The lost decade - report on austerity

Confirming what many of us already know ? It’s a tragedy.

I call it the unicorn age where people will swear they have a wonderful life free from the shackles of the tyrannical EU ?? Maybe they will and just won’t notice those who are struggling.

Our PM has declared that we are entering a 'Golden Age'

Does anyone, apart from our friend Urmstongran, actually believe what Johnson says?

I thought this was rather elderly news; wasn't there some publicity last year about falling life expectancy in the UK?

Boris' "golden age " starting with more cuts despite what he said before the election .Austerity was never a necessity its ideology and it will continue as long as Tories are in power

I think that Johnson just meant that it is a Golden Age for him.

Look at him!

Top Man in the UK and he can have all the holidays he likes at other people's expense (either his rich mates' or the taxpayers'), ignore any sort of crisis affecting UK citizens, and leave his spad to run the country. Shame he gets such a pittance in wages, but I suppose there's always a worm in the apple...

The news this morning was of poorer women die younger. By this I mean the trend is downwards. I expect they will always die younger than rich women. Sadly.

The Tory MP on the Daily Politics struggling with this subject, trying to deny the 10 years of austerity and telling us that all was going to be wonderful from now on. The Daily Telegraph journo trying to explain that it wasn't the poorer women who were dying, it was an international trend and that life expectancy had reduced overall.