
Britain is plunging deeper into crisis by the day, but its government is missing in action
CNN
The United Kingdom is enduring a summer of misery as its beloved health service descends into crisis, inflation soars, taps run dry and strikes halt trains. Meanwhile, the government is nowhere to be seen.
The sense of collapse is only mounting; health leaders on Friday issued the grim warning of a "humanitarian crisis" without action to stop energy prices increasing over the winter.
Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the National Health Service Confederation, said in a statement that many "could face the awful choice between skipping meals to heat their homes and having to live in in cold, damp and very unpleasant conditions ... These outbreaks will strike just as the NHS is likely to experience the most difficult winter on record."

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