Might have been grim for you but by some measures people were at their happiest in the 70's.
Of course they were. They were children.
Yep,my happiest moment was when they repeated a lot of Dr Who episodes during the strikes.(we were lucky and had a generator for the powercuts)
TBH ‘70 were grim but the ‘80s weren’t that great although I think they were probably better than now,if you managed to get a job you had a chance of affording a house.
There was also a better soundtrack to life and computers had started to take off and there was more of a buzz around then and the films were great and the fun cars started Golf GTi and the hot hatchbacks.
( Ignoring that minor inconvenience of the chances of nuclear obliteration)
The 1980’s ushered in the era of Yamahas ‘LC’.
(rasping exhausts, smell of two stroke).
Voters will take their chances to vote for whoever promises short-term relief as long as those those promises are kept,
No we moved passed that politically, no one trust politicians to do anything. There is absolutely now expectation that they will make anyone's life better, they just hope that pain will be inflicted on the people they don't like.
It sounds deeply cynical but it explains a lot of recent events. From Brexit, to the rise of Trump in the US and the rise of Reform in the UK.
TBH ‘70 were grim but the ‘80s weren’t that great although I think they were probably better than now,if you managed to get a job you had a chance of affording a house.
I was a student early to mid 70s so I thought it was a hoot. Started work mid 70s and still enjoyed it. Worked overseas for a bit, came back, got a job, enjoyed proper road rallying before the fun police put a stop to it. Agree with the house buying bit, I managed that in the early 80s before the housing market went berserk. I think that one issue takes a lot of the blame for the country's current woes.
Unless they’ve changed it,they were only allowed to work after one year,just checked and it’s now:
Up until 2002 they could apply to work if the process took more than 6 months. However under media pressure about economic migrants that got changed to 12 months and only shortage occupations. Which I think in real terms would be basically zero.
More recently Labour changed it to allow for all "high skilled".
