In the U.K., a growing mound of public infrastructure problems — understaffed prisons, schools that are literally crumbling, several public-sector strikes — is feeding a deep sense of gloom across the country that has an election on the horizon.
Other public buildings, including hospitals and theatres, could also be at risk, as they were built with the same type of concrete.
"Thirteen years into a Conservative government and the public realm is literally crumbling around the next generation," Labour MP and education spokesperson Bridget Phillipson said during a parliamentary debate earlier this month. Junior doctors, consultants and supporters gather outside University College Hospital as a joint British Medical Association strike over pay takes place on Sept. 20, in London.
Hamish Bains, a medical registrar also on the picket lines, said he fears the NHS is "kind of structurally not sound." Water companies have been accused of spilling sewage into rivers and the sea, and it's alleged the government has turned a blind eye.No wonder headline writers in the U.K. find themselves converging on various versions of "Broken Britain" on any given day. The winter of discontent seems to have moved up a season.
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