Rock This

The reviews of The Boat That Rocked have not exactly enticed me to go and see it. But apparently it does at least depict the fact that the Sixties revolt against moral, social and cultural responsibility was an affair of the upper middle classes, at least. One can only hope that the Postmaster-General who is the baddy has been neither written nor played as any sort of unspoken but obvious Tory.

For, in fact, there was a Labour Government between 1964 and 1970. The Sixties Swingers hated it with a burning passion, and the pirate stations were their revolt against its and the BBC’s deal with the musicians’ union to protect the livelihoods of that union’s members.

Those Swingers used the lowering of the voting age to put the Tories into office in 1970. They then went on to entrench their own moral, social and cultural decadence and libertinism, first in the economic sphere during the Eighties, and then in the constitutional sphere under Blair.

When is this country going to wake up to what has really been happening over the last fifty years?