Grant Schapps , Conservative , On Benefits

[Elwood Blues]

Life expectancy was going down under the Conservatives pre Covid. That should be enough for anyone to vote for someone else because it tells you all you need to know about the inequalities of life in this country in the twenty first century under their power.

Where did you get these figures from Bob?

I have found a Guardian article from 2019 which mentions iti


https://www.theguardian.com/society/...by-five-months

but I have also found a Kings Fund article which is at first glance a bit different although there is a mass of data in there which would take a lot of time to go through.

Obviously you are blaming austerity and I am sure that is a factor, although the Kings Fund article suggests it is far more complex than that.

And before you jump to one of your erroneous assumptions which you have been so fond of doing of late no I am not saying that austerity has nothing to do with it and that the Conservative government has nothing to do with it that is not what I am saying

Juts that your short paragraph is really a bit too simplistic. The subject is far too complex than just a couple of sound bites

[Elwood Blues]

I missed out the Kings Fund article on my post above

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publica...ctancy-england

I also realise that my last but one paragraph is clumsily phrased and repetitive I meant to change it before posting, but I was too late to edit it. I think the sense of what I meant is there though.