UK in breach of international human rights

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4. No surprise there, the Conservatives are entirely and independently wedded to austerity

it's in their DNA, they're Thatcher's heirs after all. They've even been emboldened, on occasion, to come clean about it instead of blaming external factors:

From 2013:

David Cameron makes leaner state a permanent goal

The government is to forge a "leaner, more efficient state" on a permanent basis, David Cameron has said as he signalled he had no intention of resuming spending once the structural deficit has been eliminated, a clear change to claims made after the last general election .
In a change of tack from saying in 2010 that he was imposing cuts out of necessity, rather than from "some ideological zeal", the prime minister told the Lord Mayor's banquet that the government has shown in the last three years that better services can be delivered with lower spending.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/11/david-cameron-policy-shift-leaner-efficient-state
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/13/david-cameron-austerity-public-sector-cuts