good article in today's Independent on Sunday by Tim Lott.

In these times where we are remembering the start of World War II, it is all to easy to slip into naive nostalgia, as the article says:

"Those who lived in Britain in the 1950s often look back to a golden age of low crime, decency, respect, sobriety and national pride. What they tend to forget is that the postwar years were characterised by poverty and lack of choice. There was no crime because there was nothing to steal. There was no disorder because there was no money with which to go out on the razz. There was none of the shallowness of today's consumerism because there was nothing to buy and no money to buy it with. The food was terrible, the weather was worse, the heating was inadequate and the toilet paper was agony.

Yes, the divorce rate was massively lower - which was a disaster. Just imagine all those people trapped in loveless marriages. Just think of all those children having to watch their parents ripping into one another day in and day out. And teenagers didn't have sex - you had to get married first. Then, women weren't supposed to enjoy it - they couldn't anyway since men didn't know the whereabouts or even the existence of the clitoris.

We were more respectful of authority - because "authority" had a way of committing summary physical violence against you, or fitting you up if they didn't like the look of you, irrespective of any evidence or reference to human rights. And if you were a darkie or a paddy, or any kind of Johnny Foreigner, you could be sure that law would give you even shorter shrift. If you were really bad, the state would simply murder you.

There was little social mobility - you were stuck in your class. As for youths binge drinking on the streets of every town nowadays, Britons have been binge drinkers since the days of Hogarth and Gin Alley, and long before. In the 10th century, King Edgar issued an edict against it. Probably nobody took notice of him, either.

What was worst about the "old" Britain was that it was boring. Safe, perhaps (though not from paedophile priests and Scoutmasters and teachers, all of whom were protected by the institutions that employed them), but static, tedious and bogged down in Victorian morality, petty prejudice and small-mindedness."

full article here

www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentato...moaning-1782393.html

The biggest load of rubbish I have heard.

In those days you would :

1. Have a sense of community. Compare that with the race riots in the main shopping area of Birmingham yesterday.

2. Kids could play outdoors without supervision because society had not frightened their parents.

3. There were less paedophiles because the internet and major labels had not sexualised children.

4. Pregnancy rates were very low in children.

5. STDs were very low amongst all people.

6. Jobs were given on ability not Political Correctness

7. Footballers were paid a fair wage - instead of ripping off the poor with ridiculous wages ( Compare their wages to Nurses or Farmers or Those who create things we need )

8. Town Centres were not War Zones every Friday and Saturday night as thousands of drunks fill our Police cells and hospitals.

9. People did not need BILLIONS of pounds of anti-depressant drugs. Because they were happy and got on with life.

10. People smiled more and laughed more. Today walk down any street and everyone looks down and often has a blank expression on their faces.

11. The media did not promote FEAR as the main weapon against ALL of us. We were innocent before being proved guilty - so we had justice.

12. Surveillance was a bobby on a bike. Not a camera every 50 feet whirring above our heads following every move we make - with innocent people being watched more than criminals.

Whoever wrote that article need to see Mental Health specialist. They are suffering from extreme delusions.

What a load of rubbish.

PS Finally if you go to hospital now you may die from MRSA or C DIFF. Not what you went in with.

Life is what you make it,for some life was better,but for others it was probably worse.
Must have been great to hear your first rock 'n' roll record,and buying your first trendy teddy boy clothes.Can't imagine the same thrill from some sort of dance music,or buying your first hoodie.

The best thing about nostalgia is we were younger,we didn't stand at the bar breathing in,we could see our dangly bits below our belly,the hairs weren't grey,and you didn't spend 10 minutes with tweezers removing fuzz from your ears.

Only 10 mins IA? What I hate are the ones that grow on the outside edges of the ears.

Try an Asian barber,nobody better for removing unwanted hairs from ears and eyebrows,should be cheaper too.

This article sounds about right if somewhat exagerated.

There has always been crime because there has always been criminals and all will be.There have always been horrific murders and mass murders (especially in the UK which seems to have a propensity for particularly gruesome ones (although the US seems to have specialised in serial murders)

There have always been pedophiles-always will be but attitudes towards sex change from generation to generation-as in the present ultra-conservative era where every sexual aspect not seen as the "norm" is swept into one catergory.

There has and always will be child abuse-as distinct from child sexual abuse..more kids are damaged mentally and physically then have even been from sex abuse and that's happened for decades.

What we didn't have was tabloids running the show. Politicians used to run the country and the majority out of a sense of civic duty. Now they take their cues from newspaper editors..that's about the only difference I can see.

I expect all that to change though over the next 10 to 20 years (if your NWO doesn't get up).

The internet is the greatest threat to media dominance by a few. Expect attempts to control the net and take it out of the hands of the people..soon.

Your partly right BR..what the last half of the 20th Century and since has been a triumph of advertising and PR over any other value...something Joseph Geobbel's used brilliantly and every politician has since.

ps : I once asked my mother if she could leave her doors open ..during the depression..and she said she used to until vagrants kept walking in and stealing things.