The Next Leader Of The Opposition Speaks...
Politics1 min ago
History?
Well in French, une histoire is a story, and it seems the original meaning is creeping in here.
A journalist, Babita Sharma, has currently got her book ‘The Corner Shop” on R4, in which she bangs on about life in England in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
Now, as in 1970 I was in my twenties, I can claim some first-hand knowledge of all those decades, and unless I’m going senile, it weren’t like that!
Queues for paraffin at my local shop? Nah. The 70s, a decade plagued by power cuts? Not in London, anyway. The 80s, plunged into deep economic recession? Well, no worse than now.
Turns out Ms Sharma wasn’t born until 1977,
But it makes you wonder just how much history is bull.
BB
A journalist, Babita Sharma, has currently got her book ‘The Corner Shop” on R4, in which she bangs on about life in England in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
Now, as in 1970 I was in my twenties, I can claim some first-hand knowledge of all those decades, and unless I’m going senile, it weren’t like that!
Queues for paraffin at my local shop? Nah. The 70s, a decade plagued by power cuts? Not in London, anyway. The 80s, plunged into deep economic recession? Well, no worse than now.
Turns out Ms Sharma wasn’t born until 1977,
But it makes you wonder just how much history is bull.
BB
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put away your rose tinted specs BB, your marxist union mates were systematically wrecking the country. 3 day week a publicity stunt!? PMSL yeah right oh, of course that really helped Heath didn't it? TGL kicked his wet April out of the leadership and thankfully after that she destroyed the union loonies. Dead bodies going un buried, Leicester Square piled high with rubbish, wild cat strikes, 3 day week, power cuts, yeah all very minor! Right oh!
BB:"And as far as the old lie about dead bodies not being buried, just that, a lie. " even the Daily Mirror reported this as the nail in the coffin of the unions: https:/
Gravediggers' strike:
A notorious industrial action during the winter, and one which was later frequently referred to by Conservative politicians, was the strike by gravediggers, members of the GMWU in Liverpool and in Tameside near Manchester.[14] Eighty gravediggers being on strike, Liverpool City Council hired a factory in Speke to store the corpses until they could be buried. The Department of Environment noted that there were 150 bodies stored at the factory at one point, with 25 more added every day.
A notorious industrial action during the winter, and one which was later frequently referred to by Conservative politicians, was the strike by gravediggers, members of the GMWU in Liverpool and in Tameside near Manchester.[14] Eighty gravediggers being on strike, Liverpool City Council hired a factory in Speke to store the corpses until they could be buried. The Department of Environment noted that there were 150 bodies stored at the factory at one point, with 25 more added every day.
"How did the blackouts affect people in Britain?
Wow, where do we begin? In blackout areas schools, homes and businesses used paraffin lamps and candles for light. Street lights were out, houses were plunged into darkness and that was just the tip of the iceberg.
People would walk from one store to the next to buy candles only to find they were sold out. Butcher’s shops started to make ‘makeshift’ candles out of string and lard, which smelt terrible and were a real fire hazard. Families would sit around the fireside watching coals crackle or huddle around gas rings on the cooker for heat. It sounds bleak and it was bleak, but on the plus side, it made the country unite.
Folks tried to make the blackouts as fun as possible, they’d sit around chatting, think of games to play in the dark, sip mugs of Bovril, fill the home with the smell of freshly baked bread (shops were often sold out) and generally enjoy quality time together until the power came back on."
Perhaps you are going senile BAINBRIG?
Wow, where do we begin? In blackout areas schools, homes and businesses used paraffin lamps and candles for light. Street lights were out, houses were plunged into darkness and that was just the tip of the iceberg.
People would walk from one store to the next to buy candles only to find they were sold out. Butcher’s shops started to make ‘makeshift’ candles out of string and lard, which smelt terrible and were a real fire hazard. Families would sit around the fireside watching coals crackle or huddle around gas rings on the cooker for heat. It sounds bleak and it was bleak, but on the plus side, it made the country unite.
Folks tried to make the blackouts as fun as possible, they’d sit around chatting, think of games to play in the dark, sip mugs of Bovril, fill the home with the smell of freshly baked bread (shops were often sold out) and generally enjoy quality time together until the power came back on."
Perhaps you are going senile BAINBRIG?
The mortgage rates were very real. Many people were in negative equity by the end of the 80's and repossessions were everyday occurences.
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I remember the negative equity of the 80's. Quite a few people we knew who had chosen location over house type went into negative equity round here. Mortgages had been relatively cheap and easy to come by and new home owners found themselves in a position where they couldn't even hand over the house to the mortgage company and be free of the debt as the house was worth so much less than the mortage they had on it. The mortgage companies couldn't shift the repossessed houses they had on their hands so had to drop the prices and if you were a cash buyer there were bargains to be had which IIRC is when "buy to let" took off. People who were homeless went into rental accommodation that had been repossessed from some other homeless family....definitely not the housing market's finest hour.
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