one of the UK’s leading public health experts.

Using Office for National Statistics figures, the report’s author Prof Peter Goldblatt looked at the life expectancy of people across England who do not live in the wealthiest 10% of areas.

He urged political leaders to do more to tackle the fact that poorer people are at much higher risk of getting and dying from illnesses, which are closely linked to poverty, poor housing and unemployment.

Previous research has shown that policies introduced by the Labour governments between 1997 and 2010, which focused on early years and education, were beginning to reduce glaring health inequalities.

“Fourteen years of Conservative wreckage of Labour’s legacy has left our country with an NHS on its knees, an increasingly unhealthy society, with appalling consequences for people.

“Important as is the NHS – publicly funded and free at the point of use – action is needed on the social determinants of health: the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age.

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