Luke Ming Flanagan: "Is barely surviving the new thriving?"

Independent MEP Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan spent an evening in his local emergency department with his seven-week-old baby because of fears she had contracted cryptosporidium via the water supply.

In an impassioned Facebook post, he describes a dysfunctional country and warns against accepting that barely surviving is the new thriving. This is an abridged version of his post

People are being told that things are getting better.