UK's healthcare system is lagging and will get worse a its population ages. am mostly referring to long term care of the aged.

Productivity gains from increased tech has been accruing to owners and not rewarding the workers. This productivity decrease you noted is just a reallocation of the benefits to the underpaid and very deserved worker class.

It is good to remember that business does not make the world go around. It is how we finance the world going around.

I do agree with you on Brexit. This was a white man's folly. UK racists voted for it because they believed the UK would deport all the others. Brexit will cost UK much.