A piece of nostalgia for anyone, like me, over 50. We remember a country like this. But anyone under 30 might think that this film is about some mythical Golden Age. Was there really such a time? A time when a milkman and his wife, a clerk, could afford the mortgage on a three bedroom house in Wimbledon Park? A time when their child, if clever enough, could go to grammar school, and then onto University, without shouldering a crippling debt? A time when social welfare and housing were improving, and political parties vied with each other to better the lives of ordinary people.
If you think that perhaps the country was in a better financial state back then, you'd be wrong. We were in huge debt after the second world war, with debt to GDP twice what it is now. And yet now we need austerity. How did things go so horribly wrong?
If you think that perhaps the country was in a better financial state back then, you'd be wrong. We were in huge debt after the second world war, with debt to GDP twice what it is now. And yet now we need austerity. How did things go so horribly wrong?