Then and Now, What We Have Lost.

[SPLINE]

I found this lovely old film of a 1950s Bank Holiday at the seaside in Broadstairs, Kent. It is like another world... such civilised, happy and orderly people. Authority figures, traders, landladies, mums and dads...how wonderful. But... all those featured in it would be called "far right thugs" in today's Britain (or Yookay as we must now use the foreign word for it).

Travel back to a time where the people were not fat and tattooed...

 

[Notch7]

It is nice to see SPLINE appreciates how much better things were when we had left wing govts with socialist policies.



the 1950s

A very enjoyable period because the Labour Attlee govt from post war, expanded the welfare state created the NHS, the National Insurance act, unemployment benefits.

record numbers of council housing were built during the 1950s……people had affordable, secure homes.

 

[MNW67]

The top income tax rate was 90%.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I think he wears spectacles too. Rose tinted ones

 

[Notch7]

I think he wears spectacles too. Rose tinted ones

Nostalgia is one of the features of populism

 

[Charlie George]

It is nice to see SPLINE appreciates how much better things were when we had left wing govts with socialist policies.



the 1950s

A very enjoyable period because the Labour Attlee govt from post war, expanded the welfare state created the NHS, the National Insurance act, unemployment benefits.

record numbers of council housing were built during the 1950s……people had affordable, secure homes.

Labour were in power for 1 year in the fifties

 

[fillyboy]

Labour were in power for 1 year in the fifties

#Notchisaliar

 

[ReganAndCarter]

I found this lovely old film of a 1950s Bank Holiday at the seaside in Broadstairs, Kent. It is like another world... such civilised, happy and orderly people. Authority figures, traders, landladies, mums and dads...how wonderful. But... all those featured in it would be called "far right thugs" in today's Britain (or Yookay as we must now use the foreign word for it).

Travel back to a time where the people were not fat and tattooed...

The sacrifices our forefathers made have been thrown away by treacherous politicians. For what - who knows? They must be spinning in their graves to see how we don't value what they bequethed to us. Hard won, but easily lost. They would be shocked that we let destructive left wing people who act like the enemy within - freely admitting our natural enemies with disasterous results. They're happy with the thuggish, lawless, violent, ignorant mongrel society we've become. They'll be along any minute to defend it and tell us how wrong we are.

 

[Koolpc]

Nothing wrong in tattoos!! I have several (under my fur of course!)

 

[Notch7]

Labour were in power for 1 year in the fifties

I suggest you actually read what I wrote

Unless you are being intentionally fick, or just your natural state


1950s

Top rate of tax 90%
NHS
Welfare state
Lots of council houses being built

Yeah all very Conservative huh

 

[Notch7]

#Notchisaliar

I am sorry you can’t read and comprehend what is written.

What part of my post is wrong. It’s not.

 

[Notch7]

The sacrifices our forefathers made have been thrown away by treacherous politicians. For what - who knows? They must be spinning in their graves to see how we don't value what they bequethed to us. Hard won, but easily lost. They would be shocked that we let destructive left wing people who act like the enemy within - freely admitting our natural enemies with disasterous results. They're happy with the thuggish, lawless, violent, ignorant mongrel society we've become. They'll be along any minute to defend it and tell us how wrong we are.

The break down in society, is largely due to capitalism, not left wing socialism.

So you are completely wrong.




If you had a brain you would realise the last 50 years has been dominated by right wing Conservative governments pushing neo liberalism, privatisation, wealth inequality

And don’t bother coming back with nonsense about Conservatives being massively socialist….it’s simply untrue.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

If you had a brain you would realise the last 50 years has been dominated by right wing Conservative governments

And if you had a brain you would realise there was nothing right wing or conservative about the last Tory government. Part of the reason they were voted out.

 

[motorbiking]

I suggest you actually read what I wrote

Unless you are being intentionally fick, or just your natural state


1950s

Top rate of tax 90%
NHS
Welfare state
Lots of council houses being built

Yeah all very Conservative huh

You are aware that most avoided this top marginal rate unlike today

 

[Scally-Ho]

Life is very personal and it is up to the individual how life is allowed to unfurl and impinge on the individual.
My life has changed little since retiring from full time working some 25yrs ago and this is all because how I allow my life to progress from year to year. I could make my life even simpler by selling off my stock of rental properties, but then I actually enjoy the buying, developing, letting/renting and management of my wholly owned properties as doing so keeps me alert and still active as an investor for those preferring to rent in my area.