The Evil 1950s?

As I asked in answer to a comment:

"Would those be the 1950s of full employment, strong trade unions, public ownership, and what have you?"

Leading another reader to state:

"You are right about the 50s. All that was destroyed, as you have often pointed out, by people listening to pirate radio funded by Oliver Smedley and who like him then went on to support Mrs. Thatcher."

To which I replied:

"Pirate radio was a union-busting attack on public service broadcasting and on a Labour Government (the Minister in question was Tony Benn). Once we realise that, then we realise all sorts of things."

However, we have now had a blistering tirade from someone whom I think that we can all picture only-too-easily, in his far too tight jeans and with his shoulder-length grey hair to match is straggly grey beard:

"hypocrisy"

The tribute that vice pays to virtue. Sooner that than what we have now, emotional incontinence.

"social repression"

Whatever that is.

"lack of social mobility"

Not at all. You are thinking of the period since the abolition of the grammar schools.

"racism"

Not particularly. No worse than now, anyway. Arguably better.

"sexism"

Whatever that is.

"imperialism"

Whatever that is. And what you probably mean was in fact dismantled in the 1950s.

"The 1950's where the landed Tories ruled from within and without. The decade of toadying."

Blah, Blah, Blah. You are one of those, are you? It isn't true, anyway. Again, you are thinking of the period since the abolition of the grammar schools. And there is actually a lot to be said for landed Tories, certainly compared with Thatcherites or Blairites.

"Would your parent's [sic – tellingly, no concept of having two parents] marriage have been approved by society? You know the answer."

Yes, I do. My father's family, all born before the War, was very supportive of my parents' marriage, even if one of his sisters was terribly disappointed that my mother's name was Cecily Anne Caroline Young. She had been hoping for something exotic to tell her friends.

This sort of drivel is the basis of the power of people like you, the beneficiaries of the Sixties, the Eighties and the Blair years. It has absolutely no factual basis. None whatever. You know that, and that is why you are so utterly hysterical when anyone points it out.