Like the births out of wedlock that were 10 per cent in 1979 and 36 per cent in 1997, and like the explosion in divorce and abortion under Margaret Thatcher and John Major (although it was pretty much done by his day), the move towards an economy that would necessitate huge levels of immigration certainly did not begin under Tony Blair.
The Thatcher anti-union laws made it possible. Before them, it could not have happened. Under them, it was bound to happen, and it was intended to happen.
The Thatcher anti-union laws made it possible. Before them, it could not have happened. Under them, it was bound to happen, and it was intended to happen.
It has been under David Cameron, George Osborne and the twice-elected Boris Johnson that London has become a city that could never again elect Johnson or any other Conservative as Mayor.
Oh, and if the doors in Middlesbrough have been red for 20 years, then how did Britain First, or whoever it was, know which houses to attack? Don't believe everything you read.
Oh, and if the doors in Middlesbrough have been red for 20 years, then how did Britain First, or whoever it was, know which houses to attack? Don't believe everything you read.
Of course huge numbers of conceptions had always been out of wedlock, probably more than half of first babies. Births out of wedlock had probably always been about one in 10 since working-class people started getting married much in the early twentieth century.
ReplyDeleteAs you know before that they generally didn't, legally anyway, especially after they had been displaced by enclosure and the Industrial Revolution. People assume they were, but they weren't. You know all that.
But then the Eighties happened and it all became the new normal, or as good as. You are right, divorce and abortion went through the roof too. I remember it well. A time of total chaos where morality was concerned. Cecil Parkinson was quite typical, no wonder Maggie liked him so much.