Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Blair called it the Third Way.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Blair called it the third way? so not a new initiative then?
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Martin P. You were spot on re Silver Cross prams.Wendy and I had Sunday breakfast Deal Pier and watched a proud grandad pushing an old magnificent Silver Cross pram.Bringing back fond memories of the days we did the same thing.It was obviosly still in my mind when I sent the post.I make no apology.In those days communities did help and care for each other, more than today,never the Big Society,which will sadly never be,but it was closer than now.Wendys opinion is that Society began to decline in 1980.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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it was about that time the decline started with unemployment peaking and leaving children to see both parents at home all day.
the rot set in and the next generation of those also stayed at home all day, those doing o.k. for themselves took little notice of the ones left behind.
that was the time we were told that there was no such thing as society just individuals.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Absolutely agree Reg, life changed for the worse around that time, to be selfish and not care about who you trod on was actively encouraged! it spawned a generation that did not have any values except for their selves
. Silver Cross were proper prams, have seen some sold on Bargain Hunt, boy did I feel old then
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Talking about prams, look at my latest picture on Dover Times thread...
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I would say things started going to pot when it became the norm for both parents to go out to work, leaving their school age kids without supervision after school, the time when their urge to let off steam is strongest. This of course coincided with people starting to 'need' expensive foreign holidays and colour tellies and the only way to keep up with the Joneses was for both parents to have an income.
I think unemployment is a red herring, it's always been a small minority out of work (local situations excepted, such as the Kent coalfields post-closure) and in 'those days' unemployment was a stigma whereas nowadays you meet people who are actually better off on benefits than working.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson