since "poverty, joblessness and malnutrition" have disappeared in the UK

or at least gone down dramatically in the UK, we should listen to some brits pontificating. and the US, too.

oh wait, have you been to san francisco lately? poverty, joblessness and malnutrition are *soaring* in the US and UK. in poverty-stricken UK lives are moving towards "'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'

bloody pontificating imbeciles.