General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Cheshire Cat

Perhaps, you could get a Doctors and Dentist appointment and a hospital bed in the seventies but perhaps that was because the population was a lot less and immigration was nothing like in more recent times.

As for the pubs being more vibrant, perhaps that was because our parents and grandparents did not have today's lifestyle of going to restaurants or getting a takeaway and a four pack of beer/bottle of wine and stay at home to watch multichannel television. As for a housing crisis, that is hardly surprising when over the country there are hundreds of empty properties, people buying second homes at the seaside and rural areas and now in addition, many people, especially those of Asian origin living in a semi-detacted house, buying the other half of the property if it becomes vacant and converting it into a detached property for economical reasons and all the family living together and having grandparents not living in a expensive old peoples home. Not to mention those who are buying properties and the then having them lying empty until house prices go up and then selling the at a profit


Handsomeminer

Any opinions on the failours of the Heath and Callaghan governments in the seventies which were just as bad as what you keep saying, the Tories are today.


Peter Israel,

Gaffer is correct in what he has said, especially his last comment about there are too many people opting to live on the benefit system and content to let the immigrants do all the low pay minimum wage jobs.

Would have loved to have seen you on the nightshift at Tupperware!