OT: Which was better: The 60s or the 70s?

[charles]

a Mars bar a day keeps Mick Jagger away.

[Stephen]

Now then, now then!

[whisky-dave]

what about Gary Glitter ?

[AnthonyL]

Definitely the '60's.

Proper music World Cup Winning Football I was younger than I was in the '70's Man in the Moon Flower Power (well maybe not) must be more

'70's were grey and colourless in comparison

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Normally quoted of the '60s. Love and peace and all that.

I do know my standard of living went up far more over the '70s decade than the '60s.

But you make it sound like there were rolling blackouts etc throughout the '70s.

[Bob Eager]

[Dave Plowman (News)]

1959 - 1964 Con 1964 - 1970 Lab

1970 - 1974 Con

1974 - 1979 Lab 1979 - 1997 Con

So as usual, you seem to have lost reality.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

In terms of a true scandal, I'd say the paedophile allegations doing the rounds these days beat it hand down.

[NY]

What is interesting is that the *perception* is that the 70s was mainly Labour governments and that the 60s was maybe Conservative, even if it was about half-and-half. Evidently Labour's performance in the 74-79 term was more memorable than Conservative's in the previous 4 years.

Perhaps what people remember is not so much which party was in government but the industrial relations problems and the strikes (eg the Three Day Week) of the 1970s, and they equate traditional Labour supporters (unions, manual workers) with Labour government.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Are any of these really, really important? ;-)

[whisky-dave]

and as for crime/thieving we have FIFA and tax dodging people and companies.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

ITWYM is that the Tories finally gave up any attempt to trying to run the country fairly, to be replaced by the winner takes all mentality of Thatcher and later. So beloved of by losers like you. Which I continue find so surprising.

Anyone remember threshold payments under the Heath government? An attempt to protect the poorest paid from the results of unfettered inflation. Far too humanitarian for a true Tory. He had to go.

[Mark]

Chuck Berry, Elvis, John Lee Hooker,Buddy Holly to Led Zep, Pink Floyd plus so many more and you only remember the Beatles !

anyway it was not just about music it was a time when teenagers started gaining more independence that they had never had before they were able to buy things like clothes from shops the were catering for just teenage fashions,( i was part owner of a shop in Carnaby Street) what you seem to regard as narcissism, you must have been a very popular boy back then.

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[michael adams]

Not sure about that. Unlike politicians shagging amateur prozzies, getting caught, and lying about it afterwards, a predicament which many people can identify with in a way, to me kiddie fiddling has always been more the province of wierdos than true scandal. As kids surely most people will have been warned about "dirty old men"

What's more the idea of Ted Heath and/or Leon Brittan murdering rent boys in front of witnesses in Dolphin Square doesn't quite ring true to me.

michael adams

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[michael adams]

Generalised tax dodging and corruption is far too amorphous to constitute a single criminal act.

There's a specific phrase for "prestige" crimes such as the Great Train Robbery, which I'm buggered if I can remember right now.

Brinks Mat would come a close second but there's has never really been the same interest in the perpetrators.

Possibly what helped with the Great Train Robbery was that they were caught so quickly. Followed by the trial.

I can actually remember the story of the Great Train Robbery, which ISTR was in the same summer as Profumo finally broke, as it was recorded daily on the newspaper sellers boards outside the station. Roy James the driver was "the Weasel" and I can still remember the newspaper seller shouting "They've caught the Weasel" or similar one evening.

michael adams

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[johnjessop46]

From the Profumo affair we now have the timeless classic response from Mandy Rice Davies "well he would say that, wouldn't he?" It applies in so many aspects of modern life. There should be a statue in her memory!

[Cursitor Doom]

Eh? Forgotten about glam rock?

[Bob Eager]

Contrary to popular belief, she actually said "He would, wouldn't he?"

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Yes - just basically titillation for the Sunday papers, except for the lying.

But this went much further than that, surely?

No. But then so much of it makes no sense to me anyway.

I can understand someone being sexually attracted to a mature but under the legal age of consent person. But to an actual child?

[michael adams]

"Well (giggle) he would, wouldn't he?"

michael adams

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