"Friedrich Engels recognised the link between social class and health in mid-Victorian England (2) and showed that infant mortality was far higher in the working class than in the upper classes. This continued all the way through to the Depression years (3). There was a brief period of increased social and health equality after the 2nd World War, but those trends were reversed in the 1980’s (4) after Margaret Thatcher started to rationalise the welfare state, and the utter shit Tony Blair degraded it into a dependency state."