“We are teetering on the edge of a return to the Victorian slums and poverty conditions of a bygone era. So-called ‘Victorian’ diseases are on the rise with scurvy, rickets and malnutrition at an all-time high in recent years.”
We’ve reached the apotheosis of Thatcher’s vision for Britain, the return to the ‘Victorian values’ of philanthropy filling the gap of a non existent welfare state and a class existing who have to work hard just to survive, whilst obligingly remaining poor.