"No car, no TV, no double glazing," and I had no mains water, no electricity, no drainage, water from the pump and a privy halfway down the garden. This for my first 5.5 years, but I do not continually bang on about it...

Didn't do you much good, did it?

...but rationing improved the health of British people; (pay attention shaw)infant mortality declined and life expectancy rose, excluding deaths caused by hostilities. This was because it ensured that everyone had access to a varied diet with enough vitamins.

Infant mortality rate, England and Wales, 1940, 50 per thousand live births. In 2015, five per thousand live births.

Life expectancy at birth, 1940, men 63, women 67. 2010, men 78, women 83.

What I said, among other things:

"We died far younger...the infant mortality rate was much higher..."

You tried to tell us at 06.57 today how much healthier we all were then, didn't you. Well when you want to argue vexatiously just for the sake of it, all you do is make an ass of yourself. And you've been doing so well lately. Tsk.