Thread by @dgurdasani1

When do we say a nation has failed?
-policies deliberately put children at risk - & penalise parents who try to safeguard children against govt policy
-lack of access to routine & emergent healthcare
-lack of social nets for the poorest
-4 million children living in poverty
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-reduction in life expectance from preventable disease
-Fuel & energy shortages
-food supply shortages
-increased reliance on foodbanks
-government corruption with minimal consequence
-non-independence of state media
-non-independence of public health institutions in a pandemic

-lack of basic protections for frontline workers
-infiltration of scientific discourse by disinformation and misinformation lobby groups and pseudoscience
-lack of accountability for a media promoting misinformation
-gagging and victimisation of whistleblowers (e.g. NHS)

-lack of media or political opposition to dangerous policies that have led to loss of life in a crisis
-rise in homelessness year on year
-lack of funding to allow basic 5 days/wk education in schools
-corruption of supposedly meritocratic systems (e.g. the honours system)

-concentration of power and lack of accountability of government
-loss in real wages for most workers
-consistent drops in productivity and weak economic growth

<feel free to add more below>