Was life in Britain better twenty years ago?
Poll: Was life in Britain better twenty years ago?
Total Members Polled: 331
Discussion
Dr Jekyll said:
bigdog3 said:
Cheap Property is the big one. Huge change since the 70's from which I am fortunate to benefit. Laissez-faire attitude, free market economy, population expansion or whatever you call it, our governments have lost control / don't care about this basic human need. That's the rough ride for today's generation. A cause worth moaning about 
Laissez-faire would mean no planning permission required therefore no shortage of building land. Too much government control is the problem not too little.I meant that the demographics of that era allowed state support. A low dependency ratio and fairly full employment.
You personally may have done everything right, but as a generation your pensions and healthcare are funded out of the relatively small proportion of the population who are working. And moaning about it!
The fault really lies with governments since at least the 1970s who could see the population squeeze coming and decided to do nothing about it until about 1997 when they decided to sell off gold reserves, plunder what pension provision we did have and pin any future hopes on allowing in millions of migrants to keep the population growing and the ponzi scheme operating a bit longer.
You personally may have done everything right, but as a generation your pensions and healthcare are funded out of the relatively small proportion of the population who are working. And moaning about it!
The fault really lies with governments since at least the 1970s who could see the population squeeze coming and decided to do nothing about it until about 1997 when they decided to sell off gold reserves, plunder what pension provision we did have and pin any future hopes on allowing in millions of migrants to keep the population growing and the ponzi scheme operating a bit longer.
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