that we have a generous welfare state except that it is so badly organised and the new system is so complex, that individuals and families can find themselves without food to eat because payments have been delayed for weeks at a time or vary by large amounts from month to month making budgeting impossible, where most people who are refused disability payments get them on appeal, but that often leaves them six months or more without the needed money, back dating is no consolation because until the appeal is heard they do not know what the result will be
when high employment many of those on benefits are actually in work, but do not earn enough to take them above the poverty line and a national unemployment rate hides the variation between areas with almost full employment and areas where unemployment is still very high
free healthcare tell that to those people refused cataract and hip replacement surgery among many conditions, who are refused the operation because they are not considered ill enough or in enough pain or sufficiently disabled to be considered for the operation.Or the parents of that little boy who died because an overworked doctor in a hospital whose computer system had broken down failed to diagnose sepsis.
free education schools strapped for cash, sacking teachers and support staff, with leaking roofs they cannot repair because they do not have the funding and with class size growing
I could go on and on , so could I, private affluence and public squalor