Today if we had the choice, No NHS would exist. it would be deemed a fantasy and too expensive. Greenspan told Clinton when he got in that a health service would break the USA. Then they spent trillions on wars.
We used to have free education. Gone.
We used to build new towns. Very rare.
we used to build hundreds of thousands of houses. Nope.
we're going backwards into a new victorian era.
we don't trust that we might be able to accomplish anything. Yet every breakthrough comes from a UK university. Graphene was a uk invention but we own only a fraction of the patents. Antibiotics was british but we passed it over to the USA. we innovate and the carpet baggers descend and take it away.