General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Handsomeminer

Evidently, you were living in a different world to most of us in the seventies as most will remember that under the Callaghan Government, the winter of discontent and dustbins not being emptied, high morgage interest rates, power strikes, people not being buried, coming out of a out of date nationlised railway system of out of date steam trains, a british car industry being decimated by strikes led by communists like "Red Robbo", no massive house and apartment building like that of today, both parents having to work as the alternative was no work related benefits like there are today.

All of which led to Thatcher and thirteen years of a Tory Government which has happen again with a further fourteen years as a result of the Blair government failing to fufill it's promises.


But in the seventies, like you say, see a Doctor or a Dentist, but then there was not the immigration problem and rising birthrate that we now have today.


And the pubs and clubs were indeed more vibrant because people then were not buying the expensive things like detached houses, second homes, expensive cars, dearer holidays, dining at Restaurants like many are now doing today.


p.s. In 1992 with a daughter getting married, I was made redundant and for ten months, I was on work related benefits which were nothing like what many are getting today.

In no way, do I want to see a return to the dark days of the seventies.