Was our country ever content?

wageslave

Mr.Brown wrote: »

After todays fantastic news about the end of recession I am well content. No doubt there are some (3 million unemployed whingers) who will still be moaning, but at least I can now look forward to future of fast rising house prices. And with a bit of luck, and hopefully another twenty years of Labour, they will rise fast enough to outweigh VAT, taxes, spending cuts, fuel bills, etc.

If you are looking for a clever answer, I will only disappoint you.

If you could promise me even four years of someone half the calibre of Nye Bevin, I'd be out campaigning tomorrow.

When men like Brown and Blair are representing the working classes you know something has gone seriously bliddy wrong.

Mr.Brown_4

wageslave wrote: »

If you are looking for a clever answer, I will only disappoint you.

tbh I live in fear of a clever answer.

Bootski

dandy-candy wrote: »

Reading so many posts lately full of anger - we're wasting our money on benefit scroungers and public sector workers, the bankers are stuffing their wallets and laughing at us, the goverment is screwing our future up...and on and on it goes.
I'm 36 and tbh I didn't taking any notice of the news or politics before Labour got in, though I vaguely remember people slagging off Maggie and being glad when she went. I'm wondering now if this country ever DID feel right or was everyone still feeling this angry 20, 30, 50 years ago?

Yes I think thing they were angry all the 20/ 30 years ago. I thing people were more content with what they had the longer you go back. You and employment and industries, hence communities back then. Many northern towns are ghost towns now and whereas they once built the uk to what is was they're ghost towns now. It all moved down south to finance etc.

I think people are angry now cause there should have been equality, more jobs, less poverty and all gone tits up.

Many jobs went abroad and manufacturing closed down. Some people are alright Jack, others are poorer.

The country has been very poorly managed, as a whole.:(

wageslave

Mr.Brown wrote: »

tbh I live in fear of a clever answer.

You never been safer........

I aint actually that bright. We are talking about a woman that gets excited about smilies here.

Bootski

wageslave wrote: »

You never been safer........

I aint actually that bright. We are talking about a woman that gets excited about smilies here.

Can't imagine a woman not getting excited about smilies or some gesture on here!!!:rotfl::rotfl:

I'm astronomically extatic and very pleasantly surprised!:p

Bootski

bootski wrote: »

can't imagine a woman not getting excited about smilies or some gesture on here!!!:rotfl::rotfl:

I'm astronomically extatic and yet very calmy, pleasantly surprised!:p

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Bootski

I think I've a termite - hence the dots

niksyg

As a gal in my mid twenties, I can't really say whether previous generations were better...
I am sure the summers were longer and hotter when I was little than they are now and that shows the power of memory...we remember what we want to and not how it really was. I had a great childhood and my memory reflects that...I remember it as being a great time.
I truly believe that the current issue with this county is that too many people are allowed to complete higher education courses. I don't believe that people shouldn't have the right to an education, if you are bright/capable enough then of course you should be able to, but there are too many rubbish degree courses being dreamt up and offered to unintelligent people, and a lot of the time, people with little or no common sense. These students graduate and expect highly paid jobs, especially after all the debt they have got in to achieve said degree...so they either get them and make bad decisions, potentially affecting a whole country, due to their lack of general knowledge and sense or they get into debt by borrowing money that they can't afford to give them the llifestyle that a higher paid salary would give them, which they think they deserve.

I teach 16 - 18 year olds who have little/no qualifications and I am completely honest with them. I obviously don't smash their dreams but I do tell them that the likelihood of getting a job is low..I try and offer them realistic options. Too many young people think they have a right to everything and very few are prepared to work for it. I think that this has got so much worse over the last few years, thanks to Labour's plans of making benefits easy to get. I have a student who has ADHD and he gets given a bus pass and disability benefit....WHY???? He doesn't NEED either..if he had an illness that stopped him from getting around then fair enough, a bus pass seems a necessary thing...but ADHD doen't affect his ability to access anywhere, it also does not affect his ability to get a job - - I am proof of this!! (ADHD and a teacher!)

I think that social satisfaction was higher, up until the 90s as people really had to work for their achievements...whether that be in education or in employment. There was less of a borrowing culture and the great feeling of satisfaction gained from being able to say "I can buy XYZ because I worked hard and can afford it" has now disappeared...everyone can have everything..(at a price obviously but that is a later consequence that is ignored by many).

This greed and desire for ownership is certainly driven through the media, whether it be ads, newspapers TV, whatever....everyone is being told "you can have anything you want...and you don't even have to do anything, just fill out this form and we'll give you money/furniture/a TV/cars etc etc (known as debt to is MSEs) and even degrees!!

Right, I shall now dismount the soapbox!

ukcarper

StevieJ wrote: »

Depends what you mean by better, I am pretty sure people in the 50's, 60's and 70's had more optimistic futures, e.g. defined pensions and an increase in owner occupation along with view that future technology could only bring benefits e.g shorter working week.

Yes I remember watching all those documentaries telling us what we could do in the free time we were going to have.

Generali

ukcarper wrote: »

Yes I remember watching all those documentaries telling us what we could do in the free time we were going to have.