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   I know its England but cant help feeling that, if transposed to Australia, where are the politicians,  Labor and  Liberal, all levels of government, the unions, the community leaders. You know the response would be shock, horror, run around like headless chooks, promise this and that, and nothing meaningful is done. However, those who could change it will be well paid, wine and dine with each other. It seems the only news coming out of England nowadays is brexit and the royals. Self centred people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/world/europe/cumbria-uk-austerity-cuts.html?action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article&region=Footer&contentCollection=More%20From%20The%20Times#commentsContainer

p ALSTON, England — It was not until Trevor Robinson received a letter notifying him of a missed appointment at the hospital that he realized he had not spoken to another human being in more than six weeks.
Mr. Robinson, a 77-year-old retired landscape gardener, had spent most of that time alone, sitting on his favorite frayed leather recliner looking out the window at the moorland surrounding his cottage in the northwestern county of Cumbria.
“When you spend every second by yourself, you lose track of time,” he said as tears trickled down his face. “I feel lonely, very lonely, and bored.”
Mr. Robinson’s isolation, shared by thousands of older people in Britain, is the result of a chain of cause-and-effect that stretches from rural Cumbria to the halls of power in London. He used to ride a subsidized bus to town until the local council discontinued the route. The council was responding to steep budget cutbacks stemming from the Conservative-led government’s decade-long austerity program.
under austerity, older people are feeling new constraints.