Is the UK in a better or worse state than it was 50 years ago?

[AB Editor]

 

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Is the UK in a better or worse state than it was 50 years ago?

• It's worse - 115 votes
• 57%
• It's better - 67 votes
• 33%
• I don't know - 15 votes
• 7%
• It's the same - 5 votes
• 2%

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[wolf63]

Ed, why is this in DIY - is there a deep meaning to the choice of the category?

[Spicerack]

Better 40yrs ago, if that helps.

[Calicogirl]

Ab Editor is planning a revolution Wolf ;-)

[wolf63]

I see that it was moved to another section.

Calicogirl - with the mess that the country is in we would make a better job of it. However, Revolutions sound exhausting. I shall ponder ...

[AB Editor]

Wolf, we thought we might build a new country from flat pack, I'm sure IKEA does one.

[spathiphyllum]

Governments already on it Ed.

https://i.redd.it/u1kotbr9gnm01.jpg

[Spicerack]

We had a freedom and a social mobility that younger people couldn't imagine nowadays. I feel sorry for young people starting out in life today.

[Spicerack]

I'm surprised this thread wasn't more popular. I'd expect older people, who know, to support ye olden dayes .
And younger people, who don't, to be celebrating more diversity, Political Correctness and eco-loonery. ;-/

[ummmm]

Well I wasn't born 50 years ago.

[ToraToraTora]

immeasurably better in most quantifiable ways.

[Spicerack]

^quisling.

[steg]

A lot better... we’re even getting trains up here soon

[ToraToraTora]

what makes me a quisling spicerack?

[ToraToraTora]

quisling: a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country. - there may be a lot of them about of late but I think you'll find I'm the opposite of that. If you think differently spicerack then explain how I qualify or withdraw that.

[Spicerack]

Your old but siding with the young.
Only young people and communists should like what's happened to this country.

[Spicerack]

Or withdraw that? Lol.
My second will meet your second at Hackney marshes of cock-crow the morn.

[ToraToraTora]

have a day off spivey, I'm not siding with anyone, even if I was, that would not make me a quisling unless you consider the young to be the enemy. I'm just being pragmatic, in any measurable way life is better that 50 years ago. There are things I don't think are better but they are more subjective and esoteric.

[ToraToraTora]

FYI spivey is a typo.

[spathiphyllum]

"in any measurable way life is better that 50 years ago."

Apart from housing prices vs the average wage.