Youv'e Never Had It So Good.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2776842/Shocking-photos-capture-real-squalor-Britain-s-slums-poverty-meant-afford-Playstation.html

We talk about "increased child poverty", "food banks", "putting illegal immigrants in London hotels on humanitarian grounds" and yet this is how some of our people lived during the 60s.

[anotheoldgit]

RandyMarsh

/// None of this feeds the hungry of today, it just makes old people who have what they need feel smug. ///

You missed out the word 'NOW' between your words 'WHO' and 'HAVE'.

[ummmm]

Lol...next he'll be telling Jack that she naive...

[boxtops]

I remember the days as hc remembers them, particularly the school uniform issues. I still haven't grown into my sixth form blazer.....

I was minded of this, too, by 2sp's thread about children's presents. We would get one big present for Christmas or birthdays, then some little extras by way of Santa or the birthday fairy. By "big" I mean a nice dolly, or a scooter, or my bike the year I passed 11+. It did teach up to appreciate things.

[anotheoldgit]

jackthehat

/// That will doubtless have been part of it, AOG.......as it is for Police Officers these days, too. ///

How many police officers do you see patrolling on foot, looking out for such crimes these days?

[RandyMarsh]

well, that makes the world of difference to your smugness

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

/// Awww, gawd here we go again. AOG has his rose tinted specs on again (when it suits). ///

Can't get any, they are reserved for today's liberal thinkers.

[jackthehat]

Quite a lot, as it happens.
I attended a meeting last night with our Local bobbies and the PCSOs in this area at which Community issues are raised and reports given into how previous matters raised are being dealt with.

[mccfluff]

lol, as im typing this there is a police office walking down the road....

[mccfluff]

*r*

[anotheoldgit]

RandyMarsh

Well it would to anyone with half a brain.

[anotheoldgit]

mccfluff

/// lol, as im typing this there is a police office walking down the road....///

Wow you must live in a dodgy area, unless he lives in your street.

[ummmm]

Aog...police patrol nice areas.

[boxtops]

I've seen two today!

[lindapalmara]

Zacs-Master
//Just remind me again what decade the general standard of living improved the most and who was in power.....//

1980s Margaret Thatcher. Hope you weren't thinking 60's Wilson. Devaluation, strikes, beer and butties with the Unions. Drunkard George as Chancellor. Noooooo

[mccfluff]

not at all, i'm at work, its on the outskirts of a massive & very busy retail park. we often see them patrolling through. i believe its called a "police presence"...

[anotheoldgit]

mccfluff

/// i believe its called a "police presence"... ///

Ah of course, it saves on fuel going back and forwards every time a shoplifter is apprehended.

[ummmm]

Aog...Police do patrol. My son got stopped not so long ago (he looks really young) They wanted to know why he was out at 11pm. He had to show them his ID (he's 18)

[hc4361]

AOG is talking about the good old days that men are being arrested for now in relation to sex abuse of children.
The days when domestic violence wasn't reported and women had to put up and shut up because they genuinely were trapped, especially if they had children.

[Zacs-Master]

Linda. Spot on.